World Mental Health Day
World Mental Health Day falls on October 10. The theme for Mental Health Day, 2011 is “The Great Push: Investing in mental health.”
This year, the day hopes to enhance discussions on mental disorders, and to encourage investments in prevention, treatment and promoting awareness of mental illnesses.
In this context, CMCS Digital Archive has also taken a step to share the information about the films available in archive on Mental Health and illness.
1. Exploring Madness Series
Parvez Imam (Director)
Mental illnesses are one of the least understood problems in India. Myths and stigma add to the problems of people suffering from such illnesses. On the other hand there are issues of a lack of infrastructure to treat mental illnesses properly. This film, comprising of six short sections, brings together a variety of such issues related to mental illness in the Indian society. Each section deals with a different issue, ranging from people’s perceptions of mental illness to debates among professionals and from the problems of women languishing in mental hospitals to experiences of those who have recovered. Each film is grounded in the Indian context and explores a different aspect of mental illnesses from a social perspective.
1. Different strokes /4 minutes/ 2006
2. Sentenced for a lifetime / 3 minutes/ 2006
3. Mental illnesses – people and polices / 3.5 minutes/ 2006
4. Three women and the city /4 minutes/ 2006
5. Once upon a Madman /3 minutes/ 2006
6. Mind games /3 minutes/ 2005
7. Exploring madness /19 minutes/ 2005
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2. Forgotten million
Granada T. V./ 107 minutes
This film looks at the ways in which different countries treat their mentally ill. The film documents the inhuman treatment such as admission without check-up, lack of medical or psychiatric treatment, torture, isolation and sheer neglect of mentally ill people in four countries – Japan, USA, India and Egypt.
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3. Reaching the unreached
Srinivasa Murthy (Director)/ 11 minutes
The documentary is an evaluation of mental health facilities in Bangalore.
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4. What you really need to know about “stress”
Graeme Garden (Director)/ 60 minutes
The documentary is a humorous account of what stress is all about, its effects and strategies for coping with stress.
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5. Ankur : A film on mental disability
Vikas Jadhav (Director)/ 15 minutes
This documentary film is on the growth and development of the mentally retarded children.
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6. A burden of love: A documentary on Alzheimer’s disease
Brahmanand Singh & Priti Chandriani (Director)/ 45 minutes
This evocative and warm documentary explores the status of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Indian context. Featuring many of those who suffer from it, their family members and caregivers and people from the medical fraternity, the film potrays aspects of this cruel illness with sensitivity and empathy. In the process, A Burden of Love also attempts to dispel myths and misconceptions and to highlight our social needs to manage this illness better.
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7. I want my father back
Suma Josson (Director & Producer)/ 90 minutes
The film is on the suicide of farmers in Vidarbha, Maharashtra.
The film traces the lives of some of the farm families through interviews with ordinary farmers and activists. It also brings out the causes of these suicides.
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8. Like a spreading clod of earth on the soul
Elke Hockerts-Werner (Director)/ 58 minutes
This film explores the world of an autistic youth through his own writing. His writings, texts of unusual intensity, are a moving account of his desperate attempts to come to terms with his autism and a painful act of liberation from silence. It is an almost philosophical understanding of a disability that locks him in a cage of isolation.
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9. Schizophrenia: A family dilemma
51 minutes
This video is addressed to families of patients suffering from schizophrenia. It provides information about the nature management and treatment of schizophrenia to help better manage such patients. The film emphasizes the needs for more comprehensive and acceptable services for care of schizophrenic patients.
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10. A common cause for concern: Schizophrenia
55 minutes
This video is addressed to families of patients suffering from schizophrenia. It provides information about the turmoil of schizophrenia patients.
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11. Perspectives on Mental Health
Shilpa Ranade (Director)/ 60 minutes
Mental Health services in India are offered by mental hospitals, psychiatric units attached to general hospitals and voluntary agencies. The video traces the history of mental health services in the country and the changing paradigms of mental illness, treatment and rehabilitation, underlying these interventions. The models and approaches adopted by various institutions are explored, in the light of the need for low-cost, appropriate and accessible interventions in the Indian context.
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12. Deeware
Sudha Kiran Sinha (Director)/ 30 minutes
This film takes a look at the condition of non-criminal women prisoners in Indian jails. It investigates the lacunae in the Indian legal system, which causes several innocent women such as rape victims, deserted women, especially the mentally ill, to be imprisoned for many years without justice. It ends on a note of hope following the Supreme court judgement, which makes the detention of the mentally ill in prisons illegal.
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14. My left foot
Jim Sheridan (Director)/ 103 minutes
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be retarded for the first ten years of his life. Later, through the help of his strong-willed mother, a dedicated teacher, and his own courage and determination, Christy not only learns to grapple with life’s simple physical tasks and complex psychological pains, but he also develops into a brilliant painter, poet and author.
