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GANDHARI (1992) On the silent process
of subjugation and conditioning of women which compel
them to believe that the suffering that they go through
is natural). 60 minutes.
HALF WAY HOME (1995) On 249 non-criminal
lunatic women, who after being freed from jail on the
basis of a public interest litigation in the early nineties,
were abandoned by their families. In many cases these
women were found to be normal but made out to be lunatic
by an unfaithful husband who wanted to be rid of her
in order to remarry, or a greedy male relative who wanted
to deprive her from her share of property. 26 minutes
THE SCHOOL THAT KARMI SOREN BUILT (1996)
The amazing true story of a tribal widow called Karmi.
An unlettered person her self, and a marginal peasant
woman, Karmi gave up her land to build a school in her
village because there were no schools there or in the
surrounding thirteen villages. Six tribal farmers taught
there for twenty-seven years without any salary to keep
the only school of that area going. 30 minutes.
UTTARADHIKAR (1997) On the role and
status of women in the Uttarakhand movement. The film
unravels the politics behind the movement and the politics
of marginalisation of women who are used in the movement
but are discarded during power-sharing. 56 minutes
NAJAAYAZ (1998) On the children of
sex-workers. The film tries to explore the vulnerabilities
of these children and their mothers. 60 minutes
AIDS,
LIES AND DOCUMENTARIES (1999) Made in the form
of a diary, it is an exploration of the threefold exploitation
of women in the sex trade: by the pimps, the NGOs who
have gushed in with foreign funding in post-AIDS India,
and the film-maker herself who is making a documentary
on them because the subject sells on television. 30
minutes
DAUGHTERS OF THE 73RD AMENDMENT, ACT I (1999)
On women’s empowerment in India that followed
the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution of India. This
bill paved the way for a million grassroots level women
to come to power and brought about sweeping changes
in the heartland of rural India. The film is a profile
of three outstanding women leaders who rose from nowhere
to emerge as role models for their communities. 57 minutes
A SRI LANKA DIARY (2000) A young half-Tamil
half-Norwegian boy who was born and grew up as a child
in Jaffna, returns to Sri Lanka after 19 years to look
for his roots. 19 minutes
THE POLITICS OF SILENCE (2002) A training
film on how to counter sexual harassment in the workplace.
30 minutes
Currently working on a film on dance as a form of therapy
to combat the effect of violence against women. This
film is inspired and commissioned by Sanlaap, an NGO
working extensively on the field of violence against
women.
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