short film

Video Page: ‘How Can It Be’
A man in a grey tee shirt and black pajamas standing, looking surprised at something.

A moving short film by Mira Nair on the anguish we subject ourselves to when faced with the inexplicable power…

By Curated Content
February 1, 2016
Video Page: ‘How Can It Be’
Video Page: Imtiaz Ali’s New Short Film Has a Rockstar
Screenshot of a video. A young sex worker sitting and talking with her client on bed. She is wearing green Indian suit and red salvar, and he is in a vest and boxers. Screen reader support enabled. Screenshot of a video. A young sex worker sitting and talking with her client on bed. She is wearing green Indian suit and red salvar, and he is in a vest and boxers.

Imtiaz Ali’s 5-minute film begins as any trite gangster flick but rapidly flips things around both in narrative and in audience perception.

By Curated Content
April 18, 2016
Video Page: Imtiaz Ali’s New Short Film Has a Rockstar
Video Page: Baby Steps
Screengrab from "Baby Steps", a gay couple sit together in front of a laptop in an intimate pose

In the short film, Baby Steps, a seemingly mundane Skype conversation between a mother and son turns into something more.

By Curated Content
September 4, 2018
Video Page: Baby Steps
Video Page: The Short Film ‘Naked’
screenshot from 'Naked', a woman saying 'all public spaces are dominated by men'

The Internet is as public a space as any other – fraught with its own set of complexities – and the stigmas and moral judgments that plague our immediate physical environment often permeate into it, whether subconsciously or not.

By Curated Content
April 1, 2019
Video Page: The Short Film ‘Naked’
Video Page: Chutney
Still from the movie, 'Chutney'

What follows, in the short film Chutney, is a conversation – full of eerie, evocative storytelling – which not just sheds light on the class hierarchies in the middle to upper-middle class Indian household, but also the anxieties surrounding sexuality and sexual repression within it.

By Curated Content
June 1, 2019
Video Page: Chutney
Short Film: Oruvannukku Oruththi? (A Man For a Woman?)
A still from the film 'Oruvannukku Oruththi'

Our sexuality is often in flux – being manoeuvred (sometimes in ways we cannot control) by the crashing waves of societal expectations, circumstances, and our own choices and experiences. But the world continues to uphold a fixed, rigid idea of sexuality, and continues to confine us within this idea, and therein lies the conflict.

By Curated Content
August 1, 2019
Short Film: Oruvannukku Oruththi? (A Man For a Woman?)
Video Page: The Embrace
Still from short film, "The Embrace"

An Indian joint family shares spaces where lives and narratives overlap and privacy is stymied. Acts of intimacy, pleasure, and sexual exploration become difficult to pursue, and both privacy and sexual fulfillment become a much sought-after luxury.

By Curated Content
September 2, 2019
Video Page: The Embrace
Video Page: Moustaches Unlimited
cover image for 'moustaches unlimited'

Is a moustache synonymous with the socially established understanding of what makes a ‘man’, is it what marks the degree of manliness, or rather, the degree of male privilege, and is it something that defines the kind of relationships men share with each other?

By Curated Content
October 1, 2019
Video Page: Moustaches Unlimited
Video: “Un Sacré Mariage!”
A wedding scene in a church with sunlight streaming in from the windows.

What can celebrating sexuality look like? Un Sacré Mariage!, an animated short by Francis Papillon and Gregory Verreault shows us with aplomb, jest and buoyancy that one of the ways to do it could be by moving away from conventions and rituals.

By Curated Content
March 1, 2022
Video: “Un Sacré Mariage!”