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- DirectorNish SaranStarsNish SaranA young man has takes an HIV test after finding out that a man with whom he's had unsafe sex is HIV positive. Before he can get the results of his test though he's committed to a trip with his mother who he's decided to come out to.
- DirectorRakesh SharmaA study of politics of hate, examining the rise and entrenchment of right-wing politics in India, by documenting the 2002 Gujarat riots and their aftermath. It specifically examines political tendencies reminiscent of early Nazi Germany.
- DirectorLalit VachaniSet at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, India, this is a film about the indoctrination of young Hindu boys by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (the RSS), India's foremost Hindu fundamentalist organization. Juxtaposing the activities of two different RSS 'shakhas' or branches, the film documents the stories and the games, the rituals and the play that socialize the young RSS recruit.
- DirectorLalit VachaniIn October 1992, Lalit Vachani and the Wide Eye Film team were filming The Boy in the Branch. At the time, Kali, the central character of the film, was nine years old. He had joined the RSS branch because it was a fun place where children could play games after school every day.Sandeep, twenty-one years old, spoke about his devotion to the Hindu nationalist cause, and how he would spend his life serving the RSS. Sripad, an RSS martial arts expert (nineteen at the time) was passionate about building his own body and building the Hindu nation. And Lalit, age eighteen, was a gentle, atypical volunteer who disliked the physical program of the RSS, even though he was assigned to train the younger boys in Karate. We had entered RSS territory expecting to confirm our received images of fascism. Instead, what we found was far more ingenious and unsettling in its simplicity: the lure of a playground where young boys played games and the hopes and dreams, fears and anxieties of ordinary young people as the banal face of fundamentalism. On December 6th, 1992, 45 days after the shoot when the film was near completion, members of the RSS and its affiliates destroyed the Babri mosque at Ayodhya. Where were Lalit, Kali, Sripad, and Sandeep when the mosque was razed to the ground? What did they think about the deaths of at least 1500 people (mostly Muslim) in the riots that followed the demolition? What had happened to them since that time, as the RSS and Hindu nationalism moved from the margins to the center of Indian politics, from an oppositional movement to the ideology of the government presently in power? --- Eight years later, we returned to Nagpur in search of Kali, Sandeep, Sripad and Lalit. Combining the conventions of the political documentary and the personal 'revisit', The Men in the Tree is a documentary in four parts: Part I, Memories (22 min.) is a personal reflection on the making of the earlier film, The Boy in the Branch. (please link to this film here) Part II, Buildings (24 min.) builds on the characters of The Boy in the Branch, in that we meet Sandeep, Sripad and Kali in the present, after a gap of eight years. However, it is primarily about the making and the breaking of various buildings, the most prominent one being the Babri mosque, destroyed in December 1992. Part III, Stories (32 min.) is the talking heads/information section of the film. It is about the kind of stories that circulate within the RSS branch and broader RSS culture and the attempts by RSS ideologues to rewrite and Hinduize a secular Indian history. Former RSS volunteers, D.R. Goyal and Purshottam Agarwal provide an internal critique and a framework to understand the ambivalence of the RSS to national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and contextualize the RSS hostility towards Muslim and Christian minorities in India. Part IV, Branches (20 min.) is about the state of RSS branches in contemporary India in the form of a return to the branches that the team filmed in 1992. The film ends with an epilogue concerning the events of March 2002. At the time, The Men in the Tree was almost complete. The RSS affiliate, the VHP launched a new agitation to build the Ram temple at Ayodhya. This resulted in the horrifying genocide in Gujarat, where estimates suggest that over two thousand Muslims were killed by members of the Hindu right.
- DirectorAbhay KumarAIIMS experiences an outrage of student union which leads to complete nerve damage of limb of sahil. Curious about the patterns of compulsion, his brother decides to stay back on campus and view the illusion of medical life.
- DirectorSantana IssarThe director is criticized by her mother and sister, who are estranged from their father over his alcoholism. With her mother and sister pulling her back and forth, she is driven to the phone by old memories of her father and his current reality. Home videos from twenty-some years ago show her father speaking tenderly to the two close sisters while they innocently play. The footage makes the viewer feel as though the joyous family videos may reveal something if one looks hard enough. The director faces her father through the phone and tries to understand him, as if attempting to bring back the past.
- DirectorPankaj Rishi Kumar
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsEugene FriedmanStanley FriedmanRobert SchwartzAn intimate look at the daily activities of medical staff and patients in New York's Metropolitan Hospital.
- DirectorJay RosenblattStarsTyler CassityChris CornetJohn LambertThe death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of their child and the entire family experienced indescribable pain. PHANTOM LIMB uses this personal story as a point of departure. Whether it is a loss through death or divorce, the stages of grieving are the same.
- DirectorSafina UberoiStarsOdile Le ClezioLech MackiewiczDean VassalloPatricia Uberoi, an Australian woman, married an Indian professor in the 60s and moved to his home in New Delhi. They raised three children there, but the riots and the anti-Sikh feelings led to her encouraging her children to move to Australia. A documentary about a multicultural family becomes a commentary on the events surrounding the anti-Sikh riots of 1984.
- DirectorKumar ShahaniStarsKelucharan MohapatraSanyukta Panigrahi