Content from Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute

Chanchal, a typical soft middle class young Bengali and Calcuttan, not masculine enough and unconfident about the sex and the woman, pays out most of his time finding a suitable girl to prove his credibility as a male. In most of the cases he fails to frame himself as good enough a man to the girls he come across and gets disillusioned on all the occasions. Finally, he almost reaches a beautiful girl to a close proximity, but unfortunately, no sooner had he succeeded to win the girl's attention, he becomes blind in the curse of God.

In the 90’s in a convent in Kerala, Sister Philomena is seriously ill while all the others are preparing for the anniversary of the convent school. Sister Nirmala who looks after sister Philomina is assigned to be with the actress Urvasi, the chief guest for the function. Sister Nirmala’s happiness has no bounds as it the same actress she has a deep fascination for, which the rest of the convent is not aware of. Things take a decisive turn when, on the day of the anniversary sister Nirmala is asked to stay back and look after Sister Philomina whose condition has unexpectedly deteriorated.

On a stormy night, a weary detective and a keen-eyed doctor piece together fragments of a high-profile case. As evidences and unanswered questions surface, the dread draws near.

Set against the backdrop of NRC and CAA, the film navigates the life of an old man who is forced into early retirement as he fails to produce proper documents.

a short film produced by srfti.

Uttam Das, a folk singer of Bengal, built an Ashram for music in his native village, on the riverbank of Ajay. This Ashram is a unique example, in the modern world where an artist lacks free space to practice art. The artists gather here to celebrate music and the silence of nature uninterruptedly. In ashram rain arrives, seasons change, and stillness of the time persists. But today man's greed tries to destroy the river and the surroundings, pains the land and the artist.

On a rainy night, a man takes shelter in a jungle house. A blind grandmother mistakes him for Sujan, her granddaughter's lost lover. Haunted by tales of love and loss, he pretends to be Sujan to console her. But when asked if he'll truly return, he faces a haunting choice that challenges his identity and past.

two girls. Meena and Ayesha are teenagers who study in a convent school. They are grown together even though their dreams, realities and social setup are totally different from each other. Calcutta is the backdrop of this unlikely relationship. The girl struggle to live out the first adult relationship of their lives. Ayesha is easily bored and looks for constant stimulation. She likes to live in a dream world, nightmares even. In Meena, she finds a listener one who believes all her tales blindly, one who dreams and lives through her stories. The film is a collage of shared experiences, memories, dreams and realities, held together by an un-predictable non-linear structure.

In Kolkata, three art college graduates named Kapil, Debdutta and Padmini decide to live together and share their love for each other equally.

Neerbhukhi, a peaceful demoness, wants nothing more than to be one of the humans. However, the villagers will not accept her because they believe she is responsible for a severe water shortage. Following a traumatic incident with the humans, the demoness hides in a dried-up well and bursts into tears. Her tears pour forth in a raging torrent and flood the well. It is said that the demoness still cries in the well and that the village has been blessed with water ever since.

A writer stays away from the city with an elderly widow. His wife had desserted him. He suffers from a writer's block. The incessant mating calls of cuckoos disturb him. On one such afternoon, an old friend Shanti, abandoning his wife's funeral has come looking for him. Is he sad?

An AI deepfake expert agrees to help the YouTuber whose deepfake pornography he created.

The film writer, cameraman, production manager and the actress set off on a car trip driving through the story. A trip the director chooses to abstain. He believes it’s a story the road will write. All he needs is the writer to refine the route map… pen and petrol. A pointless long travel. The crewmembers fall apart one by one. The actress is let alone with the writer. The travel continues till they meet a dead end. But the story has to return.

Struggling with depression, 35-year old corporate executive Keshav seeks solace from enigmatic writer Gulmohar. His quest leads him to a modest newspaper house, unravelling a transformative journey of healing and connection.

A man and a woman meet in an urban space as strangers and remain so until the end whilst they steadily grow alienated from their surroundings. As they close in on their own crises, they begin to feel comfortable with their respective existences.

A story of Shyamal: a runaway, a pickpocket & a tiger's cub.

Kanhaiya, loyal to village chief Gop Ji, must choose between duty and conscience when "Pandubbi" returns, unearthing old secrets and shaking the soul of the village.

Meenakshi, a middle-aged working woman, on this day comes home early from work and finds her husband cheating on her with their maid. But there is something more terrifying yet to be revealed.

A propaganda playwright faces challenges during the final rehearsals of the play when a certain turn of events unravels the contrast between the real lives of the actors and that of their characters. The rehearsal stops when the lead actor refuses to deliver a dialogue out of fear of religious conversion.

Inspired by Tennessee Williams' short story "Something by Tolstoi," this movie is about a cinema projectionist whose wife decides to leave him so she can become a well-known actress in the movie business. The projectionist had been rewriting the happy endings of Bollywood tragedy films since he was a young boy. He was a closet writer. Despite his talent, he lacked the confidence to survive outside his movie theatre. The projectionist loses all control as he creates a variety of happy endings for his love tale in an effort to win back his wife. After a decade, fate steps in and brings his wife back. However, he has forgotten who she is and what he has been looking forward to for all these years.