SELECTED
PROJECTS
SELECTED PROJECTS 2025.
Here are the the sixteen outstanding projects chosen for greenstories 2025. These stories promise to bring fresh perspectives to wildlife and environmental storytelling. Each of these films showcase the unique narratives that connect us to our environment and the urgent need for conservation.
A WEAVER BIRD'S NEST (TOKORA SORAI'R BAAH)
Alvina Joshi & Rahul Rabha
When his village is marked for demolition, an unemployed artist must protect both his ancestral home and his family, or lose the very connections that define who he is.
Estimated Running Time : 90 minutes
Primary Location : Assam
AMARKATHA
Surya Balakrishnan
Amarkatha explores a sacred Hindu pilgrimage in Kashmir, where millions trek to worship an ice stalagmite. Blending folklore, faith, and ecological crisis, it reveals the complex intersection of religion, politics, and environmental decline.
Estimated Running Time : 25 minutes
Primary Location : Kashmir
DMZ Docs x greenstories 2025 Award
BENEATH THE SAND
Rajshekhar Basak & Gourav Chakraborty
Chavakkad is a coastal village, where houses lie buried under sand and only memories linger. As the climate crisis threatens to erase their fragile future, villagers battle crumbling homes, lost livelihoods, and buried memories, clinging to hope amidst rising tides.
Estimated Running Time : 90 minutes
Primary Location : Kerala
Pooja Sampath & Umeed Mistry
An intime journey through the intertwining lives of a small fishing village with the lives that are spawning at their newly deployed artificial reef. This story of disconnection with the sea, sets out to unveil, understand and unravel the future of these Kadal Makkal (Children of the Sea) both above and below the waterline.
Estimated Running Time : 40 minutes
Primary Location : Puducherry
ALT EFF Production Fund :
40 Lakhs Co-production Grant
NEWF Underwater Lab Award :
Workshop Access
DOWNHILL KARGIL
Nupur Agrawal & Shivajee Biswanath
Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing climate in the Himalayas, Downhill Kargil is an obsevational coming-of-age documentary that follows three teenage Muslim girls, who form a women's ice hockey team, defying patriarchy to claim their freedom - only to find their dreams entangled in a much lager fight for identity, land, and survival.
Estimated Running Time : 90 minutes
Primary Location : Kargil
Royal Enfield Production Grant :
USD 30,000
WaterBear Network :
Distribution Support
EDEN
Aditi Rajagopal & Naman Saraiya
Against looming destructive development in the Andaman island, Saw John is creating a garden of endemic medicinal plants-species fast disappering from the forest. In the process of nurturing these weird-and-wonderful plants, John and those around him uncover some unexpected truths.
Estimated Running Time : 60 minutes
Primary Location : Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Jackson Wild x greenstories 2025 Award
HIDDEN PARADISE
Kawin Sirichantakul
Naturalists and lifelong friends Wan Chittiwat and Professor Kitichate embark on an extraordinary journey across Thailand, racing against time to document a 'hidden paradise,' a perfectly unique ecosystem, before 'urban development.' This eventually becomes a battle to capture and preserve the last untouched wonders of nature outside protectec areas.
Estimated Running Time : 15 minutes
Primary Location : Thailand
Gowri Shankar P & Abhilash Krishna
Guided by his old friend Kali, herpetologist Gowri Shankar ventures into the world of the Irulars, a tribe of snake hunters-turned-lifesavers, to document their vanishing knowledge and quietly spark a change in their lives.
Estimated Running Time : 60 minutes
Primary Location : Chennai outskirts
World Congress of Science & Factual Producers
x greenstories 2025 Award
JUNGLE HAMAR MAI BAAP
Rahul Kumar & Shyam Raj
A forest-dwelling tribal couple with four children lost everything when the forest department reinroduced a wild species into their ancestral land, forcing them to migrate, in the difficult time of uncertainty, can the family stay together and survive?
Estimated Running Time : 90 minutes
Primary Location : Madhya Pradesh
NEWF x greenstories 2025 Award
NO ONE TO LEAVE
Vidheya Das & Abhishek Das
In a Himalayan village long abandoned, a former hunter and his wife choose to stay - not in defiance, but in deep kinship with the forest No One to Leave is a quiet story of coexistence, care and ecological guardianship.
Estimated Running Time : 60 minutes
Primary Location : Arunachal Pradesh
SUGARCANE MOTHERS
Mayuresh Hendre & Sunil Nair
In the Sugarcane fields of Junnar, Maharashtra, two women and a leopardess raise their young amidst fear, loss, and resilience. 'Sugarcane Mothers' follows their intertwined journeys in a fragile landscape where humans and leopards live side by side - navigating conflict, survival, and the quiet strength of motherhood.
Estimated Running Time : 75 minutes
Primary Location : Maharashtra
SWEETER GRASS
Eshika Fyzee
An environmental journalist with a refugee past joins a herd of migrating elephants as they attempt to cross international borders, to understand how nature navigates an increasingly fragmented planet. What he discovers, challenges his own ideas of identity, displacement, belonging, and family.
Estimated Running Time : 80 minutes
Primary Location : North Bengal
THE BAREFOOT GARDENERS
Shaon Pritam Baral
The tea garden workers in North Eastern Region of India, mostly female tea workers who are underpaid and exploited, are fighting different battles inside tea gardens and establishing new ways of coexistence with the wildlife of a tea garden ecosystem.
Estimated Running Time : 45 minutes
Primary Location : Assam & North Bengal
THE LOST SHEEP
Princy Pal
The filmmaker returns to trace the forgotten roots, meets a Himalayan shepherd guarding a collapsing landscape. As she's embraced as family, their shared journey through climate disaster and personal loss challenges her to hold on to what remains, even as the land and loved ones begin to slip away.
Estimated Running Time : 90 minutes
Primary Location : Himachal Pradesh
Sony x greenstories Camera Award
Docedge x greenstories 2025 Award
Royal Enfield Social Mission Medical Grant Grant :
USD 3500 for production
THE MANGROVE MOTHER
Ipshita Bhattacharya
Amidst the rising tides of the Sundarbans, a mother leads a quiet revolution, restoring mangroves, defying gender norms and fighting climate change one sapling at a time. Through Madhumita's journey, The Mangrove Mother redefines what motherhood means in a changing world.
Estimated Running Time : 65 minutes
Primary Location : Sundarbans
Sunaparanta Creative Residency :
Full Residency
WINTER WORM
SUMMER GRASS
Srishti Lakhera & Amith Surendran
On Himalayan peaks, a group of young Indigenous poet-rappers forage Cordyceps as a source of income. Due to climate change, their search has become increasingly treacherous. Yet they continue the pursuit to fund their songs about nature and its precarity.
Estimated Running Time : 90 minutes
Primary Location : Uttarakhand
Royal Enfield Social Mission Seed Fund :
USD 5000
Sheffield Doc Fest entry
Pitch the Doc :
Pitch development mentorship
