The A Varanasi films

As a CODA – Child of Deaf Adults – Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents. World premiered in the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition section where it won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic, Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic, and Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast.
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CODA

As a CODA – Child of Deaf Adults – Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

A guilt-stricken man stumbles into a Forest Department outpost, confessing to the murder… of elephants. His admission sets off a gripping crime story, uncovering the devastating effects of illegal poaching activities and the elaborate web of cover-ups by the very people tasked to protect wildlife. Under constant threat, a scattered group of officers, NGO workers, and volunteers chase leads and untangle threads in their search for justice. Facing down corruption and organized crime, they take on the biggest ivory poachers in the history of India, dedicated to dismantling an iniquitous conspiracy that at times seems as impenetrable as the forest around it.  Once again finding inspiration in real events, Indo-Canadian director Richie Mehta (Delhi Crime, 2019 Sundance Film Festival) transposes the familiar beats of procedural investigative storytelling to the jungles of Kerala. Recognizable motivations like greed and redemption are elevated by Poacher’s authenticity and specificity of setting. In a dense tale of complicity and compassion, Mehta deftly showcases the complexities of the human role in the animal kingdom.
Presented here are the first three episodes of this powerful limited series.
Audience Advisory: This film contains strobe effects and may potentially trigger seizures. Viewer discretion is advised.

Poacher

A group of Indian Forest Service officers, NGO workers, police constables and Good Samaritans risk their lives trying to track down the biggest elephant ivory poachers in the history of India and bring them to justice. Inspired by true events.

Set in the outer space of consciousness, where the surfaces of far-out planetary bodies form the terrain for an exploration of 24/7 capitalism, insomnia, and the disappearance of darkness.
Audience Advisory: This film contains strobe effects and may potentially trigger seizures. Viewer discretion is advised.

Life Without Dreams

Set in the outer space of consciousness, where the surfaces of far-out planetary bodies form the terrain for an exploration of 24/7 capitalism, insomnia, and the disappearance of darkness.

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