Hopeful young women from rural Assam journey to Northern India where they risk being trafficked as purchased brides, in Reema Borah’s soul-tearing social drama The Resonance.

In The Bird of Passage, first-time director Harsh Chauhan invites us on a wicked musician’s redemptive journey of self-discovery through the holy city of Varanasi.

Champa P. Shetty’s sophomore effort, Chicken Curry, focuses on a poor villager’s efforts to bring her daughter chicken curry, providing her some of the motherly love that she missed as a child.

The Faded Footprints by Abhik Das follows a newlywed couple’s journey home during the famine and refugee crises that occurred just before the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.