WAVES Film Bazaar brings out the official selection of feature projects and documentaries for the Co-Production Market, set to take place from November 20 to 24, 2025, at the Marriott Resort in Goa.
For the 19th edition, Waves Film Bazaar presents 22 feature projects that embody a pan-global narrative. The Co-Production Market features a compelling selection of projects from India, France, UK, Canada, USA, Russia, Philippines and Singapore. This diverse lineup includes stories in languages such as Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Manipuri, Tangkhul, Nepali, Malayalam, Haryanvi, English, Gujarati, Ladakhi, Konkani, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Russian, Sanskrit and Odia. Selected filmmakers will have the opportunity to pitch their projects to International and Indian producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers, and sales agents during the Open Pitch session. The pitch lays the groundwork for further one to one meetings and explores potential future collaborations.
This year’s Co-Production Market lineup presents a thoughtful balance between emerging voices and seasoned industry veterans, featuring acclaimed filmmakers and creators such as Kiran Rao, Vikramaditya Motwane, Shakun Batra, Devashish Makhija, Ira Dubey, Sarita Patil, Shaunak Sen and BAFTA award-winning Director Ben Crichton among others.
Waves Film Bazaar proudly announces its partnership with the Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF). The Co-Production Market Feature will include a project titled “Gloria” as part of the project cross-exchange initiative.
Three projects will be included as part of the Co-Production Market Feature under NFDC’s Handpicked Focused Projects. The projects featured in this section are “Shamed”, “Smash” and “Tiger in the Lion Den.”
This year we also have an addition in the form of Documentaries to the Co-Production Market lineup. For this edition, we present 5 remarkable documentary projects, across different genres including but not limited to Arts, Music and Culture, Environment, Sustainability, Education, Women’s Movement, Gender and Sexuality, Anthropology, and Others.
Co-Production Market Feature Projects
1 – Ulta (Madam) | India, France, Canada | Hindi
Logline – A domestic worker in a gated community discovers a door to a parallel universe where the rich serve the poor, when her actions there begin to affect real life, she must face the consequences of her power.
Director – Paromita Dhar : Paromita Dhar is a filmmaker and cinematographer with a degree in Film and Video from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Master’s Diploma in Film from Sydney Film School. She shot the award-winning documentary Behind the Tin Sheets on construction workers in Bangalore, Birha (Busan and IDFA 2018), and That Cloud Never Left (Rotterdam 2019). While living in Madrid, she directed In Between, a film about Bangladeshi immigrants, which screened internationally. Her debut feature script received the Hubert Bals Fund for development in 2019. Paromita’s work explores themes of migration, labor, and belonging through an intimate, observational lens.
Producer – Hyash Tanmoy : Hyash Tanmoy a producer and moving image practitioner whose transdisciplinary work explores speculative resilience, political reimagination, and socio-cultural inquiry. Rooted in South Asia, they produce hybrid works spanning fiction, creative documentary, post-cinematic narratives, and simulation-based environments that blur boundaries between form and meaning. Their projects range from short experimental essays to long-term research installations and feature films. Hyash builds future-facing cinema ecosystems in politically marginalised and ecologically fragile regions where storytelling must navigate crisis and resistance. Recognised by Berlinale Talents, Locarno Industry Academy, Kyoto Filmmaker’s Lab, Ars Electronica, and Climate Story Lab–South Asia, they are developing a post-network archive infrastructure.
2 – Those Who Flew | India | Hindi, Urdu, Bengali
Logline – In Calcutta experiencing gradual climate change, a despondent drunk gains the power of flight and embarks on a dangerous quest to find his missing wife – all with help of a wily old revolutionary.
Director – Soumyak Kanti De Biswas : Kanti’s work as playwright and director has been produced by the British Council, National Theatre Studio London, RADA, National Theatre Scotland, HOME Manchester and Theatre Royal Plymouth. He was the lead actor in Tasher Desh (Netflix) and Madly Bangali (Amazon Prime). An Inlaks scholar with a Master’s from Royal College of Art London, Kanti returned to India in 2016 to write and produce Cat Sticks (MUBI), winner of Jury Prize at Slamdance 2019. He then wrote and directed The Daughter (JioCinema) starring Naseeruddin Shah, premiering at MAMI and Palm Springs 2022.
Producer – Ira Dubey : Ira Dubey majored in theatre studies at Yale University, returning to India in 2004 to pursue acting professionally. She’s performed in over a dozen productions with Primetime Theatre Co., including “30 Days in September,” “Wedding Album” (300+ shows worldwide), and the acclaimed one-woman show “9 Parts of Desire.” Her film credits include “Aisha,” “M Cream,” “Shehjar,” and “Dear Zindagi.” Dubey received Filmfare nominations for “Bin Bulaye” (2019) and “Potluck” (2022), and appeared in “Ba Ba Black Sheep,” “Whack Girls,” “Scoop,” and “Freedom At Midnight.”In 2022, she produced and starred in “The Daughter” with Naseeruddin Shah, launching Lila Naatak Company.
3 – Khei-Hea (Night & Day) | India | Poula/Manipuri/Nepali/English
Logline – In a village ruled by fear and superstition, a traditional healer accused of witchcraft fights to protect his family’s honor, while his pregnant, shunned granddaughter struggles to take control of her future.
