Aamis | 2019 | India | Assamese | Subtitles | English

Director | Bhaskar Hazarika | Producer | Metanormal Motion | Pictures (India)’ Signum Productions’ Wishberry Films

Synopsis: A lonely, married woman bonds with a younger man over their shared love of unusual foods. As their excursions become more adventurous, their relationship begins to take a dark turn.

Running Time | 107 minutes

Available from | All Days

Aani Maani | 2019 | India | Hindi | Subtitles | English

Director | Fahim Irshad | Producer | Hasan Rashid & Farrukh Seyer

Synopsis: When the government announces a ban on beef, and the shutting down of slaughterhouses, it wreaks havoc in the family life of a lower middle class, Muslim kebab seller called Bhutto, and sends his world spinning.

Running Time | 94 minutes

Available from | All Days

Aha Re | 2019 | India | Bengali | Subtitles | English

Director | Ranjan Ghosh | Producer | Bhavna Aaj-O-Kal

Synopsis: A rich Muslim chef from Bangladesh and a middle-class Indian woman who loves to cook are brought together by their love for food.

Running Time | 150 minutes

Available from | All Days

And Then We Danced | 2019 | Sweden | Georgian | Subtitles | English

Director | Levan Akin | Producer | French Quarter Film, Takes Film

Synopsis: A male dancer and his partner have been training for years for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another dancer throws him off balance, sparking both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that may cause him to risk his future.

Running Time | 87 minutes

Available from | 12/12/2020 & 16/12/2020 7am to 7am

No. of Screenings | One screening per person

Brief Story from the Green Planet | 2019 | Argentina | Spanish | Subtitles | English

Director | Santiago Loza | Producer | Anavilhana Filmes, Autentika Films, Constanza Sanz Palacios Films, Zentropa

Synopsis: In Buenos Aires, three childhood friends find themselves in a rut. Feisty trans performer Tania is disillusioned with her profession, club kid Pedro can only connect via dancing, and depressed waitress Daniela has given up on finding love. Their lives are upended when Tania’s grandmother dies, revealing a secret: In her final years, she lived with an extra-terrestrial companion, and it is now Tania’s legacy to return the creature to its home.

Running Time | 75 minutes

Available from | All Days

Darker than midnight (Piu' buio di mezzanotte) | 2014 | Italy | Italian/English/French | Subtitles | English

Director | Sebastiano Riso | Producer | Ideacinema

Synopsis: Davide, an androgynous 14-year-old, is tormented by his father for being unmanly. After leaving his home, he finds a new home with the hustlers of Catania.

Running Time | 98 minutes

Available from | All Days

Ebang Bewarish | 2013 | India | Bengali | Subtitles | English

Director | Debalina Majumdar | Producer | SAFFO for Equality

Synopsis: Ebang bewarish (…and the unclaimed)”, talks about these two unclaimed dead bodies and many more dead and living ones. The central question being non-acceptance of non-normative persons, the film brings out pain and desolation of such persons who are 'unclaimed' by their loved ones and by the society at large.

Running Time | 62 minutes

Available from | All Days

Funny Boy | 2020 | Canada | Tamil, English | Subtitles | English

Director | Deepa Mehta | Producer | David Hamilton | Theatre screening

Synopsis: Shot on location and set in Sri Lanka in the 1970’s and 80’s, FUNNY BOY explores the awakening of sexual identity by a young boy named Arjie (portrayed by Arush Nand and Brandon Ingram). As political tensions escalate to a boiling point between the minority Tamils and the majority Sinhalese, a young boy comes of age in a society and family that doesn’t embrace difference outside of societal norms. The film chronicles Arjie’s struggle to find balance and self-love despite the absence of empathy and understanding.

