Directed by Sankhajit Biswas
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- DirectorSankhajit BiswasStarsBubaiChiranjitChiranjit and Bubai are two young transgender friends from Kolkata. Hailing from poor and uneducated families, they confronted social castration from a tender age. However, it helped strengthening their bond as friends. Bubai, often mistreated in his family, seeks love and care outside. He falls in love with a boy only to be dumped for a 'real' girl. Chiranjit, an only child, is relatively accepted by his parents. He wants a good job. But nobody wants a feminine boy in company. In 2009, they joined Manas Bangla, a non-profit organization working in LGBT advocacy and HIV awareness. Their job is to generate consciousness amongst high risk youth and bring them in for blood test. Days pass. Bubai gets a new boyfriend. He is happy now. Chiranjit gets a promotion in Manas Bangla and becomes Bubai's superior. But this development in their personal life and career opens up a rift. Soon they stopped talking to each other.
- DirectorSankhajit BiswasAn ethnographic documentary on the Totos, one of the smallest primitive tribes of India having a population of 1500 odd. They stay in an isolated village called Totopara near Indo-Bhutanese border of West Bengal. Being an animist tribe, Toto way of living is fundamentally based on nature; however, they do not oppose modernity as well. Continuous influx of migrant Nepalese has eaten into their land. The recent trend of conversion to Christianity has brought in much discontent in the Toto society. The time is critical as Totos are fast losing their land, culture, language and hence, the tribal identity.
- DirectorSankhajit BiswasJhum or shifting cultivation has been an integral part of the Naga way of living, now considered environmentally non-viable. In 2010, Longra, a small progressive village of the Chang Tribe in Tuensang district, decided to walk a different path.