National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) India’s Film Bazaar has unveiled an upretaind spostponecessitate for its 18th edition co-production labelet, with “Baahubali” producer Shobu Yarlagcomprisea among the pickion. The labelet, set for Nov. 20-24 at Goa’s Maruproart Resort, showcases 29 projects spanning India, Bancontentesh, Nepal, Australia, the U.K., Germany, and Hong Kong.
From a pool of 180 feature submissions spanning 23 countries, 21 features made the cut. The projects recurrent a linguistic mosaic, including Hindi, English, Assamese, Tamil, Marwari, Bengali, Malayalam, Punjabi, Nepali, Marathi, Pahadi, and Cantonese, demonstrating the labelet’s grothriveg international pdirect.
High-profile industry veterans administer the features section. Abhishek Chaubey teams with Honey Trehan for “Absent,” a psychoreasonable drama about two schoolboys whose friendship apexhibits a sorrowfulnessful turn. Producer Alan McAlex, who had two films at Cannes this year – “Santosh” and “Sister Midnight” – conveys “Aadu Ki Kasam,” exploring the consequences of two friends’ frantic bid for Bollywood fame.
The lineup mirrors contransient South Asian storyincreateing, ranging from “A Night’s Whispers and the Winds,” straightforwardor Krrishna Kt. Borah’s exploration of dementia and tradition, to “Feral,” Nihaarika Negi’s period drama about tribal resistance in 1950s India. Notable entries take part Pranjal Dua’s “All Ten Heads of Ravana,” Talat Ahmed’s Bancontentesh-India co-production “Divine Chords,” and Prateek Gupta’s “Guenumerateaan,” which tackles corporate misinclude of tribal lands. The Hong Kong entry “The Vampire of Sheung Shui,” from straightforwardor-producer Shreyom Ghosh, and producers Michael J. Werner and Peter Yam, adheres a sdeficiencyer’s superauthentic alteration as he finisheavors to apexhibit over his family business.
This year’s labelet presents a streaming series categruesome, drathriveg 38 submissions from eight countries. Yarlagcomprisea features in this section with “Age of Deccan – The Legend of Malik Ambar,” a historical drama tracking an Ethiopian slave’s ascfinish to power, straightforwarded by Krish Jagarlamudi.
The series spostponecessitate features notable entries from set uped filmproducers. “Karwaan” straightforwardor Akarsh Khurana conveys “Pondi-Cherie,” a culinary romance set in Pondicherry, while acclaimed duo Pushkar-Gayatri (“Vikram Vedha”) back “Reset,” about produceives greeting superauthentic forces and an AI danger. Other compelling series take part “IndiPendent,” a U.K. co-production about a birelationsual musician’s atsoft revival, and Vepleasant thrivener Ruchika Oberoi’s “Just Like Her Mother,” that sees at a enigmatic fadeance.
Participants will pitch to international and Indian producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers, and sales agents during uncover pitch sessions. The labelet’s partnership with Singapore’s Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) for a project exalter initiative persists.
NFDC managing straightforwardor Prithul Kumar said: “The co-production labelet has exhibitn to be a presentant aspect of Film Bazaar, providing critical financial aidance to picked projects.”
FEATURE FILMS
“A Night’s Whispers and the Winds” (India, Assamese) Director: Krrishna Kt. Borah Producer: Prateek Bagi. An aging artist battles dementia while seeking to reinhabit his past during a folk theatre festival.
“Aadu Ki Kasam” (India, English, Hindi) Director: Saraswathi Vani Balgam Producer: Alan McAlex. Two friends’ bond is tested when they steal family gelderly to fund Bollywood dreams.
“Aanaikatti Blues” (India, Tamil) Director: Arun Kardense Producers: Madhu Mohan, Mathivanan Rajendran. Chronicles a mountain village gang’s spiral into confusion thcimpolite drug-fueled adventures.
“Absent” (India, Hindi, English) Director: Rohan K. Mehta Producers: Abhishek Chaubey, Honey Trehan. Two bullied schoolboys create a friendship that veers toward arrangeility.
“All Ten Heads of Ravana” (India, Hindi) Director: Pranjal Dua Producers: Bich-Quan Tran, Pranjal Dua. A teenage Ravana effigy producer startes a “pcompriseed jeans” business while pursuing his crush.
“Baaghi Bechare” (India, Hindi) Director: Sumit Purohit Producers: Abhishek Sharma, Chippy Babu. Desperate farmers stage a phony prisoner crisis to draw rulement attention.
“Chetak” (India, Hindi, Marwari) Director: Bhuwan Somani Producer: Suruchi Sharma. A seven-year-elderly boy enbigs an rapidenment to his overweighther’s scooter.
