The Heartbeat

Teevra Madhyam(en)

Shama and Ravi are members of a Marxist party. Shama loves classical Indian music, a luxury of a few, and Ravi is in love with quotations and the philosophy of Marx - a need of the masses. Due to a strike, Ravi is compelled to work full-time for the party. Shama decides to give up music reluctantly and joins Ravi.

Hazy Grey Skies(hi)

People are involved in daily encounters without ever being aware of how they are connected with one another. A taxi reveals all.

Vilaap(hi)

In the interior of a forest, a tree is being felled. Anordinary event, an event like the shooting of a birdor a rabbit in a forest or the violation of a girl in alonely forest. It is an ordinary human event.. Thefilm humanizes the event of the cutting of a tree ina forest. When one tree is cut (killed, violated) theWOodcutter passes on to the next tree to be cut(killed. violated?

Hypnothesis(hi)

A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave inhis office. A third finishes his tea. Another getshimself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in theworld of crime: kidnapping to he more precise. Butthe father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up.The son has already played this trick before andcollected good ransom. The father does not believethis time it is a real thing, The kidnappers getdesperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.

Suman(hi)

The passage from adolescence to youth is a phase during which a girl emerges in a distinctive period of her life to another significant phase. Most often there is a synchronous transition in her physical state with that of her emotional state of mind. This film poignantly depicts such a transition in a girl's life. Her changing attitudes towards her playmates, and objects around are brought out very vividly in this film.

The Eight Column Affair(hi)

The journey of news coming alive, when an athlete featured on the front page falls in love with a tennis starlet featured on the last page of a newspaper.

6:40 PM(hi)

FTII Diploma film by Mani Kaul

Reconnaissance(hi)

The protagonist is a young man staying in a city. He is sensitive, melancholy and a dreamer. He is unable to communicate his feelings to the woman he loves. Everything seems to have been entangled in a mesh, irrespective of these characters. He cannot even differentiate between his capability to love and his passionate desires which have been repressed. That is how he is confused and with his ideals and morality he is living outside his own time and inevitably suffering. His self criticism is endless. He dreams about whatever he lacks and about his ideals. The dreams have led him to the domain of non-communication. His repressed passion along with his self criticism has made him bored with life. Now at every point he expects something exceptional.

Let's Talk A While(en)

A cynical young man and a romantic young womanencountered each other on a night bus journey. Eachspins a story around the other. It turns out that she isgoing to meet someone, she has never seen before. Heis apprehensive. She herself is not so sure.

Do Hafte Guzarte Do Hafte Nahin Lagte(hi)

When Suman has to go to her mother's house, Bharat asks her to write which she refuses saying that he doesn't know how to keep it to himself. Bharat promises to find the right place for it. She is adamant but writes nonetheless and Bharat has to keep his promise now. And so begins his search for his corner in the space that belongs to many.

Jee Karta Tha(hi)

Barkha returns to her parents house. Her arrival brings some relief and confusion in Chaman's life. Chaman, now in her mid-twenties is stuck in a small town milieu. A childhood friend, Rekha is waiting to get married. And there is a skein of Wool, that has to be knitted fast to make Barkha's husband happy.

Won’t Be Long Now(en)

A new father's life is upended by an entity which seems to relentlessly stalk his family.

Chip Suto Char(bn)

Licentious(en)

Toby lives a life lacking in sexual and moral restraint, his disregard for 'normal' conventions exploits his grip on reality as he lusts for those dark and seedy pleasures.

Bu Ne Sevgi(tr)

Das bleibt unter uns(de)

Xing Lin Chun Nuan(zh)

Vanished(fr)

Counting Stars(ko)

Han-byeol and Hye-seong are working as interns at a company. For a long time, Han-byeol dreamed of becoming a singer, and Hye-seong dreamed of becoming a musical actor. Receiving a sudden full-time job offer, they agonize between dreams and reality.

Jjigae(ko)

Amy, adopted by an American family as a child, visits a jjigae restaurant in Jungnang-gu, Seoul. She introduces herself as a chef from the U.S. to Eunseon, the restaurant owner searching for staff after her mother passed away. Amy asks Eunseon to teach her how to make jjigae. Amy can not hide her complex feelings toward Eunseon's mother. Eunseon gradually grows suspicious about Amy.