Films – IAWRT India

Welcome to the 20th Edition of the Asian Women’s Festival

Films

Schedule

Programmes

Registration

Opening Film

The Siren

Closing Film

Towards Tenderness

Special Screening

Frontiers of Dreams and Fears By Mai Masri

All
A Room of Our Own
Animation
Archive
Features
Films from SEOUL
Homage
Long Documentaries
Rough Edges
Short Documentaries
Short Fiction
Special Screenings
Unsettled Reality

The Sacrifice of Babulal Bhuiya / Babulal Bhuiya Ki Qurbani

Manjira Dutta / Homage / India / 50 minutes / 2024

Bunnyhood

Mansi Maheshwari / Animation / India / English /15 minutes / 2024

Homecoming

MOON Hae-jun / Films from SEOUL / South Korea / Korean dialogue/English subtitle / 18 minutes / 2024

Hansel: Two School Skirts

LIM Jisun / Films from SEOUL / South Korea / Korean / 29 minutes / 2024

Bug

MYOUNG Sejin / Films from SEOUL / South Korea / Korean / 23 minutes / 2024

Anti-Human Rhapsody

KIM Sook Hyun / Films from SEOUL / South Korea / No Dialogue Language Subtitle Language English / 17 minutes / 2024

What will People Say / Log kya Kahenge

Rafina Khatun / Rough Edges / India / Hindi and Gujarati with English Subtitles / 40 minutes / 2024

Umbro – The Threshold

Prachee Bajania / Rough Edges / India / Gujarati, Hindi with English Subtitles / 34 minutes / 2024

Making Space

Nikita Parikh / Rough Edges / India / Hindi with English Subtitles / 14 minutes / 2024

All that we Own / Sab Kuchh Apna

Aprajita Gupta / Rough Edges / India / 34 minutes / 2024

A Night of Knowing Nothing

Payal Kapadia / Special Screenings / India, France / Hindi , Bengali / 1:37 minutes / 2024

Winds Of Spring

Pinky Brahma Choudhury / A Room of Our Own / India / Boro / 8 minutes / 2024

Unmixed

Amala Popuri / A Room of Our Own / India / English, Hindi / 8 minutes / 2024

Room No 2 – S – 35

Lipika Singh Darai / A Room of Our Own / India / english / 10 minutes / 2024

Remembering To Forget

Purva Naresh / A Room of Our Own / India / Hindi and English / 11 minutes / 2024

Random Thoughts on a Sunday Afternoon

Batul Mukhtiar / A Room of Our Own / India / English / 12 minutes / 2024

My Pune Diary / Poona Dilipi

Fauzia Khan / A Room of Our Own / Bangladesh / Bangla with English subtitles / 7 minutes / 2024

Finding Light-ness

Maheen Mirza / A Room of Our Own / India / English / 6 minutes / 2024

Chasing the Rainbow

Shweta Rai / A Room of Our Own / India / English, Hindi, Nepali / 9 minutes / 2024

c/o FTII

Dipti Bhalla / A Room of Our Own / India / English / 6 minutes / 2024

An Ode to the Saree

Parvati Menon / A Room of Our Own / India / English / 4 minutes / 2024

2S-33 C-BLOCK, Boys Hostel, Girls Floor

Koel Sen / A Room of Our Own / India / English/Hindi / 8 minutes / 2024

To the ends of the Earth / Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari (Cinematography by Akiko Ashizawa)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Features / Japan, Uzbekistan / 2 minutes / 2024

Let’s Talk About It Tomorrow

Nona Shahriari / Unsettled Reality / Iran / 12 minutes / 2024

Interlude

Golzar Farzaneh / Unsettled Reality / Iran / 13 minutes / 2024

Homa

Mahdokht Molaei / Unsettled Reality / Iran / 18 minutes / 2024

Falling Up

Maryam Bhakhtiari / Unsettled Reality / Iran / 14 minutes / 2024

All The Time

Shadi Karamroudi / Unsettled Reality / Iran / 15 minutes / 2024

Airless

Roya Parsa / Unsettled Reality / Iran / 18 minutes / 2024

A Long Walk

Sonia Sanjari / Unsettled Reality / Iran / 16 minutes / 2024

Unicorn Lady

Rebecca Rechana Paul / Animation / India / English / 05 minutes / 2024

Tomorrow My Love

Gitanjali Rao / Animation / India / 04 minutes / 2024

She Begins to Lead! / Sashakt Naari, Samarth Gram

Roshani Chouhan / Animation / India / Hindi and Nimadi / 07 minutes / 2024

Kawauso

Akihito Izuhara / Animation / Japan / No Language / 15 minutes / 2024

Home / Ghar Aangan

Nina Sabnani / Animation / India / Hindi with English Subtitles / 11 minutes / 2024

