10 ON 10: CHILDREN DECIDE  (UP) (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MEENAKSHI & VINAY RAI ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film ]
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The film attempts to evolve a set of indicators for the filmmakers on what makes a good children’s film.

A SHORT STORY ABOUT…  (UP) (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : DIVYA SACHAR ]
[ Theme : Gender & Sexuality ]
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A Short Story About… is a look at how some urban Indian women view their breasts. Affected by other’s perceptions, the women in the film mostly find themselves looking at their breasts through a male perspective. Whether in the form of media images of impossible perfection, or an adolescent need to gain male approval and attention, or just the opposite, to repel male advances, the male gaze is ever present in one form or the other.

ACROSS FAULT LINES   (UP) (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : PRIYA KRISHNASWAMY ]
[ Theme : Conflict ]
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The film attempts to look at civil society movements to foster peace building and active co-existence in the Indo-Pakistan region. Such as WISCOMP’s initiative at building relationships across fault lines by organising workshops and conferences to deliberate on interventions for peace at various levels.

AND DREAM REMAINS  (UP) (60 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : ANWAR JAMAL ]
[ Theme : Urbanscapes ]
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The film will delve into the theme of achieving big dreams from modest backgrounds.The film will explore the tenacity of human spirit, by focusing on how a migrant to Delhi achieves his dream of making a theatre in his village by working a range of lowly and menial jobs.

ASIATIC LIONS - ON A ROLL CALL  (UP) (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : PRAVEEN SINGH ]
[ Theme : Environment/ Wildlife ]
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The Asiatic Lion faces its biggest crisis in decades. Poaching and increasing conflict with people due to the limited habitat of Gir threatens to undo years of conservation. Does the Asiatic Lion have an alternative?

BELONGING   (UP) (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : RANU SHARMA ]
[ Theme : Contemporary Politics ]
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The film questions the urge to define India and Indianness, for consumption by an unseen outsider. This compulsion makes us tourists in our own reality, dispossessed of our experience of being Indian. If we could only see, an essential indefinable India waits, timelessly, for us to claim it and call it home.

BIRTH OF COLOURS  (UP) (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SAIKAT BHATTACHARYA ]
[ Theme : Others ]
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After letters and digits, colour is the third most familiar concept in human life and civilisation. With colour as the subject of this film, effort is to see its numerous aspects and its vast range of applicability in various fields of our life, and its role and relevance in the history of civilisation.

CINEMA CITY MUMBAI  (UP) (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MADHUSHREE DUTTA ]
[ Theme : Urbanscapes ]
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A series of five short films. DO RAFIFEEQ by Rafeeq Ellias Rafeeq meets Rafique Bagdadi, an extraordinary living archive of the city and its cinema, and explores the cinema city through him. CINEMA AND THE PUBLIC by Avjit Mukul Kishore An impressionistic sketch of 'the public' as created by our cinema and its relationship with cinema itself. CINEMA OF ROMANCE / ROMANCE OF CITY by Hansa Thapliyal A cinema theatre in a suburb of cinema city, is pulled down. Three women, who live in that suburb, reflect on their various relationships with that fantasy of a film in a darkened theatre. Was it ever theirs’? BHAIS, DADAS AND CINEMAS by Sankalp Meshram: The film will set out to discover various hypotheses based on the city's crime scene & try to arrive at some form of cinematic articulation that is expressive of this great contradiction called Bombay.

CINEMA CITY: MUMBAI VIDEO PORTRAITS   (UP) (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MADHUSHREE DUTTA ]
[ Theme : Urbanscapes ]
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A series of five short films. DARKROOM by Renu Savant The city as a darkroom creates many chemical reactions through its agitation and development of emulsions. SATELITE CINEMA OF MALEGAON by Gargey Trivedi Malegaon, a small town only 300 kms away from the giant Bollywood industry; possesses its own Mughal-e-Azam, Munnabhai, Mithunda… and thus a Cinema. FILM WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION by Rrivu Laha A journey of the migrants to the dream city through the track of filmi aspiration.

COURAGE – THE ROAD SHE TRAVELS   (UP) (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SANJAY BARNELA ]
[ Theme : Women Leaders ]
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The film travels into the lives of four rural women - a solar engineer, an animal healer, an ex-sarpanch and a fourteen year old who stopped her own marriage.