NFDC Film Bazaar, starting from November 20th to 24th 2015, is a development bazaar created exclusively to encourage collaboration between the international and South Asian film fraternity. In its ninth edition this year, Film Bazaar is focused on discovering, supporting and showcasing South Asian content and talent, in the realm of filmmaking, production and distribution.

The Film Bazaar Recommends 32 film projects including 22 features and 10 documentaries that one can look forward to in 2015. The 32 films are selected out of 156 projects (features, shorts, documentaries) submitted in the Viewing Room this year.

Fiction
Film Director Language
Autohead Rohit Mittal Hindi
Chidiya MehranAmrohi Hindi
Cinemawala(Cinema-Wallah) KaushikGanguly Bengali
Dadayakarraya(Leopard Do Not Bite) PrasannaJayakody Sinhalese
G – A Wanton Heart Rahul Dahiya Haryanvi/Hindi
Ghoomketu PushpendraMisra Hindi
Haanduk(The Hidden Corner) Jaicheng Jai Dohutia Assamese/Moran/English
“I” Pad  Amit Rai Hindi
Juje MiranshaNaik Konkani
Lipstick Under My Burkha AlankritaShrivastava Hindi
Ludo Q Bengali
Mantra Nicholas Kharkongor Hindi/English
Moh Maya Money(In Greed We Trust) MunishBhardwaj Hindi
Mor Mann KeBharam(An Illusion of My Mind) Karma Takapa Chhattisgarhi
Nila Selvamani Tamil
Nongmei(Gun) HaobamPaban Kumar Manipuri
Ozhivudivasathe Kali (An Off-Day Game) Sanal Kumar Sasidharan Malayalam
RangaaPatangaa Prasad Namjoshi Marathi
The Head Hunter NilanjanDatta Wancho
The Threshold PushanKripalani Hindi/English
The Violin Player BauddhayanMukherji Hindi
Tu Hai Mera Sunday (You Are My Sunday) MilindDhaimade Hindi/English/Konkani
Documentaries
Black Is Beautiful Deepak Sharma Hindi
Burqa Boxers AlkaRaghuram Bangla/Hindi
Cecilia PankajJohar English/Hindi/Bengali
Fireflies in the Abyss Chandrasekhar Reddy Hindi/English/Nepali
Lyari Notes Miriam ChandyMenacherry and Maheen Zia English/Hindi/Urdu
Machines Rahul Jain English/Hindi
Raghu Rai: An Unframed Portrait AvaniRai Hindi
Right Forward Surya Balakrishnan English, Hindi, Marathi
The Marriage Brokers SmritiMundhra&SaritaKhurana Hindi/English/Marathi/Kannada/Marwari
Train ChaarBaje Ki Hai(The Train Leaves at Four) Antariksh Jain Baiga-boli / Hindi

 

‘The Viewing Room’ introduced in the Film Bazaar in 2011, presents films that seek finishing funds, world sales, distribution partners and festivals. Here, programmers, distributors, world sales agents and investors watch complete films, access their details and contact the director or producer. These films are viewed on individual computer terminals in private booths via the specially designed Viewing Room software. The Viewing Room allows access only to buyers, financers, world sales agents and festival programmers.

In 2014, a total of 130 films were presented in the ‘Viewing Room’, with over 30 films under the World Cinema and Available for Remake section. Whereas this year, 156 films in 29 different Indian languages will be presented in fiction and documentaries section which is a clear indication of a 50 % increase in Indian films this year.