The Call

Jyotsana Simha Thakuri/ Short Fiction / Nepal/ silent, music / 08:00 min / 2024

Sour Candy / Anaar Daana

Nishi Dugar / Short Fiction / India/ Hindi( with english subtitles) / 20:00 min / 2024

What If I Tell You

Teenaa Kaur / Long Documentaries / India / English/ 64 minutes / 2024

Sojourn to Shangri-La

Lin Yihan / Short Fiction / China/ 对白语言：普通话/英文字幕语言：英文 / 19:00 min / 2024

The Sharp Edge of Peace

Roya Sadat / Long Documentaries / Afghanistan, Qatar / Taliban / 60 minutes / 2024

Mind the Cart / Mann ka Thela

Madhu Dhurve, Pushpa & Narendra Singh Pardhi / Short Fiction / India / Hindi/Pardhi/English / 22:00 min / 2024

Farming the Revolution / Inquilab di Kheti

Nishtha Jain, Akash Basumatari / Long Documentaries / India, France, Norway / Panjabi, Hindi with English subtitles / 105 minutes / 2024

Cinema pe Cinema

Vani Subramanian / Long Documentaries / India, United States of America / Marathi & English / 63 minutes / 2024

Lovely & Tip Top

Yuki Ellias / Short Fiction / India / English / 30:00 min / 2024

Bhangaar

Sumira Roy / Long Documentaries / India / Marathi & English / 64 minutes / 2024

A Terrible Beauty

Iram Ghufran / Long Documentaries / India / ENGLISH, MANDARIN / 50 min 45 sec / 2024

Bye Bye Turtle/Adieu tortue

Selin Öksüzoğlu / Short Fiction / France, Turkey / Arabic / 24:00 min / 2024

We Were There

Sally Hllouby / Short Documentaries / Syria & Turkey / Arabic / 10:00 min / 2024

The Moon Also Rises

Yuyan Wang / Short Documentaries / France / French / 25 min / 2024

My Grandfather’s House

Leylakhanim Ganbarli / Short Documentaries / Azerbaijan / Azerbaijani / 25 min / 2024

Indu

Sameera Jain / Short Documentaries / India / Hindi with English subtitles / 39min 47 sec / 2024

Chimera: The Lucid Reverie

Rajeela Shrestha / Short Documentaries / Nepal / Nepali / 00:12:21 mins / 2024

Blurred Boundaries: The Mishmi and the Forests

Imrana Khan / Short Documentaries / Arunachal Pradesh, India / No dialogues / 13 mins 19 secs / 2024

Baroti

Bhavya Karthikeyan and Gagan Holkar / Short Documentaries / India / No dialogues / 5 min 31 sec / 2025

Towards tenderness | Vers la tendresse

Alice Diop / Documentary / France / French / 38:00 / 2016

Totanama

Chandita Mukherjee / Homage / India / Hindi / 32:55 / 1991

3 Nights in Haifa

Hadil Alramli / Student Film / Belgium / Arabic / 16:26 / 2023

They Are Not Meant to Tell This Story

Deepanwita Goswami / Documentary / India / Bengali / 13:21 / 2023

The Smell of the Scenery

Hsing Ying Tseng (MoMo Tseng) / Short Fiction / Taiwan / Mandarin Chinese / 17:40 / 2023

The Siren

Sepideh Farsi / Feature Fiction, Animation / France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium / Farsi / 100:00 / 2023

