In the small city of Bhuj, two young Muslim women, Sherbanu and Mariya, navigate societal and familial restrictions, carving out fleeting and risky moments of joy in the neighbourhood and city. Their friendship reveals how the public realm means constraints and freedom, where small defiant acts create space for Mauj.
Valai Pinnal
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.
Through The Dappled Light
In Chandigarh’s rigidly planned city, trees offer shade and shelter to informal workers on the margins seeking space and belonging in a city that never planned for their presence.
Fireflies in the Night
In a city where he’s used to being unseen, a trans man joins a midnight walk with queer strangers, where loitering becomes a quiet rebellion against identity erasure. On the other hand, as he rehearses his debut play ‘Beyond the Bodies’, he recollects his erasure and the moments of magic that a community brings.
Manaveeyam
‘Manaveeyam’ traces the life of a small urban street in Kerala’s capital city of Thiruvananthapuram, reclaimed by its people, where social inclusivity, civic responsibility and freedom converge, transforming into an accessible, socially just and inclusive public realm; a blueprint for the future.
Phool Gari (Scent of Nocturn Flowers)
This film aims to explore the quiet transformation of a liminal space beside Barasat railway station, from a morning auto stand to a night flower market and the resilient livelihoods that thrive within its rhythm.
Pascal Premier League
On a narrow street in Jogeshwari East, a group of young boys organise their own mini cricket league—reclaiming a congested public lane for play, joy, and community in a city starved of accessible open spaces.
Hissa
In the rapidly shrinking public spaces of South Bombay, two street barber brothers fight to preserve their dignity, legacy, and humble livelihood, operating on the edge of legality. As the city sanitises its image in the name of progress, we’re forced to ask: are we clearing mess, or erasing mobility?
महाद्वार
Mahadwar – The Great Corridor
Set against the backdrop of a ₹1445 crore redevelopment plan for Kolhapur’s Mahalaxmi Temple, the film explores the emotional and economic ecosystems of Mahadwar Road — a historic market street. Through voices of traders, vendors, and residents, it questions: can public memory survive without physical continuity?
Walls of Expression
Set in Mumbai’s ever-changing urban landscape, this documentary explores how public walls become sites of resistance, memory, and expression, while also revealing the fear, erasure, and control they provoke.
Pakdam Pakdai
In Agra, seemingly designed for cars, children invent playgrounds out of footpaths, medians, and market edges. Pakdam Pakdai scales the city to a child with a child’s eye view of play, resistance, and imagination—where joy collides with heat, traffic, and exclusion, and the city is both a game and a question.
Fragmented Realities
Fragmented Realities captures Kolkata during a time of unrest, where digital and real worlds overlap, revealing collective fear, protest, memory, and quiet hope within a shifting public landscape.
