A prominent researcher in the field of human memory returns home, where he stumbles upon the discovery that a person’s past, as they remember it, is often nothing but fiction, an epiphany that sends him spinning into a downward spiral.
Cactus is a feature length film by Aneek Chaudhuri. The film is shot in two long takes and is divided into two eras - B.C. and A.D. The film is loosely based on the art form Pieta by Michelangelo. Written and Directed by Aneek Chaudhuri Starring: Anurupa Chakroborty Aishani De Aparajita Dey
A conversation between a painter finishing his 100th painting, "Pure Soul", and a prostitute who is true to her work.
A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for the first time at the funeral of his mother. A South Asian accountant introduces his white fiancé to his father—a gay, Bollywood choreographer. A recently-bankrupted Wall Street broker has come home to borrow money from his music-teacher father.…
This surreal comedy-drama is about the life of Dan, a game warden who suffers from severe anxiety and grief after a bear attack claims the life of his son. Through autumn, winter, and spring, Dan's mental health runs parallel with the life cycles of his foe, the black bear, only to culminate in…
The film explores the art and science of healing through indigenous traditional medicine and is set in contemporary Tanzania. Suffering from a serious illness, Mariamu and those close to her find themselves in conflict with their traditional values. Mariamu’s health continues to deteriorate while…
Filmed in a real shelter with real homeless people, Homeless tells the story of Gosh, a teenage boy lost in the bleak routine of life in a shelter. Every day, from sunup until sundown, Gosh is put out on the streets, unable to return to the shelter until 7pm. During the day, he seeks refuge from the…
A quirky-yet-heartwarming tale about a young woman’s imaginary childhood friend finding his existence threatened when a real person becomes her love interest.
After being accused of having romantic relations with one of his students, Ex-high school teacher Jason Griffin now works in a landfill, his personal and family life in ruins. While working among the trash, he discovers something disturbing that could expose the seedy underbelly of corruption in his…
Janan, a woman from Afghanistan, travels to the UK for artificial insemination. Cultural, religious, and moral complications explode when William, a medical sciences student working in the clinic, switches the donor’s semen for his own.
Nerve is a psychological drama that tells the story of Jakob Evans who has suffered an emotional breakdown from the death of his wife in a car accident. Having found his wife in bed with another man just before her death, Jakob decides his only chance of closure is to find her lover so that he can comprehend…
The story of a traditional Kyoto woman who runs a failing kimono business and the biracial entrepreneur who comes to help keep it solvent. Along the way they fall in love but his need for change clashes with her desire for the world to stay the same. In the end, can they change enough for the other?
