Pixie Dust by Kranti Kanadé
Documentary | English | 5 mins People around the world are asked a simple but unexpected question: Do you believe in Fairies?
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Idol by by Kranti Kanadé
Fiction | Marathi | 10 mins 1986 India. A boy desperately wants to see the football world cup match between Maradona’s Argentina and England, but his father won’t allow him. [The legendary Hand of God goal by Maradona].
Kala Matlab by Kranti Kanadé
Fiction | Hindi | 5 mins A naive film school student goes to brothel to convince a sex-worker to act in his film.
Chaitra by Kranti Kanadé
2002 | Fiction | Marathi | 21 mins The story of a proud woman, her poetic vindication of unfair social insult, and her inevitable sad destiny. A very culture-specific film dipped in a local festival of rural women. Based on Read more
Last Day on Earth by Christian Eisenbarth
2022 | Experimental | English | 5 mins An old man lives alone in the depths of a Washington forest, unknowingly experiencing his last day on earth. He embarks through an enchanted forest, only to find he’s not alone. In Read more
Milind Soman Made Me Gay by Harjant Gill
2007 | Documentary | English | 27 mins In 1995, the Indian Government charged Bollywood superstar Milind Soman with ‘obscenity’ for appearing nude in a shoe advertisement. Under the rhetoric of preserving nation’s morality, these charges were carried-out using old Read more
WHITE MAN by Bong Joon-ho
1994 | Fiction | Korean | 18 mins The story of one man’s unusual reaction to discovering a severed index finger while on his way to work. The film is followed by notes from the director, Bong Joon-ho, who later Read more
Flying Padre by Stanley Kubrick
1951 | Documentary | English | 9 mins Two days in the life of Reverend Fred Stadtmueller, a Catholic missionary whose New Mexico parish covers 400 square miles. For six years, he has been piloting his Piper Cub, called ‘The Read more
LICK THE STAR by Sofia Coppola
1998 | Fiction | English | 14 mins A clique of school girls devise a secret plan that they code-name “Lick the Star”.
The Man Without a Head by Juan Solanas
2003 | Fiction | French | 18 mins With two fabulous tickets to tonight’s ball in his hands, the solitary Mr Phelps needs to find the perfect head to please his charming date. Will he risk it all for love?