Hum Chitra Banate Hai’ by Nina Sabnani
2015 | Animation | Hindi | 9 mins A joyously animated origin myth from Madhya Pradesh in India retells why painting is prayer to the Bhil people
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‘Amdavad Ma Famous’ by Hardik Mehta
2015 | Documentary | Gujarati | 29 mins The film witnesses the transformation of an 11-year-old Zaid from a boy next door to an aggressive and a passionate kite-runner, till he comes across a challenge that threatens to keep him Read more
Scattered Clouds by Debjani Banerjee
2015 | Documentary | Bengali | 15 mins The filmmaker’s personal experience of loneliness in a crowded city like Kolkata.
‘Ismail’ by Nora Alsharif
2013 | Fiction | Arabic | 28 mins Inspired by a day in the life of Palestinian painter Ismail Shammout, ‘Ismail’ tells the compelling story of a young man struggling to support his parents after their expulsion to a Refugee Read more
Over the Wall’ by Roy Zafrani
2018 | Fiction | Hebrew | 12 mins A coincidental meeting between an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy leads them to discover that reality is different than what they have been told.
I Am From Palestine by Iman Zawahry
2023 | Animation | English | 5 mins As Saamidah, a young Palestinian-American girl, anxiously starts her first day of school, she finds her identity in question when faced with a world map that doesn’t include her homeland
Junkopia – A Short Film by Chris Marker, Frank Simeone and John Chapman
1981 | Documentary | No Dialogue | 6 mins One day, at the stroke of evening, on Emeryville beach in San Francisco, where unidentified artists leave, without anyone knowing, sculptures manufactured with items that have washed ashore from the sea.
Chicken Stories by Jonathan Pickett
2023 | Documentary | English | 18 mins A coop of egg-laying hens whose free-range lifestyle creates challenges; a coop of wild rescue roosters who just might kill each other; a coop of newborn baby chicks for whom daily survival Read more
The Battle of Five Spices by Matty Crawford & Scott Piggott
2017 | Mock Documentary | English | 8 mins There was never a good war, or a bad peace. But there has always been…good chicken. A mock documentary following the exploits of drunken revelers as they go to war with Read more
The Astronaut And His Parrot by Arati Kadav
2022 | Fiction | Hindi, English | 15 mins After a terrible mishap, astronaut Iqbal Ali (Ali Fazal) is stranded and adrift in space. When he buzzes mission control, the signal gets lost. It’s picked up thousands of miles away Read more