Every year in India, on occasions of religious festivals, political elections and even banal events like politicians’ birthdays - vast numbers of posters go up in public places. These posters look absurdly identical - a splatter of primary colours, mugshots of devotees or politicians, and messaging devoted to the festival Gods or wishing their seniors a happy birthday. Now, in ...
During the morning commute, trains in Mumbai, India, are like trains from hell. As if they’re the last trains on earth, hordes of people jump in through the closing doors, while those unable to get in hang onto the doors. Thankfully, one of the cars is for women only—it is another India within India, a micro universe of women. Rebana Liz John takes her camera into this car and ...
Kalsubai, the name given to a mountainous site in India in the Maharashtra, also designates the protective goddess of the Koli. For Yudhajit Basu, her legend evokes the revolt of a woman against an archaic patriarchy. His film, composed of pictorial static shots, plunges us into an enchanting reverie that seeks out traces of this ancestral myth in the contemporary world.
Teenager Ved comes from a violent home in the Mumbai slums. When he joins a project aiming to foster healthy masculinity, he begins to realise there may be a brighter path for his future than the one paved by his abusive, controlling father. One of Ved's mentors is Harish, a gentle man in his 50s who has dedicated his life to abolishing toxic masculinity. Through the support Ve...
The summer has its own songs. Whispering softly, they make their way to us from the depths of the jungle. The high treetops sway and rustle. Once a tiger prowled the village. The father doesn’t tell his son about this, as he holds him tight. In calm takes that concede the jungle its beauty, stature and deep serenity, the images move between the immediate and the totality, betwe...
In turbulent India of the Emergency in the 1970's , four friends on the threshold of their teenage years in a little Indian school, gather in they're beloved adda to deliberate the everyday's of school and life. Little do they know, that by the end of this academic year, their lives will take a tur as they never expected it to...