The Eyeball Person

Yuri Muraoka / Experimental film / Japan / English, Japanese / 11:42 / 2023

Stay Quiet |Chupi Roh

Disha Bhardwaj / Short Fiction / India / Himachali / 15:45 / 2023

Spaceship

Xiaoxue Zhang / Short Fiction / China / Chinese / 20:00 / 2023

Sambhal Ke

Lubnah Ansari / Documentary / India, UAE / English, Hindi / 54:45 / 2023

Pretty

Mahtab Rezayi / Student Film / Iran / Persian / 15:00 / 2022

Pathetic

Narges Zakeri / Animation / Iran / Persian / 06:17 / 2023

Mother of the Sea

Clarissa Ruth Natan / Documentary / Indonesia / Indonesian / 15:25 / 2023

Mau: The Spirit Dreams of Cheraw

Shilpika Bordoloi / Documentary / India / Mizo / 08:21 / 2023

Louse

Parisa Shams / Focus on Iran / Iran / Persian / 14:59 / 2023

Grace : Tale of Learnsong | Lavanya- Gatha Ekalavyachi

Alisha Masurkar / Student Film / India / Marathi, Hindi, English / 20:00 / 2023

Land Of My Dreams

Nausheen Khan / Documentary / India / English, Hindi / 73:23 / 2023

Lamborghini

Roya Bababeigi / Focus on Iran / Iran / Persian / 16:17 / 2023

Khiyaa: Break the Silence

Payal Khurana / Documentary / India / Hindi / 5:00 / 2023

Ji

Rojin Aflaki / Focus on Iran / Iran / Persian / 23:38 / 2023

In Between Us | Humare Beech Mein

Rajkumari Prajapati, Ruchika Negi / Documentary / India / Hindi / 35:00 / 2023

Impassable Dream

Zahra Sahar Badpeima / Focus on Iran / Iran / Persian / 13:57 / 2023

Hommage | Omaju

Shin Su-won / Feature Fiction / South Korea / Korean / 107:00 / 2021

Hello Guyzz!

Samiksha Mathur / Documentary / India / Hindi, Bengali / 24:17 / 2023

Heard and Told | Suni Sunai

Tarika Jain / Animation / India / Hindi / 04:23 / 2023

Hear The Voices from The House | Eşit Evdən Səsləri

Sabina Abubakirova / Documentary / Azerbaijan / Azerbaijani / 18:25 / 2001

Happy Independence Day | Täuelsizdik Küniñizben

Camila Sagyntkan / Short Fiction / Kazakhstan / Kazakh, Russian / 16:29 / 2023

Goalkeeper

Ladan (masoumeh) Soleymani / Focus on Iran / Iran / Persian / 14:37 / 2023

Frontiers of Dreams and Fears | Hlam Al-Manfa

Mai Masri / Documentary / Palestine / Arabic / 56:00 / 2001

Errorist

Soudabeh Majidi / Focus on Iran / Iran / No Dialogue / 03:12 / 2023

Ek Dum KADAK

Samridhi Kohli, Aryan Mahajan, Arunima Gupta, Siddharth Raj / Animation / India / Hindi / 01:43 / 2023

Diary of an Illness

Mika Ruskin / Animation / Israel / Hebrew / 03:57 / 2023

Coming to terms or, Making your Terms?

Hansa Thapliyal / Animation / India / Hindi / 09:03 / 2023

Cat’s Attic | Brair Kani

Nundrisha Wakhloo, Daksh Punj / Documentary / India / Hindi, Kashmiri / 24:56 / 2023

Besties | Hetzi Lev

Eliya Dekel / Student Film / Israel / Hebrew / 08:17 / 2023

Baby Ant | Yavru Karinca

Derya Uygurlar / Short Fiction / Turkey / Turkish/ 15:00 / 2023

Astareh

Fatimah Heydari / Documentary / Iran / Persian / 30:41 / 2023

And, Towards Happy Alleys

Sreemoyee Singh / Documentary / India / Farsi, English / 75:00 / 2023

Anatomy + Humanities: The Animated Life of SL Bhatia

Meera Krishnamurthy / Animation / India / English / 09:00 / 2023

American Dream

Renee Shi / Animation / United States / English / 02:55 / 2023

50 to 350

Meera Chaudhary / Documentary / India / English / 12:53 / 2023

50 | Ketaal Kidaikum

Madhumitha Venugopal / Short Fiction / India / Tamil / 24:00 / 2023

Duet | Düet

Ekin Ilkbağ, Idil Akkuş / Documentary / Turkey / English, Turkish / 72:00 / 2022

Blue

Priyadarshini Subba / Animation / India / English, Nepali / 03:29 / 2023

This is TMI

Subarna Dash, Vidushi Gupta / Animation / India / Bengali, English, Hindi, Nepali / 06:13 / 2023

Yaar

Nahid Malayeri / Animation / Iran / No Dialogue / 03:00 / 2023