MAMI Mumbai Film Festival: 2023 Festival Guide
Find out which titles will take the stage at this year's MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. The festival lineup will be updated through October.
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- DirectorHansal MehtaStarsKareena KapoorKeith AllenRukku NaharA grieving cop who loses her child to murder and moves to another town where she's tasked with investigating the disappearance of a missing child. Exploring themes of trauma, grief, the immigrant experience and our need for closure.Category: Opening Film
- DirectorSarvnik KaurStarsRakesh KoliGanesh NakhawaBombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the Koli knowledge system of harvesting the sea following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in the traditional fishing methods; Ganesh has instead embraced technology.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorKanu BehlStarsMohit AgarwalPriyanka BoseVibha ChhibberA family and an exploration of space in an increasingly crowded world. It follows the quest for a sexual odyssey of an individual.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorDiwa ShahStarsNaresh BishtRupesh LamaRahul Nawach MukhiaHaving a singular and opportune sociopolitical vision, 'Bahadur- The Brave' dwells into an exciting local story about the Nepalese migrant porters with universal scope, centred around an honest and touching friendship. The film is directed by Diwa Shah, the first-ever debut director's Indian film to win the coveted Kutxabank - New Directors Award at the prestigious 71st San Sebastián International Film Festival. Produced by Hardhyaan Films (Visvesh Singh Sehrawat) and Sinai Pictures (Thomas Ajay Abraham).Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorLeesa GaziStarsAanon SiddiquaLutfur Rahman GeorgeIresh ZakerDipa is fierce, funny, forthright, a divorcee "menace" in a rural town in '90s Bangladesh who defies social stigma and the burden of family honour to live on her own terms.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorDibakar Das RoyStarsSamuel Abiola RobinsonGeetika Vidya OhlyanShantanu AnamMichael Okeke, a Nigerian student living in New Delhi wants to get his MBA and settle in India - but his part-time job gives him a dubious double life in a city notoriously difficult for outsiders.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorSaurav RaiStarsTulsi KhawasAditya KhwasKhagendra LamichhaneA nine-year-old girl embarks on a mystical adventure through the scenic mountains of Darjeeling, India, in search of her beloved pet dog, Tinkle, who has gone missing.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorShahrukhkhan ChavadaStarsBilkish RefaiFahim ShaikhImtiyaz ShaikhAn unemployed Razzak wants to own an auto, and his daughter Ruba craves for a 100-rupee drink she cannot afford. An unexpected move threatens to alter their life.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorSumanth BhatStarsAthish ShettyPrakash ThuminadRoopa VarkadyIt is a poignant journey of eleven-year-old Mithun, as he navigates a challenging path of self-discovery and resilience after a devastating loss shatters his world.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorDominic SangmaStarsHandam R. MarakBalsrame A. SangmaCelestine K. SangmaSince the church foretold that an 80-day apocalyptic darkness would come, a community has lived in constant fear of kidnappers. A ten-year-old youngster who is night blind has never found the village to be more frightful.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorJaishankar AryarStarsSharanamma ChettiChennamma AbbegereShivamma (46) is a mid-day meal cook in a village government school and the sole breadwinner. Her family is in the process of finding a groom for her daughter. Shivamma has her own affair running alongside.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorJayant Digambar SomalkarStarsNandini ChikteTaranath KhiratkarSangita SonekarIt explores the tradition of arranged marriage in rural India, where a girl's marriage overshadows the very sustenance of life. Narrated from the perspective of a young girl, Savita, it highlights the patriarchy rooted in society.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorFazil RazakStarsBeena R ChandranM.N. AnithaP P SubramanianGeetha, a solitary play school teacher, grapples with a dire existence. Diagnosed with a life-threatening illnesses, she plots a crime to access medical aid available to jail inmates.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorPawo Choyning DorjiStarsTandin WangchukTandin PhubzKelsang ChoejayAn American travels into Bhutan in search of a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorFidel DevkotaStarsB. BishowkarmaAnju DeujaBipin KarkiA pick-up truck driver leaves Kathmandu airport for a two-day drive with a delivery to a remote mountain village. On the high road, a solitary figure slowly makes his way, wheeling a small red suitcase toward the same village.Category: South Asia Competition
