SUPERSIZE ME!
Directed by Morgan Spurlock
English
96 mins, colour
Produced by Hart Sharp
Morgan Spurlock’s Academy Award-nominated Supersize Me! demonstrates that junk food of the MacDonalds kind will cost us our health and sanity. But the film would have done well to go further and question consumerist economies, the manufacture of consent and the power of advertising more...

THE ROCK STAR AND THE MULLAHS
Directed by Angus Macqueen and Ruhi Hamid
English, and with subtitles
48 mins, colour
Produced by Storyville Films for BBC
Screened as part of the Tri-Continental Film Festival at various locations in India
As the religious right all over the world impinges upon cultural freedom, a BBC documentary follows rock star Salman Ahmed of the Pakistani band Junoon into northwest Pakistan, where the mullahs have banned and silenced all music as un-Islamic more...

SOME ROOTS GROW UPWARDS: THE THEATRE OF RATAN THIYAM
Directed by Kavita Joshi and Malati Rao
2003, English and Manipuri with subtitles
51 mins, colour
Produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust
A timely film on the theatre of Ratan Thiyam explores the feeling of oppression and injustice that pervades the psyche of the Manipuri people more...

THE SOURCE OF LIFE FOR SALE
Director K P Sasi
Producer Vikas Adhyayan Kendra, Mumbai
Across Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi , local people speak out against commercial interests soaking up their water resources more...

THE CITY BEAUTIFUL (SUNDAR NAGARI)
Hindi with English subtitles, 78 mins, 2003
Directed by Rahul Roy
Produced by Aakar Productions for Unifem 2003
A fly-on-the-wall account of two families in a low-income neighbourhood of New Delhi, living on the edge of globalisation, on the edge of ‘India shining’ more...

TALES OF THE NIGHT FAIRIES
English and Bengali, with subtitles, 74 mins, 2002
Directed by Shohini Ghosh
Produced with help from The Centre for Feminist Legal Research and Mama Cash
A film about the confidence and vitality of Sonagachi’s sex workers, a charmed circle where women have control over their bodies, where they choose their clients, and insist on the use of condoms more...

MILES TO GO
English, 77 mins, 2003
Directed by Nina Subramani
Produced by Greenpeace
A 6000-km bus journey documents several industrial and environmental disaster zones in India more...

MANJUBEN, TRUCK DRIVER
52 mins, Gujarati and Hindi with English subtitles, 2003
Directed by Sherna Dastur
Produced by Sehjo Singh
India’s only female truck driver wants to travel and be free. And she has found a way to live the life she wants more...

A NIGHT OF PROPHECY
Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, English and Kashmiri, with subtitles, 77 mins, 2002
Directed by Amar Kanwar Produced by A K Films, Co-producers: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and Documentation
Produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Amar Kanwar’s film takes the viewer from Kashmir to Andhra Pradesh, recording songs of oppression, pain, exclusion and marginalisation more...

LADIES SPECIAL & A PYRAMID OF WOMEN

LADIES SPECIAL: English, Hindi and Marathi with subtitles, 28 mins, 2003
Directed by Nidhi Tuli
Produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust

A PYRAMID OF WOMEN: English, 23 mins, 2003
Directed by Cheryl Kanekar
Produced by Comet Media Foundation
Two recent films explore the supportive and assertive spaces that women carve out for themselves in the metropolis of Mumbai more...

Naata and Ekta Sandesh

Naata: Directed by Anjali Monteiro and K P Jayasankar
Produced by the Unit for Media and Communication, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Hindi and English with English subtitles, 45 mins

Ekta Sandesh: Directed by Waqar P Khan
Produced by Waqar P Khan, Mohalla Committee Movement Trust and Dharavi Citizens
Hindi with English subtitles, 62 mins
Naata documents the activism and idealism of two residents of Dharavi, Asia ’s largest slum, which led them to make Ekta Sandesh, a unique film on communal harmony which uses images from popular Hindi cinema. The film is shown to communities savaged by manufactured distrust and prejudice more...

Matrubhoomi - A Nation Without Women
Manish Jha's Matrubhoomi - A Nation Without Women, a futuristic story about a village with no women, has created a storm with its no-holds-barred presentation of female infanticide more...

UNLIMITED GIRLS
Directed by Paromita Vora
Produced by Sakshi
94 mins, English and Hindi with English sub-titles, 2002
A film that centres around a chat room filled with the voices of older Indian feminists and younger urban women searching the ideologies of feminism to find a room of their own more...

DEVELOPMENT FLOWS FROM THE BARREL OF A GUN
Directed by Biju Toppo and Meghnath
Hindi with English subtitles, 58 mins
This film presents and examines orchestrated state violence against indigenous and local peoples when they protest against development projects on their lands more...

IN DARK TIMES
A film by Gauhar Raza
Hindi/Urdu, 24 mins
How fascism grows and takes over unsuspecting societies more...

THE BEE, THE BEAR AND THE KURUBA
Directed by Vinod Raja
64 mins, Kannada with English sub-titles, 2001
A document of the displacement of indigenous lives, not by ‘development’ but by ‘eco’-development more...

KOL TALES
Directed by Sehjo Singh
Produced by Anwar Jamal and Sehjo Singh
Hindi and Bundelkhandi with English sub-titles, 70 mins
The Kols, a tribe that inhabits the badlands of Bundelkhand, struggle with bonded labour, the fraudulent seizure of their lands and a national democracy that does not seem to include them in any way at all more...

SITA’S FAMILY
A film by Saba Dewan
Produced by PSBT
Hindi, Punjabi and English with English sub-titles, 60mins

A portrait not simply of family dynamics, but of the spaces that women must continually negotiate between the home and the world more...

WORDS ON WATER
A documentary by Sanjay Kak
English subtitles, 85 mins, 2002

A film that explores the struggle of the people of the Narmada Valley against the big dams that threaten to submerge their lands and displace them from their homes, traditions and cultures more...