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15. Choukat Raja
Sanjay Soorkar (Director)
This is easily one of the best Marathi movies of all times. Its a story of a mentally challenged individual (played by Dilip Prabhavalkar) and his journey through life. Dilip Prabhavalkar plays the role to perfection and really makes you fall in love with the character. He is by far one of the finest thespians on the Marathi stage today. He received the Maharashtra State award for best actor for his portrayal of a disabled boy in this movie.
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16. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Milos Forman (Director)/ 128 minutes
A new and rebellious patient is brought to a small mental institution when his antics endear the other patients to him and incur the wrath of the stem and repressive nurse who runs their ward.
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World Elder’s Day
(1st October 2011)
As per the directions of The United Nations Organization(UNO), World Elders Day is observed on 1st October of every year. World Elders Day is to consider the old people in the society and create awareness among the public about the care of the senior citizens. Significance of this year’s World Elders Day observation is raising awareness about issues affecting the elderly, such as senescence and elder abuse. The Quote given by the UNO for this year is, “The old are in a second childhood.”
CMCS Digital Archive has following films on the aforesaid issue.
1. Saaransh
Mahesh Bhatt (Director)
Devastated to learn that their only child, a son, has been killed by muggers in New York City, former Headmaster B.B. Pradhan and his wife, Parvati, grieve. With their son dead, there is no income coming in, so they rent out a room, in their Shivaji Park Bombay apartment to a budding Bollywood actress, Sujata Suman, who has been having an illicit affair with the only son Vilas of a politician named Gajanan Chitre. Vilas lacks the guts to tell his father that he is in love and would like to marry Sujata, and hence puts off any marriage plans. They do get intimate and as a result Sujata gets pregnant. When Pradhan finds out, he offers to take Sujata to meet Gajanan with the hope that he will permit her to become his daughter-in-law. But Gajanan not only refuses, he also threatens them, he warns them of dire consequences if Sujata does not abort the child, and moves away to another town.
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2. Tokyo Story
Yasujiro Ozu (Director)
Tokyo Story is a languidly paced, subtly poignant, and exquisitely realized story of the Hirayamas, an aging couple from the provincial town of Onomichi who travel to postwar reconstructed Tokyo in order to visit their children, who, in turn, seem to have little interest or time to be with them. It is a story about generational fractures – culture, tradition, and people – left in the wake of modernization and consuming self-absorption.
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3. Viruddh
Mahesh Manjrekar (Director)
Vidyadhar Patwardhan lives a middle-class life with his wife, Sumitra. They have a son, Amar, who lives abroad in London, U.K., and it is through his income that the family lives on. Then Amar returns home with Jenny Mayer, his fiancée, and both are welcomed. Both do not look kindly upon Amar’s habit to drink. While the parents are busy preparing for a surprise birthday party for Amar, Amar gets himself killed in a fight.
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4. The last shelter
Kamlesh Kumar Sahu (Director)
A Jandarshan student film on a home for the elderly.
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5. Baghban
Ravi Chopra (Director)
Raj Malhotra (Amitabh Bachchan) and wife Pooja (Hema Malini) have four sons. The sons have settled down professionally and are quite independent. However, when Raj Malhotra retires, none of his children want to be burdened with the responsibility of taking care of their parents. Strangely, it is the adopted son (played by Salman Khan) who proves to be the most kind hearted of them all. Mahima plays Salman’s girlfriend and eventually marries him. The question is, will Raj and Pooja’s sons learn the folly of their ways and turn over a new leaf?
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6. Avtaar
Mohan Kumar (Director)
Avtaar Krishen lives a poor lifestyle with his wife, Radha, and two sons, Ramesh and Chander. He works in a factory and toils hard so that his sons can get the necessary education, and live a better lifestyle. He gets injured and crippled while working, but is compensated adequately by his employer, Bawaji. Years later his sons have grown up. While Ramesh has married Sudha and works with a bank; Chander is wooing Renu, the only daughter of wealthy Seth Laxminarayan. Both the sons leave them. Now Avtaar and Radha are elderly and dependent on Sewak, and the question remains will they resign themselves to this existence, if not, what possibly can a crippled older male accomplish, especially at this time in his life?
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7. Cheeni kum
R. Balki (Director)
Two extremes… in age, character and attitude, meet and against all odds fall in love. They decide to get married. And, like any Indian man, Buddhadev Gupta [Amitabh Bachchan] respectfully comes to ask Nina’s [Tabu] father, a true Gandhian played by Paresh Rawal.. and chaos ensues.
