Rang Mahal (Palace of Colours)

★ Official Selection, Berlinale

Prantik Basu films a Santhal community's own telling of how the world began, letting two narrators carry the origin story rather than an outside voiceover. Selected for Berlinale and the International Filmfestival Amsterdam, it treats an oral tradition as cinema instead of anthropology.

Why it's free: PSBT commissioned this documentary and publishes it on its own channel, with the Films Division.