Under Construction - UC Films

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

A reconstructed documentary on the life of Subbalaxmi- whose chance encounter with education and thereby politics and radical thought led to her becoming a part of the collective struggle for India’s freedom movement.

A women’s co-operative feeds migrant workers in the heart of Bombay’s mill district.

The film charts the life and work of Bhagwan Das, 82, who worked as a research associate with Dr B.R. Ambedkar in 1955-56.

The story of a little boy Bilal, growing up with blind parents.

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

Risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country.

A film about the swimming ponds of Hampstead Heath, the campaign to keep them open and the national campaign for the right to swim.

Old, blind Wannihami knowingly digs up his son’s sealed coffin in order to invalidate the compensation claim. For his greater purpose is to believe that war cannot kill his son.

The strength, ingenuity, and guile with which women in Iran confront biased laws, a Kafaka-esque administrative system, and their husbands’ and families’ rage to gain divorces.

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

A stark reminder that peace has not yet come for those directly affected by Nepal’s 11-year conflict.

How large scale tourism impacts on the economy, ecology and culture of the hosts.

The situation in Guatemala today after a peace accord between guerrillas and the government.

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.

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

Dispute resolution at the village level in West Bengal, India.

A Kalimpong school boy working in a billiard hall encounters militant and non-violent voices of the Gorkhaland movement.