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
Something Like Cinema: Exploring Ray (Jaydip Mukherjee) India
Maroun Returns to Beirut (Feyrouz Serhal) Lebanon
Child Of Dust (Weronika Miliczewska) Poland
The Last Expedition (Eliza Kubarska) Poland
Poetries from the Bookstores: Somewhere I Belong (Hou Chi-Jan) Taiwan
First Frames (Ilie Mitaru) Turkey / USA
Searching for The Band (Musa AK, Hasan Basri Ozdemir) Turkey
Champions of the Golden Valley (Ben Sturgulewsky) USA
Always (Deming Cheng) USA, France, China
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
Postcards from the Verge (Natalia Koniarz) Poland
The Alquimist´s Dance (Arantxa Vela Buendía) Spain
Les Praeres (Iván Menéndez) Spain
This is not a Pearl (Tharindu Ramanayaka) Sri Lanka
Films selected for Imagineindia 2023
Bangla Surf Girls (Elizabeth D Costa) Canada, Bangladesh
And Still I Sing (Fazila Amiri) Canada
To Kill a Tiger (Nisha Pahuja) Canada
Under the Sky of Damascus (Heba Khaled, Talal Derki, Ali Wajeeh) Denmark
Laughing in Afghanistan (Anneta Papathanassiou) Greece
Women Beyond Bollywood (Rahila Bootwala) India
Go, Friend, Go (Gabriele Licchelli, Francesco Lorusso, Andrea Settembrini) Italy
Mom (Xun Sero) Mexico
Journey to the Sun (Susana de Sousa, Ansgar Schaefer) Portugal
Detached (Vladimir Krivov) Russia
All of Our Heartbeats are Connected through Exploding Stars (Jennifer Rainsford) Sweden
Films selected for Imagineindia 2022
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (Barbara Paz) Brazil
February, 1st (Leila Macaire, Mo Mo) Burma, France
Reconstruction of Occupation (Jan Sikl) Czech Republic, Slovakia
La Vie est dans le Pré (Eric Guéret) France
Libya, No Escape from Hell (Sara Creta) France
As I Want (Samaher Alqadi) Egypt, France
Breaking the Silence (Isabelle Vang, Pawel Lisiak) France
Remembering Mashi (Marco Hüsler) Germany
My Childhood My Country (Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi) Great Britain
Indian Space Dreams (Sue Sudbury) Great Britain
May You Stay Forever Young (Rex Ren, Lam Sum) Hong Kong
Once Upon a Village (Srishti Lakhera) India
Kekee Manzil (Behroze Gandhy, Dilesh Korya) India
Ushiku (Thomas Ash) Japan
Life in 24 Frames A Second (Tiong Guan Saw) Malaysia
Golden Fish, African Fish (Thomas Grand, Moussa Diop) Senegal
Kitab (Xavi Herrero) Spain
Bitter Sweet (Didem Sahin) Turkey
Incomplete Sentences (Adar Bozbay) Turkey
Films selected for Imagineindia 2021
Borderlands (Samarth Mahajan) India
Saroj Dutta and His Times (Kasturi Basu, Mitali Biswas) India
Testimony of Ana (Sachin Dheeraj) India
Life Among War Flags (Mohsen Eslamzadeh) Iran
The Marriage Project (Atiye Attarzadeh/Hesam Eslami) Iran
A Fish Tale (Emmanuelle Mayer) Israel
An Island in the Continent (Juan Pablo Miquirray) Mexico
Zumiriki (Óskar Alegría) Spain
Radio Silence (Juliana Fanjul) Switzerland, Mexico
Khutsiev, Action Starts (Peter Shepotinnik) Russia
Shaman (Andrey Osipov) Russia
Reboiras, Action and Heart (Alberte Mera) Spain
Accept The Call (Eunice Lau) USA
Gloves Off (Nadine Natour, Ugonna Okpalaoka) USA
Radical Love (William Kirkley) USA
Films selected for Imagineindia 2020
Sisters of The Trees (Camila Menéndez / Lucas Peñafort) Argentina
River Silence (Rogério Soares) Canada
7 Veils (Sepideh Farsi) France
Murghab (Daler Kaziev, Martin Saxer, Marlen Elders) Germany
Mosley (Michael Shevloff) Great Britain
For Sama (Waad Al-Khateab, Edward Watts) Great Britain
Mullah,s Daughter (Hassan Solhjoo, Mahdieh Sadat) Great Britain
Moti Bagh (Nirmal Chander) India (PSBT)
Prison Diaries (Uma Chakravarti) India (PSBT)
Sharmila Tagore (Umang Sabarwal) India (PSBT)
The Geshema is Born (Malati Rao) India (PSBT)
Missing Days (Ekta Mittal) India (PSBT)
A Foreigner in my Own Land (Nishajyoti Sharma) India (TISS)
Saroj Dutta and His Times (Kasturi Basu, Mitali Biswas) India
Kaifinama (Sumantra Ghosal) India
Objector (Molly Stuart) Israel
Sea is Shaking (Nikita Tuzov) Russia
The Abode. Who are we? (Eleonora Tukhareli) Russia
Behind India, a look through their social movements (Fernando Vera) Spain
King of Beasts (Tomer Almagor, Nadav Harel) USA
Films selected for Imagineindia 2019
Masala Chai (Marco Hülser) Germany
Letters from Kurdistan (Reber Dosky) Iraq
Purdah (Jeremy Guy) India, USA
Decoding Shankar (Deepti Pillai Sivan) India
The Death of Us (Vani Subramanian) India
India,s Healing Forests (Nitin Das) India
Tales From Our Childhood (Mukul Haloi) India
We, the people (Samarth Mahajan) India
Mrinal Sen, an Era in Cinema (Rajdeep Paul) India
The Way (Olesya Shigina / Veronica Ponomareva) Russia / France
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