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Village in the Sky

2018

With the severe drought and lack of jobs, Aagaswadi village’s youth are forced to leave home for the city. Desperate for water, Bhimrao digs a well. This documentary follows the people of Aagaswadi’s struggles against the drought and its negative impact.

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Hides and Strings

1969

A short film on the traditional art and craft of making the musical instruments Sitar and Tabla.

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A Day with the Builders

1973

With only music and images, this film captures the grim struggle for existence of a family of unskillled labourers working on the construction of a new building.

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The Glass Pane

1966

In modern society, communication between individuals is becoming more and more difficult. Two persons may be in the same physical environment, yet it seems that a Glass Pane - invisible but strong, and very much there separates these individuals. Almost Antonioniesque in its composition, this short film is a study of a married couple who are unable to communicate with each other.

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6:40 PM

1967

Sanjay and Ritu meet after two months. While Sanjay is eager to meet her, he falls short of words when they actually meet. They try to make the best use of the passing moments by making purchases and visiting restaurants but both of them realise that their relationship is a thing of the past and become conscious of the growing distance between them.

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Morning

1990

Maya is a teenager young girl who is working as a housemaid in a rich family. She is required to do all household work and also look after a small child. She toils from dawn to dusk and cannot get peaceful sleep. She, therefore, wants to get rid of it. One night, she kills the child in the cradle and then, relieved of her burden, quietly sleeps on the ground.

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You Can't Give Any Reason

1992

These poor people find that their lives, hopes, desires and even dreams are ruled by the powerful. They are deprived of their natural spontaneity and thought process. As a consequence, the victim's action and reaction is programmed and they are performed mechanically as a ritual. In this film, a family of three falls victim to a middle-aged officer, who controls their lives. The woman is thrown in prison, the man becomes a toy in the hands of the officer and their child looks on innocently.

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Manoeuvre

1992

A man (psychopath), walking around isolated roads at night, encounters a woman who triggers off his childhood memories of torturing and killing a rat, and further leads him to slash another woman - a hooker to death. He has another encounter with the first woman, this time interacting with her - albeit in an unusual manner over a game of SCRABBLE. This leads to passion between the two and... it is the woman who is seen washing up and cleaning the blood off her hands.

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The Real Millionaire

2011

A call from 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' transforms the life of a humble Indian farmer, as he, along with his family and village, embarks on a journey to discover the true meaning of winning.

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Hypnothesis

1996

A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave in his office. A third finishes his tea. Another gets himself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in the world of crime: kidnapping to be more precise. But the father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up. The son has already played this trick before and collected good ransom. The father does not believe this time it is a real thing; The kidnappers get desperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.

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Suman

1970

The passage from adolescence to youth is a phase during which a girl emerges in a distinctive period of her life to another significant phase. Most often there is a synchronous transition in her physical state with that of her emotional state of mind. This film poignantly depicts such a transition in a girl's life. Her changing attitudes towards her playmates, and objects around are brought out very vividly in this film.

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Hazy Grey Skies

2006

People are involved in daily encounters without ever being aware of how they are connected with one another. A taxi reveals all.

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Teevra Madhyam

1974

Shama and Ravi are members of a Marxist party. Shama loves classical Indian music, a luxury of a few, and Ravi is in love with quotations and the philosophy of Marx - a need of the masses. Due to a strike, Ravi is compelled to work full-time for the party. Shama decides to give up music reluctantly and joins Ravi.

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Small Clouds

2025

Two siblings escape into a world of adventure aboard a broken ship—until growing up starts to pull them apart.

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Shadows of the Moonless Nights

2025

Rajan, a weary factory worker, endures grueling shifts and a volatile home life, drifting through sleepless nights in the city as he tries to reclaim the rest that always seems just out of reach.

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Reconnaissance

1990

The protagonist is a young man staying in a city. He is sensitive, melancholy and a dreamer. He is unable to communicate his feelings to the woman he loves. Everything seems to have been entangled in a mesh, irrespective of these characters. He cannot even differentiate between his capability to love and his passionate desires which have been repressed. That is how he is confused and with his ideals and morality he is living outside his own time and inevitably suffering. His self criticism is endless. He dreams about whatever he lacks and about his ideals. The dreams have led him to the domain of non-communication. His repressed passion along with his self criticism has made him bored with life. Now at every point he expects something exceptional.

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Subah Subah

1983

The film is about a young boy who has just finished graduation and is waiting for the result of a competitive examination. He is quite sure about getting through the examination, but his mother generally grumbles and assumes that her son is not capable of doing anything in this world. Discouraged and fed up with all this, he goes to his college and meets his girlfriend. He does not want to lose these moments. One fine morning he is awakened by the excited voice of his mother informing him that he has been selected in the competitive examination!

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Let's Talk A While

1997

A cynical young man and a romantic young womanencountered each other on a night bus journey. Eachspins a story around the other. It turns out that she isgoing to meet someone, she has never seen before. Heis apprehensive. She herself is not so sure.

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Alif

2010

FTII Screen Acting Diploma Film of 2010: an Anthology film with 6 stories.

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A Great Day

1965

a light comedy about a slovenly young man warned in the nick of time of the imminent visit of his fiance and prospective father-in-law. In the process of tidying up his room, Ravi's frantic efforts to start from one side end up in disturbing the other. Now, Ravi is certain that he will never receive the old man's approval to marry his daughter. But being a dentist, the old man approves Ravi for his well-set teeth.

Genre	Documentary
Production Companies	Film and Television Institute of India
Production Ccountries	India

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