Documentary Film Resources
Human Rights, People’s Struggles, Disasters
Kol Tales
58 mins, VCD, Hindi with English subtitles, 1997
Director: Sehjo Singh
Produced by Anwar Jamal and Sehjo Singh
The film looks at how land rights in rural Bihar are being violated and the continuing struggle for justice.
Review link: http://infochangeindia.org/documentary02.jsp
Contact: Anwar Jamal and Sehjo Singh
D-3/3173 Vasant Kunj,
New Delhi 110 073
Email: anwrsejo@nda.vsnl.net.in
The Bitter Drink
26 mins, DVD, with English subtitles, 2003
Directors: Baburaj and Saratchandran
Produced by Third Eye Communications
A closer look at the anti-Cola struggle in Kerala.
The Final Struggle
35 mins, VCD, English subtitles, 1999-2001
Directors: Baburaj and Saratchandran
A film about environmental pollution and human rights in the Indian state of Kerala.
Global Call to Action Against Poverty
3 mins, VHS, English
A 3-min audio-video trailer about The Global Call to Action Against Poverty, a world-wide alliance committed to forcing world leaders to live up to their promises and make a breakthrough in 2005.
Our Life, Our Film
45 mins, VCD, English subtitles
Directors: Anuba Jadeja, Gomiben Koli, Hansaben Jadav, Hansa Someshwara, Ilaben Kubavat, Jamunaben Someshwra, Kaajalben Chauhan, Kunwarben Koli
Directed by a group of ordinary women belonging to quake-ravaged villages of Kutch in Gujarat, this unique visual narrative walks the road with women and children struggling to rebuild their lives.
The City Beautiful
78 mins, DVD, Hindi with English subtitles, 2003
Director: Rahul Roy
Produce by: Produced by Aakar Productions for Unifem
The story of two weaver families living in Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City), a small working class colony on the margins of India's capital city, Delhi, and how they reinvent themselves to eke out a living.
Review link: http://infochangeindia.org/documentary37.jsp
Contact: khel@vsnl.com
Harvesting Hunger
53 mins, DVD, English and with subtitles
Director: Krishnendu Bose
The film journeys through Kalahandi in Orissa, Warangal in Andhra, Hoshiarpur in Punjab, and Bellary in Karnataka to witness first hand the politics of Hunger.
Contact **5
A Silent Killer
23 mins, DVD, English and with subtitles
Director: Dhananjoy Mandal
Exposes cases of arsenic poisoning in drinking water drawn through tube wells in 75 blocks of eight districts in West Bengal.
Contact **5
Whose Water?
26 mins, DVD, English and with subtitles
Director: Krishnendu Bose
Reflects the debate over ownership of water bodies protected by people’s initiative in parts of Rajasthan, without any help or support from the State.
Contact **5
Bushman's Secret
65 mins, DVD, English, 2006
Director: Rehad Desai
Bushman’s Secret features breathtaking footage of the Kalahari landscape, and exposes us to a world where modernity collides with ancient ways, at a time when each has, strangely, come to rely on the other.
Contact **10
The Way to Dusty Death
30 mins, DVD
Director: Syed Fayaz
A moving account of the victims of Silicosis in Gujarat.
Contact **3
River Taming Mantras
36 mins, VCD, Hindi and with English subtitles
Directors: Sanjay Barnela, Vasant Saberwal
Explores the technological, economic and political rationale behind the adoption of flood control measures such as the 14,000 kilometres of embankments built by the government in eastern UP, Bihar, Assam and Orissa.
Contact **5
From Kalinga to Kashipur
26 mins, DVD, English (subtitled), 2004
Directors: Biju Toppo and Meghnath
People's struggle against an aluminium factory in the Kashipur, Orissa
Contact **10
The (T)Error of POTA
20 mins, DVD, English (subtitled), 2000
Directors: Gargi Sen, Ranjan De and Neha Mittal
A public tribunal calls to put an end to a draconian security legislation
Contact **10
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