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8. Uttarayan
Bipin Nadkarni (Director)
Uttarayan is a highly captivating adaptation of Jaywant Dalvi’s Marathi play, “Durgi” . Raghuveer , a widower in his 50s has come to live with his computer engineer son Sanjay . He meets his childhood friend Babu Borkar and during their conversations they reminisce about Kusumavati also called as Durgi , Raghu’s first love . Raghu finds out Durgi’s address and goes to meet her . Durgi is lonely after her marriage fell apart because her husband was a drunkard and a womanizer . Raghu and Durgi resume their old friendship and slowly a strong bond develops between them . Raghu thinks about asking Durgi whether she wants to marry him . But will Raghu gather enough courage to ask her? Will Durgi accept a proposal at such an old age? And finally , will Raghu’s son approve of the marriage?
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9. Tu tithe mi
Sanjay Soorkar (Director)
Tu tithe mee which sheds light on the plight of the old and the ageing and the crumbling of the joint family system in a novel and entertaining format of a love story.
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10. Ballygunge court
Pinaki Chaudhury (Director)
The story is based on the loneliness and miseries of aged parents living in the different apartments of a residential complex called Ballygunge Court in Kolkata; whose wards have gone abroad in search of better career. The story is neither unusual nor unnatural; but it may give throw a negative feeling towards the career conscious present generation- who are products of nuclear families and has no other way but to leave behind their parents, knowing fully well that, there is none to look after.
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11. Perinto
Hanna Aartolahti (Director)
Perinto (Inheritance) is a story about a happening which brings closer three generation. Grandfather Antti, daughter Maija and grand daughter Anna are distant to each other. Antti is a war veteran whose living alone is not possible anymore. In the film Anna learns to take responsibility of her grandfather.
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12. Monsoon cloud
M. S. Prakash Babu (Director)
This fiction film takes a surreal look into the a few hours in an old man’s life as he encounters a series of situations and emotions: violence, apathy, death and life. And the lure of a dream, of life despite helplessness. Often what we imagine turns out to be unreal. What we believe turns out to be false. What we see does not exist. But do we stop imagining?
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13. Five parsi films
Kaevan Umrigar (Director)
DADAR ORMAJ, MANEY JALDI BOLAAVO :
Kaevan Umrigar/ 15 minutes
A lonely old Parsi man finds he has nothing at all to live for, and decides he wants to die.
BEDPAN :
Kaevan Umrigar/ 3 minutes
An unmarried middle aged Parsi woman realises why she has begun to hate her bedridden father.
INVISIBLE PARSIS: THE POOR OF A PROSPEROUS COMMUNITY :
Kaevan Umrigar/ 23 minutes
Most Parsis look through them; most others have never seen them. It is a document on the lives of poor Parsis.
NON – PARSI :
Kaevan Umrigar/ 11 minutes
A Parsi girl’s decision to marry outside the community throws her parents lives out of gear.
PARSI WADA, TARAPORE – PRESENT DAY :
Kaevan Umrigar/ 22 minutes
What will be the future of the Parsis of Bombay be like? Will it be like their present in Tarapore.
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14. 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. Atul Kulkarni plays the protagonist, whose mother is afflicted with a grave ailment. She asks her son to give her the right to die with her own choice. Having made up her mind, the mother forces her son to seek court approval for her self-willed death.
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15. 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.
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16. Que Sera?
Dieter Fahrer (Director)
Doing nothing, waiting for death, living in the ghetto that is an old people’s home. But the arrival of the children’s crèche brings together the oldest with the youngest and failing vitality starts to awaken. Looking twice you feel the struggle for dignity. This makes the cinematic encounter with these socially excluded people so touching – especially where all efforts fail, giving rise to an overwhelming helplessness.
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Indigeneous people’s Day
(9th August 2011)
The United Nations’ (UN) International Day of the World’s Indigenous People is observed on August 9 each year to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. This event also recognizes the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues such as environmental protection. Following films are available on indigeneous people in the CMCS Digital Archive :
1. Kahankar Ahankar
Anjali Monteiro & K.P.Jayasankar (Director)
This is an attempt at bringing together a selection of the stories and paintings of the Warlis, and some of the writings about `them’. To the Warlis, a community of Adivasis (indigenous peoples), who live close to Bombay, these stories represent their `history’, their world-view. All the outsiders, the Portuguese, the Marathas, the British, the `native’ settlers… they all tried obliterating this history and wisdom.
Keywords: Culture, Warli Painting, Indigenous people, Aboriginal community
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2. Naga Story: The Other Side of Silence
Gopal Menon (Director)
The Nagas are a 3 million-strong indigenous people who occupy the North-East frontier of the Indian subcontinent. The Naga political struggle is one of the oldest nationality movements in South Asia, continuing till present times.
The film Naga Story provides an introduction to the history of the Naga struggle, and documents the human rights abuses suffered by the Naga people in more than 50 years of the existence of Independent India.
