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Labs

Labs is where we try things first. A guide to old towns that you can stand inside. A story made entirely with AI. A feature that plays from Mumbai to Venice. Some of it works beautifully. All of it teaches us something we bring back to everything else.

Productions

Sonchidi (The Golden Bird), produced by Enlighten
Sonchidi (The Golden Bird), produced by Enlighten

Sonchidi (The Golden Bird)

A feature by Amit Dutta.

  • Venice Film Festival logo
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam logo

VR · The Unnamed Guide

India's first VR series, about the stories old Indian towns keep to themselves.

The Unnamed Guide: The Flowering, Pushkar
The Unnamed Guide: The Flowering, Pushkar
The Unnamed Guide: The Golden Ray, Jaisalmer
The Unnamed Guide: The Golden Ray, Jaisalmer
The Unnamed Guide: The Complete Sword, Bundi
The Unnamed Guide: The Complete Sword, Bundi
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The Unnamed Guide: stills and trailer
The Unnamed Guide: stills and trailer

Music videos

“Do”, screened at MAMI.

  • MAMI Mumbai Film Festival logo

TV and shorts

  • This Is Me
  • A Story Without a Title
  • Katha
  • Hum Hain Yuva

AI · Pocket FM

The Billionaire's Accidental Bride: a 34-minute story made entirely with AI.

Pocket FM film
Pocket FM film
TV and shorts: stills
TV and shorts: stills

Distribution

Home video · 500 Masters

Enlighten's world-cinema home library. Each cover designed on its own, with Ink Inc, so it gives a first taste of the film.

12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi)
Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi)
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Laura (Otto Preminger)
Laura (Otto Preminger)
The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)
The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)
The Marx Brothers: 3-film box set
The Marx Brothers: 3-film box set
Fauji, the complete series
Fauji, the complete series
War and Peace (Anand Patwardhan)
War and Peace (Anand Patwardhan)
Ocean of an Old Man (Rajesh Shera)
Ocean of an Old Man (Rajesh Shera)
Home-video title count
Home-video title count

M International

A distribution partnership that brings foreign films to India, in collaboration with Marudhar Entertainment. Films from Pathé and Plus M (Korea).

Independent films

Frozen, Ship of Theseus, An Insignificant Man and Chintu Ka Birthday: in cinemas, on home video, on TV and on streaming, licensed directly from filmmakers and studios. With world cinema, 200+ Indian documentaries and The Golden Age of Television.

Frozen (Shivajee Chandrabhushan)
Frozen (Shivajee Chandrabhushan)
Ship of Theseus (Anand Gandhi)
Ship of Theseus (Anand Gandhi)
An Insignificant Man (Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla)
An Insignificant Man (Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla)
Chintu Ka Birthday (Devanshu and Satyanshu Singh)
Chintu Ka Birthday (Devanshu and Satyanshu Singh)

Launches

World cinema on home video, at Crossword
World cinema on home video, at Crossword
Home-video launch: Frozen
Home-video launch: Frozen
Home-video launch at Crossword
Home-video launch at Crossword
Home-video launch: War and Peace
Home-video launch: War and Peace

Programmed

Experiences → Festivals & Retrospectives

Festivals & Markets

American Film Market
Berlinale
BFI London Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival
FICCI Frames
IFFI Goa
Kolkata International Children's Film Festival
MAMI Mumbai Film Festival
Mysuru International Film Festival
Red Lorry Film Festival
International Film Festival Rotterdam
South Asian International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival

Studios

MGM
Sony Pictures
Summit Entertainment
Warner Bros.