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Browse 175 movies from Film and Television Institute of India
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
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
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
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
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
Is there more to a baby’s cry? The documentary dwells into the psyche of pediatric doctors and the skills they use to arrive at a diagnosis.
Jan 2023
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
Malakavva, a female auto rickshaw driver in the city of Pune, navigates her way through life in a profession dominated by men, and where her own life has been shaped for the worse by the men in her life.
Dec 2024
a person on train thinking of jumping of train ending his life, Intertwine 3 lives and 3 people in this film.
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Glimpses of lives from a village in Assam reveal the relationship between its history and the present. People’s lives and beliefs are entangled with ecological strings , as nature stands witness to the narratives that unfolded there. A young boy, Rahul, hopes to write a book on his experience of growing up in this village. His mother, being deeply connected with nature can sense messages and signs arising from nature.. Urmila, a pregnant lady, is driven by sensorial experiences. But, In contrast to the serenity and harmonious living; there lurks a violent societal past.These peaceful and quiet lives intersect in a space where traumatic memories of death and loss in Assam’s thirty years of secessionist movement keep resurfacing.
Mar 2019
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
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
A young woman struggles to balances her life as a tailor with being a daughter to a bedridden mother.
Baptist Fernandes is an undertaker by trade, but he has dealt with death all his life.
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
Two siblings escape into a world of adventure aboard a broken ship—until growing up starts to pull them apart.
Jun 2026
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.
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
Once upon a time in a village, an old lady steals the rooster and the sun never rises again.
Jun 2023