Running Time | 109 mins

Available from | 10/12/2020 Theatre Screening

Screenings | Opening Feature by invite only

If You Dare Desire | 2017 | India | Bengali | Subtitles | English

Director | Debalina Majumdar | Producer | SAFFO for Equality

Synopsis: If you dare Desire, is a film of possibilities. Beyond the domination of patriarchy and hetero-normativity, the women in love resist with their bodies, with their hearts. They live many lives. They die many deaths. They resist and they dream.

Running Time | 52 minutes

Available from | All Days

Il vizio della speranza ( The Vice Of Hope) | 2018 | Italy | Italian | Subtitles | English

Director | Edoardo De Angelis | Producer | Tramp Ltd. O' Groove Medusa Film

Synopsis: The story of a difficult birth set against the backdrop of child trafficking in Castel Volturno, an area outside Naples known for being the most lawless area in Italy.

Running Time | 96 minutes

Available from | All Days

Kastoori (The Musk) | 2019 | India | Marath, Hindi | Subtitles | English

Director | Vinod Kamble | Producer | Insight Films

Synopsis: A 14-year-old boy, who has to engage in manual scavenging and post mortem, is prejudiced and teased for the smell of his body and clothes. To get rid of those, he comes across the scent of Kastoori (based on a true story).

Running Time | 100 minutes

Available from | All Days

Las HIjas Del Fuego (The Daughters Of Fire) | 2019 | Argentina | Spanish | Subtitles | English

Director | Albertina Carri | Producer | Gentil

Synopsis: A group of women go on a erotic, polyamorous, trip to free themselves from the mindset of patriarchy, while one of them plans to make a porn movie.

Running Time | 115 minutes

Available from | All Days

los sonámbulos (Sleepwalkers) | 2019 | Argentina | Spanish | Subtitles | English

Director | Paula Hernández | Producer | Oriental Films, Tarea Fina

Synopsis: Tracking the tandem voyages of a mother and daughter into fraught emotional terrain, Argentinian director Paula Hernández examines the ways desire and expectation clash when familial pressures push women to their limits.

Running Time | 107 minutes

Available from | All Days

Maadathy, an unfairy tale | 2019 | India | Tamil | Subtitles | English

Director | Leena Manimekalai | Producer | Leena Manimekalai

Synopsis: India is a land of Subaltern deities. Each deity has an unique legend and these legends are often interwoven with socio-historic tropes of India. Puthirai vannaar is an 'unseeable' Dalit caste group, in southern India.Their forced-occupation is to wash clothes of other Dalits, the dead and the menstruating women. This film is a tale about a young girl who grew up in Puthirai vannaar caste group and how she came to be immortalised as their local deity, Maadathy.

Running Time | 90 minutes

Available from | All Days

Mississipi Masala | 1991 | USA,UK | English | Subtitles | English

Director | Mira Nair | Producer | Black River Productions, Channel Four Films, Cinecom Pictures, Mirabai Films, Movie Works, Studio Canal Souss

Synopsis: An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.

Running Time | 118 minutes

Available from | All Days

More Films For Freedom | BFI Flare | London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival and BFI NETWORK

Synopsis: More Films For Freedom in partnership with BFI Flare and BFI NETWORK builds on the success of Five Films For Freedom, our annual online LGBTIQ+ film programme. These three short films showcase a breadth of distinctive filmmaking voices and explore diverse themes including sexuality and conflict, inter-generational gay culture, migration and family ties.

• Let My Body Speak - the UK with Syrian collaboration
• The Men Who Speak Gayle - the UK with South African collaboration
• Nowhere - the UK with Palestinian collaboration