Keywords: Human Rights, Indigenous people, Political Struggle, Aboriginal community
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3. Mary G show
SBS TV
Mary G, or Mary Gedarrdyu, is Mark Bin Bakar’s self-proclaimed Queen of the Kimberley. She provides a voice for indigenous Australian women. Mary G is in demand from communities across Australia and the media. She did a 6 part series on SBS which has been re-run 3 times. Mark’s mother, among other guests, appeared on the show to discuss the issues that are of concern to the Indigenous community.
Keywords: TV Serial, Indigenous people, Aboriginal community
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4. Small island big fight
Aven S. Noah (Director)
The documentary explores the economic and spiritual relationship of Indigenous Australians to the sea – a relationship now under threat from commercial fishing interests.
Keywords: Fishing communities, Australia, Indigenous people
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5. Inside story: Lousy little sixpence
Alec Morgan (Director)
Lousy Little Sixpence tells the story of five children, now Elders and representatives for an entire generation, who were stolen from their families by the Australian government to turn them into unpaid servants for white families.It is an influential film in highlighting the injustice of stolen wages, and the fight for the rightful payment to be made to Indigenous peoples of that generation or their families.
Keywords: Human Rights, Australia, Short film, Indigenous people
Aboriginal community
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6. Atanarjuat: The fast runner
Zacharias Kunuk (Director)
The Fast Runner is based on an ancient Inuit legend which takes place in the area around Igloolik. Igloolik is a community of 1200 people located on a small island in the north Baffin region of the Canadian Arctic with archeological evidence of 4000 years of continuous habitation.
Keywords: Short film, Indigenous people, Aboriginal community, Igloolik
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7. Green bush: Dramatically black series
Warwick Thornton (Director)
Every night, Indigenous DJ Kenny hosts the Green Bush show for Aboriginal inmates and their families. The film is based on Warwick Thornton’s real-life experience as a DJ in Alice Springs and celebrates an era of music, working for the cause and getting things done. But not in the way you would expect.
Keywords: Australia, Indigenous people, Aboriginal community
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8. Following the Rhythms
Sanjay Barnela (Director)
‘Following the Rhythms’ is an attempt to document the contours of this debate – between the Forest Department and the Van Gujjars, between scientific and indigenous modes of conservation. It attempts to study the complexities involved in relocation and the role of non-governmental organizations in advocacy and the facilitation of basic services to the Van Gujjars, who, despite having lived here for centuries, are yet to be acknowledged as citizens of India.
Keywords: Forest, Conservation, Indigenous people, Biodiversity, Van Gujjars
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9. Holiday Camp
Jennifer Lyons Reid & Carl Kuddell (Director)
In a bold and arresting visual style, Holiday Camp connects the issues of indigenous dispossession, genocide, and the incarceration of refugees. Exploring the implications of the mandatory detention system and the construction of national borders. The film challenges Australians to consider the dimensions of policy, humanity and freedom.
Keywords: Human Rights, Immigration, Border
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10. Man in Search of Man
Films Division
This film is on the indigenous people of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Man in Search of Man India.
Keywords: Adivasi, Islands, Indigenous people
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11. Another Revolt (Addo Miyod Ulgulan)
Shri Prakash (Director)
This film is on Koel Karo Dam Project. The survival of hundreds of thousands of tribal’s of the Chotanagpur area is threatened by the Koel-Karo Hydel project. The film describes the 30 year old struggle against the project and seeks to strengthen the tribal movements.
Keywords: Tribals, Hydel project, Tribal movements, Koel Karo dam
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12. In the forest hangs a bridge
Sanjay Kak (Director)
For one week in the year, the people of Damro village, in the Siang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh, gather to build a suspension bridge. The film is an account of the construction of the bridge, an evocation of the tribal community that makes it possible, and a reflection on the strength -and fragility- of the idea of community.
Keywords: Tribals, Tribal communities, Community participation, Bridge, Siang valley, Arunachal Pradesh
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13. Mahua Memoirs
Vinod Raja & Ashok Maridas (Producer)
The film unfolds the life visions and the struggles of the adivasis against mining that is mercilessly consuming their lands and their lives. They live on the lands where mineral treasures have lain buried for centuries; treasures that have now become the biggest source of their terror.
Keywords: Adivasi, Mining
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14. Buddha weeps in Jadugoda
Shri Prakash (Director)
This film documents the painful experience of the people of Jadugoda as the impact of thirty years of radiation dumping begins to manifest itself in the form of disabilities, congenital defects in new born, cancer and other diseases.
Keywords: Tribals, Jharkhand, Adivasi, Radiation, Environmental Pollution, Radioactive waste
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15. Gaon Chodab Nahin
Meghnath & Biju Toppo (Director)
It depicts the situation of the adivasi and dalits population and their struggle against the development projects and corporate induced displacement. They voice – Gaon Chhodab Nahi, Jungal Chhodab Nahi, Maayer Mati Chhodab Nahi, Zameen Chhodab Nahi (We will not leave village, will not leave forests, will not leave motherly soil, and will not leave our Lands!!). And finally Ladai Chhodab Nahi, that is we will not abandon our fight, our struggle.
