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Cinematic views on conflict

By C K Meena

A recent film festival in Bangalore featured 14 films dealing with a range of disputes and differences among family members, between workers and management, across races, communities and countries. The films revealed the similarities in the dynamics of conflicts ranging from a local water dispute to a war between nations More...

Tracking the tiger

By Huned Contractor

Krishnendu Bose’s Tiger -- The Death Chronicles -- examines the failure of India’s efforts to protect the tiger. It also highlights solutions More...

Lightning rarely leaves a trace

By Aseem Shrivastava

Amar Kanwar’s The Lightning Testimonies addresses the theme of public rape in the South Asian sub-continent, how it is recorded and how it is remembered, in an understated yet strongly haunting manner More...

Cleaners of the waste

By Huned Contractor

The documentary Kachra Kondi, produced by Pune's municipal workers' union, provides a shocking insight into the lives and work of sanitation workers More...

Flush and forget

By Huned Contractor

Pradip Saha's Faecal Attraction follows water from the toilet to the Ganga-Yamuna, throwing up several disturbing thoughts about the disposal of human waste along the way More...

Invasion and dissent

By Max Martin

The Vibgyor film festival in Thrissur this May focused on invasions of land, air, water and human rights, and on the dissenters whose voices are seldom heard More...

The grim legacy of war

By Huned Contractor

Bangladeshi filmmaker Yasmine Kabir's A Certain Liberation simply follows Durubhashi, a Bangladeshi woman who lost her family in the 1971 war. Along the way, the film makes a powerful statement on the futility of war More...

Save the Onges

By Huned Contractor

A new documentary on the Onge tribals of the Andaman Islands explores the death touch of civilisation More...

The gods must be angry

By Huned Contractor

Sanjay Barnela's Devta Activists explores the traditions of conservation promoted by the deities of the Kulu valley and how these traditions are losing ground to state-sponsored 'development' More...

 

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