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Browse 178 movies from Film and Television Institute of India
Due to the caste dynamics and hierachy prevailing in Golegaon as in the rest of the country, the Adivasi people in the village struggle to hold onto their traditions and assert their own individual identity as a community in the very place that has belonged to them for generations.
Apr 2023
Amidst the chaos of planning his son's birthday, Sandesh's phone, crucial for an investor call, gets accidentally thrown away. In his quest to retrieve it, he discovers unexpected emotional depths.
Jan 2024
In the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination, the spectre of retaliatory violence looms over the Sikh community of an Old Delhi neighbourhood.
Jan 2025
Shashi undergoes metamorphosis when a flowering plant starts growing from inside his mouth. His distanced teenage daughter undertakes a journey towards embracing the new image of her father.
Oct 2023
Maya is a teenager young girl who is working as a housemaid in a rich family. She is required to do all household work and also look after a small child. She toils from dawn to dusk and cannot get peaceful sleep. She, therefore, wants to get rid of it. One night, she kills the child in the cradle and then, relieved of her burden, quietly sleeps on the ground.
Apr 1990
Snippets of events in an urban police station unfold the relationship between SI Piyush and ASI Ratika. Though they share an intimacy, Ratika is not yet ready to be in a relationship. Another SI Vishwanath has a sense of affection towards her, but he can not express his feelings to her
Jul 2018
Two siblings escape into a world of adventure aboard a broken ship—until growing up starts to pull them apart.
Jun 2026
A call from 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' transforms the life of a humble Indian farmer, as he, along with his family and village, embarks on a journey to discover the true meaning of winning.
Mar 2011
Lazar, A chronic loser finally wins the fight of his life only to realize the prize was his mentor’s death. Now, as he walks into a funeral at the Havana Shappu, Lazar must relive the one duel he actually won: the one that sent Havana Mathayi on a fatal, one-way bender.
Feb 2026
Sainath, age 25, is a film student in Pune, India and his grandmother, Sunila, age 80, lives far afield in the village of Merces in Goa, India. They share a ‘film letter’ with each other. A film mounted with an expression like a warm letter weighted with feelings. A written letter is a compilation of words and sentences and a ‘film letter’ is an assembly of images and sounds. A shelter(Gotho) unfolds the journey around Polem district with voice recordings of the director and his grandmother.
Nov 2023
The status quo in the lives of best friends Manjari and Kripa is shaken when a film crew arrives in their quiet village and Kripa becomes obsessed with them. As she begins to spend all her time on set, neglecting Manjari, the latter is overcome by anger and jealousy that she cannot understand. The situation escalates when Kripa tells Manjari the details of her unexpected first kiss with a much older man from the crew, prompting a possessive Manjari to react with petty cruelty to punish her. In this coming-of-age drama, two previously inseparable teenagers struggle to weather the first storms of friendship.
Jul 2025
During an overnight bus journey, two passengers confide in each other and share their memory of a woman who affected their lives in different ways.
Jan 2007
A hero stuck in an ancient cycle of death and rebirth unknowingly cheats his destiny.
Madhav, a playful 8-year-old boy who has spent most of his time playing outdoors in the village, is being sent to town for educational purposes.
Aug 2022
The story of a proud woman, her poetic vindication of unfair social insult, and her inevitable sad destiny. A very culture-specific film dipped in a local festival of rural women.
Jan 2000
Ambika has just come to know that she has failed once again, and she will not be given any more chances. At first, she leaves the city for her home in another city. But very soon the city takes over and her confusions return even more intensely this time.
Jan 1997
On Appunni, a hangman, getting ready for his job.
What do you do when the world has moved on leaving you behind? Bhavābdhi means the ocean of life. The film revolves around a popcorn seller in a single screen theatre and how he deals with the closure of the theatre he has spent a majority of his life in. The film takes inspiration from the rampant rise of multiplexes and rampant closures of single screens throughout the country.
Dec 2023
When a watchman finds a half-burned Japanese letter in Pune’s Okayama Friendship Garden, it unlocks hidden conversations on fleeting friendships, shifting media, and life’s uncertainties.
Oct 2024
9-year-old Bittu battles a mysterious fever, an affliction that deepens with an unfamiliar stirring within him as he watches his uncle’s young wife, Kusum, longing for a husband who toils far from home.