Thread by @CinemaRareIN

Acclaimed Indian films, shorts and documentaries (including Indian co-productions) of the last 5 years..

A thread..

India’s only Dalit women-led newsroom rises from print to digital, challenging patriarchy and power with fearless journalism.

Academy Award nominated #WritingWithFire (2021) by Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh.

Link: archive.org/details/writin…

In Mumbai, an arranged marriage spirals into darkness as the spineless husband watches his wife morph into a ruthless, feral force within their marital confines.

#SisterMidnight (2025) by #KaranKandhari: currently running in cinemas.

Winner of the Grand Prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival #PayalKapadia's revelatory fiction feature debut explores and celebrates the lives and textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai.

#AllWeImagineAsLight (2024): streaming on @JioHotstar.

A baby is stolen. A mother’s fight begins. Two privileged brothers are dragged into a harrowing search through India’s underbelly—where class, conscience, and survival collide.

#Stolen (2025) by #KaranTejpal: streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

Netflix-style logline (crisp version):
A gripping Marathi drama set in Naxal territory, told through a policeman, a guerrilla, and an informant — each trapped in a war with no sides, only survivors.

#Ghaat (2024) by #ChhatrapalNinawe, available for rent on @PrimeVideoIN Store.

Sumit and Priyanka's relationship begins to fray at the edges upon their return to a pandemic-struck Darbhanga.

#PokharKeDunuPaar (2023) by #ParthSaurabh: available on @MovieSaints for ₹99.

Link: moviesaints.com/movie/pokhar-k…

Follows 83 yr old Vidyadutt Sharma who grows radishes and writes poetry in Uttarakhand, and wants to grow the biggest radish India has ever seen.

#MotiBagh (2020) by #NirmalChander.

Link: vimeo.com/373841085

Follow the 'kite brothers' as they devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the majestic black kite in New Delhi.

Academy Award nominated #AllThatBreathes (2023) by #ShaunakSen: streaming on @JioHotstar.

18 year old Mira first discovers desire and romance. However, her curious, rebellious, coming-of-age is disrupted by her young mother.

#GirlsWillBeGirls (2024) by #ShuchiTalati: streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

At a censor board screening, a young filmmaker defends a kiss—only for reality to unravel. As the film plays, the laws of physics collapse, trapping him and the board in a surreal spiral of chaos, censorship, and control.

#Kiss (2022) by #VarunGrover: streaming on @mubiindia.

After his wife flees domestic violence, a man sets off across the scorching desert of Tamil Nadu to retrieve her, with his son in tow.

Tamil film #Koozhangal / #Pebbles (2021) by #PSVinothraj: streaming on @SonyLIV.

A schoolboy who lives in rural Panjab encounters impotence and is misunderstood by society as gay. He is left with a choice that no one should have to make.

Punjabi film #Jaggi by #AnmolvirSidhu: streaming on @mubiindia.

This turbulent newsroom drama intimately chronicles the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar.

#WhileWeWatched (aka नमस्कार, मैं रवीश कुमार) (2022) by #VinayShukla: streaming on @mubiindia.

Hired as a monkey repeller upon moving to Delhi, a young man struggles to find his footing in his unenviable job and his place in the unforgiving world.

#EebAllayOoo (2020) by #PrateekVats: Streaming on @NetflixIndia.

In the Himalayas, a mother fights to build a road for her disabled son—until her husband, trusting ritual over medicine, steals her savings. A quiet battle between belief and love.

#FireInTheMountains (2021) by #AjitpalSingh: streaming on @SonyLIV.

Explores the dramatic consequences of India's growing economy, capturing not only a city in crisis but magnifying our collective climate realities.

#InvisibleDemons (2021) by #RahulJain: streaming on @mubiindia.

Director #NanditaDas trains her sharp sociopolitical gaze on the gig economy, with this story about the trials and tribulations of a food-app delivery driver.

#Zwigato (2022): streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

A middle class couple have a car accident one night. Their differing reactions to the fallout from the accident open up fissures in their relationship.

#Uljhan:#TheKnot (2021) by #AshishPant.

Available on @opentheatre21 for ₹59:
opentheatre.in/courses/Uljhan…

Self-doubt, sacrifice and struggle converge into an existential crisis for a devoted classical vocalist as the mastery he strives for remains elusive.

Marathi film #TheDisciple (2020) by #ChaitanyaTamhane: streaming on @NetflixIndia.

In Varanasi, which embraces an intricate history of Hinduism & Islam, a sari weaver and an orchestral dancer live their respective lives, until an incident occurs.

#JhiniBiniChadariya (2021) by #RiteshSharma: Available on @MovieSaints for ₹150.

Link: moviesaints.com/movie/jhini-bi…

Recently marking 500,000 kilometers on the road, a newly bereaved trucker faces the threat of losing the job that has come to define him to a new intern.

#Milestone/#MeelPatthar (2021) by #IvanAyr: streaming on @NetflixIndia.

A family from Nashik that is struggling to come in terms with two deaths and as they grieve, they find solace in each other and the river Godavari.

Marathi film #Godavari (2022) by #NikhilMahajan: streaming on @JioHotstar.

Two inseparable eight-year-old friends who are forced apart following the destruction of the Babri Masjid Mosque in 1992.

Bengali film #Dostojee (2022) by #PrasunChatterjee.

Link: dailymotion.com/video/x97gpok

A nine-year-old boy living in a remote village hitches rides on trains every day to visit the cinema and study filmmaking — against his father's wishes.

#TheLastShow/#ChhelloShow (2022) by #PanNalin: streaming on @NetflixIndia.