53rd IFFI (2022) - Personal Watchlist

Hareesh and Reshmi, an immigrant couple from Kerala working in a medical gloves factory near Delhi, who aspire to go abroad for a better life. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, when an old video resurfaces among the factory workers, it opens up a Pandora's box that threatens the couple's jobs and marriage.

Abhilash Sasidharan receives a summons warrant by the court for a long pending case. Desperate to find out the truth, he finds the real issue where a small conflict snowballed into a bigger one that changes the lives of everyone involved.

Widowed socialite Alma Mahler enters affair with controversial artist Oskar Kokoschka in 1912 Vienna. Their intense passion spirals, jeopardizing their lives.

Based on Satyajit Ray's short story "Golpo Boliye Tarini Khuro" about originality versus plagiarism.

The Indian government announces a country-wide lockdown for 21 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic. India Lockdown encapsulates the story of four out of thousands of individuals whose lives came to a standstill.

A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.

Samay fights heaven and earth to find light. He wants to catch, control, cut and project that light to tell stories. Now to pursue that dream he must leave everything he loves and take a flight to find the light.

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.

An emotional thriller that represents a higher quest, a search for lost values of empathy and integrity.

With help from a neighbourhood and a past she has shunned, a young woman returns home to deal with her mother's dementia and the scars of her childhood.

A popular singer convinces his new wife to enter show-business, but his pride is wounded when she outshines him.