Films – IAWRT India

Welcome to the 21st Edition of the Asian Women’s Film Festival

Opening Film

I, The Song

Closing Film

Baksho Bondi / Shadowbox

Special Screening

Oasis by Keiko Okawa

All
3rd AniMela Festival
Animation
Asanjo Film Festival
Central Asia - Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic
Features
Long Documentary
Short Documentary
Short Fiction
Special Screening

Aadha Injection

Yasmin Khalifa / Asanjo Film Festival / India / Hindi, Gujarati / 08:16 / 2026

Aapkarmi (The Unfated)

Taruna Khatri / Short Fiction / India / Hindi, Marwari / 25:48 / 2025

After The Cat

Hoi Ying CHU / Short Fiction / Taiwan / Chinese / 24:32 / 2025

Ajja Ajji – Pickle | ಅಜ್ಜ ಅಜ್ಜಿ – ಉಪ್ಪಿನಕಾಯಿ

Bhaashya / 3rd AniMela Festival / India / Kannada + English subtitles / 03 minute 41 seconds / 2025

All Hell Broke Loose the Day Before / Kıyamet Önceki Gün Kopmuştu

Nur Sultan Bulut / Short Fiction / Turkey / Turkish / 12:00 / 2025

Aloo Bhindi

Shifa Node/ Asanjo Film Festival / India / Kutch / 06:54 / 2026

Asoh: Soul of the Hills

Linda Horam, Takar Pujen / Long Documentary / India / Hindi / 00:51 / 2025

Auto Queens

Sraiyanti Haricharan / Short Documentary / India / Kannada / 29:04 / 2025

Baksho Bondi / Shadowbox

Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi / Features / India / Bengali, Hindi / 01:33:00 / 2025

Bali

Amoli Birewar / Short Documentary / India / Marathi / 29:45 / 2025

Bavita

Aditti Padmanabhan / Short Documentary / India / English, Hindi / 09:31 / 2025

Blue Gate

Narghiza Dotieva / Central Asia – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic / Kyrgyzstan / Kyrgyz / 19:23 / 2025

Bo Paise

Maria Khalifa, Amrin Chhatra, Diya Rawat/ Asanjo Film Festival / India / Kutchi, gujarati / 05:51 / 2026

Come Home

Shenuka Corea / 3rd AniMela Festival / Sri Lanka / 03 min 21 seconds / 2025

Conversations & Dreams

Melanya Hamasyan / Short Documentary / Armenia, Czech Republic / Armenian, Russian / 19:40 / 2024

Dancing Dragon

Shuying Liu / Short Fiction / Australia / English / 16:46 / 2025

Dare To Dream

Ranu Ghosh / Long Documentary / India / Hindi, Rebari / 01:20 / 2025

Denmo – Himalayan Brown Bear

Akanksha Sood Singh / Short Documentary / Ladakhi / India / 38:58 / 2025

Eclipse / Sîtav

Dilan Toftik / Short Fiction / Turkey / Kurdish / 17:39 / 2025

Ekdi chadi, Ekdi Peti

Shifa Pattni / Asanjo Film Festival / India / Hindi, Kutchi, Gujarati / 06:45 / 2026

Even The Fire Knows

Dipanjali Khakhlary / Short Documentary / India / Bengali, Hindi / 17:53 / 2025

First Night

Nandhini Sree / 3rd AniMela Festival / India / 01:20 / 2025

Friends of Jilipibala

Debalina Majumder / Short Documentary / India / Bengali / 29:20 / 2025

From Fields to Flight

Ipshita Bhattacharyya / Short Documentary / India, USA / Hindi / 11:10 / 2025

Hawa, Chand, Badal aur Main

Sherbanu Node / Asanjo Film Festival / India / Hindi / 06:00 / 2026

Heralds of the Monsoon / Mungarina Ette

Meera Krishnamurthy / Animation / India / Kannada / 09:04 / 2025

I, The Song

Dechen Wangmo Roder / Features / Bhutan / Dzongkha / 01:43:00 / 2024

Illalu Kathalu (Kitchen Films)

N Lavanya Ramaiah / Short Documentary / India / Telugu / 21:47 / 2024

Khoobsoorti kya hai?

Afreen Manjothi / Asanjo Film Festival / India / Hindi / 04:38 / 2026

Ladybugs Still Fly

Tanvi Malkarnekar / 3rd AniMela Festival / India / English, Marathi / 7 mins 22 sec. / 2025

Land/Water / Dongar/Pani

Sanjivani Kamble / Short Fiction / India / English, Marathi / 24:53 / 2024

Landscapes of Longing

Alisha Tejpal, Mireya Martinez, Anoushka Mirchandani / Short Documentary / India / Englinsh, Hindi / 14:05 / 2025

Last Night I Dreamed It Was Raining Fish

Shraddha Khanna / Short Documentary / India / Marathi / 16:20 / 2025

Like A Rolling Stone

Lichuan YIN / Features / China / Chinese / 01:52 / 2024

Little Love

Aizhan Kasymbek / Central Asia – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic / Kazakhstan / Russian / 17:00 / 2023

