Year Ender 2018

1. Amoli (Six languages)

A documentary film on the shocking truths about the lesser known business of child sex trade in India. 15-year-old Amoli suddenly went missing one day from her home in the remote tea gardens of West Bengal, India. Like Amoli, a child goes missing every 8 minutes in India. ‘Amoli’ is the story of children who are trafficked and sold into commercial sex work.

2. Eating Animals (English)

A documentary based on Jonathan Safran Foer's 2010 book of the same name which isn't really about eating animals. It's about the actual animals, before you eat them. The film screens that the animals we eat lead pretty miserable lives, and we should be paying attention. The movie gives an idea of spectrum. There's a case for not letting the animals out, but it's hard to see why you shouldn’t let the people in. As long as that's not happening, Eating Animals plays an important role.

3. Minding the Gap (English)

Minding the Gap was a lifetime in the making—an account of the lives of skateboarding friends on the cusp of adulthood, one of whom is the movie's director-cinematographer Bing Liu. The focus of the film's marketing is the skateboarding. Most of Minding the Gap is about the struggle to move out into the world as an adult and become a decent, functioning human being despite a lack of economic opportunities and a poisonous cultural upbringing that teaches young straight men to hold emotions in, laugh off pain, and express frustration through anger and violence.

4. Naach Bikhari Naach (Bhojpuri)

'Launda Naach' is the traditional folk theatre from Bihar, India where male artists often cross dress as women and perform on stage all night. The film follows four old age artists who recreate the legendary artist Bhikhari Thakur - also known as the Shakespeare of Bhojpuri.

5. Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (English)

The film examines the life of the revered master comedian and actor, Robin Williams. The documentary is sharp-edged, humane, and deeply researched enough to take you closer to the manic engine of Williams’ brilliance and pain. Told largely through Robin's own voice and using a wealth of never-before-seen archival footage, the film goes through the extraordinary life and career of Robin Williams.

6. Selling Children (English / Hindi)

Pankaj Johar is a producer and director, known for Cecilia (2015), Still Standing (2010) and Selling Children (2018). The director sets out to understand how, in the biggest democracy in the world, it is possible for millions of children to be bought and sold. This film also explores how a lack of education and persistent poverty can provide a breeding ground for slavery.

7. The Price of Free (English)

Hidden inside overcrowded factories around the world, countless children are forced into slave labor due to rising global demands for cheap goods. With the help of a covert network of informants, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi and his dedicated team carry out daring raids to rescue and rehabilitate imprisoned children. Using hidden cameras and playing the role of buyers at factories to gain access, we watch Kailash take on one of his most challenging missions to date: finding Sonu, a young boy, trafficked to Delhi for work and who has been missing for eight months. The Price of Free is a thrilling look at Kailash Satyarthi's inspiring efforts to free every child from slavery. The film won the 2018 U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

8. The Story of Kachrapur (Hindi)

The Story of Kacharapur is a short-film in the form of a rap song made by children from the Saidpur slum in Patna, Bihar. It is a lively number highlighting the story of how Sundarpur (beautiful place) becomes Kacharapur (garbage place), and a boy’s nightmare that makes him realize that the environment around him is choking and that he needs to wake-up to the reality and do something about it. The film was an effort of the children of the Saidpur slum in Bihar under the Little Directors Program.

9. Within Four Walls (Hindi)

Directed by Achyutanand Upadhyay, Within Four Walls is a documentary on elder abuse. It captures their pain and longing in the first person. The movie screens Ram Sahay as the victim, Madhuri Upadhyay as the reporter and Tammana Upadhyay as the manager. The film is a must watch for today’s unpredictable generation.

10. Won't You Be My Neighbour? (English)

An American documentary film directed by Morgan Neville about the life and guiding philosophy of Fred Rogers, the host and creator of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. The trailer for the film debuted on what would have been Rogers' 90th birthday, March 20, 2018. The film received acclaim from critics and audiences and has grossed $22 million, making it the highest-grossing biographical documentary of all time.