Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute

This is a story about a very beautiful ring that invokes greed in people by hypnotizing them into thinking that the ring is made to be on their fingers but it holds a dark curse for its wielder.

The enchanting world of Black Clay Pottery is explored through the eyes of 9-year-old La-ini Pyrtoh. Her mother, the village’s sole practising artisan of this craft, shares the detailed process and challenges of keeping this tradition alive. La-ini, as the sole inheritor, reflects on her sense of responsibility and dreams for the future. The film is in a local dialect - Pnar

An octogenarian couple, Shankar & Ila Bagchi, lives a life of isolation confined in one room of a big, empty and time-worn house in a city. Apprehensive of their future and unwilling to suffer a deteriorated life, they write to the President of India, pleading guilty of what they believe to be a crime they have committed and asking for mercy. While awaiting the consequences, they try out desperate measures to fulfil their long-cherished wish. Inspired from a true story, this film explores the life of the couple, through contemplative aesthetics, who exhausted by their present, pursue a shared belief that challenges the status quo.

The Violet Flowers, begins with the disappearance of a middle-aged Kashmiri hawker of shawls from somewhere around Kolkata. The son lands up in Kolkata, running from pillar to post, determined to find the father. A bus trip to the Bangladesh border lands him in trouble, as the border security personnel start misbehaving with him, taking him for a potential terrorist. Even the sympathetic young woman who befriended him on the bus feels that this is a futile search, but the diehard young lad is not ready to give up the search yet.