Documentary

Vanishing Glacier

“Vanishing Glaciers “highlights cause of concern about abnormal melting of glaciers caused due to global warming. Glaciers contribute importantly to water resources in many mountainous regions.

Nicobar - A Long Way

Deep down the Bay of Bengal on an ancient trade route to the Far East, in the Nicobar archipelago lived the Nicobarese. The islands once upon a time were much frequented by passing traders for sojourns. The Nicobarese used to barter coconuts with them for fancies like an old hat or a coat, silk handkerchiefs, sometimes even empty alcohol bottles. In 1956, after being annexed to the Indian state, the Islands came to be protected under the Andaman and Nicobar Protection of aboriginal Tribes Regulation. Free Passage was restricted.

Remembering Kurdi

what is left of their homes, to perform rituals, have picnics and remember their dead. Gurucharan Kurdikar has vivid memories of his childhood in Kurdi but now lives in a city far away. Venisha fernandes was born after the submergence, but has grown up listening to stories of a lost paradise. Both return to search for where they belong in places imagined and places real. As Gurucharan and Venisha converse with a whole array of people, different aspects of the landscape and prior societal inter-relationships begin to emerge.

Living --The Natural Way

Film on " a miraculous and tender process of the creation of a big river island with rich biodiversity on the barren sand deposits of river Brahmaputra by a tribal person over a period of 30 years " and the destruction of the largest river island Majuli.

Tender is The Sight

Film revolves around a young teenager Hassibullah who head on challenges the deprivation of visual sensibility due to his childhood sightlessness.

Inner Voice

The short movie portrays the well known Kerala based playback and classical singer "Vaikom Vijayalakshmi". She is totally blind by birth. Interviews with Vijayalakshmi, father and mother reveals her potential to know several Ragas and film songs. The movie shows Vijayalakshmi's achievement during her 30 years of career.

I am Bonnie

Bonnie (33) is again on run. He has been on the run from his family and sports fraternity since failing ‘sec test’ before the Bangkok Asian Games, 1998.
A born i0ntersex, raised by poor, illiterate and confused parents as a girl named ‘Bandana’, she became one of the finest strikers of Indian Woman’s Football team in her / his short career.
A Sex Reassignment surgery later transformed her / him to a man but left him without home or career. He left home, took up idol making for a living. He met Swati (F24) then, married soon but moved once again fearing social backlash.

Vultures in Rani

With an aim to preserve the Vultures, captive breeding is propagated as a viable option. These big birds are now in grave danger of disappearing from the sky.

Tribal Women Artists

The film depicts the creative instincts of tribal women of Hazaribug in Bihar through the paintings, drawings and sketches done traditionally.

The World of Dr. Haffkine

Waldameir Haffkine who founded the historic Haffkine Institute in Bombay 75 years ago was born on March 16th, 1860 in Odessa, Russia. He was trained at the Pasteur Institute in Paris under Louis Pasteur himself. After years of assiduous research he developed a cholera vaccine in 1892. He came to Calcutta to test his newly discovered vaccine in actual epidemic conditions. Dr. Haffkine came to Bombay to fight the plague epidemic in 1897. in 1899, he founded the Plague Research Laboratory which was later called the Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory and now the Haffkine Institute.

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