Running Time | 40 minutes

Available from | 14/12/2020 & 19/12/2020 7am to 7am

No. of Screenings | One screening per person

Nasir | 2020 | India | Tamil | Subtitles | English

Director | Arun Karthick | Producer | Stray Factory, Rinkel Film

Synopsis: Salesman Nasir lives a contented life with his mother Fatima, wife Taj and nephew Iqbal in a closely populated ghetto. Employed in an apparel shop at the heart of a busy city, the middle aged Nasir is a hard worker. He speaks humorously and makes others laugh. He is also endowed with a half-baked philosophical attitude, so he likes poetry. On Sundays he composes poems along the lines of Hindi film songs of the sixties and launches them in front of his co-workers. When he recites his poems, he starts with his right hand placed over his chest and with wave-like motions nearly brushing the noses of the listeners. He smokes ten Beedis a day and drinks four cups of tea. He goes for his midday prayers occasionally. Nasir's chronicle emerges through the detailed observation of his vicinity over the span of one particular day. As his day unfolds we find him to be a nimble romantic, marshaling a love of love, song, children, friendship, and even God to rise into something resembling a life well lived. But the increasing communal bigotry has other plans.

Running Time | 85 minutes

Available from | All Days

Sir | 2018 | India, France | Hindi, English, Marathio | Subtitles | English

Director | Rohena Gera | Producer | Ciné-Sud Promotion, Inkpot Films Private Limited

Synopsis: An optimistic and determined young woman from a remote village starts her new job as a live-in maid for the cynical son of a wealthy family. They eventually fall in love, but find their relationship forbidden.

Running Time | 99 minutes

Available from | 11/12/2020 Festival Spotlight

No. of Screenings | RSVP: (only first 60 people) info.engendered@gmail.com

The Uncertain Kingdom | 2020 | UK | English | Subtitles | English

Director | Various | Producer | BFI

Synopsis: An extraordinary collection of twenty short films that capture a snapshot of the UK now, as seen by some of the UK’s most visionary filmmakers. Climate change, migration, disability, homelessness and sexuality are just some of the subjects explored in The Uncertain Kingdom.

Running Time | 90 minutes

Available on | 15/12/2020 7am to 7am & 18/12/2020 7am to 7am

No. of Screenings | One screening per person

Venus | 2017 | Canada | English | Subtitles | English

Director | Eisha Marjara | Producer | Compass Productions

Synopsis: SID is under pressure to marry a nice Indian girl and raise a family. Sid’s East Indian mother yearns to have grandchildren. Her dreams are about to come true, but not in the way she could've ever imagined. When Sid comes out as a woman, a 14 year old boy named RALPH literally shows up at her door announcing that Sid is his parent. Although surprised to discover that his biological dad is now a woman, Ralph thinks having a transgender parent is pretty cool. But he hasn't told his mother and step dad that he’s tracked down his biological father. And then there is Sid’s boyfriend DANIEL, who has yet to tell his family of his relationship with Sid. Daniel is nowhere near ready to accept Ralph as a step son and complicate his life further. Sid’s coming out has a snowball effect that forces everyone out of the closet. What happens when gender, generations and cultures collide to create a truly modern family?

Running Time | 95 minutes

Available from | All Days

Vilom | 2020 | India | English, Punjabi, Hindi | Subtitles | English

Director | Sunder Pal | Producer | Sunder Pal

Synopsis: Vilom, a lonely, isolated young man from India, is obsessed with becoming internet-famous and deeply confused about his sexuality. When he moves in with Amay, a dynamic, openly gay hairdresser, and simultaneously meeting Nivi for social experiment video project, who is a beautiful struggling actress, he finds that they both are slowly falling in love with him. This sudden love triangle leads to even more confusion, forcing Vilom to examine his sexual and romantic wants and needs on an even deeper level. Meanwhile, societal pressures and prejudices are beginning to build just outside the walls of their home. Vilom is an unflinching sociopolitical drama. The film tells a provocative story of risk-taking, creativity, rebellion and survival.

Running Time | 80 minutes

Available from | All Days

We Are Here: Radical Intimacies | British Council and LUX

Synopsis: The artists in RADICAL INTIMACIES investigate the role of gender and sexual identities in a social, political, and cultural moment that has seen the momentous erosion of hard-won rights and the value of freely expressing difference. Presented in the programme are various intergenerational perspectives that affirm lives lived outside the norm and celebrate all that has been made possible by those before us.

