Under Construction - UC Films

A film on the politics of conservation.

The story of a Mullah who established a false shrine in a remote village in Bangladesh.

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.

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

A film on the troubles and travails of the traditional marine fisher folk from Andhra.

Biogas is a renewable energy technology that is ideal for rural India’s cooking needs.

A film predicting the disasterous impact of the Tehri Dam.

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

A hapless filmmaker and his two local guides explore the conflict surrounding the Vedanta mines in Orissa.

The mangroves of Orissa and the arribada of Olive Ridley turtles are under threat.

The changing cityscape of Delhi in the wake of the Commonwealth Games of 2010; a map of it’s long term environmental footprint on the city.

Blending broad issues of history and memory with the near ubiquitous control of war imagery by the military, this film raises questions about the true human cost when the desire for total victory outweighs the moral obligations of ‘humanitarian intervention’.

The debate – between the Forest Department and the Van Gujjars.

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

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

The conflicting uses of water in our everyday lives – both rural and urban.

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.

When scientists tested breast milk from Inuit mothers, they were shocked to find the milk loaded with chemicals migrating from the south.

The people of the Garhwal Himalayas fight to keep their way of life.