Pakdam Pakdai
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In the bustling Sadar Market of Agra, a group of children who sell balloons in the market take us along as they navigate between work and play, hostility and joy, commerce and friendship in the urban space that is designed to exclude them. In this vehicle-choked public realm, we observe their routine of overcoming various barriers and intuitively carving spaces for themselves. With their games and tender resilience, Pakdam Pakdai celebrates children’s agency in employing the act of play to claim space amid the relentlessness of the city.
Manaveeyam
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Street cultures across the world can shape socially conscious societies. This documentary asks whether public space development is merely an infrastructure upgrade or a catalyst for cultural evolution. Manaveeyam Veedhi, once informally reclaimed by street collectives, was renovated in 2023 as a cultural corridor under Kerala’s Smart City Project, ensuring 24/7 public access. The film explores its spirit through stories of inclusion and accessibility, following a young man who works as a juice maker at Manaveeyam and later becomes a singer through music collectives, a non-binary lesbian who shares their story of how the space gave them the confidence to acknowledge their identity. We also see artists as well as families mingling together to make it a vibrant space. The film also reflects on civic responsibility, asking how people engage with the freedom such spaces offer and concludes with an
introspection on whether the Manaveeyam model can be sustained and replicated in future.
ফুল গাড়ি (Scent of Nocturnal Flowers)
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Phool Gari (Scent of Nocturnal Flowers) explores a small patch of land beside Barasat station that transforms each night from a bustling auto stand into a flower market. As the last autos leave, flower vendors arrive, setting up makeshift shelters, dozing under the open sky, and waiting for the first Bongaon Local, the train they call Phool Gari, to begin their trade. As metro construction slowly encroaches, swallowing the space they call their own, the film observes their quiet rhythms, the delicate balance between labour and survival, and the fleeting moments of community that emerge in the margins. Phool Gari reflects on belonging, resilience, and the struggle to hold onto life in a suburban landscape that constantly redraws its edges, where the same ground quietly serves different livelihoods across the day and night.
Pascal Premier League
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Pascal Premier League is a film about the transformation of a street with a deep history of violence, displacement, and change into a space of joy and community. Set on Shahid Road in Jogeshwari East, a neighbourhood once marked by the 1992–93 Bombay riots, the film observes how a group of young boys reclaim this narrow lane by establishing their own cricket league. What was once a site of fear and memory now becomes a field of play and laughter. The act of reclaiming this space is both resistance and celebration, reflecting how everyday life, imagination, and play can redefine the meaning of public space in a city constantly reshaped by ever-consuming change and evolution
Deewar Nāma (Chronicles of the Walls)
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Deewar Nāma (Chronicles of the Walls) is a reflective documentary that journeys through Mumbai’s walls — from the bustling lanes of Charni Road to the fading murals of Bandra — uncovering how they speak, remember, and sometimes disappear. What begins as a filmmaker’s casual curiosity about street art unfolds into a meditation on expression, erasure, and ownership. Through encounters with muralists, commuters, and anonymous street artists like Tyler, the film captures the fragile dance between creation and censorship, memory and renewal. Each story — of a woman seeing her past on a painted wall or an artist risking arrest for his message — reveals how the city’s surfaces mirror its soul. As the colours fade and the walls are repainted, Deewar Nama asks: when everyone can speak, what truly deserves to be said?
How much space does a firefly take?
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‘How much space does one take’ is a question Kabir asks as he performs his solo play about his trans-ness and belonging in a city. Interwoven with phone calls from different trans people recounting their experiences of navigating urban public space, his play takes shape to become a testament of trans memories, struggle, and reclamation. The film questions the idea of identity driving one’s experiences with public space. Who are the cities made for? Who are they accessible to? Why do queer people need to be invisible while traversing through the city?
Hissa
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Hissa tells the story of two migrant barber brothers who have spent their lives cutting hair on the streets of Mumbai’s Dhobi Talao. Their small setup survives on the edge of legality as their chairs and mirrors spill onto the road. Though they come from the same family of barbers, their dreams divide them. The younger wants to return home once his son begins earning, while the elder believes the city has become his home. The story is narrated by a young girl, the elder brother’s daughter, who recalls a fable told by her grandfather about frogs seeking shelter in a pond full of fish during a drought. Through her voice, the film reflects on what it means to belong, to survive, and to choose one’s place in a restless city. Hissa is about inheritance, and a claim to space in the contested public realm.
Mauj Ni Khoj (Seeking Fun)
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In the small city of Bhuj, two young Muslim women navigate societal and familial restrictions, carving out fleeting moments of joy in the city. The film follows their friendship, revealing how the public realm is both constraining and resilient, where small defiant acts create space for “mauj” (fun). Through their eyes, we explore: What does “mauj” mean for young Muslim women in the small city of Bhuj? Where do the boundaries of safety and freedom lie-and who draws them?. Their story is not just about restriction, but also of finding laughter in the margins, about friendship as sanctuary, and about the quiet, everyday acts of rebellion that make fun possible-even if only for five minutes at a time.
In Search of Humans
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Set in a restless Kolkata, ‘In Search of Humans’ observes a city where digital and real worlds merge, dissolving the boundaries of public space and human emotion. Through fragments of protests, daily life, and screens projecting chaos, it reflects a time shaped by fear, surveillance, and disillusionment. A poem flows through these moments, weaving collective anxiety, loss, and fragile hope into the city’s pulse. Blending documentary, AI-generated imagery, Gaming graphics, and personal archives, the film reveals how people move within self-made boxes. Amid this fractured landscape, ‘In Search of Humans’ searches not for answers but for traces of empathy, tenderness, and resistance that still survive in silence.
महाद्वार (Mahadwar – The Great Corridor)
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Mahadwar journeys through the fading rhythms of Mahadwar Road — a historic street in Kolhapur that once pulsed with trade, devotion, and daily life. As large-scale redevelopment plans surround the Mahalaxmi Temple, the film reflects on what is lost when progress erases memory. Through nostalgic visuals, intimate sounds, and a deeply personal voiceover, the director revisits the street of her childhood to understand its transformation. Between the noise of politics and the quiet resilience of people, Mahadwar stands, asking: Are development and expansion truly the same? What happens to the life of a street when its physical body disappears, but its pulse still lingers in memory?r
Through The Dappled Light
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Through the play of dappled light, the film reflects on the lives of Chandigarh’s informal workers: visible yet overlooked, ever-present yet structurally invisible. These lives exist in the shadows, not in hiding, but not entirely in the light of urban recognition. Through the stories of a barber, a chaiwala, a kelewala and labourers, we explore how their presence, among the trees of Chandigarh, offers affordable services and helps generate a social public realm for the lower-income classes. Chandigarh’s planned 74,000-tree cover offers much-needed relief from the elite and programmed, hard, paved and monotonous edges of the roads and sectoral grids. These workers occupy this shade without tenancy or title, instead operating under intermittent licenses issued post the 2014 Street Vendor Survey. As they anchor themselves with these trees, they momentarily step outside their ‘worker’ identities to rest, to play cards, to share tea or gossip, and to simply be.
Valai Pinnal
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The fisherfolk of Nochikuppam navigate the shifting landscape of their homes in the wake of government interventions. Through myriad acts of preservation of materials, documents and oral knowledge, the film explores the people’s resistance and their relationship to space.