India Movies

When a recent widow moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary...

Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.

Colour Poetry explores the journey of two lovers—Red, chaotic and anxious, and Blue, calm and structured—their characters being...

Set in Varanasi, an ancient city of India, Tana Bana offers a rare look at the hidden world of Moslem weavers and Hindu traders and how their lives...

Traveling the length and breadth of the country, S. Sukhdev constructs, a panoramic, non-narrated study of Indian life in the late 1960s. Shot across...

"Visionary post-war modernist Tyeb Mehta channels the nightmares of the nation in Koodal, at once the artist’s self-described...

After her mother's heartbreaking demise, 11 year old Nandhana disrupts the final mourning day rituals by running away with the 'bali pindam', putting...

Romantic, atmospheric travelogue capturing some of northern India’s most iconic places – not least the Taj Mahal.

Jugaad is a Hindi word that can be translated as "innovative or effective solution that bends the rules". It refers to the extreme capacity developed...

The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.

Documenting the production of kerosene tins and their reuse in rural India, this early short by Bimal Roy observes industrial labor and everyday life...

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.

Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar.

　　Originally created as an installation for the third Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale this film is a gripping diary and...

Documentary about Winston Churchill and the Bengal famine of 1943.

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

Using Varsha Panikar's poetry series by the same name, it follows the journey of a poet as they rediscover love, passion, and identity after...