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Badi Bahen aka President is a 1937 Hindi social romantic drama film (the Bengali version was called Didi and starred several different actors). The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: K.L. Saigal

Musical directed by Anwar Kamal Pasha and Murtaza Gilani.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabiha Khanum

Aas Paas is a 1957 movie directed by M. A. Rasheed

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabiha Khanum

Collaboration with Amadou, who also produced the soundtrack.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amadou

Transport is a city’s living, beating soul, as lovingly depicted in A Way We Go, a documentary feature by Jacqui Hicks. With an unconventional...

Genre: Documentary

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Set against the backdrop of WW II in Calcutta, "Meri Bahen" is the story of a schoolteacher and his young sister. The film followed his rise to fame...

Genre: Drama

Cast: K.L. Saigal

Neera (Apte) is trapped into marrying an old widower Kakasaheb (Date). He is a progressive lawyer with a son and daughter of Neera's age. Neera...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keshavrao Date

A lesbian couple experiences microaggressions at a workshop upstate. Claire and her fiancée Monica embark from the boisterous streets of New...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josephine Decker

Set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals get embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nandini Ghosal

Set in one bedroom over six decades, The Bedroom explores the exciting changes to sex and sexuality in Australia.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lily Rei

Performed by Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House in 1987.

Genre: Music

Cast: Anne-Maree McDonald

An unapologetic confrontation of cultural appropriation and everything that’s wrong with hipsters in headdresses.

Genre: Animation

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A film written and directed by Jeremy Deller which explores the social history of the UK between 1985 and 1993 through the lens of acid house and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeremy Deller

On a Saturday night in the "City of Love", two sworn enemies are united in their hatred for someone they despise even more than each other: a gay man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mattias Van de Vijver

A series of short animated segments, without dialog, explore major characters of modern society, such as the plastic surgeon, the fashion-obsessed...

Genre: Animation

Cast:

Winner of the New York LOVES Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. Filmed over the course of nine years, Zoned In traces the remarkable...

Genre: Documentary

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A meditation on violence and its recurrence in time. It shows circumstances that make vagrants unable to make their life better. They try to survive,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charo Verástegui

Questions about celebrating 200 years of independence from Brazil with 300 years of slavery.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ana Zampieri D’Andrea

The television footage of a wrestling match is employed here as a metaphor for Quebec society. Using voice-over narration, Falardeau presents a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Larry Shreve

In El Salvador, Chelino tells about the indigenous massacre of 1932, of which he survived, while he teaches the melodies of traditional Salvadoran...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marcelino Galicia