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My Migrant Soul

By Arshia Sattar

Yasmine Kabir's film is a chilling reminder that under the glitz and neon of the global economy lie buried the hopes and dreams (and sometimes the bodies) of poor and desperate migrant workers More...

The Great Indian School Show

185 TV cameras keep close watch on every movement of the students at a Nagpur school. Filmmaker Avinash Deshpande's documentary questions the impact such surveillance can have on students More...

Close encounters in the fast food nation

Morgan Spurlock's Academy Award-nominated Supersize Me! demonstrates that junk food of the McDonald's kind will cost us our health and sanity. But the film would have done well to go further and question consumerist economies, the manufacture of consent and the power of advertising More...

The Rock Star and The Mullahs

As the religious right all over the world impinges upon cultural freedom, a BBC documentary follows rock star Salman Ahmed of the Pakistani band Junoon into northwest Pakistan, where the mullahs have banned and silenced all music as un-Islamic More...

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Madhur Bhandarkar's film reveals what goes on behind the gloss and glamour with such gloss and glamour that it inadvertently ends up glorifying the very ethos it sets out to critique More...

Some Roots Grow Upwards: The Theatre of Ratan Thiyam

A timely film on the theatre of Ratan Thiyam explores the feeling of oppression and injustice that pervades the psyche of the Manipuri people More...

The Source of Life for Sale

Across Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, local people speak out against commercial interests soaking up their water resources More...

The City Beautiful (Sundar Nagari)

A fly-on-the-wall account of two families in a low-income neighbourhood of New Delhi, living on the edge of globalisation, on the edge of 'India shining' More...

Tales of the Night Fairies

A film about the confidence and vitality of Sonagachi's sex workers, a charmed circle where women have control over their bodies, where they choose their clients, and insist on the use of condoms More...

 

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