• Beatrice Gibson, I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, 2018, 20 minutes (LUX)
• Rehana Zaman, Sharla Shabana Sojourner Selena, 2016, 22 minutes, 14 seconds (LUX)
• Stephen Sutcliffe, Casting Through and Scenes from Radcliffe, 2017, 16 minutes, 53 seconds (LUX)

Running Time | 60 minutes

Available from | 17/12/2020 7pm to 10pm

No. of Screenings | One screening

Zindagi Tamasha | 2020 | Pakistan | Urdu | Punjabi | Subtitles | English

Director | Sarmad Sultan Khoosat | Producer | Anavilhana Filmes, Autentika Films, Constanza Sanz Palacios Films, Zentropa

Synopsis: Circus of Life provides a calm and detailed picture of challenging issues of a man who live in Lahore.

Running Time | 138 mins

Available from | 20/12/2020 7am to 10am

No. of Screenings | One screening

Abu | 2017 | Pakistan, Canada | Urdu, English | Subtitles | English

Director | Arshad Khan | Producer | Arshad Khan

Synopsis: ABU is a journey to the centre of a fragmented family while they grapple with religion, sexuality, colonialism and migration. Through a tapestry of narratives composed of family footage, observation and classic Bollywood films, gay-identifying Pakistani-Muslim filmmaker Arshad Khan takes viewers through the tense relationships between family and fate, conservatism and liberalism and modernity and familiarity.

Running Time | 80 minutes

Available from | All Days

But Now Is Perfect | 2018 | Netherlands, EU | Italian | Subtitles | English

Director | Carin Goeijers | Producer | Pieter Van Huystee Film and Television

Synopsis: "I do not know if I'm taking the right steps," says Becky Moses, but she is grateful for every moment of being alive. God, or fate, has brought her to Europe via Libya from her native country Nigeria, on the run for an arranged marriage with an elderly man. Never would she have thought she would end up in Riace, a mountain village in Calabria (southern Italy) that has become world famous by its open-door policy for immigrants by the flamboyant mayor Domenico Lucano. Through the eyes of Becky and her fellow villagers, we witness how the shrunken Italian community lives together with the new, mostly African, inhabitants. We see how friendships are formed and lives become connected. But fate remains unpredictable. The regional authorities are not always happy with the Riace project, the mayor gets into a political storm and cannot protect 'his' people any more. Becky must leave the village and ends up in an illegal immigrant camp. When she meets her fatal end there, the inhabitants of Riace are left in grief and bewilderment. A poignant story of faith, hope and documents.

Running Time | 56 minutes

Available from | All Days

Can Art Stop A Bullet? William Kellys Big Picture | 2020 | Australia | English | Subtitles | English

Director | Mark Street | Producer | Fiona Cochrane

Synopsis: History is a depressing pattern of bad judgements and unnecessary wars. Now things have come full circle. The fear that gripped the world during the Cold War is creating a familiar chill again. Rational voices are either ignored, mocked or attacked. These restraining voices are often the voices of art. Wars are never started by mentally stable people. Why do oppressive governments first try to silence artists? What is it about art that frightens warmongers so much? Can Art temper violence when politics and reason fails? Can art stop bullets?.

Running Time | 90 minutes

Available from | All Days

From Durban to Tomorrow | 2020 | India | Spanish, English, French, Hungarian, Hindi | Subtitles | English

Director | Dylan Gray | Producer | Sparkwater India

Synopsis: In the year 2000, mass protests led by people living with HIV in Durban, South Africa, radically transformed the global debate on human rights in health, giving rise to a series of major advances in public health for vulnerable and marginalized people the world over. Now, two decades later, many of these hard-won gains are in severe jeopardy, putting tens of millions of lives at risk. In FROM DURBAN TO TOMORROW, the stories of five courageous frontline advocates from different parts of the world lend powerful dimension to this rapidly worsening crisis and the impending battle for a meaningful, universal human right to health.

