MoMA Presents: “Making Waves: A New Generation of Indian Filmmakers”

The Museum of Modern Art will present a major film series, “Making Waves: A New Generation of Indian Filmmakers,” at The Museum of Modern Art screening September 15th through October 12th. A movie-crazed nation of close to 1.4 billion, India boasts the world’s most intricate, vibrant, and thriving film scene.

Beyond the mainstream, over the past decade or so Indian cinema’s diversity has been energized by a growing number of impressive independent works. These small-budget but artistically ambitious and accomplished films have expanded the making of, thinking about, and ways of seeing Indian film.

This survey of works made since 2010, in languages as diverse as Assamese, Bengali, Dogri, Gojri, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Maithili, Tamil, and more, includes 16 features and five shorts that take us on a cinematic journey across India.