Under Construction - UC Films

Until the last day of his life, every day will be the same as this one for prisoner Boris Bezotechestvo.

A peek into the world of street entrepreneurs, who lead their lives in the shadow of constant threat.

An attempt to imagine a day in a song’s life. One of the many possible journeys of the song and its creators become the canvas.

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

The story of a little boy Bilal, growing up with blind parents.

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.

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

Nine painters try and express their preoccupations, in their canvas. The filmmaker, with his own preoccupation, strikes a relation.

A short film on the work three contemporary painters: Bhupen Khakkar, Vivan Sundaram and Nalini Malani

Four inter-sex women speak about their lives.

Notes from the lives of three extraordinary women: a graveyard worker, a funeral singer, a fisher woman.

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

Set in Tamilnadu, India, ‘Our Family’ brings together excerpts from ‘Nirvanam’ one person performance, by Pritham K. Chakravarthy and a family of three generations of trans-gendered female subjects.

Peace Mission’ is a ‘guided tour through Nollywood’, Africa’s latest media hot spot, featuring Peace Aniyam-Fiberesima as main protagonist.

Sampat Pal set up the Gulabi Gang to fight injustice and oppression. This is the story of Sampat and four young women who come to her for help. They are stories which are being played out countless times across India.

The film explores the perceptions of two visually challenged women, who speak of their experience of childhood, getting an education, finding employment, marriage and child rearing.

Fearless, feisty and resolute, the “Rough Aunties” are a remarkable group of women, unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa.

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

Not every African wants to go to Europe!

A musical documentary on the 12th century saint-poet Mahadevi Akka.