Running Time | 40 minutes

Available from | All Days

Galore | 2019 | Netherlands |Dutch, English | Subtitles | English

Director | Dylan Tonk, Lazlo Tonk | Producer | Dyzlo Film, G3b Studios

Synopsis: Fighting for visibility and solidarity, Lady Galore has become vital to the European drag community. For Sander den Baas, the man behind Lady Galore, this devotion is starting to take its toll. Although his size is what makes Lady Galore stand out and brought her fame, Sander is struggling with more and more health problems. Gastric bypass surgery will help him regain a healthy weight. But what will remain of Lady Galore?.

Running Time | 74 minutes

Available from | All Days

I am Greta | 2020 | Sweden | English, Swedish | Subtitles | English

Director | Nathan Grossman | Producer | B-Reel Films

Synopsis: Greta Thunberg, 15, starts school striking for the climate. She skips school and sit outside the parliament to show the politicians that if they don't care about her future, why should she? A film about acting to stop climate change before it's too late.

Running Time | 97 minutes

Available from | 13/12/2020 8am to 10pm

No. of Screenings | Centrepiece, one screening per person

Iuventa | 2018 | Italy, Germany | Arabic, English, French, Modern Greek | Subtitles | English

Director | Michele Cinque | Producer | Valerio Ciampicacigli, Thomas Jeschner, Luca Pancaldi & Volker Zobelt

Synopsis: The documentary film Iuventa relates the events of a crucial year in the lives of a group of young Europeans all involved in different ways in the Jugend Rettet humanitarian project, starting from the first voyage of the Iuventa ship in the Mediterranean Sea to the heavy accusations that led to the seizure of the vessel more than a year later. The backbone of the narration is the ship’s first trip out to sea: setting sail from Malta, she comes back to La Valletta after 15 days offshore, having saved the lives of over 2,000 people. After the first mission the film takes us to Berlin and in Italy in the months following the first voyage, through the winter time when the future of the Jugend Rettet is discussed. The film, precisely because of the particularly young age of its protagonists, becomes the tale of a sort of training period: finding themselves at the forefront of this horror and death, and conscious of the vastness and complexities of the correlated socio-political problems, these youngsters start having doubts about the sense of the whole project which, it appears, determines in some way the loss of their innocence.

Running Time | 88 minutes

Available from | All Days

Mostly Sunny | 2016 | Canada | English | Subtitles | English

Director | Dilip Mehta | Producer | Ballinran Entertainment, Hamilton-Mehta Productions, The Movie Network (TMN)

Synopsis: Mostly Sunny is a documentary that tells the remarkable story of Sunny Leone, the Canadian-born, American-bred adult film star who is pursuing her dreams of Bollywood stardom.

Running Time | 83 minutes

Available from | All Days

Son Rise | 2019 | India | Hindi | Subtitles | English

Director | Vibha Bakshi | Producer | Responsible Films Foundation

Synopsis: SON RISE is filmed in the strongly patriarchal state of Haryana, bordering India's capital, New Delhi. Illegal, yet rampant female foeticide has led to the eerie absence of girls in hundreds of villages. This skewed sex-ratio has provoked an unprecedented number of crimes against women - with the highest number of gang rapes reported in the country.

Running Time | 49 minutes

Available from | All Days

Tahira | 2020 | India | Urdu | Subtitles | English

Director | Afzal Sofi | Producer | Indecent Movies

Synopsis: Based on this theme, TAHIRA-A short documentary narrates a story of a half widow, Tahira Begum, from the frontier village of Jammu and Kashmir, whose husband disappeared mysteriously after he left his home for Delhi in 2002. The film narrates the story of her struggle against poverty, social customs and mental health issues and against the state to seek the whereabouts of her husband. The film shows her successful journey of restarting her life after she was refused the share of the property by her in-laws, forced to migrate to Srinagar city and live in a single rented room along with her minor children and left alone to fight for justice and earn for their livelihood. The film shows how she becomes a part of the movement launched by hundreds of families, whose family members have been subjected to enforced disappearance, during the last 30 years of armed conflict in Kashmir. The film also shows how she chose to work in a beauty parlor, which otherwise was difficult in Conflict ridden society, to feed her family and build her own house once again. This 13:20 minute long film is interactive in style with narration in Tahira's own voice and overheard conversations which take us to her home, her office, protest site and her beauty parlor.

