CASTING LIGHT

Who Built CTISM

2025

A documentary that revives the memory of the Technical Industrial School of Santa Maria through the voices of former teachers and retired staff, revealing not only how these individuals helped shape and strengthen the institution, but also how CTISM marked and transformed their lives, intertwining individual destinies and collective memory into a living portrait of technical education in Brazil.

Within Me

2025

Spiritum

2024

Ramiro, a young addict runs away from his problems until he discovers the true meaning of freedom in a rehab center

Dheeran

2025

When news of Eldhose's death, a man once adored by the locals, reaches his village, his uncles embark on a chaotic trip in an ambulance to bring his body back home.

Wedding Dress

2022

Joan, a mother who works as a wedding dress designer, discovers that she has cancer. With declining health and limited time, Joan tries to do as much as she can for her daughter, Sarah.

Castor, la force de la nature

2023

Chilli Chicken

2024

Chilli Chicken follows the lives of five Northeastern boys working at a Chinese restaurant. Based on true events, this film is written and directed by Prateek Prajosh. The cast includes BV Shrunga (known for "19.20.21"), Manipur actor Bijou Thaangjam (from "Mary Kom"), Jimpa Sangpo, alongside Harini Sundararajan, Victor Thoudam, Nityashree, Padmaja Rao, and others. This movie promises to captivate audiences with its unique blend of social commentary, drama, and comedy.

God's Wife

2024

A young widow struggles to reconcile her catholic beliefs with the demands of tradition after her late husband’s brother propositions her.

Flower Bud

2023

A young woman struggles to tell her beloved grandmother a truth that she believes may ruin their relationship.

Puppy Love

1999

A curious title given that for 50 minutes, Januszczak snarls his way through a canine critique and it’s not clear which he despises more, dogs or their owners. He visits a dog show which he regards as incorrigibly eccentric and he considers breeding practices to be the canine equivalent of eugenics practised by the Nazis. “We breed them until their heads look like misshapen Halloween pumpkins (often to the detriment of their health), we cut their bollocks off, we send them to a doggy psychiatrist and still most of them won’t do what we want them to do. The message appears to be that we love dogs, but not for themselves, it’s for the prestige they can bestow upon their owners.

Sans Soleil

1983

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Daybreak Express

1957

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

The Bridge

1959

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister.

I Stand Alone

1999

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, the Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, the Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.

Carne

1991

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.