Under Construction - UC Films

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.

Private knowledge vs Public good: A story about HIV/AIDS drugs and patents.

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

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.

Construction workers draft a Bill that is never implemented.

A film on forest, forest dwellers and forest rights.

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

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

A journey to understand ‘Marfat’ through encounters with various Fakirs and their songs.

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.

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

Two short tales wonder about the idea of Bombay as a great cosmopolis, while examining its divisions of class, language and food.

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

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

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.

A post-modern, yet surreal account of an urban woman, Ranu Gayen, within a crumbling space defined by four walls.

A singer in a bar, a man with a camera, their complicated yet simple relationship.