Documentary
Peacock Plume
“Peacock Plume” is a cinematic tribute to the Indian classical dancer Shubhada Varadkar’s excruciating personal journey, battling cancer and overcoming the experience of it with her gift of dance. It looks at how an artist finds in dance, a language to ground an experience of rupture, which was both physical and emotional.
Stranger in My Own Skin
The film deconstructs Iman Mersal’s poetry to reveal the artist’s struggle with artistic identity. It is a shared discourse between the filmmaker and the poet, expressed through the artist’s archival videos from Egypt, her interviews and her poems.
Earth Crusader
This self styled architect’s crusade is no ordinary sermon, but a practical demonstration of what one person can do to effect change in society. With an urgent demeanor and without mincing words, Didi Contractor articulates her message to students across disciplines. She believes that the future rests in the hands of the youth and they are the ones who need to take her environmental crusade forward.
Ishaa Journals
A personal story of a young immigrant teenager’s struggle with identity as told from a mother’s perspective, this film was made in collaboration between mother and daughter. Ishaa Journals was screened at the Peace Builders Film Festival in New Delhi in 2018, ten years after it was completed.
Journey Back Home
An octogenarian returns to her home in Kashmir after a decade, accompanied by her 9 year old granddaughter. As the old lady begins reliving the past, the young girl’s innocence speaks of peace, love and harmony in her world.
Original footage of this film that was shot on Hi 8 was lost. The material for the film has been salvaged from a VHS tape which was to be used for logging the footage. The content was compelling enough for the filmmaker to work with the available material and create a heartwarming piece.
The Last Adieu
Having the need to resolve the unfinished relationship with her father who died suddenly when she was just fourteen, Shabnam decides to confront her mother and talk to people who had known him. She is eager to fill the holes in her sketchy memory only to find that he had always been there for her and influenced her at every stage in her life without her knowing it.
Thirty years later, she is now ready to claim her father as she discovers his significance in her life.