1) Jonaki: India Gold
Aditya Vikram Sengupta
India, France, Singapore | 95 mins
While Jonaki is the story of an 80-year-old woman who is on a search for love in the strange world of her decayingmemories, her lover, now old and grey, returns to a world she is leaving behind.
2) The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain: India Gold
Ridham Janve
India | 97 mins
After an Air Force jet crashes in the Himalayas, an old shepherd leaves his herd to find its pilot. But the mountain where the jet fell is sacred and the shepherd’s intentions are not. He struggles across metaphysical dimensions as he treads on forbidden ground.
3) BlacKkKlansman: World Cinema
Spike Lee
USA | 135 mins
Set in the early 1970s, at the crux of thestruggle for civil rights, Ron Stallworth becomes the first African-American detective on the Colorado Springs Police Department, but his arrival is greeted with skepticism and open hostility. Unperturbed, Stallworth sets out on a dangerous mission to infiltrate and expose the secretmovement in America: Ku Klux Klan.
4) MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A.
Steve Loveridge: World Cinema
USA, UK, Sri Lanka | 95 mins
MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is drawn from a cache of personal tapes shot by Maya Arulpragasm and her closest friends over the last 22 years, capturing her remarkable journey from an immigrant teenager in London to the international popstar M.I.A.
5) Hamid: India Story
Aijaz Khan
India | 108 mins
Eight-year-old Hamid learns that 786 is God’s number and decides to try and reach out to him by dialing it. He wants to talk to his father who, his mother tells him, has gone to Allah. One day the phone call is answered, and two lives shattered in the strife of Kashmir who find a way to be complete again.
