Goes to Cannes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.