CIFF 2018

The film Akkammana Bhagya is about an ill-fated village woman and her struggle towards the welfare of her family. The story is set in an Indian village from the preindependence era and deals with woman's empowerment.

Andarkahini is a saga of womanhood in the correlative context of human relationships and complex society.

A World War I veteran is sent to Kuttanad as a postman to deliver money orders and letters to the families of soldiers. Soon, the happiness that his visits brought to the families turns into sadness with the outbreak of the World War II.

It's a story about Budhni married before legal age of getting married, a poor and backward girl who fights for living her life in her own way, right from completing her studies after marriage to having a toilet in her village to avoid open defecation. This later becomes an inspiration and turns into a national movement.

A group of children residing in an urban housing society questions religious boundaries being forced upon them through their innocence.

Ramakka an illiterate is forced to take part in the district council election from a constituency which is reserved for women.

The film stars Riddhi Sen as Parimal, a trans woman from rural Bengal, and Ritwick Chakraborty as Madhu, a flute player from the Kirtaniya town of Nabadwip.

Vasu, a struggling painter, meets Maya, a mysterious gypsy girl who lives beneath the Kerala backwaters. Maya inspires Vasu to create soulful paintings as the two form a connection which will inevitably change his life.

Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.

A Bollywood filmmaker and his crew gets stranded in a remote Himalayan village due to torrential downpours. How the intense experiences under siege, affect the filmmaker's thoughts and priorities forms the central theme of the film.

An old ventriloquist lives in his ancestral home, spending his time making up imaginary conversations with people from his past. His life takes a turn when a junk dealer presents him with an armchair.

Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty who comes to Thrissur to fulfil his dream of recording the sounds of the pooram, finds it hard to explain to the businessman who bankrolls the project about work ethics and his passion for the project. Will he manage to record the rhythm of pooram in its truest sense?

10 year old Tsering lives in the difficult terrain of the Himalayas. One day he accidentally breaks his friend's school chair. When he decides to bring the chair back to his village, the 7 kilometres long journey back home in mountainous landscape on a donkey, becomes even more arduous than usual. Chair is the metaphor for the awakening journey, quest for inner truth and reality, which people aspire to find in the adult world.

Two high school sweethearts meet at a reunion after 22 years and reminisce about their past.

They fell in love and swore to always be together, until a strange twist of fate reveals them to be more than just lovers. To what extent will they go to protect their love?

Despite the premise offering the opportunity to narrate this story as a gritty action drama, Rajkumar chooses to tell it in a lighter, satirical vein.

The movie examines the after effects that arise from the unwanted academic pressure that parents put on their children.

The story revolves around a mysterious murder and a game between Bharath (Arulnithi), a calm and composed cab driver, and Ganesh (Ajmal), an urban cheat, who blackmails people for money.

A soldier takes on a gang of cyber criminals when money goes missing from his account.

Gunasingam, a family-loving farmer who hails from a small town, tries his best to keep his big family united despite him being misunderstood by many.

When five friends gather for a high school reunion, they find themselves around a man deformed by mercury poisoning.

A law student from a lower caste begins a friendship with his classmate, a girl who belongs to a higher caste, and the men in her family start giving him trouble over this.

A sub-inspector sets out in pursuit of a mysterious serial killer who targets teen school girls and murders them brutally.

A young carrom player in north Chennai becomes a reluctant participant in a war between two warring gangsters.

A youngster from the slums battles against food adulteration by the company that employs him.