Keywords: Displacement, Dalit, Music videos, Tribal movements
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16. Vikas bandook ki naal se: Development Flows from the Barrel of Gun
Biju Toppo & Meghnath (Director)
This film presents and examines orchestrated state violence against indigenous and local peoples when they rally and protest against development projects on their lands. Rather than focusing on a single instance, the filmmakers strengthen their thesis by recording examples from all over the country: Orissa, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh.
Keywords: Violence, Land development, Police force, Indigenous people
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World Disability Day
International Day of Persons with Disabilities or World Disability Day is annually held on December 3. It aims to increase the understanding of the issues around disabilities and attention to the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities.
Here are some of the films available in the CMCS Digital Archive on disability.
1. Sparsh by Sai Paranjape(Director)/ 135 minutes
Anirudh Parmar (Naseeruddin Shah) is the principal of a school for the blind. He is blind, but far from being helpless, he is dynamic, aggressive, self sufficient, almost to the point of obession. Kavita (Shabana Azmi) is a young widow. Sparsh, however is not a story of defeat and dejection. It is a portrait of pain, faith patience and hope.
Anirudh Parmar (Naseeruddin Shah) is the principal of a school for the blind. He is blind, but far from being helpless, he is dynamic, aggressive, self sufficient, almost to the point of obession. Kavita (Shabana Azmi) is a young widow. Sparsh, however is not a story of defeat and dejection. It is a portrait of pain, faith patience and hope.
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2. Son rise : a miracle of love by Glenn Jordan (Director)/ 120 minutes
It is a story about an autistic child. Infantile autism is considered most irreversible of the profound psychiatric disorders. But it is the miracle of love, determined efforts, a lot of patience and will-power on the part of the parents and siblings that bring the son out of his world of autism to make him a normal child.
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3. Animation films by NID, National Institute of Design
FOUR VIDEO SPOTS ON DISABLED :
Santanu Baghchi/ 8.21 minutes/ 1993
The four video spots are on disabled people. It shows that tease people need a chance to prove themselves and not sympathy or mercy.
DISABLED :
Sherna Dastur/ 16.38 minutes/ 1993
This documentary depicts the achievements of various physically disabled people.
EK AUR :
Mukesh Patel/ 3.26 minutes
This film is on traffic safety.
TO HER :
Nandini/ 12.11 minutes/ 1993
This film is a portrayal of women in Indian cinema.
3 SPOTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION :
3.56 minutes
This short film throws light on environmental protection.
CHOICES :
Deepa Rathnam/ 10.34 minutes/ 1995
This documentary throw light on various anti-social activities like alcoholism, smoking, protests, harrasment against women, dowry, robbery, violence etc.
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4. Sarthak prayas by Amitabh Mehrotra (Director)/ 16 minutes
This documentary film is on the disabled people. Amitabh Mehrotra established a School for Potential Advancement and Restoration of Confidence (SPARC) for the development of disabled people in Lucknow. The film depicts his efforts in this work.
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5. Like a spreading clod of earth on the soul by Elke Hockerts-Werner (Director)/ 58 minutes
This film explores the world of an autistic youth through his own writing. His writings, texts of unusual intensity, are a moving account of his desperate attempts to come to terms with his autism and a painful act of liberation from silence. It is an almost philosophical understandng of a disability that locks him in a cage of isolation.
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6. Films celebrating differences
Films celebrating differences is a set of six films, creating awareness about disability. The films in this DVD are:
ANGSHU :
Trinayani/ 2.29 minutes/ 2010/ With English subtitles
DARK :
Trinayani/ 60 seconds/ 2010/ Bengali with English subtitles
HOW DOES IT MATTER – 1 :
Trinayani/ 60 seconds/ 2010
HOW DOES IT MATTER – 2 :
Trinayani/ 60 seconds/ 2010
HOW DOES IT MATTER – 3 :
Trinayani/ 60 seconds/ 2010
KEEN & ABLE :
Soumendra (Director)/ 3.59 minutes/ 2010 Hindi with English subtitles
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7. Ali Yavar Jung Institute in house films
The DVD contains 10 in house films production of Ali Yavar Jung Institute.
