Aparna Sanyal

Inspired by movies, a young girl from the Banjara tribe in rural Maharashtra fights for her dream of becoming a kabaddi player to escape a forced marriage. During a district-level tournament, she slips into a Bollywood-tinted dream, momentarily becoming the hero she’s always imagined.

Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances. Crazy. A lifelong condition. Inevitable dependency on Medicines. Dark. Terrible. 'A Drop of Sunshine' challenges these notions. It questions the mainstream view of the condition and seeks alternate ways of recovering from it. Through the powerful story of its young and gutsy protagonist, Reshma Valiappan, it seeks to give viewers a new vocabulary to address the stigmatized mental illness. The film proposes that the only treatment method that can work in Schizophrenia is one where the so-called 'patient' is encouraged and empowered to become an equal partner in the process of healing.

Through a series of unanswered phone calls made by an unnamed narrator, we listen to the dreams, fears, and ambitions of a migrant man working as a cook in Bombay, while witnessing glimpses of daily life unfolding across the city

Why do we have such a contentious relationship with the idea of dying? What keeps us from looking at death, or the dying, in the eye, from making peace with the process? The Film wonders if the process of dying can become meaningful and if embracing our own mortality might be the key to a more fulfilling life.

Realizing all that is left of his great-grandfather are the tools of his caste trade - a pair of scissors, a comb, and a mirror, a filmmaker sets out for his hometown hoping to make sense of his family and their inheritance.

Pushed to the margins of the very wedding celebrations they contribute to, a group of migrant Muslim band players waits in the city’s corners until the ceremony ends.

Inspired by movies, a young girl from the Banjara tribe in rural Maharashtra fights for her dream of becoming a kabaddi player to escape a forced marriage. During a district-level tournament, she slips into a Bollywood-tinted dream, momentarily becoming the hero she’s always imagined.

Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances. Crazy. A lifelong condition. Inevitable dependency on Medicines. Dark. Terrible. 'A Drop of Sunshine' challenges these notions. It questions the mainstream view of the condition and seeks alternate ways of recovering from it. Through the powerful story of its young and gutsy protagonist, Reshma Valiappan, it seeks to give viewers a new vocabulary to address the stigmatized mental illness. The film proposes that the only treatment method that can work in Schizophrenia is one where the so-called 'patient' is encouraged and empowered to become an equal partner in the process of healing.

Through a series of unanswered phone calls made by an unnamed narrator, we listen to the dreams, fears, and ambitions of a migrant man working as a cook in Bombay, while witnessing glimpses of daily life unfolding across the city

Why do we have such a contentious relationship with the idea of dying? What keeps us from looking at death, or the dying, in the eye, from making peace with the process? The Film wonders if the process of dying can become meaningful and if embracing our own mortality might be the key to a more fulfilling life.

Realizing all that is left of his great-grandfather are the tools of his caste trade - a pair of scissors, a comb, and a mirror, a filmmaker sets out for his hometown hoping to make sense of his family and their inheritance.

Pushed to the margins of the very wedding celebrations they contribute to, a group of migrant Muslim band players waits in the city’s corners until the ceremony ends.

As I prepare to bid farewell to a childhood home, grief returns unannounced, leaving us once more at its quiet threshold.

Traversing centuries of Tibetan Buddhist lore, this film brings to life the fascinating story of Guru Padmasambhava - one of the greatest Buddhist teachers from the Indian sub-continent. Also referred to as Guru Rinpoche, he is credited with establishing the Buddha Dharma in Tibet in the 8th century, as well as initiating the 'Nyingma Lineage', that continues to be acknowledged as the oldest school of Buddhism to be still followed in the Himalayan regions of present-day Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and Mongolia. For many of us who know of Tibetan Buddhism through its most prominent contemporary teacher, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, this film offers a comprehensive look at its origins and the elements that make Vajrayana, the 'third' vehicle of Buddhism, so unique.