Under Construction - UC Films

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.

A real life story of transition; an ancient civilization being invaded and obliterated by the modern democracy.

Why won’t the Government recognise India’s one million traditional birth practitioners?

A rustic road show, Mundapota – the son buries his head in the ground while his father beats the drum, thrilled viewers applaud; but what happens in the darkness that engulfs him in the pit?

One cactus stands between hope and hunger – Hoodia, a cactus used by Bushmen for centuries, has caught the attention of a giant pharmaceutical company.

A series of three films that explores the diverse cultures of work in Bangalore’s software outsourcing industry.

A chronicle of the passage of seasons over scattered habitations tucked amidst Himalayan frontiers between India and Tibet, mapped by historic facts and fantastic tales.

Sellers crowd India’s inter-state bus terminals, selling wares as variegated as their own life stories.

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

In the absence of dialogue between Hindu revivalists and Christian tribals, an effort to understand how the two communities will co-exist within a secular Indian fabric.

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

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

Questioning the notion of the self as a pre-given, primordial and purposive entity, this video explores the gamut of modes in which identities are produced, circulated and consumed within the modern urban Indian culture.

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 film examines livelihood and survival issues of forest dependent communities against the backdrop of this destruction of a fragile and versatile ecosystem in the Western Ghats region, and State interventions towards Joint Forest Management, funded by multi-lateral aid agencies.

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

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