A film festival organised entirely on the strength of voluntary labour and financial contributions from audiences and well-wishers turns 12 this year. The festival opens with Myanmar Resistance, based on students who turned guerrilla fighters against the military junta. Most of these fighters had tasted freedom and had never imagined they would have to take up arms and fight. It follows a human rights lawyer as he provides legal help to his clients — victims of mob lynchings, vigilante violence and police encounter killings. Marching in the Dark, directed by Kinshuk Surjan, is set against the backdrop of an escalating crisis of farmer suicides in Maharashtra.

Source: The Telegraph January 22, 2026 02:15 UTC