National Film Development Corporation of India organizes the NFDC Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest film market, every year in Goa, India, from November 20-24. Since its inception in 2007, independent filmmakers of the region present their projects in the Co-Production Market, Work-in-Progress Lab, Industry Screenings and other sections.
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Category: Film Bazaar Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Ektara Collective
Produced by: Ektara Collective
Country of production: India
Original title: Ek Jagah Apni
Genre: Feature film
Language: Hindi
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2022
Laila and Roshni, two transwomen, are looking for a house after they are evicted from the place they rented. It soon becomes evident that their search for a home is also their ongoing search for a place in this society that wants to keep them away in a section that can not be the centre.
Category: Film Bazaar Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Jaicheng Zxai Dohutia
Produced by: Jaicheng Zxai Dohutia, Mayamara Productions
Country of production: India
Original title: Baghjan
Genre: Feature film
Language: Assamese and Moran
Runtime: 85min
Completed in: 2023
Fisherman Manab lives with his wife Bharabi in a small village, Baghjan, which is a fertile oil & gas field. One day during oil extraction a massive blast takes place and the entire village catches fire that has devastating consequences.
Category: Film Bazaar Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Shailendra Sahu
Produced by: Raju Biswas
Country of production: India
Original title: Bailadila
Genre: Feature film
Language: Hindi and Chhattisgarhi
Runtime: 93min
Completed in: 2022
In the slumbering mining town of Bailadila is home to 10 year old Rinku’s elder brother Jiten, a passionate artist caught in a miserable teaching job. Rinku finds himself at the threshold of boyhood after losing his mother, moving in with his brother and experiences many things for the first time.
Category: Film Bazaar Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Harshad Nalawade
Produced by: Vinay Mishra, Jaideep Varma, Saket Gyani, Maulik Sharma
Country of production: India
Original title: Follower
Genre: Feature film
Language: Marathi, Kannada and Hindi
Runtime: 99min
Completed in: 2022
In a territorially disputed town, a radicalized journalist believes in exposing the atrocities faced by his community. But as the line between his professional and personal life blurs, an inconvenient truth makes him reflect back on a simpler time when he had not yet succumbed to radicalization.
Category: Film Bazaar Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Jai Shankar
Produced by: Rishab Shetty, Rishab Shetty Films
Country of production: India
Original title: Shivamma
Genre: Feature film
Language: Kannada
Runtime: 105min
Completed in: 2022
Shivamma (46), a poverty-stricken woman invests her hard-earned money in a network Marketing business to make some quick money which puts her daughter’s imminent marriage on stake.