Director – Ashok Veilou : Ashok Veilou, an award-winning indigenous filmmaker from Manipur, earned a postgraduate degree in Direction & Screenplay Writing from the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata. Veilous films explore real-life narratives, human rights, and social issues deeply rooted in tribal communities. His acclaimed shorts, Tou-Tai (Seed) and Look at the Sky, have won multiple honors, including two Golden Royal Tiger Awards at the Kolkata International Film Festival and Best Short Film at IDSFFK. In 2023, he represented India at Cannes and received the Young Tribal Achiever Award (2022) and Award of Excellence (2019).
Producer – Shaunak Sur & Prateek Bagi : Raging Films is an Indian production company specialising in international co-productions and line production across fiction, documentary and hybrid forms. Recent work includes Mother, which opened Venice Orizzonti 2025, with five projects in development. Led by SRFTI alumni Prateek Bagi and Shaunak Sur, their producing experience includes premieres at Berlinale, Busan and Raindance, plus National Awards.
Producer – Alexander Leo Pou : SRFTI Kolkata alumnus in Producing for Film and Television, has shaped his career through roles at NFDC as Film Facilitation Officer (Eastern Region) and Deputy Manager, Indian Film Production. He also served as the Director of the Manipur State Film & Television Institute. Pou has involved in many acclaimed films productions in various capacity.
4 – The Manager | India | Malayalam
Logline – A stressed-out Kerala bank manager accidentally transfers a crore to an overseas account and, under crushing workplace targets and family demands, plunges into a web of fraud and deceit to claw it back before his life and career collapse.
Director – Sandeep Sreelekha : Sandeep Sreelekha is a filmmaker from Kerala whose work spans fiction and documentary, often exploring labour, sustainability, and the human cost of corporate greed. He was Creative Director of Angammal,which won Best Film at the New York Indian Film Festival 2025 and was officially selected for MAMI and IFFK 2024. In 2025, he was awarded the Video Consortium Fellowship for Documentary Filmmaking, one of 16 Asian filmmakers chosen for its Story Solutions Project, under which he is directing Street by Street, a character-driven documentary on street vendors in Delhi. Sandeep began making short films in 2009, winning early recognition with the short Hitch Hikers and States of Mind. After completing his Master’s at TISS, he shot and directed Kadakbai, acclaimed for its cinematography. He was the Associate Director on Gramavrikshathile Kuyil, a period biopic by national award winning director KP Kumaran.
Producer – Anuj Tyagi & Vipin Radhakrishnan :
Anuj Tyagi : Anuj Tyagi is an acclaimed Indian Film Director and Producer known for his impactful contributions to cinema. He gained recognition as Co-Director of the critically lauded feature “The Last Colour,” which won Best Feature Film at the Dallas International Film Festival and screened at prestigious festivals including New York, Palm Springs, and Indie Meme. Anuj began his journey assisting Dr. Nila Madhab Panda on the award-winning “I Am Kalam” and has worked on films like “Jalpari,” “Kaun Kitne Pani Mein,” and the National Award-winning “Kadvi Hawa.” A 2010 Film Production and Technology graduate from Sri Aurobindo Center for Arts & Communication, he has also directed acclaimed documentaries and his solo directorial debut “Bishwa” has been celebrated internationally.
Vipin Radhakrishnan : based in Lyon, France, is a filmmaker and Co-founder of EKA Cinemas with over 12 years in the industry. An architect turned storyteller, he began as a screenwriter with the acclaimed Malayalam feature Mosayile Kuthirameenukal (2014), which earned recognition for its inventive narrative. He made his directorial debut with Ave Maria (2018), premiering at the International Film Festival of Kerala before travelling widely across global festivals; the film continues to reach new audiences on Amazon Prime. His latest Tamil feature Angammal (2024) premiered at IFFK and MAMI to strong reviews and went on to win Best Indie Film at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2025 and Best Film at the New York Indian Film Festival 2025. Lauded by critics and audiences alike, Angammal has firmly placed Vipin on the global festival map and is set for theatrical release in late 2025.
5 – What Remains Unsaid | India | Haryanvi, Hindi, English
Logline – A journalist returns to her ancestral Haryana village to investigate an honour killing, confronting buried memories of her father and a fractured past. As her report becomes a spectacle, the question is, has she exposed a crime or committed one?
Director – Kallol Mukherjee : Kallol Mukherjee is a Mumbai-based filmmaker from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. A film institute dropout, he has directed and written across independent and commercial projects. His films have screened at major festivals, with three premieres at IDSFFK (2022–24). His short fiction The Unowned House won First Prize from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, while his documentary Mic Drop has screened at over twenty international festivals, including DIFF, IFFSA Toronto, and Rome IDF. He has also worked as an Associate and Second Unit Director with Applause Entertainment and in10 media. Kallol is currently in post with his feature documentary and developing his feature fiction.
Producer – Devashish Makhija has written, directed and produced ‘Joram’ (Filmfare awards for Best Film Critics, Best Story), and ‘Bhonsle’ (National Film Award); and made the internationally acclaimed ‘Ajji’. His films have competed and won at the international film festivals of Rotterdam, Busan, Sydney, Chicago, Goteborg, Beaune, Black Nights, Mooov, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Durban, Tampere, APSA, Barcelona, Singapore amongst many others.
Producer – Harsh Grover and Aditya Grover, founders of Uncombed Buddha Films, Jabalpur. We support independent filmmakers and bring regional stories to the world. Our productions include Nasir, Nirvana Inn, Rapture, Mic Drop, Peepal Tree, and Ghode Ko Jalebi, all acclaimed at international festivals, winning awards and reaching global audiences.