Documentaries |

Films selected for Imagineindia 2026 (Not completed)

The Art of Adventure (Alison Reid) Canada

Far from Home (Kristi Tethong) Canada, India

Painted Memories (Jaydip Mukherjee) India

Maroun Returns to Beirut (Feyrouz Serhal) Lebanon

Child Of Dust (Weronika Miliczewska) Poland

The Last Expedition (Eliza Kubarska) Poland

First Frames (Ilie Mitaru) Turkey / USA

Searching for The Band (Musa AK, Hasan Basri Ozdemir) Turkey

Champions of the Golden Valley (Ben Sturgulewsky) USA

Films selected for Imagineindia 2025

The Great White Whale (Michael Dillon) Australia———————-Deep in the wild Southern Ocean, halfway between Australia and South Africa, a snowy volcano, nine thousand feet high, rears up from the sea like a great white whale. Five times it tried to kill the first team that attempted to climb it. Yet in 1964, back they sailed.

Jacques (Lysandre Leduc Boudreau) Canada———————————–For over forty years, Jacques Duhoux, expedition pioneer in northern Quebec, has lived alone in the Uapishka (Groulx) Mountains. Now at 85 years old, he continues to live off the grid, despite the inevitable decline that comes with age.

What will People Say (Rafina Khatun) India ———————————Gulnaaz remains committed to using community radio to shed light on injustices and oppressions faced by marginalised communities, despite constant scrutiny and control by her family and community.

Cinema Pe Cinema (Vani Subramanian) India ———————————For some of us, India’s single screen cinemas are a glorious architectural and cultural legacy to be celebrated, preserved and cherished. For others, they remain a place still frequented to see the movies. Yet others lament their widespread demise

Here Children Dont Play Together (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) Iran ——–Is a portrait of people in Jerusalem whose survival is in question on a daily basis. In the heat of the war, the film pictures those Ordinary Palestinians and Israelis who are still in search of peace and coexistence between Muslims and Jews. Ali, who was released from Israeli prison after eighteen years and works as a tourist guide in the market, is one of these people.

Hidden Era (Carlos Vargas) Mozambique, Germany, Colombia———Feature narrative “Hidden Era” unfolds in the vibrant city of Maputo, where Rastafari artist Phambi grapples with securing his son’s education amidst the rhythmic beats of Mozambique. Perennially on the brink of expulsion due to payment delays, Phambi’s artistic journey becomes a compelling narrative.

Of Caravans and The Dogs (Askold Kurov, Anonymous 1) Germany –Putin had been preparing his country for the big war long before it started. Since 2012, a series of repressive laws were passed by the Government labelling everyone who publicly disagreed with the official narrative as “foreign agent”, a traitor of Russia. In these circumstances…

Maroun Returns to Beirut (Feyrouz Serhal) Lebanon —————– 2023 marked the thirtieth anniversary of Maroun Baghdadi’s sudden and tragic death. Maroun was a Lebanese filmmaker who wrote and directed films during the Lebanese civil war and contributed to documentary and fiction filmmaking from 1973 up until his death in 1993.

I Love You More (Nour Alkheder) Nederland ——————————Nour’s journey to recognition of her longing for her father and Syria, where she confronts loss and the emotional impact of absence.

Whispering Walls (Eylem Kaftan) Turkey ——————————–Whispering Walls is a creative, cinematic, and artistic meditation on a Turkish artist in New York in 1960’s trying to navigate his way in a complicated time in American history when people were out on the streets for civil rights and when art was a true act of struggle expressing itself in the most intense way on street walls.

The Forest in Me (Rebecca E. Marshall) UK ———————————-Epic forests of the Siberian Taiga and black lava landscapes of a Hawaiian volcano are woven through this quietly powerful film that opens out from a personal story about living with uncertainty, to reflect upon possibilities of love and human connection.

First Frames (Ilie Mitaru) Turkey / USA—————————————–First Frames follows photographer and Syrian refugee Serbest Salih and his mobile darkroom that brings photography education to overlooked communities across Turkey, where children contend with access to school, memory and displacement from devastating earthquakes.

Films selected for Imagineindia 2024

My Name is Gulpilil (Molly Reynolds) Australia

Raise me a Memory (Varun Trikha) Estonia

Under Construction (Markus Toivo) Finland

The Empty Grave (Agnes Lisa Wegner/Cece Mlay) Germany, Tanzania

Keeping the Music Alive (Sarah El Younsi, Mandakini Gahlot) France, Singapore

Bye Bye Tiberias (Lina Soualem) France, Palestine

Mother and Daughter (Lana Gogoberidze) Georgia/France

And Towards Happy Alleys (Sreemoyee Singh) India

New Girl in the City (Aakriti Thatal, Ashutosh Mishra, Asmita Srivastava) India

The List (Hana Makhmalbaf) Iran

A Boy Called Piano (Nina Nawalowalo) New Zealand