Goutam Ghose

Parikrama: The Journey (2025)

The narrative in Parikrama travels through multiple spaces and times, through parallel experiences of its twin protagonists that criss-cross each other, though they come from worlds apart. Alessandro is an Italian writer-filmmaker making a film on Narmada ...

Memories of Time (2022)

The film is about a couple and how their relationship changes amid the pandemic and the lockdown. ...

The Wayfarers (2019)

It is a story of two strangers, perpetually on the fringes of survival. They share a journey and meet a third person carrying an ailing old couple in his vehicle. Endangering their own survival, the three fight it out to save precious human lives. ...

Shankhachil (2016)

Free as a bird. To wander. To nestle. To take flight. We are not. As India gained its much awaited independence in 1947, a race faced another struggle. Bengal was divided and hundreds of thousands of Bengalis were displaced and divided on the basis of the ...

Act Zero (2013)

A citified executive meets an idealistic journalist who challenges his values as he negotiates with tribal peoples to acquire their land for mining. ...

Baishe Srabon (2011)

A serial killer terrorises the city of Kolkata and leaves behind verses of Bengali poetry. The police seek the help of a retired officer to unravel the case and find the perpetrator. ...

Moner Manush (2010)

The movie is about a poet and singer Lalon Fakir who belongs to a cult called baul and who believes and inculcates that the value of a human being is above the narrow belief of religions. ...

Eine Reise in die Welt des Dalai Lama (2009)

Kaalbela (2009)

The violence and upheaval of Calcutta in the 1970s is focalized through a young man coming to the city to study. ...

Yatra (2007)

Dasrath Joglekar (Nana Patekar), a celebrated writer, travels to Delhi to receive the prestigious Literary Award. During the journey he meets a young film maker (Nakul Vaid), an ardent fan of Dasrath's writing and the encounter brings back memories from th ...

IDOL MAKERS OF KOLKATA (2005)

The clay idol-makers of Kolkata practice a unique art— an art that comes with the promise of dissolution and regeneration—a metaphor of life itself, with its impermanence and ebb-and-flow. The painstaking and elaborate process of the making of the ...

Impermanence (2004)

A documentary about HH the Dalai Lama. ...

In the Forest... Again (2003)

The film features the characters from Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri, returning to the forest over thirty years later. Ashim, Sanjoy, Harinath and Aparna have grown old in this film; Shekhar has died. They set out on a journey to break off every link wit ...

Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002)

Mrs. Iyer and her infant son are traveling to Kolkata with the help of photographer Rajah. When religious tensions flare up and the bus travelers become stranded under martial law, she makes a choice to save him that entwines their lives. ...

Dekha (2001)

The film revolves around an aging poet Sashi Bhusan Sanyal afflicted with glaucoma and nearly blind whose wife has deserted him because of his reckless lifestyle. ...

Ray: Life and Work of Satyajit Ray (1999)

Clips and interviews show that the renowned Satyajit Ray was more than just a filmmaker: He was a sketch illustrator, a music composer, a children's book creator, an all around intellectual. ...

Gudia (1997)

Johnny, a musician, joins Hameed the ventriloquist's troupe, featuring the talking doll Urvashi. When Hameed loses his voice, Johnny buys Urvashi and returns to Mumbai, reuniting with his sweetheart Rosemary. Johnny's performances with Urvashi are successf ...

The Padma Boatman (1993)

Based on the timeless literary work by Manik Bandyopadhyay, Padma Nadir Majhi was directed by Gautam Ghosh. The movie illustrates the tumultuous lives of the fishermen and their families, living by the river Padma. Beautiful shots of the river, Ghosh's fla ...

The Kite (1993)

Patang (English: The Kite) is a 1993 Indian Hindi drama film directed by Goutam Ghose, starring Shabana Azmi, Shafiq Syed, Om Puri and Robi Ghosh. The film is set in small railway station near Gaya, and the life of people in illegal slums near it.[1][2] Th ...

Meeting a Milestone (1989)

A documentary on life of Ustad Bismillah Khan by Goutam Ghose. ...

The Voyage Beyond (1987)

A father encourages his daughter to marry a dying man in order to inherit his wealth. ...

Paar (1984)

When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chan ...

Dakhal (1982)

The film is about a woman belonging to nomadic tribe from Andhra Pradesh, known as crow hunters, who elopes and moves to south Bengal and makes a living by occult practices. It deals with the issue of exploitation of tribal people by the deceitful landlord ...

Our Land (1979)

Set between 1945 and 1951 in the pre-Independence state of Hyderabad, the film tells the story of a young peasant, Ramiah, who rebels against the corrupt rule of the Nizam. Baring witness to the oppression and hardship faced daily by those around him, Rami ...

Hungry Autumn (1974)

Ghose's first major film is a documentary about the 1974 Bengal famine, analysing how famines come about and chronicling their impact in the cities and the villages of India. Made on a Paillard Bolex by a group calling itself the 'Joris Ivens collective', ...

Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen (2025)

Documentary on Aparna Sen's life. ...

Shantilal O Projapoti Rohoshyo (2019)

A deadbeat weather reporter at an English newspaper in Kolkata evolves into a detective when he pursues a deeply buried story about an adult movie star. ...

Guptodhoner Sondhane (2018)

Subarna Sen, an Oxford University professor, travels to India after the death of his maternal uncle. He learns that his uncle's palace has a hidden treasure and decides to find it. ...

Beyond the Clouds (2018)

A hedonistic teenager in Mumbai is busted for dealing drugs and goes to his estranged sister for help, but complications land her in jail. ...

Chotushkone (2014)

Four famous directors and old friends are reunited together by an unknown producer to make a film. They have to make four short story in this film with one common theme: Death. ...

Ekla Akash (2012)

Arijit and Nisha have reached a point in their relationship from where there is no turning back. Arijit is having an affair with his colleague, while Nisha has a special relationship with her film director mentor. ...

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections (2012)

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity for h ...

Baishe Srabon (2011)

A serial killer terrorises the city of Kolkata and leaves behind verses of Bengali poetry. The police seek the help of a retired officer to unravel the case and find the perpetrator. ...

Shubho Muharat (2003)

An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate. ...

The Return (1988)

Sasanka grows depressed as his house and his career as a theater actor both crumble around him. When his cold-hearted, widowed sister-in-law Saraju arrives with her adorable young son Kanu, Sasanka's mood eventually changes. Kanu and Sasanka become fast fr ...

Crossroads (1982)

A gritty political thriller set at the backdrop of the violent Naxalite movement in 70's Calcutta. ...