Focus: The Shape of Things to Come?

A sharp, sprightly parody of censorship, official and self-imposed, which corrodes film images in India.

Night-time street views of marginalised student groups protesting India’s controversial citizenship legislation.

Humanity trumps borders and governments in a big-hearted, unabashedly sentimental Bollywood musical comedy.

A revealing look into the mechanics of 'India's Greatest Election Machine'.

A persuasive exposé of the extrajudicial police killings that shook India in the 2000s.

A harrowing work of historical remembrance in the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat riots.

A cosmopolitan city comes undone by civil unrest in a sensitive, searching hyperlink drama.

An astute examination of the personal and political sources of a young man’s radicalisation.

Sharply analytical psychosexual portrait of a thinking, desiring individual lost to hatred and communal polarisation.

A topical, engrossing documentary about the weaponisation of cow protection in India.

A revealing, uncensored survey of stand-up comedy in India, its possibilities and its limitations.

India's lockdown-induced horrors come under the microscope in a heady, evocative media collage.

A chilling record of a historic Hindu nationalist rally seeking the destruction of a mosque.

The goddess Kali takes human form in an inscrutable, transfixing avant-garde work.

Persecuted academics fight a disbelieving world in an idiosyncratic, deliciously stylised psychological thriller.

Volunteer groups supply relief to stranded migrant workers in an uplifting portrait of civic responsibility.

A constipated king declares war on insurgent mosquitoes in an absurdist political musical comedy.

An unsettling glimpse into a far-right paramilitary outfit through the eyes of young trainees.

An innocent man is forced to infiltrate a terrorist group in a riveting political thriller.

Tender, trailblazing vignettes from the quotidian life of a working-class family on a historic day.