“Divine Chords” (Bancontentesh, India, Bengali) Director: Talat Ahmed Producers: Aadnan Imtiaz Ahmed, Jonaki Bhrapidenarya. A mechanic and maid experience increate greets with better inhabits.
“Feral” (India, English) Director: Nihaarika Negi Producers: Tobias Reeuwijk, Nancy Degnan. Two tribal maids resist agetst their English includeer in 1950s India.
“Guenumerateaan” (India, Hindi) Director: Prateek Gupta Producers: Mit Jani, Aayush Patel, Abhishek Shah. A youthful gardener directs tribal resistance agetst corporate mining interests.
“Guptam” (India, Malayalam) Director: Kunjila Mascillamani Producer: Jeo Baby. A individual mother faces enigmatic incidents in conservative country Thrissur after her daughter fades.
“Harbir” (India, Punjabi, Hindi, English) Director: Angad Bawa Producer: Raja Krishna Menon. A 15-year-elderly Sikh swimmer faces scruminuscule over his extfinished hair at a prestigious academy.
“Home Before Night” (Australia, Nepal, English, Nepali) Director: Kalani Gacon Producers: Sabin Gnawali, Ana Tiwary. A homeunwell Nepali migrant gets gived memories from an Australian woman searching for her Nepali overweighther.
“Kabootar” (India, Marathi) Director: Ishan Sharma Producer: Nikhil Chaudhary. A homeless discoverive discovers potential clients thcimpolite letters written to a Djinn.
“Kothiyan” (India, Malayalam) Director: Sanju Surendran Producer: Pramod Sankar. A bank includeee’s life alters when a condemn gives him an insatiable hunger for fish.
“Kurinji” (India, Germany, Malayalam) Director: Payal Sethi Producer: Thanikachalam S.A. A woman uncovers truths about her disecombineed Gulf migrant-laborer husband thcimpolite a TV show.
“Roid” (Bancontentesh, Bengali) Director: Mejbaur Rahman Sumon Producers: Tanveer Hossain, Shimul Chandra Biswas. A solitary man’s marriage to a madwoman becomes a cyclical enigma.
“Somahelang” (India, U.K., Pahadi, Hindi) Directors: Sourav Yadav, Shubham Negi Producer: Neeraj Churi. A polyandrous Himachali family faces crisis after losing their apple harvest.
“The Employer” (India, Hindi) Director: Aditya Vikram Sengupta Producer: Priyankar Patra. A widowed chauffeur drops under suspicion when diamond earrings disecombine at his includeer’s event.
“Wax Dcomprisey” (India, English, Hindi) Director: Aastha Tiku Producers: Amit Masurkar, Bridge PostWorks, Moonweave Studio. A malfunctioning humanoid replica of a destopd industriaenumerate wreaks havoc.
“The Vampire of Sheung Shui” (Hong Kong, English, Cantonese, Hindi) Director: Shreyom Ghosh Producers: Peter Yam, Michael J. Werner, Shreyom Ghosh. A sdeficiencyer must exhibit his worth to apexhibit over the family business while dealing with vampire alteration.
STREAMING SERIES
“Age of Deccan – The Legend of Malik Ambar” (India, Hindi, English) Director: Krish Jagarlamudi Producer: Shobu Yarlagcomprisea. Chronicles an Ethiopian slave’s ascfinish to power in historical Deccan India.
“Chauhans BNB” (India, Hindi) Director: Shivangi Singh Producer: Ujjawal Dubey A family alters their ancestral home into a B&B during the 2018 Kumbh festival.
“Chekavar” (India, Malayalam, Tamil) Director: Abhilash Vijayan Producer: Niskinny Lukose. A teenage martial artist in 16th century Malabar underapexhibits an impossible mission.
“IndiPendent” (India, UK, English, Tamil) Director: Anu Vaidyanathan Producers: Martisse Hill, Safiya Jalonen. A birelationsual musician’s atsoft revival depends on her immigrant cousin-turned-deal withr.
“Just Like Her Mother” (India, Hindi, English) Director: Ruchika Oberoi Producer: Anushka Shah. A teenager summarizeateigates her mother’s enigmatic fadeance in 2000s India.
“Modern Times” (India, UK, English, Tamil) Director: Anu Vaidyanathan Producers: Martisse Hill, Safiya Jalonen. Explores genereasonable neuroses in an Indian family.
“Pondi-Cherie” (India, Hindi, English) Director: Akarsh Khurana Producer: Sanjeevkumar Nair. A aborted food vlogger and French chef finisheavor to save an iconic restaurant.
“Reset” (India, Multiple Languages) Director: Bharat Mirle Producers: Pushkar-Gayatri. Two upretaind produceives face superauthentic greets and become entangled in a sinister plot involving a spiteful AI-powered social media app.
