New arrivals at Under Construction

This month we have added some excellent films to our collection, as follows:

Aw Aakare Aa (A, B, She)
Director: Subas Das
Story of a school teacher and her attempts to reform the education system.
Oriya (subtitled in English), 90 min, 2003, India

Black Pamphlets
Director: Nitin K.
A glimpse of democracy in practice through a chronicle of a students' elections at the Delhi University.
Hindi, English (with English subtitles), 84 min, 2007, India

Development At Gunpoint (Unnayan - Banduker Nale)
Director: Pramod Gupta
An account of the heroic efforts of Nandigram’s people to protect their land from being taken away in the name of industrialisation and development.
Bengali (with English Subtitles), 44 min, 2007, India

Monsoon Cloud (Mungaara Mugilu)
Director: M.S. Prakash Babu
A surreal look into the a few hours in an old man’s life as he encounters a series of situations and emotions.
Kannada (English subtitled), 12 min, 2005, India

Planeta Alemania: Observations from invisibility
Director: Dogfilm and Companeros
A cinematic portrait of a woman living and working in Germany like a “criminal”, but without having committed any “crime”.
German, Spanish (with English subtitles), 40 min, 1999, Germany

Snapshots from a Family Album
Director: Avijit Mukul Kishore
A critical time in a family’s history: that moment when the idea of ‘home’ is being reconfigured across three distinct cities and cultures.
Hindi, English (with English subtitles), 63 min, 2004, India

Tazaa Khabar (Hot Off the Press)
Director: Bishakha Datta
‘Khabar Lahariya’, published every fortnight from a small town in Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot district, covers all the news that mainstream media forgot.
Hindi (with English subtitles), 31 min, 2006, India

Voices (Kuchh Awazen)
Director: Sameera Jain
Three of the most marginalised communities among Dalits in UP come together to give voice to the oppression and marginalisation they have been subjected to for centuries.
English (with subtitles), 34 min, 2006, India

Where the Heart Lies (Dar Pa Dar)
Director: Samar Minallah
A film about the Afghan Refugee women living in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan.
Pushtu (with English subtitles), 53 min, Pakistan

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