Country : India | Award: INR 15000

Katran is a story of an elderly couple, who decide to part ways after 36 years of their marriage but in the end realize that in some obscure corners of their house, still resides a little tug of love that brings them together.

Country : India | Award: INR 15000

Daughter Of Nepal is the story of Manushi Yami Bhattarai, the unassuming daughter of two formidable political leaders of Nepal. As her parents prepared to go underground for the Peoples' War in the mid-1990s, nine-year-old Manushi was sent across the border to live under an assumed identity. The film catches up with Manushi in 2009, soon after her return to the chaotic political scene of Kathmandu. A life in the public eye is new to her, yet it is something she has prepared for all her life. Despite growing up in the absence of her parents and her homeland, her future is intimately intertwined with them. She is determined to support her parents' political struggles and begin one of her own. The film takes a poetic look at a rarely seen side of a revolutionary movement and presents a refreshing perspective on family, society, and love for one's homeland.

Country : Nigeria | Award: INR 10000

Within the Nigerian family, the father is the patriarch and protector of his flock. Still, Water Runs Deep tells the intimate story of a man whose concealed emotions begin to stir when faced with the portent of a missing son.

Country : India | Award: INR 10000

This documentary is about a river of the Western Ghats of India – “Aghanashini”, which is a unique river from the perspective that it still flows in its natural course due to absence of any dams to change its flow and it doesn't have any industries along its path to pollute its water. In that sense, so far it remains untamed and unpolluted by man. There has been no effort till now to document the uniqueness of this river through its entire length. In the time when 'development' is the mantra of any government in the country, there exists this silent river which is holding onto its ground and nurturing the land and forest and thus becoming a river of life for hundreds of thousands of people along with its flow. Made over a span of two years, the film covers the story of the river via various stories along its flow, some of which are shot for the first time.

Country : India | Award: INR 8000

Katran is a story of an elderly couple, who decide to part ways after 36 years of their marriage but in the end realize that in some obscure corners of their house, still resides a little tug of love that brings them together.

Country : India | Award: INR 8000

Daughter Of Nepal is the story of Manushi Yami Bhattarai, the unassuming daughter of two formidable political leaders of Nepal. As her parents prepared to go underground for the Peoples' War in the mid-1990s, nine-year-old Manushi was sent across the border to live under an assumed identity. The film catches up with Manushi in 2009, soon after her return to the chaotic political scene of Kathmandu. A life in the public eye is new to her, yet it is something she has prepared for all her life. Despite growing up in the absence of her parents and her homeland, her future is intimately intertwined with them. She is determined to support her parents' political struggles and begin one of her own. The film takes a poetic look at a rarely seen side of a revolutionary movement and presents a refreshing perspective on family, society, and love for one's homeland.

Country: India

Director: Gunjan Menon

Red Panda numbers are dangerously decreasing and there could be less than 2500 red pandas left in the wild. But an unconventional warrior has devoted her life to fight all forces that are against her and her beloved Red Pandas. The Firefox Guardian takes you on a mesmerizing journey through dense bamboo jungles in Nepal while exploring a special bond between the unique ‘Firefoxes’ and Menuka, a simple village girl. In this twelve-minute story, we follow Menuka, the first female forest guardian working with the Red Panda Network, as she tries to find a Panda juvenile to see if last season’s wild Panda reproduction was successful. This film provides a unique window into the lives of the Forest Guardians and through their eyes, the life of the rarely documented endangered Red Pandas in the wild.

Country: India

Director: Devanshi Asher

In the cold deserted region of Ladakh in India, where the stark winters which is hard to survive for an Indian living in the tropical Indian heat. I got a chance to travel to Ladakh, meet the Indian Ice Hockey Team and experience the ice hockey season, which no one in India knows about. Thats where I met Sonam Chondol. Sonam chondol is a 21 year old ladakhi girl from the isolate village of Tar. She started her ice hockey journey 4 years ago in SECMOL, when she failed her 10th std board exams and the system tagged her as a failure. She was selected for the Indian Ice Hockey team in 2015 and 2016, when the team was participating in the IIHC championships in Malasiya and Taipei but she couldn’t go because she didn’t have a passport. This year when she got her passport, she couldn’t make it through the team. Over the time, ice hockey has just become a hobby for her because coming from an economically tough background where the father is a seasonal carpenter and the mother is a homemaker and a farmer, there is a lot of pressure on her to become financially independent because the father has gone through a lot of tough time to educate 3 children and run a house.My film revolves around Sonam Chondol and her struggle to achieve her dreams.

Country: Mozambique

Director: Irina Patkanian

LOG LINE: Artist Fiel dos Santos grew up during the 16-year-long civil war in his home country of Mozambique. The only one of his family to never have shot a gun, today he makes art out of guns to commemorate the lives lost. SYNOPSIS: “Little Fiel” is a stop motion animation/documentary that is loosely based on the life story of Mozambican artist Fiel dos Santos who grew up during the 16-year civil war - another proxy war equipped and sustained by foreign super powers. Fiel created eight figures representing his father, mother, five brothers and sister from dismantled civil war guns. Three New York artists turned them into puppets and created immersive stop-motion animation, inspired by Fiel’s memories. “Little Fiel” tells a universal story of peaceful people who have been coerced, conscripted and enticed into killing each other. It is a personal act of resistance and hope. Guns are not killers. They are pieces of metal that can be reassembled into anything, including a little boy, a bird or a rose. Just as they make them, we can unmake them, one by one.

Country: India

Director: Adhiraj Kashyap

Pabitra Rabha, a National School of Drama (NSD) alumnus, formed a theatre troupe called 'Dapon – The Mirror' in the year 2003. He has been working for the amelioration of the creative culture of his state (Assam) by engaging the children and youth with his theatre activities. In 2008, he added an entirely fresh dimension to these efforts by involving more than 30 dwarfs with 'Dapon – The Mirror'. This initiative offered a new identity to the dwarf community, who otherwise is always subdued by most sections of the society and gave them a chance to soar higher.

Country: India

Director: Digant Gautam

The desert is his world, the donkey, his companion. A donkey, that he is constantly cribbing about, complaining to. When the same donkey goes missing, the dynamics of this relationship truly emerge!

Country: India

Director: Chintan Sarda

Madhur works as a hitman for a gang in Mumbai. He leads a bleak existence and a life full of regrets. He is friendly with a kid who lives on the street. Madhur sees this kid getting into crime and decides to intervene to give the kid a chance he never had.

Country: India

Director: Vikas Chandra

Having met on a matrimonial site, Maya & Raunak have been dating for a year now. Now they want to take their relationship to the next level. However, there’s a hitch - her mother.