New Documentaries/Films/ added in Digital Archive’s Collection:
Water Management
1. Lake matters
Earth care films
Bhopal city, capital of Madhya Pradesh, India, is considering assisting rural communities in the catchment of the Upper Lake (Bhoj Wetland) to change land management practices and reduce the flow of pollutants. ‘Lake Matters: Paying to protect watersheds’ looks at the potential and problems for securing a supply of clean drinking water for the citizens of Bhopal.
People’s movement
2. Cotton for my shroud
Nandan Saxena (Director)
This is a film on farmers suicides and bt cotton issue in the vidarbha region in maharashtra.
Music
3. Siddheswari Devi
Mani Kaul (Director)
This film is dialogue with the life and the music known as Thumri and its tradition. Siddheswari leaves alive behind her a passion celebrating the multiplicity of life.
4. Dhrupad
Mani Kaul (Director)
The film is on ‘Dhrupad Raag’ in its existing form. Dhrupad can be traced back to a thousand years of living tradition.
Urban development
5. Arrival
Mani Kaul (Director)
To the city come men, women, fruits, flowers, vegetables, goats and sheep all ready for consumption. It is the process of consumption/exploitation that forms the core of the film.
Nutrition
6. Let’s talk about food
Mallika Sarabhai (Director)
The Film is a journey into India’s food heritage and the biodiversity of its crops. It delves into the reasons for the shrinking of this diversity and the homogenization of our food preferences.
Performing arts
7. Chitrakathi
Mani Kaul (Director)
This film traces the evolution of Chitrakathi, a folk form available in the Konkan area of Maharashtra, while revealing the transformation being brought about by the modern life.
8. Natak Jari hai
Lalit Vachani (Director)
The film explorers the motivations and ideals of the JANAM actors and their vision of resistance and change as they perform their people’s theatre in diverse parts of India.
Vulnerable children
9. Born into Brothel
Ross Kauffman (Director)
This film is a portrait of a group of unforgettable children in Calcutta’s red light district. Feisty, resilient and wickedly funny, they are the children of prostitutes.
Mental illness
10. I am sam
Gautam Bose (Director)
This documentary emphasises on child education and education in general.
Mental and emotional disability
11. Autism: The musical
Tricia Regan (Director)
Following five Los Angeles children over the course of six months, director Tricia Regan captures the struggles and triumphs of their family lives and observes how this musical production gives these performers a comfort zone in which they can explore their creative sides.
12. Autism : is a world
Gerardine Wurzburg (Director)
This is a documentary about Sue Rubin, who is autistic. Sue was diagnosed and treated as emtally retarded until the age of 13 when she began to communicate using a keyboard. Now she is a junior in college.
This documentary takes the viewer on a journey into her mind, her daily world and her life with autism.
Executive management
13. Inside Job
Charles Ferguson (Director)
Inside Job is a 2010 documentary film about the financial crisis of 2007–2010.
It features research and extensive interviews with financiers, politicians, journalists, and academics.
Inside Job was well received by film critics who praised its pacing, research and explanation of complex material.
Feature film
14. Yuva
Mani Ratnam (Director)
The film tells the stories of three young men from completely different strata of society and one fateful incident on Kolkata’s Howrah Bridge which changes their lives forever.
Women empowerment
15. Mee Sindhutai Sakpal
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan (Director)
Sindhutai Sapkal is an inspiring, feminist, rooted Indian feature film. It traces the true story of Sindhutai Sapkal who ostracized by her husband, dramatically rewrites her destiny.The film’s deep humanism in the face of injustice and humiliation gives it a universal resonance.
16. Pink saris
Kim Longinotto (Director)
Sampat Pal set up a Gulabi Gang to fight injustice and oppression. This is the story of Sampat and four young women who come to her for help. They are stories which are being played out countless times across India.
