Akshay Indikar's Sthalpuran (Chronicle of Space, Marathi) won much acclaim at its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February. This keenly-felt film heralds a distinctive voice in Indian cinema. It was one of the four Indian films selected at the festival, along with Pushpendra Singh's Laila aur Satt Geet, Prateek Vats' Eeb Allay Ooo! and Ekta Mittal's Gumnaam Din. Sthalpuran, which played in the Generation section for children, is an illustrious successor to Umesh Kulkarni's Vihir and Avinash Arun's Killa, both Marathi films shown in that section.

Indikar's previous features include Udaharnartha Nemade (For example, Nemade) on the writer-poet Bhalchandra Nemade, and Trijya (Radius), that was at the Shanghai and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festivals, with Sthalpuran in Berlin. This is an astonishing feat for Indikar, descendant of the nomadic Gondhali tribe, that practised Gondhal folk music. Growing up in Solapur, he later dropped out of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. For Sthalpuran, he is director, editor and sound designer, while Tejashri Kamble is chief associate director, co-writer and production designer.