Film & Television Institute of India

An ascetic walks through the narrow streets of a village every morning while his family is still asleep. In his semi-somnolent state he dreams about the history of the village mixing up myths, folklore and facts.

Kundan Shah's FTII Diploma Film - A 23-minute dialogue-less short about a gang of bank robbers.

The film explores the mental time and space of one character, a girl, who lives in a lane in a suburb of a city (Mumbai).

A pair of young siblings inhabit a fanciful world of their making, hidden from the eyes of their mother. When she finally catches a glimpse of their world, it faces the threat of crumbling. The two of them can either surrender or resist.

Mother Nature and human emotions are placed in this melding of myth and aesthetic enigma in Kumar Shahani's short film of 25 minutes starring Mita Vashisht, created as a diploma submission for the Film and Television Institute of India(FTII) by editor and film's co-star Nandini Bedi.

Man-pulled rickshaw, which have served Kolkata for over eight decades face virtual extinction as a result of legislation introduced by the State Government in 1981. This would rob over 100,000 people of a living. The film analyzes the critical situation, and on the basis of concrete facts and figures, questions whether such a step would be fruitful at all. The image of a man pulling a man is a depressing and a negative one - but not more negative than that of the image of a man going without food.

A series of three episodes which explore the relationship between men, women and the physical and mental spaces they inhabit.

In a quaint village on the Indian Konkan coast, in the time of yellow grass with steps receding and prayers unanswered, a desire for oblivion forks the search for images of exile and belonging.

The camera sways slightly, setting in a majestic black and white on the intimate stories of a small village bordering the jungle. A mystical and poetic cinematic experience, in which one gladly gets lost.

An old man ventures into the virtual world.

The giant wheels of the city grind thousands between them. A young boy from a chicken farm and a housekeeping girl in a luxury hotel - each one must give the other strength to try and escape this fate, as nameless chicken continue to feed the city slaughterhouses.