Our work

Wapas/Once Again

short fiction 14.35 min, 2024

Zaira, who lost her sister Zoon as a child, returns to her ancestral home in Kashmir, 20 years after the incident. When a woman who resembles Zoon appears, Zaira discovers how tenacious grief can be.

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Forged in Fire, 63 min, 2023

A nuanced, intimate portrait of cancer, love, and inequalities in India through six different, overlapping stories, including the film maker's own experience of losing her husband to cancer.

Selected in Documentary Competition at the 29th Kolkata International Film Festival, December 2023.

Read film's review in Deccan Herald here

E-Pavas, 13 min, 2024

A video tutorial made for Soppecom, about E-Pavas, a farmer's app to assist in management of irrigation water in Maharashtra.

Aarohan, 14 min, 2022

A moving short documentary film about the impact of APRAAVA Energy and Centre for Environment Education's work on women, and children, of Rajkot and Jamnagar districts, Gujarat.

The Udyogini Project, 6 min, 2022

Commissioned by the Humana People to People India and APRAAVA Energy, in March 2022, about the impact of rural women entrepreneurship training programs conducted by them in Jhajjar, Haryana

Our founder, Bindu Nair's previous work:

Beyond Women's Stereotypes, 2003, 28min

Produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust, featuring Arundhati Roy, Bhanwari Devi, Kunika Lall among others; screened on Doordarshan several times, and at the following film festivals- Lamakaan film festival "focus FEMME", 2013, Hyderabad, pEtE maatu, Bengaluru, 2010, at NJisacf , Big Cinema, New Jersey, 2010, and at Lokayat Film Festival, Pune, 2012. It is listed among the top 10 documentary films from India, made about women by Free Press Journal, 2019, `19 Eye Opening Indian Documentaries on women that are a must watch’ by scoopwhoop.com, ’15 documentaries all women (and men) need to watch’ by vagabomb.com. More news @ DeccanHerald

Notes on Marital Violence, 2019, 58 min

A PSBT film, an insightful look at intimate partner violence, the structures that perpetuate it, and it's impact on women’s lives. Selected at Finger Lake Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca USA 2020; Open Frame Film Festival, New Delhi, 2019; South Asia Women's Day Kriti Film Club Screening, New Delhi & Kolkata, 2019; Raising Our Voices Foundation screening, Kochi, 2019, covered by the Indian Express. Read review @ NationalHeraldIndia

Of Confucius, S-spots & Toy Guns, Short fiction, 35mm, B&W, 20 min

Winner of 2 National Awards- Special Jury Award for Direction & for Best Editing, 2000. Selected for the competition section of the Busan International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2000, Kodak International Short Film Competition, Indian Panorama, the International Film Festival of India, New Delhi, (2000), the International Film Festival of Kerala, (2000), International Film Festival of Pune, (2002).

Silenced Screams/Cheekheen Unsuni

Documentary, 2004, 30 min

Made for ActionAid India, about caste atrocities on Dalits in Rajasthan. Screened at Asia Social Forum, 2004

All I want

Music Video, 35mm, B&W, 4 min

Water Gives Life, 23 min, 1998

A comprehensive watershed management training film, set in rural Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, that has been used to train thousands, over 20 years, made with Shammi Nanda, in 1998 for Watershed Organisation Trust.