Movies: India

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...

Shot over 3 months through the Monsoon, Nick Read's film captures the unvarnished reality of life for four children living in the slums and on the streets of Mumbai: seven-year-old Deepa, who lives next to an open rubbish dump and runs barefoot throu...

Remarkable amateur footage of Mahatma Gandhi shot by his great nephew in 1947....

Lipi fell for Koni the day she saw her for the first time, trying to get a perfect picture of an idol in the workshop where Lipi worked. It was beautiful, unadulterated. Discover a 'forbidden', but not so forbidden love in the beautiful lanes and by-...

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan....

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour....

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath....

A Christian take on 'Edenless' India, where heathens are unafraid of snakes, and build 'interesting' temples to their gods....

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour....

An evocative and unsettling journey through christian and also deeply communist Kerala. Amidst red flags and altar boys, between the sea and the jungle, mixing the language of reportage and that of fable, the unedited docufilm tells the touching, pro...

In 2016 Ravinol gets invited on an epic 1800km road trip down the west coast of India, in a convoy of 3-wheel Tuk-Tuks. The purpose of the trip is to raise awareness about the challenges girls there face accessing education. Excited about the adven...

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...

Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj....

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"Rock Garden", a hidden paradise, tells the inspiring tale of Nek Chand, a government official who secretly transformed a dense forest into a breathtaking sculpture garden. This intimate documentary explores his unwavering passion, artistic genius, a...

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry....

Mouchuki Forest Bungalow is the first Bengali found footage horror film. It is an edited version of recovered footage from handy-cam of three friends which recorded the paranormal experience of their four days in an unknown forest....

Award-winning filmmaker Sandhya Suri (I for India) skilfully weaves together archive footage to create an emotionally resonant story about life across India from 1899 to 1947. Drawn exclusively from the BFI National Archive, Around India features so...

"Caged (In) and Out", by Rishabh Jain, a jarring account of domestic domestic violence in India. The film produced in-house by JIBS, sheds light on the pervasive issue of domestic violence in India, offering an intimate perspective through the voice...

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