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- A schoolboy, Boong, navigates racial tensions and border challenges in Manipur, driven by resilience and determination to reunite his divided family.
- The harmony in a family in the Manipur Valley, is disrupted by the sudden transformation of a gentle, young wife into a violent woman prone to fits of wild visions. She then goes in search of the Meibi Guru, whom she thinks has chosen her to be initiated into the sect. Her pleasure then lies in the devotion and love through dances and music. She finds total solace in the vivid and colorful performing arts.
- Oneness tells the tragic story of a boy named Ivan Martin who was killed by one of his family members because of his sexual orientation.
- A teacher comes to a village and an old man asks her to tutor his grand son who is sickly all the time. The teacher becomes curious to know about the old man and the boy. She finds out from a colleague that the boy's mother had been seduced by a man and dies in child birth. It turns out that the father is husband of her cousin who is promptly apprised of the fact. Her cousin is attracted to the unfortunate boy and adopts him while her husband is absent. Subsequently the husband returns home and objects to the boy being adopted for he does not know it is his own son. The grand father wants to take the boy back but the step mother does not listen to it and ultimately keeps the boy.
- A fishing community living on floating biomass in Loktak Lake in Manipur, North Eastern state in India. They were ousted from their houses by government intervention in 2011. Their houses were destroyed and destitute villagers were forcibly relocated.
- In the deep hills of northeast India, Christianity and pop culture have taken over the lifestyle and imagination of the Tangkhul tribes. Rewben Mashangva from Choithar travels through the remote villages of the Tangkhul Naga to talk to the old people and collect songs and instruments. The rhythms, melodies and lyrics form links to his own music, which he describes as Naga Folk Blues. In his traditional 'Haokuirat' hairstyle and western boots along with his 9 year old son Saka, he performs across India and South-East Asia spreading the message that some songs have no end.
- Hundred of years ago, a girl Leima lost her lover Angou Laishram in a fight against some smugglers. She learned witchcraft from an unknown lady who saved her life to take revenge but couldn't find any suspects afterwards. So, she decided to bring Angou back from his second life by going to the future. By going to the year 2012 where Angou's second life is, she found out that Angou is known as Punciba Nepram and was already in love with his college mate Mary Golson. Later, she plan to kill Mary in case to take back Punciba by using black magic.
- A young lad, Tomthin Rajkumar, is an aspiring model who has been living with her divorcee mother Dr. Ayingbi Shija, who is an Archaeologist, and his grandparents at her Grandparent's house. As Tomthin's will to become a successful model increases, his mother's will to make him an IAS officer also increases. Mother wants him to pursue coaching classes in Delhi and Tomthin has been taking modeling classes, apart from his computer courses, and his mother never knew about it. Tomthin falls in love with the successful model Thadoi of the same Modeling Academy and the chemistry ends somewhere in one sided, as unexpressed love. Meanwhile Tomthin did never know about the secret love by his classmate tomboy girl Tomba, with whom Tomthin always treated her as a best friend. Tomthin's father Lanchenba is first class special contractor. He used to meet his son Tomthin often without Ayingbi's knowledge. When Ayingbi came to know all about Tomthin's secrets about modeling classes, ramp shows and often meeting with his father, repeated quarrels have happened between mother and son. When a supernatural power has controlled their souls, there was a sudden change in their lives which has a strong connection to the several un-natural events happened in 18th Century AD. The journey begins when they try to find the truth and origin of the sudden changes happened to their lives. The climax of the story comes to many answers of the several questions about their lives, the relationship between the mother and son, mother and father.
- The film Leipaklei tells the story of Leipaklei, a woman named after a Manipuri flower. Like the flower whose habitat is the hard ground, she is surrounded by hard trials and ironies of fate: separation from the one who loved and is still loved by her, abandonment by her husband, the trials of being a single parent, the violence of the gaze of men who sees her as fair game. Not unlike the flower Leipaklei, which hibernates beneath parched grounds - dreaming for a spring past, the protagonist dreams of the return of her beloved. He returns.
- Tamubi had determined not to visit her estranged husband. Not even once in their twelve years of separation. But one day, all against herself, she visits to attend her daughter's wedding. She yielded to her daughter's persistence. When she arrives the estranged couple did not exchange a single word. As night falls after the ceremony, Tamubi has no choice but to hold the night at her husband's place. Reminiscence of the years gone by keep awake the separated husband and wife the whole night. The following day her husband pleads her to come back and start life anew. But Tamubi sticks to her independent conscience.
- What is the relevance of theatre (or all art, for that matter) to the crisis of our times? The film explores the creative canvas & politics of Ratan Thiyam, celebrated Manipuri theatre director, against the backdrop of this query.
- Anam Ahum, a Tangkhul from the hills of Manipur, journeys to Imphal City in the valley to meet with his daughter one last time before she leaves for Delhi in search of a new job.
- Rongdaife a tribal village was constantly engaged in battle with another village, Ching-Khai-bon. The bitter taste of defeat and its consequences fell on the village women of Rongdaife who were taken captive by their stark enemy, Ching-Khai-Bon. Rongdaife village was orphaned without a village chief. The prized possession and beloved daughter of Ching-Khai-Bon village, Leinu was struck by a horrendous skin ailment which resulted in her exile from her own village. Like a lonely wounded lioness, Leinu survived in the eerie jungle, deserted from anyone she ever loved. Meanwhile a soothsayer from Rongdaife had set the drumrolls that if their chief was a woman, then the village would rise to its former glory. While men from Rondaife were on a hunt for their next successor, they could not find anyone worthy except Leinu. As they brought her captive to the village, everyone was taken aback by her appearance. The village elder put forth an offer whereby if they helped to cure her illness, in exchange she must give her word to become their ruler. Leinu not only cured her ailment but she also diminished the long standing enmity between the two villages.