6.11.2025, 17:30, Maxx 3
EN UT + Q&A
7.11.2025, 20:45, Maxx 2
EN UT + Q&A
In poetic images, these films tell of nature, mysticism, memory, and the tension between tradition and change. Hidden desires and inner transitions weave through narratives that constantly balance the visible and the invisible. A spiritual cinematic journey between documentary and imagination, everyday life and dream.
Murmurs of the Jungle
Sohil Vaidya / India 2022 / 20' / DCP / colour / Marathi / Doc
As whispering trees pass on stories of gods and ancestors, various inhabitants of a small indigenous village in the Western Ghats speak. Gradually, a story unfolds that encompasses all of humanity and its symbiotic relationship with nature. Woods turn out to form a bridge between present and past.
Lost Songs Of Sundari
Sudarshan Sawant / India 2025 / 8'43" / DCP / colour / Marathi/Hindi / Doc
In Mumbai, once an island city surrounded by the sea, modern bridges and land reclamation have reshaped the landscape and the seascape, disrupting the lives of its original communities. An old man, an enigmatic woman, and a child take turns narrating how their world, once bound by tradition and the sea, is now dissolving amidst rapid transformation and urbanization.
Skyward
Suruchi Sharma / India 2024 / 30' / DCP / colour / Hindi / Exp/Fic
Set against a surreal cityscape of the pink city, this is a tale of a woman's quest in a world infused with myth and mystery, where each move opens up a new world. She meets people, lovers, riddles, world-warping questions, and even a goddess as she wades through this haze of wonder and realization and begins to see everything anew.
HUM (we/us)
Ashim Ahluwalia / India 2022 / 12'21" / DCP / colour / English / Fic/Exp
HUM (We/Us) is a strange beast – part dream, part riot, part cinema experiment – melding avant-garde performance, narcotic fashion parade, Bollywood wedding delirium, and the anarchic spirit of Matsumoto’s underground cinema. In a fever dream on a stifling afternoon, a modern Cinderella toils endlessly, exposing the labor that sustains the grandeur of the space where she is trapped. Cast out by gatekeepers, her tragedy becomes a dystopian fairytale of the humour, joy, and imagination of the dispossessed, as avant-garde fashion is reclaimed to defy the wealthy’s monopoly on beauty.
The Coast
Sohrab Hura / India 2020 / 17'28" / DCP / colour / no dialogue / Doc/Exp
«The Coast» was filmed in the dark of the night during religious festivities in a village in South India. The boundary between land and water becomes a point of release beyond which characters experience fear, surprise, anger, sadness, trust, anticipation, excitement, contempt – but also rapture as they wash off their masquerade.
