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A QUESTION OF TOMORROW (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MOHI-UD-DIN MIRZA ]
[ Theme : History , Ethnography/ Anthropology ]
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The story of the vanishing tribe of Brogpas of the Himalayas, descendents of Alexander the Great's army - their threatened life style and their future prospects in the modern world.

ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE (59 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : NIRMAL CHANDER DANDRIYAL ]
[ Theme : Livelihood , Ethnography/ Anthropology ]
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The Film weaves together the lives and aspirations of a motley group of men who form an internationally successful performance group called SIDI GOMA. It celebrates the joyous energy of their songs and dances, while tracing their struggle to survive in a world that threatens to marginalise them even further.

Awards:- Special Jury Award, International Festival of Films on Tribal Art and Culture, Indore, 2009 - Jury Special Mention for Sound Design, 2nd International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2009 - Gold Medal, Best Sound Design, Long Documentary Section, IDPA Awards, Mumbai, 2008 - Best Foreign Documentary Film - Raksh Marmarin, 4th Kabul International Documentary & Short Film Festival 2009

ANOTHER TRUTH (UP) (26 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SHRIPRAKASH ]
[ Theme : Ethnography/ Anthropology , ]
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The Film is an attempt to document the unwritten histories of the tribal people in India and explore the ways in which communities have understood, recorded and kept alive their histories, with little access to the written word on the one hand and a presence in mainstream history on the other.

BLOOMING PEI-MAY (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : NUTAN MANMOHAN ]
[ Theme : Diversity , Ethnography/ Anthropology ]
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A tale of Chinese immigrants, who came over a period of two centuries and settled in Kolkata. The narrative follows their story, their unbeatable spirit and the diversity they lend to the Indian tapestry.

ECO-DHARMA (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MALGORZATA SKIBA ]
[ Theme : Ethnography/ Anthropology , Environment/ Wild Life ]
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The story of dedication and sacrifice of Bishnoi community, the oldest practicing environmentalists of India from western Rajasthan for whom the preservation of wildlife and forest is a religion.

- First Prize, Golden Dear, Short Film category in ECOFILMS Film Festival 2006, Greece, Rodos

- Merit Award for Cultural Information & Merit Award for Cinematography, 29th Annual International Wildlife Film Festival, Montana, USA

- Golden Statuette, Best Film on Rajasthan, International Festival of Short Films on Culture, Jaipur, Feb 2007

GAUBOLOMBE - OUR ISLAND (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : KAUSHIK GUPTA RAY ]
[ Theme : Development , Ethnography/ Anthropology ]
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A film on the Onge tribe of the Andaman Islands who are the last living embodiments of creating sustainable models of environmental management.

MALANA - A LOST IDENTITY (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : APARNA KATARA SHARMA ]
[ Theme : Ethnography/ Anthropology ]
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The film explores the notion of freedom in relation to Malana, a tiny village in Himachal Pradesh, supposedly inhabited by descendents of Alexander's army. How individual freedom has been sacrificed to save their socio- cultural freedom.

MEE KOLI (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MIRIAM CHANDY MENACHERRY ]
[ Theme : Environment/ Wild Life , Ethnography/ Anthropology ]
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A film on the war waged by an indigenous community, the Koli fisher folk to preserve the delicate web of marine life that envelopes India's commercial capital Mumbai.

RAJA HINDUSTANI (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : ARVIND SINHA ]
[ Theme : Conflict , Ethnography/ Anthropology ]
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For several months each year hundreds of wayside performers called ‘Nats’ make the chaotic and colourful metropolis of Calcutta their temporary home. In the midst of pigs and dogs and rodents, all co-existing in blissful harmony by the rail tracks.The film takes both a macro as well as a micro view of the ‘Nat’ community of performers in the backdrop of a totally insensitive ‘mainstream’ India which seems unwilling to provide any physical space to marginals such as these.

RETURN OF THE SONG BIRD (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SATYA PRAKASH ]
[ Theme : Ethnography/ Anthropology , Environment/ Wild Life ]
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The film documents an indigenous effort by the Angami Nagas traditionally known for hunting, which has saved diverse ecosystems and the beautiful Tragopan bird from extinction in Nagaland.

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