Movies: Public Service Broadcasting Trust

A celebration of the work of singer/composer Shankar Mahadevan with interviews from various Indian celebrities....

They set off, looking for work in far-off places, but disappeared along the way. Inspired by Shiv Kumar Batalvi’s “birha” poetry, the film traces the longing on both sides: on the part of those who are missing, and those that wait for them to return....

The contemporary relevance and future of oldest classical music....

A free-flowing and intimate documentary on a maverick character from the Tollywood film industry, Kolkata, who has been in the doldrums because of serious addiction issues....

An impressionistic film that paints a picture of Kozhikode in North Kerala and the spiritual immersion of its ordinary town-dwellers in music. A reflective essay traversing a music culture that is cosmopolitan, having strong local and global influenc...

Centred around a film festival of Indian films in China, the Film reflects on the dominant as well as alternative impressions of cultures – people, histories and landscapes – brought to us by cinema, playfully examining the idea of the cinematic imag...

An impressionistic sketch of ‘the public’ as created by our cinema and its relationship with cinema itself....

The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which women poets were a very strong presence....

Tales from Napa is the remarkable story of a little village that resisted the forces of Hindu fundamentalism during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, India. Set in the village of Napa, the film investigates the role played by local Hindus and Mu...

A documentary on the struggle of Tamil writer Sundara Ramaswamy to evolve modern literature in a society stuck with caste identities, traditional hypocrisy and language chauvinism....

Bajrangi Bhaijaan explores how ideas of masculinity in India are tied to Salman Khan fandom. It tries to understand what eco-blockbuster-manufactured machismo has on the Indian male already struggling with his identity in a globalized world. The stor...

Waste and recycle from an Easterner’s gaze, armed with a Western vocabulary, influenced by the global network society. Award winner at Thrissur and screened at Bangalore, Dhaka, Hyderabad, Matheran, Mumbai, Nainital, Pune, Sibiu and Thrissur....

Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances. Crazy. A lifelong condition. Inevitable dependency on Medicines. Dark. Terrible. 'A Drop of Sunshine' cha...

As a call from the periphery of sanity, the film is a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women 'petitioners' at the shrine of a Sufi Saint in North India....

Documentary about actress Sharmila Tagore. Introduced to film acting at age 13 by Satyajit Ray, Sharmila Tagore evolved into one of the most iconic actors and stars of the 60s and 70s India. straddling the worlds of classical and popular cinema with...

Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s films map the history of the region from the inside. This Documentary looks at how the filmmaker dealt with human conditions at the most elemental level with a sensibility that makes his films universal in appeal....

In the world's only deaf-mute village where silence reigns, tension mounts as Misra Khatoon approaches childbirth. The villagers surround her home and beat drums seeking a response from the newborn....

As the region of Barak Valley, Assam, India, is swiftly giving way to newer formations, structures, and beliefs, two siblings converse over the phone about their deserted childhood home situated in the same region while residing far from it....

In Nagaland stones are deemed to be reminders of what they have seen. This documentary traces modern manifestations of recorded memory and how the past lingers on....

Until recent years, the Santhali tribe of India did not have its own written language. Their stories and myths were preserved and passed on verbally through the generations. Each narration has a different form, much like the rocks of a nearby hill th...