Movies: India

The work of a district officer in the province of Bengal....

Director S. Sukhdev traveled the length of India to gather footage for his impressionistic portrait of the country in the year 1967. The film produces the same effect on the viewers as a month-long visit to India, a sense of having seen everything an...

Suddha depicts the death of the feudal system that existed among the Tulu speaking community in coastal Karnataka for many years, and the impact of The Land Ceiling Act, which was ushered in during the sixties and seventies, on its social structure. ...

"Visionary post-war modernist Tyeb Mehta channels the nightmares of the nation in Koodal, at once the artist’s self-described “autobiography” and a profound meditation on collage, crowd control, cinematic subjectivity and the violence buried within e...

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As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the sights and culture of a bygone India. Filmed between 1899-1947, and preserved in the BFI National Archive ...

A casual conversation between two friends on love and relationship turns in to much wider spectrums of god, religion and politics....

A documentary portrait of Calcutta...

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition....

Jugaad is a Hindi word that can be translated as "innovative or effective solution that bends the rules". It refers to the extreme capacity developed by Mumbai's inhabitants to adapt and get around any type of constraint or obstacle posed by the city...

Bare Transit follows the journey of a 23-year-old yoga teacher, Mia, who has travelled back to India from the UK to seek resolution and forgiveness. The film is the debut feature from Irish poet and photographer, O.P. Durkin, and is the first release...

After her mother's heartbreaking demise, 11 year old Nandhana disrupts the final mourning day rituals by running away with the 'bali pindam', putting on hold the final duty of a child as part of the Hindu traditions. Her cousin, Amit, tries to unders...

"Ants" follows the bus journey of 27 different passengers who each represent a different section of Indian society. They meet, move together, and a few even talk to each other, as they reach their respective destinations like a line of ants. Two of t...

In a remote mining community, a young boy struggles to pursue education against traditional expectations As his father slowly begins to understand the value of school, the family faces the challenges of change and hope for a better future....

Dance of sin and morality in the chaotic world of Kanwar pilgrimage that pushes a group of boys to a gray area between right and wrong....

Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings....

The story is about Sheelavathi, a prostitute. The film revolves around the situations that forced her to choose the path of prostitution....

A story about the childhood of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar....

A look at the enduring relationship between the nomadic shepherds and the Indian wolf, who both defy the pressures of the modern world, in the south central plains of India....

An intimate journey into the twilight world of the devadasi, Hindus who are married to god in childhood and at puberty sold for sex. The girls of Karnataka, southern India who are forced to live in this ancient tradition despite it having been declar...