科比拉杰一家生活非常贫困，抚养三个孩子是压在夫妇两人肩上的一副沉重的担子。科比拉杰只能靠做一些小生意贴补家用。一次偶然的机会，他的妻子在他买给儿子的二手衣服里发现了面值很大，但不知是哪国的货币。在这笔钱上寄托了不小希望的科比拉杰一时间忙于询问货币的国家和价值，致使家庭生活出现了危机。以为自己发了财的科比拉杰甚至还起了休妻再娶朋友妹妹的念头。而最终的结果是，该货币是非洲一个贫困国家某一倒台政权所发行的货币，没有任何价值。科比拉杰又重新被拉回到了现实之中。
It's a wonderful story of two friends of different age. Kabuliwala (anAfghani who sells dry food from door to door) is away from home and his family of his wife and his little daughter. He finds good friend in Mini, daughter of a writer. But Mini's mother does not like their friendship. In between Kabuliwala gets involved in a murder case and ends up in jail. When he comes back...
A drama about the effects of Hindu fundamentalism on a small Bengali village, as seen through the eyes of two friends. Nemai (Tapas Pal) and Balaram (Shankar Chakraborty) have been friends for years. When not working at a rural railroad crossing, they wrestle one another. Among the few visitors to their area is a troupe of singers and a busload of dwarves led by a man in a rail...
1980年，一个理想主义的中产阶级电影导演企图以他手中的传媒来再现1943年的孟加拉大饥荒，以此作为社会转变的武器。村民们纷纷伸出帮助之手，有人为剧组准备了酒菜，有人带他们参观一座古老的大楼。就在这座大楼的一间房里，有一个妇女守着她瘫痪的丈夫，他就是这幢房产17个房主之一。电影开拍了，片名叫做《寻找饥荒》，入夜，影片女主角来找老人的妻子，老人静静地听她们谈话，他理解了女主角内心寂寞的恐惧。摄影队看着室内排练饥民的照片，演员们异常真实地再现了1943、1959、1971年饥荒的情景。随着摄影的进展，摄影队已经在不同程度地影响着村民的生活，一个老农埋怨他们在找回旧饥荒同时还在制造新的饥荒。
On her way home the newly wed Romita is molested by five men. The only one who has the courage to help is the young female teacher Jhinuk. Because of that she becomes a ******e and is on all papers' front page. But the page is turning: As not only the police but also neighbours begin to ask embarrassing questions the two women are eventually intimidated and the five man are get...
A film star daughter, Rohini (Debashree Roy), and her father Sudhamoy (Soumitra Chatterjee), who is unwilling but forced to depend on his daughter's earnings. The narrative revolves around the sudden illness of Rohini's mother (Gouri Ghosh) who has to be hospitalized. No one knows what she is suffering from. The physical illness sets off a chain of events in Rohini's life that ...
The bread-winning daughter in a middle-class family fails to return from work one evening. The night begins with worries at home, followed by midnight searches and finally a deepening crisis arising out of economic and moral constraints prevalent in the society. Yet the film speaks of hope, of strength hidden behind despair.
Highly-acclaimed on the world festival circuit, the film depicts a world which is barely imaginable to many in the west. Some of the scenes are almost absurd -- the men sent to dismantle the massive vessels, from disused military ships to outmoded luxury cruise-liners (symbols of a luxury the men can barely imagine), are dwarfed by their size. These dinosaurs lie on the beach a...
Inspired by the 2006 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language film, "Water," this documentary tells the story of some of the 20 million Indian widows who are abandoned by their families and literally turned out into the streets when their husbands died. "Water" was a fictional recounting of this terrible tradition, set in 1938. "The Forgotten Woman" is true, and happeni...
Near Mogulmari in the south of West-Bengal in India lies a mound known locally as Sakhisona. The stories about it are still sung by local musicians. A dig nearby recently uncovered the remains of a monastery as well as some 6th-century objects. The film shows the objects unearthed and re-enacts the stories and folklore. Written by IFFR
