Spandan

Shama and Ravi are members of a Marxist party. Shama loves classical Indian music, a luxury of a few, and Ravi is in love with quotations and the philosophy of Marx - a need of the masses. Due to a strike, Ravi is compelled to work full-time for the party. Shama decides to give up music reluctantly and joins Ravi.

People are involved in daily encounters without ever being aware of how they are connected with one another. A taxi reveals all.

In the interior of a forest, a tree is being felled. Anordinary event, an event like the shooting of a birdor a rabbit in a forest or the violation of a girl in alonely forest. It is an ordinary human event.. Thefilm humanizes the event of the cutting of a tree ina forest. When one tree is cut (killed, violated) theWOodcutter passes on to the next tree to be cut(killed. violated?

The passage trom adolescen ce to youth is a phaseduring which a girl emerges in a distinctive periodof her life to another significant phase. Most oftenthere is a synchronous transition in her physicalstate with that of her emotional state of mind. Thisfilm poignantly depicts such a transition in a girl'slife. Her changing attitudes towards her playmates,and objects around are brought out very vividly inthis film.

The journey of news coming alive, when an athlete featured on the front page falls in love with a tennis starlet featured on the last page of a newspaper.

A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave inhis office. A third finishes his tea. Another getshimself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in theworld of crime: kidnapping to he more precise. Butthe father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up.The son has already played this trick before andcollected good ransom. The father does not believethis time it is a real thing, The kidnappers getdesperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.

FTII Diploma film by Mani Kaul

A cynical young man and a romantic young womanencountered each other on a night bus journey. Eachspins a story around the other. It turns out that she isgoing to meet someone, she has never seen before. Heis apprehensive. She herself is not so sure.

When Suman has to go to her mother's house, Bharat asks her to write which she refuses saying that he doesn't know how to keep it to himself. Bharat promises to find the right place for it. She is adamant but writes nonetheless and Bharat has to keep his promise now. And so begins his search for his corner in the space that belongs to many.

Barkha returns to her parents house. Her arrival brings some relief and confusion in Chaman's life. Chaman, now in her mid-twenties is stuck in a small town milieu. A childhood friend, Rekha is waiting to get married. And there is a skein of Wool, that has to be knitted fast to make Barkha's husband happy.

Graça is a single mother who works as a massage therapist and lives with her two children: Moreno, 8, and Papoula, 15. One day, in a visit to the doctor, Graça is diagnosed with a brain aneurism that may rupture at any moment. Desperate about who will take care of her kids in the event of her death, she decides to go after her brother, Luiz Carlos, whom she hasn't seen in over 15 years due to a quarrel. When they meet, however, Luiz Carlos has become Gloria, a beautiful and successful trans woman, who now owns a restaurant and brags about being independent. At first, Gloria is unwilling to reconnect with her family; but as she becomes more guilt-stricken, she accepts Graça's invitation to meet her nephews and eventually realizes that maybe, to be complete, she needs to become a mother.