SCREENING OF 8 MONTH OLD BABY BY AANGANWADI WORKER :
4 minutes
GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS OF ELICITED LANGUAGE :
Pre – sentence level (GAEL – P)
EARLY IDENTIFICATION AND INTERVENTION:
Home activities/ 45 minutes
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES :
5 minutes
NIHH: INSTITUTE ACTIVITY :
11 minutes
PORTER
Assistance for persons with disabilities at Railway stations/ 4 minutes
EARLY IDENTIFICATION AND INTERVENTION:
School activities/ 75 minutes
THE STEPPING STONE :
Boys at work/ 12 minutes
TELECERTIFICATION OF LOCOMOTORE DISABILITY :
RRTC/ 8.30 minutes
THE CHAMPIONS :
Success story of hearing impaired/ 11.30 minutes
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8. We care film festival films on disability by National Trust Films
1 minute films –
NINE GOLD MEDALS
RESPECT MY EXISTANCE
THEY CAN
STILL WAITING
Ashutosh Narayan (Director)
IMPOSSIBLE
Ch. Inaobi (Director)
5 minute films –
HIDDEN TALENT
L. Amarendra Sharma (Director)
THE UNKNOWN
L. Amarendra Sharma (Director)
I LIVE LIKE YOU
L. Amarendra Sharma (Director)
I ALOK
Bhaskar Hazarika (Director)
RUCHIKA
Subodh Poddar (Director)
THIS IS MY INDIA
Jayabroto Chatterjee (Director)
TOUCHING THE VOID
Soumitra Bhattacharya (Director)
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
Sashi S. Mishra (Director)
EMPLOYMENT
Sashi S. Mishra (Director)
ADVITYA
Ridhesh Sejpal (Director)
DREAM IT .. DO IT
Ashutosh Narayan (Director)
THREE OF US
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni (Director)
TASTE OF BERRY
Gaurav Chabbra (Director)
BASKET BRONX
Martin Rosete (Director)
30 minute films –
ISHARON KI BHASHA
Upto 60 minute film –
SHINING STARS
Yael Kipper Zaretzky (Director)
DEAF HEAR ME
Carol Duffy Clay (Director)
BILAL
Sourav sarangi (Director)
SPINAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
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9. 60 seconds to fame: Abilityfest a celebration on celluloid by Ability Foundation
The DVD contains theme based films presented in the India International Disability Film Festival “60 Seconds to Fame” 2005 & 2007. The theme and other details are as follows -
2005
Theme: “An Inclusive Society”
Shortlisted films: 53
Prize winning films:
1st Prize — Becky (Chapter 27)
2nd Prize — With a little help from my friend (Chapter 15)
3rd Prize — Untitles (Chapter 8)
Jury Special Mention Prize — Vision (Chapter 45) & Can you? (Chapter 13)
2007
Theme: “Celebrating diversity”
Shortlisted films: 39
Prize winning films:
1st Prize — Reach out (Chapter 26)
2nd Prize — Yavariyum mathithu vaazh (Respect all)
3rd Prize — Chal (Chapter 38)
Jury Special Mention Prize — The Mute poet (Chapter 2)
2009
Theme: “Equal Opportunities”
Shortlisted films: 38
Prize winning films:
1st Prize — Feel the Music
2nd Prize — Bicycle Diaries
3rd Prize — Think Equal and Ste(o)ps
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10. Access to rights by Manoj Varghese (Director)/ 33 minutes
An educational documentary on the rights of persons with disabilities.
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11. Bullets and Butterflies by Sushmit Ghosh (Director)/ 42 minutes
Bullets and Butterflies traces the journey of a handicapped street child and a biking enthusiast from the bustling cityscape of Delhi to the serene hills of Himachal Pradesh.
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12. Deaf are not dumb by Gajen Seth (Director)/ 22 minutes
Deaf people can change their lives through specific training and learning leading to sustainability. Training that focuses on their abilities and not on the sad term ‘disability’.
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13. Koshish by Gulzar (Director)/ 116 minutes
Romantic drama spaning nearly 20 years involving a deaf-mute couple, Haricharian and Aarti. Deaf and dumb bicycle messenger Haricharian meets equally deaf Aarti, and persuades her to go to sign language school to communicate with her mother and brother
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World AIDS Day
Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. The World AIDS Day theme for 2010 is ‘Universal Access and Human Rights’. World AIDS Day is important for reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.
Films available on AIDS in CMCS Digital Archive are :
1. Ask Me, I’m positive/ Teboho Edkins (Director)/ 48 minutes
Thabo, Thabiso and Moalosi are young, urban Basotho men on a mission. They travel with a mobile cinema unit through the mountains of Lesotho, screening their film to very remote communities. In a country where almost a third of the people are HIV+ they are the nucleus of a tiny group that is living openly with the virus. They are pioneers, they are also film stars, and are very attractive to women. How does one go about picking up girls if you have just publicly disclosed your HIV status? The three young men open up in a way seldom seen on screen. This film gets to the heart of their lives and dilemmas.
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2. From Tiya with Love/ Mahen Sisodiya (Director & Producer)/ 25 minutes
A film on HIV/AIDS.