Running Time | 13 minutes

Available from | All Days

The Geshema Is Born | 2019 | India, Nepal | Tibetan, English | Subtitles | English

Director | Malati Rao | Producer | PSBT

Synopsis: For the Buddha, establishing a community of nuns was a radical experiment for its time. Over the centuries Buddhist religious life was available to women and many historical events mention highly accomplished nuns. But the highest monastic qualifications were denied to them. His Holiness The Dalai Lama worked for decades along with the nuns in Tibetan Buddhism to empower and enable them to finally receive the same education and degree as the monks. In achieving this the nuns impact the potential of women across all faiths and foreground the wisdom and uniqueness of the feminine experience. The film traces the journey of an exceptional nun, Namdol Phuntsok, the first woman ever to be awarded the highest degree in Tibetan philosophy – the Geshema degree which stands for the ‘knower of virtue’.

Running Time | 56 minutes

Available from | All Days

Ayesha | 2018 | USA | English, Arabic | Subtitles | English

Director | Ambarein Alqadar | Producer | Ambarien Alqadar

Synopsis: Ayesha's secret weekend plans with her boyfriend take an unexpected turn when her immigrant father encounters a US veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress.

Running Time | 12 minutes

Available from | All Days

Bare Giran- The Heavy Burden | 2020 | Turkey | Turkish, Kurdish | Subtitles | English

Director | Yilmaz Ozdil | Producer | Pero Film

Synopsis: Avdel feeds his family with the salary of the donkey Bozo who works in the sanitation service of the city of Mardin in Turkey. It also houses his nephew Salih, who fled Syria. When the ‘old Bozo’ is retired by the municipality, Avdel must find a younger donkey to keep his job. To help his uncle, Salih crosses the Syrian border to bring back his own donkey, which he had to leave because of the war. But to accomplish this mission, he must cross the minefields.

Running Time | 17 minutes

Available from | All Days

Beautiful Alexander | 2019 | Netherlands | Dutch, Russian | Subtitles | English

Director | Marc Wagenaar | Producer | Isabella Films

Synopsis: “Would you dare to jump if there were water?”, insecure teenager Alexander asks the boy he admires, who stands on a diving board in the middle of the beach. Cautiously dancing, they approach each other.

Running Time | 13 minutes

Available from | All Days

Half a Life | 2017 | Egypt, Indonesia, USA, Netherlands | Arabic | Subtitles | English

Director | Tamara Shogaolu | Producer | Ado Ato Pictures

Synopsis: Half a Life is a multi-award winning animated documentary short that features the personal testimony of a young, gay Egyptian activist as he struggles to decide whether to continue to fight for LGBTQ rights in Cairo, the home that he loves, or seek safety in asylum elsewhere. Half a Life is part of Queer in a Time of Forced Migration, an animated transmedia series that follows the stories of LGBTQ refugees from Egypt, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia across continents and cultures — from the 2011 Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa region to the world today.

Running Time | 12 minutes

Available from | All Days

Saving Chintu | 2020 | India | Hindi | Subtitles | English

Director | Tushar Tyagi | Producer | Golden Frame Productions, Oxys Entertainment

Synopsis: An American-Indian gay couple travels to India to adopt a child living with HIV in an orphanage. Will the couple be able to cope up with the cultural challenges?.

