8 March 2025 | SATURDAY| 6:00 PM IST

AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE WHO WILL COME KNOCKING
84 mins || Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina || 2024
Followed by an online Q&A with the Director

Director
Maja Novaković

Producer
Maja Novaković

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Synopsis:
In the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Emin, in his twilight years, toils alongside his faithful horse. Through bitter cold and harsh conditions, he seeks solace and warmth in nature’s embrace and finds fleeting comfort in sharing his burdens with his only true confidant. A story about man and grief as a universal human experience that can be both isolating and unifying.

Awards:
Sheffield Doc Fest 2024 - Grand Jury Award International Competition

7 March 2025 | FRIDAY | 6:00 PM IST

MY STOLEN PLANET
82 mins | Germany | 2024
Followed by an online Q&A with the Director

Director
Farahnaz Sharifi

Producer
Farzad Pak, Anke Petersen, Lilian Tietjen

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Synopsis:
My Stolen Planet" is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranianfilmmaker. Born duringthe Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in herdaily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppression.Simultaneously, she collects 8mm archives from people she doesn't know. Relying onothers' recordings, she gains a new perspective on losing memories.Her connection with Leyla, an Iranian professor who left Iran during the revolution, adds aname and story to one of her archive's faces. Farah's mother, suffering from Alzheimer's,motivates her tofight against forgetting. In the fall of 2022, the Women, Life, Freedomuprising became a turning point in Farah's life, as well as in the lives of many others in Iran. This is a homemade history.

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5 March 2025 | WEDNESDAY | 6:15 PM IST

NOCTURNES
83 mins | India, USA | 2024
Followed by an Q&A with Anirban & Anupama

Director
Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan

Producer
Anirban Dutta

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Synopsis:
In the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas, moths are whispering something to us. In the dark of night, two curious observers shine a light on this mesmerizing universe. Together, a female scientist and a young man from the indigenous Bugun community are on an expedition to decode these nocturnal creatures in a remote ecological “hot spot” in Arunachal Pradesh. The result is a deeply immersive film that draws us in, urging us to look more closely at our connections with the natural world.

Awards:
* Special Jury Award for Craft, Sundance Film Festival
* Silver Gateway, MAMI Mumbai Film Festival
* WWF Greece Award, Thessaloniki International
   Documentary Festival
* Best Narrative Story, Mediterrane Film Festival
* NOCTURNES has been shown at 50 festivals across the world including Sundance, CPH, Hot Docs, Sheffield, Hong Kong, MAMI, Thessaloniki, Docville Belgium, Ambulante Mexico, Dokufest Kosovo, Three Continents Nantes, Mediterrance Malta, Hamptons, DOC NYC, Sydney, and Margaret Mead among several others.

4 March 2025 | TUESDAY| 5:30 PM IST

A NEW KIND OF WILDERNESS!
84 mins | Norway | 2024
Followed by an online Q&A with the Director

Director
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen

Producer
Mari Bakke Riise

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Synopsis:
On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Paynes live a purposefully isolated life, aiming to be wild and free. Maria and Nik, along with their four children Ulv, Falk, Freja, and Ronja are self-sufficient. They practice home-schooling and strive for a closely-knit family dynamic in harmony with nature. However, when tragedy strikes the family, it upends their idyllic world and forces them to forge a new path into modern society. In A NEW KIND OF WILDERNESS, filmmaker Silje Evensmo Jacobsen captures an intimate and soulful portrait of love, life, and growing up. The Paynes’ journey, their triumphs and struggles, invite reflection on our own life choices, our responsibility to the planet and our children, and how we navigate life after loss.

Film Festivals:
Europe and Asia:
One World Bratislava, Al Jazeera Balkan Festival, Beldocs,Budapest Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX, Docville, DOK.fest Münich, Edinburgh Film Festival, Eikhoigi Imphal International Film Festival, El Gouna Film Festival, Festival del Popoli, Glimmerglass Festival, Green Visions Potsdam , Istanbul film Festival, Japan Prize, Meditterane Film Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Millenium Docs Against Gravity, Noordelijk Film Festival, Nordische Filmtage Lübeck Northern Lights Film Festival, One World, Reykjavik International film Festival, Rome Int. Doc. Film Festival, Silbersalz Film Festival, Sundance, Sundance Asia, Sydney International Film Festival, Talinn Black Nights, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Ulsan Ulju Mountain Film Festival, Visions du Réel, ZagrebDox
USA:
Sundance Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, Austin Film Society Doc Days, Full Frame Film Festival, Hot Docs, Vashon Film Festival, Provincetown Film Festival, Port Townsend Film Festival, Woods Hole Film Festival, Hamptons IFF, Woodstock Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival, Denver Film Festival,, Middleburg Film Festival, Bozeman Doc Series, Crested Butte Film Festival, Boise Film Festival, Doctober Newport Film Festival, Hudson Film Festival, DOC NYC, Hamptons Doc Fest, Salem Film Festival

3 March 2025 | MONDAY | 6:00 PM IST

WHERE WE USED TO SLEEP
82 mins | Germany | 2024
Followed by an online Q&A

Director
Matthäus Wörle

Producer
Fidelis Mager, Oliver Gernstl

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Synopsis:
Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the poisonous mud of a neighbouring copper mine. Almost all the houses have sunk and their inhabitants fled. On the edge of the past, Valeria Praţa strives for her present - and is threatened by the future.

Film Festivals:
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival | 2024 | World Premiere | International Competition DOK.fest - International Documentary Film Festival Munich | 2024 | German Premiere | Main Competition DOCAVIV - International Documentary Film Festival | 2024 | Israeli Premiere | Beyond The Screen Competition European Film Festival Palić | 2024 | Serbian Premiere | ECO DOX Section Filmfestival Kitzbühel | 2024 | Austrian Premiere | Documentary Competition | Jury Award Film Festival Della Lessinia | 2024 | Italian Premiere | International Competition | Jury Award Alpin Film Festival | 2024 | Romanian Premiere | International Competition | Special Award Biberacher Filmfestspiele | 2024 | Documentary Competition | Jury Award SUNCINE - International Environmental Film Festival | 2024 | Spanish Premiere | Documentary Competition Greenmotions Filmfestival | 2024 | Main Competition | Audience Award Verzió - International Documentary Film Festival | 2024 | Hungarian Premiere | Doc Future Competition FILMZ - Festival des deutschen Kinos | 2024 | Documentary Competition | Special Award MOLDOX - International Documentary Film Festival | 2024 | Moldavian Premiere | Main Section Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival | 2024 | Nepalese Premiere | International Competition | Jury Award The Eikhoigi Imphal International Film Festival | 2025 | Indian Premiere | Documentary Film Competition ARTDOCFEST RIGA - International Documentary Film Festival | 2025 | Latvian Premiere | Baltic Focus Competition Grimme Award | 2025 | Information & Culture Competition | Nomination