Under Construction - UC Films

A performance that no one saw in response to an attack that barely happened . . .

Short film in Hindi on the people’s conservation movement around Sariska Tiger Reserve.

A reflective film about globalisation and resistance presented through a journey exploring different moments in various social /political movements in India.

Construction workers draft a Bill that is never implemented.

A film about the resistance movement of the Kashipur tribals in South Orissa against bauxite mining and aluminium companies.

This film looks at some of the initiatives of the community and the State to address the issue of domestic violence, aimed at breaking the barriers that divide lives into personal and public.

Pride March in Calcutta!

An experience of innovative use of video by an NGO in Rajasthan.

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

A river, her people and a factory that gobbles all the precious natural resources and pollutes the land and lives.

A film on empowerment of dalit women in Andhra Pradesh.

A critical view of the role of western media in selling war and blood, especially after 9-11.

The film seeks to disseminate the pains and penury, the anger and resoluteness of the sufferers of erosion.

The story of Sajida Khan, a South African woman with a hazardous dumpsite on her doorstep.

An exploration of the various meanings of the World Social Forum as an event and process as well as its historical importance coming out of 500 years of colonialism, developmentalism and neo-liberalism.

‘Khabar Lahariya’, published every fortnight from a small town in Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot district, covers all the news that mainstream media forgot.

Relationship of tribes with forests and their search of an identity.

A film about the building of a thousand foot suspension bridge of cane and bamboo in India’s north-east, an evocation of the tribal community that makes it possible, and a reflection on the strength – and fragility – of the idea of community.

The story of Karen villagers living internally displaced throughout the Karen state in Burma.

The spectacular chariot jatra of Kathmandu’s Rato Machhendranath – a gritty arena for conflict and contestation.