Veham

Hassan Amin / HBO Short Film Competition / Pakistan / 2016 / 14 mins

After waking up in an obscure room with no memory, MUNTAZIR finds a letter and, following its instructions, sets off only to find himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He asks the mysterious JABBAR for directions who again pops up when Muntazir reaches his destination. The two develop an uncanny companionship with Muntazir opening up to his new friend. As more envelopes are delivered, Muntazir fights to regain his memory about where he is and who exactly is Jabbar.

The Last Music Store

Megha Ramaswamy / Spectrum / India / 2016 / 38 mins

The Last Music Store documents the curtains going down on the iconic Rhythm House. Bombay city's last & oldest large format music and video store finally yields to the challenges posed by new technologies and piracy and this crumble is captured via the lament of the store's eccentric, long-dedicated, working inmates who are coping with the situation in their own manner.

Riff Raff

Ahmed Arif / HBO Short Film Competition / Pakistan / 2016 / 15 mins

One evening in upper-middle-class Karachi, a forty-year-old man maneuvers between the deceptive allure of his social scene, and the reality he has at home...

Dobaara

Bejoy Nambiar / Spectrum / India / 2016 / 66 mins

22-year-old Parvathy is a free-spirited girl who loves to live life on her terms. However, when she is left with no option but to tie the knot with a man of her parents’ choice, her life takes a 360 degree turn. Mohan and Parvathy migrate, and this marks the beginning of their new life together. But Mohan’s priorities are clearly defined from the very start of their relationship. He invests all his time in his work. His intentions are pure; to build the perfect life for his family. But with a new addition to the family and as the years go by, Mohan gets further involved in his work. It is only after their son, Rohit, graduates that Parvathy decides to take a drastic step, shaking up her 20 years of marriage.

Chidiya

Mehran Amrohi / Spectrum / India / 2016 / 112 mins

Two brothers, Shanu and Bua, aged 9 and 7 respectively, live in a chawl in Mumbai with their mother Vaishnavi. In need of money, Vaishnavi asks Bali Bhai, her kind brother-in- law who lives in the same chawl, to get Shanu and Bua a job with him. Bali Bhai, a spot boy in the film industry, takes the boys to his film set where they see the film's hero playing badminton. The kids don't get the job but they do get the shuttlecock and from there set out on a mission to build their own badminton court, buy racquets and play themselves. But sometimes it is the most ordinary, which is the hardest to accomplish.

Autohead

Rohit Mittal / Feature Competition / India / 2016 / 98 mins

A documentary crew follows a notorious auto rickshaw driver in the suburbs of Mumbai. As they dig deeper in his life they discover angst, sexual frustration and paranoia. This changes the course of their film. It also depicts the voyeurism of the crew in the process and leads to a terrible end.

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Lens

Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan / Spectrum / India / 2016 / 109 mins

Aravind gets a friend request from ‘Nikky,’ a complete stranger. He accepts it and they begin to video-chat. But the new friend has a bizarre request: to commit suicide while Aravind watches live. Does Aravind have a choice?