Under Construction - UC Films

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.

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

Stories of disillusionment, and sometimes, empowerment, that reflect the enormity of the Nepali migrant’s journey.

An intimate exploration of the lives of two women and a transgender individual in prostitution.

A story about modern-day slavery – the plight of a young migrant worker from Bangladesh who went to Malaysia in search of work.

A documentary on a Sherpa, who climbs for the umpteenth time one of the highest Himalayan summits. But his life and achievements are seldom in the spotlight.

The world of undertakers, a community that is only remembered in the event of death.

The citizens of Mailagora (place of dirt) recycle coal dust in an inferno-like valley ravaged by the horrors of third world industrialization process.

A day in the life of Mariammal, a woman sanitary worker, who cleans the shit from a lane in Madurai.

Five sexworkers and the filmmaker embark on a journey of storytelling. ‘Tales of the Night Fairies’ explores the power of collective organizing and resistance while reflecting upon contemporary debates around sexwork.

A taxi driver from Mali in New York – like others of his kind from Paris to Tokyo to the edge of the Sahara, fighting for their lives.

The story of two families in Delhi struggling to make sense of a world, which keeps pushing them to the margins.

At the Sonpur cattle fair in rural Bihar every evening more than fifty girls take to the stage and dance for an all male audience with a barbed wire fence separating the performers from the spectators.

An appraisal of three decades of the Naxalite movement in Bihar – has any benefit accrued to the Scheduled Castes or, are they mere pawns on the political chessboard?

The ship breaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh – a final destination for ships that are too old to ply the oceans any longer. Every year, hundreds of ships are sent these yards. And every year, thousands of people come in search of jobs.

Saacha is about a poet, a painter and a city; the poet is Narayan Surve, the painter Sudhir Patwardhan and the city is the city of Mumbai (a.k.a. Bombay), the birth place of the Indian textile industry and the industrial working class.

A journey among Indian workers, in Alang, the world’s largest shipbreaking port, in Gujarat and in Bengal. Their stories of survival and globalisation.