New Documentaries/Films/ added in Digital Archive’s Collection:
General Management
1. Inside job
Charles Ferguson (Director)
Inside Job is a 2010 documentary film about the financial crisis of 2007–2010.
Ferguson has described the film as being about “the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption.
Media
2. The Social network
David Fincher (Director)
The Social Network is a 2010 drama film about the founding of the social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits.
Media education
3. 16 mm memories movement
Tropical Cinema
16mm tries to trace back the trajectory of film society movement in Keralam and its relationship with a machine – 16mm film projector. Now abandoned as an obsolete technology, 16mm projection was the soul and source of the movement at the time and still burrs on in the minds of a generation of cineastes.
Culture
4. Natak jari hai
Lalit Vachani (Director)
This documentary is about JANAM (The People’s Theatre Front) the little theatre group that never stopped performing in the face of dramatic political transformation and personal tragedy.
5. Beware dogs
Spandan Banerjee (Director)
A opetic and exciting documentary on the contemporary music group Indian Ocean. Indian Ocean is one of the most exciting music groups of the contemporary South Asian scene. They explore an intriguing crossover of eastern and western styles.
Children issues
6. Pride of place
Kim Longinotto (Director)
As a teenager, the filmmaker had been condemned to a girls’ boarding school in an old, isolated castle in Buckinghamshire. Wisely, she ran away at the age of 17, and years later took the opportunity for sweet revenge.
In this dark and expressive film, Longinotto exposes the repressive school from the students’ perspective — as a kind of miniature state with bizarre rules, indigestible food and absurd punishments.
7. Hold me tight, let me go
Kim Longinotto (Director)
The filmmaker spends a year at the school following the progress of four charming but troubled boys. All have severe problems with anger and violence; they punch, kick, spit and curse at the remarkably patient teachers who are trained never to raise their voices and who encourage the students to express their emotions.
8. Rough aunties
Kim Longinotto (Director)
This documentary follows the outspoken, multiracial cadre of Thuli, Mildred, Sdudla, Eureka and Jackie, as they wage a daily battle against systemic apathy, corruption, and greed to help the most vulnerable and disenfranchised of their communities.
Gender issues
9. Divorce Iranian style
Kim Longinotto (Director)
Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian women’s lives.
10. Rita
Renuka Shahane (Director)
Rita is the story of a woman, who discovers love, questions what is moral and immoral, male chauvinism and her self- respect.
11. Sisters in law
Kim Longinotto (Director)
In the little town of Kumba, Cameroon, there have been no convictions in spousal abuse cases for 17 years. But two women determined to change their community are making progress that could change their country. This fascinating, often hilarious documentary follows the work of State Prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Court President Beatrice Ntuba as they help women fight often-difficult cases of abuse, despite pressures from family and their community to remain silent.
Old age problems
12. Theatre girls
Kim Longinotto (Director)
In her final piece at film school, Longinotto and her partner take us into the “Theatre Girls Club” in Soho, London – a hostel for elderly and destitute women and the only shelter in London that would take in any woman at any time. The filmmakers lived in the hostel for more than two months, establishing an extraordinary level of trust with their “cast” — from the home’s feisty cook to an elderly resident who was a terminal alcoholic.
13. Sukhaant
Sanjay Surkar (Director)
Acclaimed filmmaker Sanjay Surkar’s latest film ‘Sukhaant’ deals with the controversial subject of mercy killing. It discusses the right of people with no hope of living to die honorably.
