I'm the Program Director for a small Film Festival (The East Lansing Film Festival) in Michigan, USA, and for our next year's program, we're trying to identify a quality independent Indian film (not a Bollywood one though)for our opening night.
So far we've come up with Brick Lane, and Mr. and Mrs. Iyer.
Any other suggestions? I'd appreciate the help!

There's always Pather Panchali and other Sanyajit Ray films.