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A young bachelor living in a garage tries to light up a cigarette but fails to do so due to various reasons. At times, they seemed natural while sometimes they were just bad luck. Although he tried hard and kept running back and forth, he failed miserably on numerous occasions. Eventually at the end of the day, after several tries surprisingly he managed to light up his cigarette, however, the cigarette which brought him much joy, left him dead, alongside leaving a message for the audience that the ultimate result of smoking is demise.

This documentary, A Baul The Baul, unfolds polygonal aspects of the mysterious and mystic life of this religio-cultural sect deeply rooted in Bengal. The phenomenon of ever-increasing popularity of the Baul music and its influence on modern music are unplugged and demystified here. This film deals with their worldview, their music and their interaction with contemporary society. Various practitioners of the Baul music and philosophy like Gour Khyapa, Purna Das Baul, Kanai Das Baul, Brahmakhyapa (an urban Baul music band) and others uphold their understanding on this issue. Moreover, dynamics of the relation between the music and the philosophy in Baul life are discussed.

A one-take observational piece about the microcosm of Islamic practices and class segregation in Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka.

This film is about a psychological journey of a woman named Rubi; once she loved her husband devotedly but the feeling is long gone. Sitting beside her husband’s dead body, she doesn’t feel any grief or any other emotion whatsoever. She remembers her life with this man, and discovers that her once beloved husband died to her long before his actual demise.

A portrayal of Liberation War of Bangladesh and the rape of women by Pakistani armies. These women commit suicide and their children are adopted.

A couple celebrates their one year wedding anniversary. Directed by Tanvi Chowdhary.

After the brutality of the communal rape and murder of Asifa Bano , a director and his team meet two characters in void .

This documentary explores personal cruising narratives from the LGBTQ community against visuals of Indian public spaces - toilets, cinema halls, parks, stations,malls and the like. Through the stories emerge the different facets and complexities of urban cruising - one of the most dominant ways of finding sexual/romantic partners for the LGBTQ community in India.

This psychedelic short features the director in two roles: a smoker and an eccentric parasite in his ash tray.

She is a school teacher. She has spent a long time of her life in an edge of this city. After long time, she was gazing on her photo album and found photographs of different time of her life. Each photograph reminds her different fragmented memories and moment of her life.

Shankar's family does not know why he has lost his job. Shankar is caught up between looking for a new job and his own contemplation. His daily life is dotted with financial crisis and the awkwardness of being unemployed. Amidst all these things, strange illusions come to him. He realizes that he cannot anymore communicate with the world around him.

At a time of political turmoil in Bangladesh, Runu gets a call from the police about her husband after an arson attack on a bus.

A drug dealer steals drug from his boss and tries to sell it. He visits an old hotel to stay for the night, but when he arrives there is already a woman who has booked the same room for the night and only one room is available. So the receptionist requests both of them to share the room for the night.

Bargi Elo Deshe portrays how an unexpected twist in the nawabi politics of undivided Bengal paved the way for the ruthless 'Bargis' to raid Bengal and mercilessly plunder its immense wealth. The film also attempts to measure the severity of the violence committed during the raids, and the impact it left on the Bengali society.

The film revolves around an outsider, who steps into a civilization which only catapults his unfortunate existence into a series of torture and hatred.

A young man from the suburbs comes to the city for some shopping. He misses the last train to home and roams about. Suddenly he meets another man, who offers refuge for the night.

It is a road movie about two guys who have got job offers but do not want to join. They want to continue with film and music. And they have no option but to join the job within a month. Each of them decides to make their own masterpiece within a month so that they don't have to join. Its about their experience in the last month of their freedom in the city and thus how in this process they discover the city. It is a satire on modern Kolkata, exploring different parts and issues of the city and it does so in different styles of comedy.

Message of the Forest can be heard as an ode to the Sal Forests of West Bengal, or a song for the weathering of parent rocks, or an incantation inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s vision of a world cam- pus that would become Visva-Bharati in Santineketan in West Bengal in 1921.

After some decisive titillation by IPC 377, a claustrophobic man cages himself into a circle of hallucination. The film simply follows his fantasies frame by frame.