Under Construction - UC Films

A special collection of 3 short films on HIV/AIDS. (Available on DVD in India only).

A searingly honest film about ground realities regarding HIV in India and five lives marked by pain and bound by hope – in 68 Pages of a counselor’s diary.

Story of a school teacher and her attempts to reform the education system.

30 years ago, during the Liberation War for Bangladesh, Gurudasi Mondol had lost her entire family. Her indomitable presence as a feared and loved crazy woman today, asks many questions: what is the meaning of Liberation? Has madness chosen her, or has she chosen madness?

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.

Good health, self help and sisterhood. Why does this bother the brotherhood?

Women in India, South Africa and the USA ask – can new laws change old ways?

A film about women’s contribution to their economies and the attitudes that deny women their share of healthcare.

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

Four women speak about the circumstances leading to their rootlessness, revealing an intimate dimension of the Kashmir conflict.

A dialogue between three women in Indian Pottery, across the rural-urban, modern-traditional divides, with reference to the taboo of the wheel.

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

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.

How to break the silence around sexual abuse in families? How to make sense of the fragmented memories of a jagged childhood?

Gender politics in biodiversity conservation with policy implications.

In attempting to right a wrong committed twenty-five years ago, can Suwisal save himself?

The documentary follows Riya, a bar dancer, from her home in Delhi to Mumbai where hundreds of working class girls like her come in search of work and a future.

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.

A street child grapples with his emerging sexuality as his childlike innocence is slowly erased.

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