"The city grows. We disappear."
In a city that never stops expanding, four voices from different corners of India reveal the quiet weight of migration, homesickness, and survival. As their stories intertwine, the city itself becomes a hallucination.
Social & External
The people behind it
Debajyoti Halder
Shanib H.
Ankita Mondal
Chaityanya Yadav
Finding new cinematic language to express the desire for physical contact in our increasingly isolated, mediated, and highly consumer-driven environments, Remote follows the daily routines of a quarantined woman in her sealed-off, ultra-modern apartment, where she falls down a rabbit hole playing an inexplicable interactive game with a community of women from around the world.
In a not so distant future, household Androids can be acquired to live together with certain people to rehabilitate them into society. Unit C.A.T 2538 (Also known as CAT) lives together with Will, a recovering alcoholic and addict, a self-proclaimed "trash of society." Tensions rise high as the line between goals, emotions, and who is actually trying to become a better version of themselves blurs to a thin, dangerous line.
A young person records a quiet walk through the woods. What begins as a casual video slowly reveals something harder to say.
Fresh out of prison, an ex-con and his girlfriend hit the road in pursuit of a multi-million-dollar stash promised by his former cellmate. However, with the police hot on their heels, getting their hands on the cash turns into a deadly trap.
Days before his death, a Bengali man has a prophetic dream about his journey towards enlightenment.
This film contrasts the solitude of a man trapped in a dark routine with his radiant quest to reunite with someone dear to him.
After her break-up, on the day of her grandmothers funeral, Avery receives a brooch that allows her to travel through time.
Set beneath a surreal green sky on a distant, crumbling world, the film captures the last survivors of a dying civilization—women who perform a synchronized ritual dance to summon an ethereal extraterrestrial presence from another realm.
Set in a war-zone, a war doctor and his medical staff are forced underground into a make-shift hospital, only to be faced with a desperate father willing to do whatever it takes to be helped. When survival is everything, morality is the first casualty.
"Cocaine" is a gripping crime thriller that delves deep into the murky intersection of law enforcement and criminality. Set against the vibrant yet perilous backdrop of Mumbai, the story revolves around a powerful drug cartel that wields significant control over the cocaine trade with the connivance of corrupt police officials and politicians. Abhimanyu Singh stars as Jalal, a diligent police inspector who finds himself entangled in the cartel's sinister web. Despite his best efforts to stay above board, Jalal must go to extreme lengths to protect his own brother, who is targeted by the ruthless cartel. As Jalal navigates the perilous dualities of upholding the law while safeguarding his family, he becomes ensnared in a dangerous game of survival.
Soi Mountain is a low mountain located in Cheolwon, surrounded by wide plains and sites of Korean War battle fields. Miryoung, a new ecotourism guide, meets Myunghee, a senior guide, while climbing Soi Mountain where she works. Together, they practice their scripts for visitor tours as they climb. Their stories range from tiny moss, lichen to acacia trees, and include tales about Soi Mountain's military facilities and surroundings. As they climb, they each confront their personal stories of war and loss from their memories.
A young sculptor struggles to finish his masterpiece, a sculpture of a woman, as it inexplicably cracks.
A young woman spends her night awaiting a call from an old friend.
A young woman fights for survival against a mysterious botanical infection
A student of architecture seeks something beyond merely submitting standard blueprints that will gather dust in the archives. On the eve of her submission, she had a dream, and her friend, a fortune teller, gave her three prophecies. Should she fully surrender to fate, script her own narrative, and what does it truly mean to "listen to one's heart"?
A young girl named 'Clara' who suffers from social anxiety, depression, and having friends that left her behind meets 'Lucy', whose company is something Clara is needing out of someone to be able to come to terms with herself. But she discovers something that isn't exactly normal about her.
A teen with a guilty conscience films his family vacation, but after finding a hidden gun during a game of hide-and-seek, paranoia begins to take hold.
Claudia revisits the house where she spent summers.
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
A family of six's fresh start on 1990s Vancouver Island unravels as their youngest child, Sasha, witnesses the increasingly dangerous behavior of her older brother, Jeremy.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.
Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Mike, a rough sleeper in London, is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Along the way, he encounters unexpected chances for a fresh start.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
Aspiring bodybuilder Killian Maddox struggles to find human connection in an exploration of celebrity and violence. Nothing deters him from his fiercely protected dream of superstardom, not even the doctors who warn him of the permanent damage he causes to himself with his quest.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.
A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.