Film Name: Tadap (Yearning)

Director: Ishq Pradhan

Language: Hindi

Run Time: 11 mins

Cast: Ishq Pradhan, Jyoti Presswala, Naineet Gawri, Neeta Vyas

Country: USA

Detailed Description: Set in Pre-Partition India, “Tadap” follows 14-year-old Rani’s plight of being forced to embrace womanhood on her wedding night, against her own will.

Film Name: Embrace

Director: Jacquile Kambo

Language: English

Run Time: 5 mins

Cast: Praneet Akilla, Jenna Berman

Country: Canada

Detailed Description: Arty, a faceless and well dressed man gets ready for his date until he meets his younger self who makes things complicated.

Film Name: Subscribe/ Follow

Director: Faroukh Virani

Language: English

Run Time: 15 mins

Cast: Kunal Dudheker, Meera Simhan ,Sharmita Bhattacharya, Derek Dow

Country: USA

Detailed Description: After the unfortunate murder of an unarmed Black man by the police, an Indian social media influencer code switches up his online platform to present solidarity, but gets challenged by his peers when they find faults in his messaging.

Film Name: The Session

Director: Christina Shaver

Language: English

Run Time: 14 mins

Cast: Alka Nayyar, Cameron Burrill

Country: USA

Detailed Description: Aria walks to her therapy session with Dr. Clarke on a crisp fall day. After she and her therapist talk about the weather, she remembers to check her phone. She’s waiting for an important call from her son’s psychiatrist that she must take.

With little prompting from Dr. Clarke, Aria launches into a wide-ranging monologue from the injustices of mental illness and treatment, the fear she has for her life, the absurdity of the mundane world bumping against her relentlessly intense choices… until, unexpectedly, the phone rings. Aria jumps to answer it, only to discover it’s a robo-call.

Film Name: Madhavi

Director: JACINTHA CHARLES

Language: English, Hindi

Run Time: 17 mins

Cast: NANDHINI KANHERE, NYARA AFSHAR, SATISH ULLAL, RITU ATWAL, ANJU PRAKASH, SONIA SAWKAR, TINA D 'ELIA, DAVID OJAKIAN

Country: USA

Detailed Description: Having survived domestic violence during her marriage, Madhavi, an Indian divorcee with a young and withdrawn daughter, Sonia, struggles to put the pieces of their lives back together.

Once an up and coming traditional Indian dance performer in India, she now spends her alone time dancing on the beach before heading to work at the local supermarket.

A chance encounter with an old friend will lead her to a lunch gathering where she is forced to re-live her painful and violent past at the shaming from another guest, causing her to respond in the most honest and powerful way – one that will break new ground in her relationship with Sonia.