By Huned Contractor

Chilika Bank$, which got the Livelihood Award at the Vataravan Film Festival 2009, tells the story of Chilika Lake and its people through the eyes of a banyan tree on its banks

By Rina Mukherji

Understanding Trafficking stresses the difference between women who migrate and join the sex trade and women who are trafficked into the sex trade

By Pradeep Baisakh

With the first genetically modified food poised to enter the Indian market, a timely documentary entitled Poison on the Platter shows how little the Indian public knows about what it is consuming

By Huned Contractor

The documentary film Chhoti Si Asha shows how teaching school dropouts computer skills can help them find new livelihood opportunities

By Manjira Majumdar

Kaler Rakhal explores the cultural displacement and loss of livelihood of West Bengal’s bahurupis (performing artists) in the time of ‘development’

By Deepti Priya Mehrotra

By reconstructing the life of Rasoolan Bai, well-known tawaif and thumri singer from Varanasi, The Other Song illustrates how romance and physicality were obliterated from culture

By Rina Mukherji

The Centre for Science and Environment’s documentary, Mean Sea Level, looks at the human tragedy behind the statistics of internal displacement due to rising sea levels and erosion in the Sunderbans. But, says the reviewer, for such an important and topical subject, the film could have explored other angles and presented a more holistic picture

By Huned Contractor

C Vanaja’s award-winning film documents the grit and gumption of four HIV-positive widows in Andhra Pradesh