NYIFF 2026-Adamya and Jasmine That Blooms in Autumn

Adamya

Director: Ranjan Ghosh
Starring: Aryuun Ghosh, Senjuti Roy Mukherjee (Guest Actor), Sourya Madrajee, Relish Khan, Arjo Giri, Shubham Dutta, Shankar Biswas
Run time: 1 hour 44 minutes
Language: Bengali

Synopsis:
A political assassination goes wrong. Palash, the 23-year-old hunter becomes the hunted, and as he flees from the system, the meaning of the movement and the collective goes through several changes. Set in the delta region of Eastern India, home to long standing conflicts between man, nature and the state, it is a character study of the young man as we debate - is he an extremist? Or a revolutionary? An anti-national? Or, a patriot? It’s the strength of the collective and his belief in it, his personal discovery of betrayals and isolation. In the end, the spirit of the movement remains unbroken. A new dawn sees a new fight.

Director: Ranjan Ghosh
RANJAN GHOSH's debut ‘Hrid Majharey’(Live in my Heart, 2014) is a part of the A-Level Drama syllabus of the Oxford Cambridge - Royal Society of Arts (OCR) Examination Board of the UK, has been archived in the Cinema Studies Department of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and has also been screened at various international conferences on Shakespeare adaptations across the globe over the last decade. His sophomore film Rongberonger Korhi'(Colours of Money, 2018) had travelled to London, Dubai, and Dhaka Film Festivals. His third feature ‘Ahaa Re'(The Two Lovers, 2019) had made it to a list of 25 all-time Great Asian Films about Food, compiled by International Movie magazine 'Asian Movie Pulse'. His fourth, 'Mahishasur Marddini' (A Night to Remember, 2022), was screened at major film and academic universities across the country like the FTII Pune, JNU, Jamia Millia lslamia, Hyderabad University, University of Kerala, and IPTA (Indian People's Theatre Association) Kollam, amongst several others. His latest film ‘Adamya’(The Unbroken, 2026) is also his first independent venture, one that he shot with five young adults over a period of four months in the Sundarbans, India. It is a political survival thriller that is presently in its 7th week theatrical run in Kolkata, India.

Jasmine That Blooms in Autumn
Director: Chandradeep Das
Starring: Sudipa Basu, Uma Jhunjhunwala
Run time: 15 minutes
Language: Bengali, Hindi

Synopsis:
Two women fall in love at a decrepit old-age home in the autumn of their lives. Both are aware of the repercussions of such a revelation in a society proscribing homosexuality; therefore, they exchange messages and gifts in secret. For most of her melancholy life, Indira has unwillingly played the role of an archetypal Bengali bride in a flagrantly patriarchal family. Such novel feelings are an uncharted realm of rhapsody and solace for her.
Meera, on the other hand, is comfortable with her sexual identity. Her actions are forthright and unreserved; sometimes, they are overwhelming. As Indira muddles through her new-found romantic sentiments, Meera’s assertive and heavy-handed approach strikingly resembles the repressive behavior that Indira had endured at the hands of her husband and in-laws.
As the romance blossoms, flourishes, and spreads through the worn-out walls and somber milieu, Indira subtly conveys to Meera that her imposing requests can be detrimental to their relationship.

Winner of multiple international awards, Chandradeep Das started out as an associate to his father, eminent filmmaker Anjan Das, whose films were regularly feted at festivals like Berlinale, Rotterdam, BFI London, etc. He co-wrote his father's last film, which premiered at the International Film Festival of India in 2013 under the Indian Panorama section.

Chandradeep has written, directed, and produced a few short films and international TV series that have been acquired by European and Indian distributors and selected at hundreds of prestigious film festivals all over the world, such as BFI Flare, Fribourg, Brussels, Flickerfest, IDSFFK, Norwich, Iris Prize, etc. His feature film in development, an India-Europe co-production, was a part of the Top 20 South Asian projects at the NFDC Film Bazaar Co-Production Market a couple of years ago. Apart from making films, Chandradeep loves reading and writing poetry, for which he has won international accolades in the UK.

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