- DirectorAnand EkarshiStarsVinay ForrtZarin ShihabKalabhavan ShajohnAfter a party amongst a theatre group, their sole actress, Anjali is subjected to a crime from one of the men in the group. A meeting is called for. In trying to reach a consensus, stories unravel, suspicions surface and clamour ensues.Category: Focus South Asia (Non-Competition)
- DirectorSreejith KaranavarStarsSelwyn D'SilvaRavio Rafus FernandesMilind NabarAn archaeologist unearths an idol of an ancient hunter-gatherer society in interior Goa. The discovery triggers a phantom to roam the marshlands, with an insatiable hunger. In its path lies Carona, a sleepy village of Catholics and Hindus, living on small pleasures of the past. The phantom sets its sight on Ravio, a weary bakery-worker mocked for being 'slow in the head'. On his morning round Ravio gets increasingly lost and desperate, and is ultimately consumed by the phantom. Ravio returns to the village that night, albeit in a vengeful form, leading to dire consequences for the village. Six months later the archaeologist who made the discovery, roams around Carona inquiring about the deaths and disappearances that happened here after his discovery. He tracks Ravio's steps from that fateful day and it leads him to a grove where the reincarnated phantom is resting.Category: Focus South Asia (Non-Competition)
- DirectorVarun GroverStarsBodhisattva SharmaSamta SudikshaSheeba ChaddhaSet in the late 1990s, A 17-year old Vivek who is sent away from home to a prep school to prepare for the highly competitive IIT ("the MIT of India") entrance examination.Category: Focus South Asia (Non-Competition)
- DirectorShailendra SahuStarsSourabh AnantAvinash GautamGhanshyam LalsaAfter his mom's death, 10-year-old Rinku lives with artist-brother Jiten in Bailadila. Jiten's frustrations strain their relationship. Rinku bonds with Dharmendra, explores and entangled in the life of the town.Category: Focus South Asia (Non-Competition)
- DirectorSreemoyee SinghStarsMina Mohammad KhaniAida MohammadkhaniJafar PanahiA passionate declaration of love for the cinema and poetry of Iran, which also offers a frank view of the precarious situation for critics of the regime and shows the uncompromising daily struggle of Iranian women against their oppression.Category: Focus South Asia (Non-Competition)
- DirectorShrutismriti ChangkakotiStarsMonuj BorkotokyRanjita BoruahHimbarsha DasJun (17), whose widowed mother works as a maid, When Monikanta's (60) financial dependence on his much-younger wife causes unhappiness in the family, he crosses the river looking for livelihood, only to discover his wife with another man.Category: Focus South Asia (Non-Competition)
- DirectorRajesh S. JalaStarsDurga Prasad ChoudharyBhagirathi DeviPuneet SaraswatKabir, a filmmaker, enters the city of Banaras. He starts following Durga, a young cremator; and Amma, who awaits her death in this sacred city to attain Moksha. As the story progresses, hidden realities emerge, real mission unfolds.Category: Focus South Asia (Non-Competition)
- DirectorPrasanth VijayStarsAathira RajeevPradeep KumarK.R. AromalAmidst the patriarchal structures and cultural dogmas of Indian society, a teenage girl must navigate her way through the loss of a parent and discover her own path to adulthood in this poignant coming-of-age tale.Category: Focus South Asia (Non-Competition)
- DirectorKanchan PantStarsPalvi JaswalManish DimriSonal JhaA girl who was destroyed by the people who loved her. Latika is a nave, cheerful, regular girl, one of billions of girls who have absolutely no exposure to love, to have sex, to keep a male friend before marriage because they are raised to be a 'good girl'. But the same girl is expected to miraculously become a sex goddess overnight when she gets married. People keep making decision for Latika. There is a husband who doesn't want her but would not let her go because it might stain the family's reputation. There is a mother who would not keep her because it will stain her family's reputation. Then there is Mayank, who perhaps loved her but didn't care whether she feels the same. And there is Latika, who is fighting it all in her own way. But would that be enough?Category: Focus South Asia (Non-Competition)
- DirectorHarshad NalawadeStarsSudip BilawarShalini ChouguleAtul DeshmukhIn a town riddled with territorial disputes, a radicalized journalist believes in exposing the atrocities faced by his community. But as the line between his professional and personal life blurs, an inconvenient truth makes him reflect back on a simpler time when he had not yet succumbed to radicalization.Category: Focus South Asia (Non-Competition)