Running Time | 25 minutes

Available from | All Days

Sheer Qorma | 2020 | India | Urdu | Subtitles | English

Director | Faraz Arif Ansari | Producer | Marijke de Souza

Synopsis: Sheer Qorma is a gentle, heart-rending narrative of the longing for love and acceptance, felt by queer children in their parental homes that plays out through delicate story-telling, told through characters of courageous Muslim, queer women of color. With multiple themes of ethnicity and culture at play within the narrative, the story sensitively confronts the harsh reality of disrupted family dynamics through a sensitive, universal tale.

Running Time | 30 minutes

Available from | 11/12/2020 Private Industry Screening followed by Q&A with Dir Faraz Ansari and Actor Swara Bhaskar

No. of Screenings | RSVP: (only first 60 people) info.engendered@gmail.com

Silence in the Wind | 2019 | India | Assamese | Subtitles | English

Director | Gaurav Boruah, Prajnyan Ballav Goswami | Producer | Red Carpet Moving Pictures

Synopsis: When Biju goes against the will of the parents a secret is revealed, repugnant in his society.

Running Time | 13 minutes

Available from | All Days

The Ghetto Girl | 2012 | India, USA | Urdu | Subtitles | English

Director | Ambarein Alqadar | Producer | PSBT India

Synopsis: In what is also known as India’s ‘Little Pakistan’ in New Delhi, a girl is on a search for a lost home movie. The search takes her into the mapless lanes of the place she calls home. These lanes conceal a history and a past. A love and loss tale about being Muslim in India today.

Running Time | 35 minutes

Available from | All Days

Miss Man | 2019 | India | Bengali, English | Subtitles | English

Director | Tathagata Ghosh | Producer | Tathagata Ghosh

Synopsis: Manob is in love with another man. And he has a price to pay for that. Not only is he fighting the society around him, but his own homophobic father, who does not even refrain from physical violence to cure his son from the disease of loving another man. A younger Manob once danced in his school function, dressed up as a woman. And it is from that time he possibly realized that he might be a woman trapped inside a mans body. The stakes get higher when he is also looked down upon by his lover, who refuses to accept him unless he transforms to a woman completely. Dejected, Manob decides to travel to the city to look into the possibilities of a sex change operation. Meanwhile, Manobs father also arranges his marriage with the daughter of a relative. Cornered, Manob now has to make a choice between giving up his struggle or standing up for who he truly is.

Running Time | 24 minutes

Available from | All Days

More Than You See | 2019 | Language | English | Subtitles | NA

Director | Prachi Batola | Production | School of Contemporary Media, Pearl Academy

Synopsis: Each day, films, advertisements and entertainment media uses the image of a woman to further their purposes. A poetic take on the objectification of women in popular culture, the film strives to challenge the stereotypical marketing gimmick which projects that the best way to sell a product is to put a female’s body next to it. There is a lot more to women than what we are told to see.

Running Time | 3:14 minutes

Available from | All Days

Who Can Speak of Men? | 2004 | India | Urdu, English | Subtitles | English

Director | Ambarein Alqadar | Producer | AJK MCRC Jamia

Synopsis: Intimate character portraits of three cross dressing Muslim women who live in Jamia Nagar- one of the largest segregated neighborhoods for Muslim in India.

Running Time | 30 minutes

Available from | All Days

Wig | 2019 | India | Hindi | Subtitles | English

Director | Atanu Mukherjee | Producer | Humaramovie / Easel

Synopsis: People who can't be molded into the stereotypes that society has set, often find it difficult to make a place for themselves in the same society. Hailing from a small town in India, Artika believes herself to be modern, liberal and most importantly, independent. Not the one who shies away from speaking her mind. She struggles to find a place to stay in Mumbai, overcoming the cliched remarks of being a "single working girl living alone". However, an unprecedented encounter with a transgender sex worker opposite to her house, questions her beliefs. Will she now fall into the same societal prejudices that she has been fighting against?.

Running Time | 26 minutes

Available from | All Days