The Common Man’s Party
Media criticism. Indian documentary An Insignificant Man is an interesting example of how a political movement can begin and achieve authority.
India
Devoted depiction of impoverished salt workers
The Indian salt production is one of the worlds largest. Farida Pacha introduces us to a family who live and work with honour – but also poverty – extant.
Je suis Jyoti
The documentary about the brutal rape of Jyoti Singh paints a frightening picture of the way women are viewed in Indian culture.
Fragmentary days in Mumbai
INDIA: A new generation of indian filmmakers deals with documentary films in so many different ways. Steffen Moestrup reports from Mumbai international Film Festival.
Counterfeit adultery greed
A thoroughly entertaining and profoundly human portrait of a teeming and complex society through the quiet and heroic efforts of one man to make the world he inhabits a better place.
Longinotti and her Sampat
At Guth Gafa, Kim Longinotto gave a master class. Her new film is Pink Saris. DoX met her for an interview.
A better future
The dominant colour of this film is orange. Does it show that Western burials are designed to shelter people from much of the reality of death?
Nero’s guests
Over the past 10 years, more than 200,000 farmers in India have committed suicide. The current oligopolistic structure of international food trade has translated into sustained degradation of food security amongst nations, while bringing small-scale farmers to the brink of annihilation.
What it means to be “Indian” in the 21st century?
A entirely original blend of observational documentary and tropical science-fiction, John & Jane follows the stories of six “call agents” that answer American 1-800 numbers in a Mumbai call center.
VIKALP: an Alternative to Censorship
A group of Indian filmmakers created an alternative festival to the MIFF in twenty days on a shoestring budget. The festival evolved from a protest action into a huge success and a celebration of diversity and committed filmmaking.
KERALA FILM FEST 2003: Rebirth of an Indian Festival
So far, India has had only one major festival of docs and shorts – the Mumbai International Film Festival, which started as a biannual event in 1990. Starting this spring, however, the southern State of Kerala inaugurated an annual event featuring docs and shorts: the Second International Video Festival, which was held in the capital of Tiruvananthapuram. RADA SESIC was there.
Journey of peace activism in the face of global militarism
The film covers the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons tests in 1998, as well as the nationalist rhetoric that accompanied these tests. It also explores the ill-effects of the Indian test on the surrounding population and the reactions to the test among the government and the public.