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Language
Hindi
Description
Dreaming is good most anytime, but it’s especially good at night. And when you dream, what do you dream you’ll be? A mountain climber brave, or a captain of the sea? A movie star with your name up in lights, or a superhero flying around in tights? Maybe you’ll be a doctor saving people’s lives, or a beekeeper tending buzzing hives. A world of magic is waiting to be discovered—magic maybes for imagined somedays that wait in your future. No...
Language
Hindi
Description
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Nazari has many fantastic ideas for her future. Could she be an astronaut? A farmer? Maybe a scientist? A dentist? An engineer? Or maybe, she can be all of them! Nazari has the courage and confidence to dream big, not putting any limits on what is possible! Party Nazari’s Fantastic Future is written by Nate Carter and illustrated by Sam Niemann.
15) Yindabad
Language
Hindi
Description
Yindabad deals with the flipside of Indian economic development, namely how an enormous construction project impacts an indigenous population. The Narmada Valley Development Project was created during the late 1960s to construct 30 large scale dams, 135 medium-size dams and more than 3000 small-size dams in the Narmada River. Over 2.5 million people have been displaced by the flooding of forests, cultivatable land, and villages. The situation in Narmada...
Language
Hindi
Description
In a temple dedicated to Hanuman in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a priest flouts convention by marrying couples who are shunned elsewhere: mostly those who have eloped from families who disapprove of their union, but also, even more controversially, same-sex couples. A portrait of a staggeringly progressive and liberal institution, that counters the conservatism and orthodoxy found elsewhere in India’s religious communities.
17) Purdah
Language
Hindi
Description
The inspiring story of a young Indian woman who trades her burka for dreams of playing on the Mumbai Senior Women’s Cricket Team and how the harsh realities for women in her country creates an unexpected outcome for her own family, ultimately shattering and fueling aspirations. Official Selection at the **CInequest Film Festival**. “*It’s like a real-life Bend It Like Beckham*” -***NPR (KQED)*** "*Uplifting and Empowering*" - **Film Threat**...
Language
Hindi
Description
A university student in India writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.
Language
Hindi
Description
Religious boundaries in India are not necessarily as sharp and antagonistic as news media lead us to believe. This film portrays everyday life inside and around a Kali temple in the city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh (India). Its central characters are a priest and three devotees, who show why this temple is so important to them. The film follows these characters through their daily routines at home, at the temple, and on their occasional visits to the...
Language
Hindi
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A fearless group of journalists maintain India's only women-led news outlet. All from the Dalit caste, the women of Khabar Lahariya prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital while fighting for marginalized voices in the world's largest democracy. The film chronicles the astonishing determination of these reporters as they redefine what it means to be powerful.