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Browse 48 movies from Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute
On a stormy night, a weary detective and a keen-eyed doctor piece together fragments of a high-profile case. As evidences and unanswered questions surface, the dread draws near.
Aug 2025
On a summer afternoon in rural Odisha, a seven year old boy realizes that human beings are mortal and has a conversation with his ageing grandfather about this.
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On a rainy night, a man takes shelter in a jungle house. A blind grandmother mistakes him for Sujan, her granddaughter's lost lover. Haunted by tales of love and loss, he pretends to be Sujan to console her. But when asked if he'll truly return, he faces a haunting choice that challenges his identity and past.
Dec 2024
Meenakshi, a middle-aged working woman, on this day comes home early from work and finds her husband cheating on her with their maid. But there is something more terrifying yet to be revealed.
Dec 2023
Set against the backdrop of NRC and CAA, the film navigates the life of an old man who is forced into early retirement as he fails to produce proper documents.
Jun 2023
Ngaihak Lambida (English: Along The Way) is a 2006 non-feature Manipuri film directed by Haobam Paban Kumar and based on a story by MK Binodini. It is bproduced by Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute. The film was selected in the non-feature section of the Indian Panorama at the 38th International Film Festival of India 2007. It also participated in the competition section of Short Fiction Films in the Third Eye 6th Asian Film Festival, Mumbai, 2007.
Jul 2006
On the night before his exhibition premiere, a popular photographer faces an ethical dilemma when a subject from his photograph comes back from his past to haunt him.
Jul 2023
When an aging, reclusive Daskathia performer breaks decades of silence to honour a dying patron's wish, he confronts the question that has haunted his entire life— if the last audience walks away, is it still a performance?
Jag, an unnerved contractor shelters an unconscious, troubled boy - having promised him a healthy future for the two.
Feb 2024
Set in a semi-urban coastal village of Kerala, “Beneath the Wings of Rosary Beads” follows a fishing community where faith and labor intertwine. Susan Maria, guided by recurring dreams of abundance, returns to the sea; Rosie anchors life in devotion; and Robert recalls a fading past. Through daily rhythms, memories, and conversations, the film explores belief, risk, and generational change, as faith continues to shape life by the shore.
Dec 2025
Struggling with depression, 35-year old corporate executive Keshav seeks solace from enigmatic writer Gulmohar. His quest leads him to a modest newspaper house, unravelling a transformative journey of healing and connection.
Oct 2023
Art film about a woman dying and three princes taking a journey. Vipin's diploma film at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata (2003), looks at the ideas of entrapment and liberation.
Jan 2000
Viraj, a filmmaker visits his mother, Radhika to ask her to play herself in his new film that he has based, loosely on his life. She dislikes the script which leads to a full-fledged confrontation bringing their tumultuous relationship to the fore.
a short film produced by srfti.
A propaganda playwright faces challenges during the final rehearsals of the play when a certain turn of events unravels the contrast between the real lives of the actors and that of their characters. The rehearsal stops when the lead actor refuses to deliver a dialogue out of fear of religious conversion.
In the isolation of his hostel room, a young man attends a transactional call with a stranger.
May 2026
Suresh, a rural folk dancer, cross-dresses for his performances, but feels conflicted when his wife disapproves of his plan to perform in their conservative home village after the election victory of a local politician. Meanwhile, their eight-year-old son, Deepak, eagerly joins the preparations and helps set up the tent, unaware that his father will perform on stage.
Nov 2025
Chanchal, a typical soft middle class young Bengali and Calcuttan, not masculine enough and unconfident about the sex and the woman, pays out most of his time finding a suitable girl to prove his credibility as a male. In most of the cases he fails to frame himself as good enough a man to the girls he come across and gets disillusioned on all the occasions. Finally, he almost reaches a beautiful girl to a close proximity, but unfortunately, no sooner had he succeeded to win the girl's attention, he becomes blind in the curse of God.
Dec 2000
Jon is an insomniac who makes lewd deepfakes for a living. His life becomes a waking dream when Simi, the ASMR star he is obsessed with, arrives at his doorstep desperately seeking help in removing her viral deepfakes, unaware that Jon is their creator.
A story of Shyamal: a runaway, a pickpocket & a tiger's cub.
Apr 2006