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3. Tales of the night fairies/ Shohini Ghosh (Director)/ 74 minutes
Five sexworkers and a filmmaker embark on a journey of storytelling. Tales of the Night fairies explores the power of collective organizing and resistance while reflecting upon contemporary debates around sexwork. Tales of the night fairies is a momentous exploration of the power of resolve; that of a group of marginalized people who have decided to reclaim the word ‘sex’ in sex trade.
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4. Street kids and aids/ T. V. Spot/ 15 minutes
Street children discuss about AIDS and get more information from an elder friend and a nurse at the local hospital regarding its causes, preventive measures, where to get tested and the fact that AIDS has no cure till now.
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5. Karate kids/ 20 minutes
An animation film on street children and AIDS; the high risk of getting infected with HIV virus that these children face and the precautionary measures that should be taken to prevent it.
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6. HIV/AIDS counselling issues/ Glen Williams/ 42 minutes
This video is a teaching resource for the purpose of illustrating counselling techniques to those who are working with people affected with AIDS.Five situations are illustrated (1) pre – test counselling (2) post – test counselling (with HIV negative result) (3) negotiating safer sex behaviours (4) post test counselling (with HIV positive result) (5) on – going counselling with HIV positive clients.
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7. Anant/ Raman Kumar (Director)/ 72 minutes
Four people from different walks of life are drawn together under compelling circumstances in the AIDS ward of a city hospital. The world of film star, Harish Khanna comes crashing down with the realisation that he is HIV positive which he acquired as a consequence of his drug injection and sharing habit.
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8. Scourge: A film on AIDS education/ Shyam Benegal (Director)/ 30 minutes
An informative film about AIDS & HIV, it explains clearly how HIV spreads, the causes, symptoms, social and other implications for the AIDS patients. Using real life stories it emphasizes the importance of taking preventive steps, doing away with misconceptions and that we have to fight AIDS & HIV, not HIV patients.
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9. The colour of Gold/ Don Edking (Director)/ 52 minutes
This film is shot underground in the President Steyn Gold Mine in South Africa. The film reveals through interviews, the life of the mine workers, who talk about their work, the risks involved, a sense of alienation from the family and other concerns like life in a single sex hostel, homosexuality and AIDS.
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10. Death by denial/ David Griber (Producer)/ 60 minutes
Right now, AIDS has infected 23 million Africans – and it shows no signs of stopping there. New strains of HIV and diseases brought on by HIV are showing up in Asia, Europe and America. For the past five months, Ed Bradley and 60 Minutes II followed the story of AIDS in Africa, and traveled into some of the far reaches of that continent, where the disease has cut the deepest scars.
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11. Mobility, trafficking and HIV/AIDS/ UNDP/ 5 minutes
This film is meant for advocacy for facilitating safe mobility, preventing trafficking in persons and containing HIV/AIDS.
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12. 68 pages/ Sridhar Rangayan (Director)/ 92 minutes
Coming from a country like India that is still in denial, where being HIV+ is still a curse, ’68 Pages’ rips open the underbelly of its society to reveal how it stigmatizes and shuns those who are HIV+ or even those who just want to be what they are. Through 68 Pages of a counselors diary, we see the stories of Paayal, a sex worker; Nishit, an ID user; Kiran, a gay man and Umrao, a transsexual bar dancer – their stories of pain and fear, humiliation and rejection – not only by the society, but even by their loved ones. While these stories expose the shallowness of the system, it also offers hope and healing by trying to bring about a better understanding of their fight to live with dignity. The film is a tribute to the human spirit of optimism and survival.
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13. Aids, lies and documentaries/ Ananya Chatterjee (Director)/ 36 minutes
The documentary is on HIV/AIDS and the sex wokers of the red alert area in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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14. Quiet storm/ UNDP
The CD contains the flash film version of “Quiet Storm”, the photographic monograph celebrating the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS in South and North East Asia.
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15. A human question/ T. Jayashree (Director)/ 53 minutes
As the pandemic of HIV/AIDS surges on, individuals, groups and countries are struggling to preserve access to medicines, faced with the irony of new and better drugs on one hand, and increasing restrictions to these drugs on the other. ‘A Human Question’ explores personal, national and global dimensions of this struggle and responses to the new patent laws mandated by the WTO in name of protecting intellectual property. It voices perspectives that raise compelling questions about whether private knowledge has to be pitted against public good in the name of scientific progress.
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6. A life less ordinary/ Raabiya Jayaram (Director)/ 30 minutes
A film on children living with HIV in India. It looks at the lives of three children who talk openly about their life and how the HIV virus affects it. It also attempts to bring in the larger perspective of the status of HIV programs in the country, through the voices of practitioners who are working with HIV+ children.