Loop Line / Dhhaavpatti

Renuka Shahane / Animation / India / Marathi / 8 minutes 18 seconds / 2024

Marriage Cops

Shashwati Talukdar, Cheryl Hess / Long Documentary / India, Taiwan, United States / Hindi / 01:20 / 2025

Medium Close Up

Sholeh Fallah, Gholamreza Hoseinian / Short Fiction / Persian / Iran / 18:54 / 2025

Ms.Understoned

Yuki Buma / Animation / Japan / Japanese / 11 minutes / 2024

Music in a Village Named 1PB

Surabhi Sharma / Long Documentary / India / Hindi, Saraiki / 02:10:30 / 2024

Never Stand Down: The Quraishi Family

Elena Chang / Short Documentary / US / English, Urdu / 16:46 / 2025

Nipaniya(Dropless)

Anamika Pal / Short Fiction / Hindi, Kannauji / India / 19:55 / 2025

No Monastery No Village

Tashi Lhazom / Short Documentary / Nepal / English, Tibetian / 20:00 / 2024

Oasis

Keiko Okawa / Special Screening / Japan / Japanese / 56:00 / 2022

Ocean of Bandhani / Bandhani No Dariyo

Stuti Prajapati / Short Fiction / Gujarati / India / 19:47 / 2025

One Seed At A Time

Kavita Carneiro / Short Documentary / Nepal / Marathi / 15:43 / 2024

Planty 植得

Meera Krishnamurthy / Animation / India / Kannada / 09:04 / 2025

Qamajai

Yerkezhan (Kei) Sabitbekova / Animation / Germany, Kazakhstan / Kazakh/ 2 minutes 47 seconds / 2025

Room At The Farm

Jasmine Kaur Roy, Avinash Roy / Short Fiction / India / Punjabi / 22.54 / 2025

Roti se Degree tak

Shahin Pattni / Asanjo Film Festival / India / Hindi / 06:07 / 2026

Samaj aur Study Table

Ayesha Manjothi / Asanjo Film Festival / India / Hindi, Kutch / 06:20 / 2026

Skyward / Gagan Gaman

Suruchi Sharma / Short Fiction / Rajasthani (Dhundhari) / India / 30:00 / 2024

Still Life

Lara Jaydha / 3rd AniMela Festival / Belgium, Finland, Portugal, India / 5 min 35 secs / 2025

Sulaimani

Vinnie Ann Bose / 3rd AniMela Festival / France / Malayalam, French / 20:15 / 2025

Sunitaben no Sundalo

Divya Sathwara / Asanjo Film Festival / India / Hindi, gujarati / 06:14 / 2026

Thaniye (Alone)

Anavadya M S / Animation / India / Malayalam / 05:31 Minutes / 2024

The Girl Who Lived in the Loo

Subarna Dash / 3rd AniMela Festival / India / 01:20 / 2024

The Goldfish (Eng)

Aizhamal Mirbek kyzy / Central Asia – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic / Kyrgyzstan / The original – kyrgyz, subtitles – english / 12 min 03 sec / 2025

The Last Bamboo / Koneya Bidiru

Meera Krishnamurthy / Animation / India / Kannada / 06:32 / 2025

The Seventh Month

Aizada Amangeldy / Central Asia – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic / Kyrgyz Republic / Kyrgyz / 15 minutes / 2025

The Waiting Game

Kanika Gupta / Short Documentary / English, Gujarati, Hindi / Marathi / 17:56 / 2025

Veins Of Grace

Lavanya Lodhi / 3rd AniMela Festival / India / 06:30 / 2025

Wake up, we’re almost home / Ghar aayo

Shweta Rai / Short Documentary / English, Nepali, Hindi / Marathi / 25:00 / 2025

Whispers Across

Wenting Song / Short Fiction / China / Chinese / 15:00 / 2026

Working Girls

Surabhi Sharma / Long Documentary / India / Tamil, Hindi, Bangla, Marathi, Malayalam, Telugu with English subtitles / 02:13:00 / 2025

Жоқтау/Grief

Aibota Kali / Central Asia – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic / Kazakhstan / Kazakh, Russian / 15:31 / 2023

Күүгүмдөгү коңгуроо(Original), Bell at Dusk (English)

Saadat Kazakbaeva / Central Asia – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic / Kyrgyzstan / Russian / 13:38 / 2023

Наше бремя\ The burden we bear

Narghiza Dotieva / Central Asia – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic / Kyrgyzstan / Kyrgyz / 19:23 / 2025

अवार-नवार छोरियां / Every Now and Then Girls…

Shefalee Jain, Shivi Bhatnagar / Animation / India / Marwari with English subtitles / 20 minutes 52 seconds / 2025

তিমি’র গান / Song of Whales

Afroza Hossain Sara / 3rd AniMela Festival / Bangladesh, France / 12 min / 2024