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Browse 48 movies from Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute
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
two girls. Meena and Ayesha are teenagers who study in a convent school. They are grown together even though their dreams, realities and social setup are totally different from each other. Calcutta is the backdrop of this unlikely relationship. The girl struggle to live out the first adult relationship of their lives. Ayesha is easily bored and looks for constant stimulation. She likes to live in a dream world, nightmares even. In Meena, she finds a listener one who believes all her tales blindly, one who dreams and lives through her stories. The film is a collage of shared experiences, memories, dreams and realities, held together by an un-predictable non-linear structure.
Jan 2000
In the isolation of his hostel room, a young man attends a transactional call with a stranger.
May 2026
In the 90’s in a convent in Kerala, Sister Philomena is seriously ill while all the others are preparing for the anniversary of the convent school. Sister Nirmala who looks after sister Philomina is assigned to be with the actress Urvasi, the chief guest for the function. Sister Nirmala’s happiness has no bounds as it the same actress she has a deep fascination for, which the rest of the convent is not aware of. Things take a decisive turn when, on the day of the anniversary sister Nirmala is asked to stay back and look after Sister Philomina whose condition has unexpectedly deteriorated.
Jan 2014
A writer stays away from the city with an elderly widow. His wife had desserted him. He suffers from a writer's block. The incessant mating calls of cuckoos disturb him. On one such afternoon, an old friend Shanti, abandoning his wife's funeral has come looking for him. Is he sad?
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In Kolkata, three art college graduates named Kapil, Debdutta and Padmini decide to live together and share their love for each other equally.
Nov 2012
Inspired by Tennessee Williams' short story "Something by Tolstoi," this movie is about a cinema projectionist whose wife decides to leave him so she can become a well-known actress in the movie business. The projectionist had been rewriting the happy endings of Bollywood tragedy films since he was a young boy. He was a closet writer. Despite his talent, he lacked the confidence to survive outside his movie theatre. The projectionist loses all control as he creates a variety of happy endings for his love tale in an effort to win back his wife. After a decade, fate steps in and brings his wife back. However, he has forgotten who she is and what he has been looking forward to for all these years.
Aug 2022
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
As a family faces mounting debts and severe illness caused by contaminated groundwater, their tragedy exposes a decades-long crisis of institutional neglect lurking just beneath the surface.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
a short film produced by srfti.
Uttam Das, a folk singer of Bengal, built an Ashram for music in his native village, on the riverbank of Ajay. This Ashram is a unique example, in the modern world where an artist lacks free space to practice art. The artists gather here to celebrate music and the silence of nature uninterruptedly. In ashram rain arrives, seasons change, and stillness of the time persists. But today man's greed tries to destroy the river and the surroundings, pains the land and the artist.
Jun 2024
Kanhaiya, loyal to village chief Gop Ji, must choose between duty and conscience when "Pandubbi" returns, unearthing old secrets and shaking the soul of the village.
Jun 2025
a short film, when there's a man between Kolkata the city and history of riots he had witnessed.
Aug 2011