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see all genres ›Boasting the world's single largest national cinema (actually more of a network of regional ones), India is best known for films of myriad genres that nonetheless usually share lengthy runtimes and musical numbers, as well as the less locally popular strain of naturalistic dramas commenced by the late Satyajit Ray. In recent years, some independent-minded makers have begun more aggressively crossing lines between the two schools. Throughout, India has remained a location of endless fascination for visiting foreign artists.
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Siddharth
The spellbinding and gorgeously wrought tale of one father's journey across India in search of his son. Mehendra is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the bustling streets of New Delhi. To ease his financial woes, he sends twelve-year-old Siddharth to work in a distant factory....Watch Movie
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One Track Heart
In 1970, a young musician named Jeffrey Kagel walked away from the American dream of rock 'n' roll stardom (turning down the lead singer slot in the band that would become Blue Oyster Cult). He sold all his possessions and moved from the suburbs of New York to the foothills of the Himalayas in...Watch Movie
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Kavi
Nominated for the 2010 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. KAVI, is about a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must choose to either accept what he's always been...Watch Movie
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Scene 32
SCENE 32 maps the terrain that lies between a beloved place and the things that represent it. The salt fields of Central Kutch are examined through High Definition video and hand processed 16mm film to become another thing altogether: neither a specific location in India nor its representation...Watch Movie
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Hello Photo
In her startling, exquisitely shot HELLO PHOTO, documentarist Nina Davenport turns the conventions of the travelogue inside out. She takes us to India and abandons us there, leaving us to believe what we see through her eyes. Her movie replicates the experience of being a traveller and thus a...Watch Movie
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On the Way to School
2014 Cesar winner for Best Documentary, ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL interweaves the stories of four children from around the world whose desire to learn and better their lives through education forces them to contend with arduous, often perilous journeys every day on their way to the...Watch Movie
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Place for Landing
A household landscape of mirrors. A child and its reflection are inscribed in a shadowy lunar patchwork. The camera switches its optical pursuit: the child disappears and a bird emerges. The surveying mirror implodes or explodes into space. Its mottled hallway glass both...Watch Movie
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Ship of Theseus
If the parts of a ship are replaced, bit-by-bit, is it still the same ship? A celebrated experimental photographer struggles with the loss of her intuitive genius as an unexpected aftermath of a physical change; an intellectual monk confronting a complex ethical dilemma with a long held ideology,...Watch Movie
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Despite the Gods
Jennifer Lynch, daughter of cult film auteur David Lynch, was the youngest American woman to direct a feature film. Fifteen years later after an extended hiatus, a recovering addict and hard-working single mother, Lynch returns to the director's chair with an ambitious project...Watch Movie
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Phantom Love
It is difficult to imagine a better film about a woman's world of passions, desires, dreams, relations and reflections than Nina Menkes' PHANTOM LOVE. Shot in 35mm black-and-white with Director of Photography Christopher Soos' sublime lighting design, the film follows Lulu (Marina Shoif) on a...Watch Movie
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Behind the Label
Our morning ritual speaks of our love affair with cotton: we throw off crisp cotton sheets, shower and dry ourselves with thick cotton towels, sweep fluffy cotton balls over our face, then slip on cotton panties, socks, t-shirts, jeans and jackets. With cotton in such high...Watch Movie
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Aravani Girl
Sixteen-year-olds Palani and Karthik want to become "ladyboys." They’re bullied in school and beaten by their families. Their parents would like to see them grow up as normal boys but they’re falling deeper and deeper into the world of the "Aravanis." Loved as dance performers but hated as...Watch Movie
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Mango Soufflé
The first openly gay male film from India, MANGO SOUFFLE is an eye-opening exploration of gay sexuality and relationships in a culture that is far from accepting. This heartfelt drama begins when gay fashion designer Kamlesh, reeling from a recently ended relationship, invites a group of friends...Watch Movie
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Partition
It is 1947, and amidst the chaos and bloodshed unleashed when India and Pakistan are split into separate states, Sikh former soldier Gian risks everything to save Naseem, a young Muslim woman, from a violent mob. Soon, love builds a bridge between their two worlds but their romance is tested when...Watch Movie
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Short Cut to Nirvana
SHORT CUT TO NIRVANA takes a voyage of discovery through a vivid and vibrant world, accompanied by an irrepressible young Hindu monk, Swami Krishnanand, and several Westerners, each on their own spiritual quest. We encounter some of the Kumbh Mela’s wisest and most fascinating...Watch Movie
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Shadow Kill
A hangman in a southern Indian village who has spent his life carrying out politically motivated executions is now old and so wracked with guilt that he takes to heavy drinking and praying to the goddess Kali to forgive his sins. Veteran director Adoor Gopalakrishnan sets the film in 1941, the...Watch Movie
