Under Construction - UC Films

A tapestry that weaves fiction and non-fiction, coming, going, returning, staying, to tell a story of many Mumbais.

A film about the surveyors who went into Tibet incognito in the nineteenth century and mapped Tibet with their feet.

A personal journey mirroring a nation’s fight for freedom.

The film shows how the Burmese military regime used a ceasefire agreement to further oppress Karen people, while encroaching further onto Karen lands.

A terrible saga of exploitation that celebrates the victory of innocence over the most harrowing realities of life.

Two feisty and rebellious London Bangladeshi sisters go “back home” against their will for arranged marriages.

A concise, moving account of a long forgotten people – Bhutani refugees who have lived in Nepali camps for over a decade and half, and still wait.

The Catholic Arundhatiyars of Dharmanathapuram, traditional shoemakers, grow increasingly assailed between caste discrimination and competition from the shoe manufacturing industry.

An untold story about a “100 meter rule” after the Tsunami.

Four inter-sex women speak about their lives.

Investigating current Australian immigration policies in the context of 200 years of colonisation.

54 prisoners of the Indo-Pak war never came home. As their families still wait, they walk the tragic tightrope between hope and despair.

A Muslim ghetto, settled just after Indian independence, is unsettled in myriad ways during the Bombay riots of 1992-93.

A post-modern, yet surreal account of an urban woman, Ranu Gayen, within a crumbling space defined by four walls.

A singer in a bar, a man with a camera, their complicated yet simple relationship.

A historical journey through the past 50 years of United States intervention, questioning motives and examining effects of US foreign policy.

This film explores the lives of the people of Jari Mari, and records the many changes in the nature and organisation of Mumbai’s workforce over the past two decades.

From Kashmir, a provocative look at Indian democracy; a reflection on power, resistance and “freedom’s terrible thirst”.

A look at the post-partition trauma after 1947.

Real life fiction feature of a 12 years old boy suffering from an incurable disease and how the family is coping.