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Dir. Rumah Rasaque/ DV/30 min/ Hindi with English Subtitles/2005
It about the ongoing struggle of people of Bhopal, India who were affected by the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Dec.2,19884.
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NAGA STORY. THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE (Duration: 62min) Dir. Gopal Menon/ DV/64 min./With English Subtitles/2003 Five years in the making, and the first comprehensive film on the Nagas and their struggle for identity, self-determination, peace and justice.The Naga Story _The Other Side of Silence_ is the first comprehensive film on the Nagas, a three million strong indigenous people, who occupy the North-East frontier of the Indian subcontinent. The film, which took five years in the making, documents human rights abuses suffered by the Nagas in more than 50 years of the existence of Independent India - with interviews, on-foot coverage and views from different sections of the Naga population including various political formations and factions. "A film that captures the resistance, the despair, the anguish, the hopes and aspirations of a generation of Nagas in their struggle for self determination and their overwhelming desire for peace…" |
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Hey Ram!! Genocide in the Land of Gandhi Dir. Gopal Menon/ DV/25 min./Hindi with English Subtitles/2002 In the Gujarat violence, over a 3000 people were killed, more than 150,000 rendered homeless. Women and children were made the targets of especially brutal attacks. Property and sources of livelihood were systematically destroyed. Places of worship were destroyed or desecrated. If this isn’t genocide, what is? |
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RESILIENT RHYTHMS A Dalit Story Dir. Gopal Menon/ DV/64 min./ Tamil/Telugu/Hindi/Kannada/Bhojpuri with English Subtitles/2002 India’s caste system is perhaps the world’s longest surviving social hierarchy. It places nearly 160 million people - the Dalits - at the outskirts of society, exploiting their services, especially to perform all “polluting” tasks, from cutting the umbilical cord, to disposing night-soil, to tending cremation grounds, while denying them acceptance even as human beings. The film documents the various atrocities that are committed on people simply because of their caste and shows how Dalits are fighting back. |
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Naka Naka Dupont Naka (No to DuPont) Dir. Partha Sarkar and Reena Kukreja/ Beta/24 min./ English/1998 Dupont, the world’s largest nylon manufacturer, paid out an estimated $ 1 million a month in fines and law suit settlements for environmental and public health infractions in 1989 in United States of America. In 1998, Dupont decided to set up a plant to manufacture nylon 6.6 near Ponda in Goa, India. |
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Examines the market for Rice - South India’s most important food grain. It explores the town of Walajabad in Tamil Nadu and finds that the unequal bargaining power of growers, financiers and buyers has a direct link with the divides of power and privilege that cut across rural Tamil society. |
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Pappa II, a film on disappearances in Kashmir- 2002 -
Human Rights violation in Kashmir - 1998 -
Ek Minute ka Maun, about the murder of a student leader (1996). -
Third International Conference on Indigenous peoples of Tropical Forests (1996) |
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Burma – A Multi Media Presentation English/ 14min./2005 Burma gains freedom from Britain in 1948. A brief period of democracy followed until 1962 when the Government was deposed by Military. Then onwards the people of Burma are in a condition worse than slaves under the Military dictatorship. There were a number of uprisings lead by students and common people against the Military Junta. |
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