Bilal Bilal wins at the National Film Awards for the year 2009 for the best film in the non-fiction category. The award was presented to director Sourav Sarangi by the President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil.

Bilal is a story about a three year old boy living in central Kolkata, who tries hard to understand blindness as his parents are blind. Bilal also has a little brother named Hamza. Both of them live inside a tiny dark room as they play the curious game of seeing and not seeing. Film Details

Housekeeper How much do we really know about housekeepers? Is the constant cleaning and tidying up of houses, an enjoyable part of their job description? Is it their own choice or are they forced to do it because of the circumstances? Film Details

Nero’s Guests Nearly 200000 farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 10 years. But the mainstream media hardly reflects this. Film Details

Sisters Of Lilith This is a story about 3 women; a shepherd who lives with her flock in the mountains; a fisher who goes out to the sea everyday although she can’t swim; and a farmer who buys and sells land when she has to, but cares a lot about her home. Film Details

To Make An Example Of In Turkey the final executions were carried out in 1984, as the death penalty was abolished in 2002. Since the foundation of the republic, a total of 712 people, 15 of which were female, were executed to serve as an example. Film Details

Uku Ukai The world is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the world is passion. Film Details

The Bell According to the recorded narrations, 300 years ago, during the Lithuanian-Swedish war, the bell of Plateliai church belfry was taken down and was being carried over the ice of the frozen lake when the ice broke near the Castle Island and the bell sank. Film Details

I'm The Very Beautiful! The film follows a man-woman relationship, the woman incidentally being an "international" bar singer by profession and the man, a film maker, who is also the director of the film. Film Details

The Aegean In The Words Of The Poets A film travel based on texts of travel writers and poets from all over the world who visited and wrote about the archipelago in the last centuries Film Details

Sing Along Sing Along is a film about the experimental amateur choir of Rodos Island in Greece, a group of 50 musicians offering music to the community. Film Details

Words of Silence Lucia Rikaki’s documentary looks inside the world of hearing impaired people. The unpretentious labour of love lets this overlooked group address the world. Film Details

Does Humour Travel The British Council, in co-operation with Comedy Nights the Comedy Club, presented, for the first time in Greece, stand-up comedy from Britain. Film Details

Aamakaar - The Turtle People The film tells a story of preservation and survival of the rare Olive Ridley turtles, who are on the verge of extinction as an extension to their fight for their rights. Film Details

The Sword And The Spear Astad Deboo is one of India's foremost contemporary dancers. His life has been a life of travel and exploration, in a quest to create a style of dance that bridges time and cultures. Film Details

Aah Rooz-Haye Khoob (Alas Nice Days) This film is in two parts. In the first part, a woman with four kids who is also four-months pregnant finds out that she's been infected with HIV. Film Details

Bomb-E Saati (Time Bomb) In 1983, some infected blood products were imported to Iran through a French company which caused Hemophilia and blood infections in a lot of Iranians. Film Details

Gonah-E Maryam (Maryam's Sin) In a tragic incident on 28th of August 2002, a man of Arab minorities living in southwest Iran beheaded his 7-year-old daughter, Maryam, suspecting her to have secret affair with her own uncle (her mother's brother). Film Details

Asir, Entzar (Captive, Waiting) This movie is about a group of Iraqi war captives who have spent 20 years in a camp in Iran. Film Details

The English Surgeon What is it like to have God like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail? Film Details

Before Flying Back to the Earth How come life in a hospital ward for children is full of games, joy and chatter? How do these little patients manage to go about their busy lives when there is little hope? Film Details