Raya and the Last Dragon
Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and its divided people.
Evil Eye
A seemingly perfect romance turns dark when a mother becomes convinced her daughter’s new boyfriend has a sinister connection to her own past.
Birdsong
Amidst moving homes, a superstitious Indian American girl struggles to bury her pet bird in fear of it haunting her.
Winds of Silence
When Ziya discovers her best friend’s family is in danger, she must decide whether or not to help them escape while confronting her own past.
Plain Folks
A Pakistani immigrant college freshman is excited to attend her first real college party, despite her fish-out-of-water status on the white, conservative, mostly Mormon campus, but a supernatural force with ties to the school has other plans for her.
LOVE LOVE
Summer of 1999. Aspiring filmmaker Nik's search for love intertwines with a fantasy western he's writing, and Sapna, a visitor from India. As they navigate love, identity, and their pasts, they find the courage to embrace their future.
DOSH
When her son’s life is put at risk, a hard-of-hearing mother must decide how to seek help for her bipolar husband in order to keep her family safe.
Family Values
In this short comedy drama, a trans South Asian person visits their family for Rakhi, a Hindu religious ceremony that symbolizes the bond between brothers and sisters. Celebrating a ceremony that is so centered around gender, this non-binary character must reconcile their gender identity with their deeply rooted family values.
FAMISHED
A Sri Lankan couple struggling to make ends meet have their lives upended when a yuppie Australian couple enter their small eatery and wreak havoc.
Tourists
On the verge of separation, a song comes on that transports an interracial couple to a time when they were at the height of their love. Can this love last, or are they just tourists in each other's lives, bound by time and place?
Mirrors
Based on the 1984 Sikh Genocide, MIRRORS is an exploration of a mother's life lived in the wake of trauma and loss, and the unlikely connection she forms as a hospice nurse.
Dheu
A family deals with the suicide of their eldest son.
Babu
A ten year-old kid tries his best to salvage what is left of his family when his home in Nepal is torn apart by an earthquake.
Elisai
Juxtaposing the east and west, Elisai is a south Indian story set in London. A dysphoric teenager, Elisai and her idealist mother, Amalie grieve the loss of Elisai’s grandfather. While Elisai suppresses her grief through isolation, Amalie focuses on getting through to her daughter. Despite Amalie’s implicit expressions of care, Elisai’s deteriorating state of mind dissects the importance of compassion. Shot in black and white, there are flavours of the past, present and future traversing throughout the film.
Bondi Boy
Radhesh, a high school student in Sydney’s affluent Bondi, betrays close relationships and his own self worth in order to claw his way up the social ladder.
Jahaan
A middle aged Indian man works a monotonous nine to five. During a smoke break, he retreats into magical memories that he doesn’t quite remember experiencing. His thoughts are repeatedly interrupted by visions of tablas being sharply played. During his recollection, he is transported to an impressionistic dimension of colors and patterns where he pursues a mysterious yet familiar figure.
Love Chaos Kin
An Indian immigrant mother helps her adopted twin daughters reconnect with their White birth mother and estranged Native American father, exposing raw class divides while transforming their understanding of identity and belonging.
After So Long
“After So Long // बरसों बाद” is a visual poetry set in Mumbai (India) and voiced by Simha and their parents to symbolise their connection with each other; a walkabout through time and memories. Directed by Varsha Panikar, the film takes inspiration from vintage-home-movie culture to create a contemplative and nostalgic vignette of an artist’s spiritual journey out of the darkness and into the light.
Laya Project
A musical, visual journey. Recorded and filmed on location, it resurrects ancient and forgotten folk music from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives, India and Myanmar. The experience is brought to life for a contemporary audience through a minimalist orchestration of modern electronic waves and flows, thereby preserving the integrity of the music. The musicians come primarily from the coastal communities, towns and villages practically wiped of the world map by the Tsunami of December 26, 2004. It's beauty lies in it's purity and simplicity, a non-judgmental point of view. For the international team who came together, Laya Project is a personal and collective tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.
SŪNNA
After unexpectedly losing her hearing, a young Indian singer discovers a new sense of self through experiencing music in a transformative way.