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17. AIDS has a face/ T. Jayashree (Director)/ 17 minutes
This documentary explores an urgent question of our times – the access and ethic of AIDS treatments. Going between India and Germany, it examines the history of HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in the late ’80s & ’90s in Germany and then looks at the current situation. It calls for rethinking of prevention strategies, to address the steady rise in HIV infections, especially among youth.
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18. The burning issue and some burning questions/ Abhijit Dasgupta (Director)/ 30 minutes
Through candid interviews with HIV+ patients in Kolkata, these two films provide an insight into their lives and their struggle against social stigma and discrimination.
1. The burning issue
2. Some burning questions
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19. It’s not easy/ Faustin J. Misanvu (Director)/ 48 minutes
Dramatic representation of middle-class Africans and their struggle to deal with the realities and challenges posed when a married Ugandan business executive contracts HIV and passes the infection to his wife and unborn child.
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20. Life….Love….Hope…
A triology of short films on stigma and discrimination of people with HIV/AIDS
LIFE:
Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi/ 6 minutes
Life is a demonstration of how ignorance and lack of precise knowledge of HIV/AIDS can demean the dignity of victims. A film that reflects the contrasts and conflicts in human nature, what does it take to rise above it all and see that “Everyone is entitled to equal living”?
LOVE:
M. Sasikumar/ 4.35 minutes
In order to feel the love you have, you need to share it. But being caught up in the nitty gritty of things, you forget the innocence and the simple pleasures of life – sometimes to get that back, you have to learn from the most unexpected circumstances.
HOPE:
Mysskin/ 4.30 minutes
The last of the trilogy is hard – hitting and moving. It is a tight rope walk between loss and hope. The story underlines the inevitable loss brought upon by the epidemic, only to assure audacity of hope that is inimitably distinct only in such situations.
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21. Films on HIV and AIDS reflecting MSM and TG issues
BRIDGES OF HOPE:
14 minutes/ Hindi with English subtitles
Bridges of hope brings to light the issues faced by the MSM and TG communities in India with emphasis on their health issues and need to set up interventions for control of HIV. The firm brings forth the voices from the community and makes an effort to educate and sensitize health care providers and other stakeholders on issues of homosexuality. This film highlights the risk and vulnerability of the community and efforts of NACO showing its commitment to marginalized communities.
THE RIGHT WAY:
6 films/ 4 minutes/ Hindi and English
These are short films that demonstrate how to use condoms the right way. Targeted specifically to the MSM and TG community, it shows the Do’s and Dont’s of condom usage. Considering the high risk group and its vulnerability to STI as well as HIV and AIDS, it is important to educate the community in correct condom usage practices and safer sex.
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Films on Children issues
Children’s day is special day for the children. Universally, Children’s Day is celebrated on 20th November, every year.
But in India it is celebrated on 14th November, because the date marks the birth anniversary of legendary freedom fighter and independent India’s first Prime Minister – Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru.
CMCS Digital Archive also has a bunch of general films on children, irrespective of any specific issue. These films are listed as under –
1. Girija/ Department of Women and Child Welfare
30 minutes
This film highlights the social and the economic value of women by pointing out crucial role they play in society and the importance of their contribution in the economic well being of the family, community and society. It projects a positive image of the girl child and the strength of the women.
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2. Ahsas/ Aashish Roy (Director)
35 minutes
This documentary film is about the influence of the behaviour of elders on children.
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3. Chukki Mane/ MAYA
24 minutes
This film is a sharing of the experiences of MAYA over the years, in the field of Early Childhood Care and Education which have helped in affirming its approach of building on community capacities for development.
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4. One two three four/ R. V. Ramani (Director)
28 minutes
How to write stories for children? Do the stories need a positive end or a negative end. The filmmaker inspired by an Illustrator’s Workshop for children’s story books in Chennai, goes on an exploration into the world of children and their school life. Neela dreams, snake drank water, rabbit woke up, monkey jumped.
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5. I am/ Gautam Bose (Director)
16 minutes
This documentary emphasises on child education and education in general.
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6. Meena ki Kahaniyaan/ UNICEF
Animated short films on child education.
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7. Is School the thing that makes a King?/ Vani Subramanian & Surajit Sarkar (Director)
34 minutes
Dialogues With Children that interplays the experiences of children from government schools in tribal India to mainstream progressive schools and alternate schools for dropout children, and explores their expectations and pain, hopes and aspirations.
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8. Class of 2001/ Vani Subramanian & Surajit Sarkar (Director)
28 minutes
A documentary film on adult/community perceptions of present day currents and challenges in primary school education.
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9. Bal Vikas/ Kunwar Sinha (Director)
A film on development during toddlerhood.
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10. Of fish and tales/ Prakash Moorthy (Director)
23 minutes
Contains short animated films.
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11. Wall-E/ Andrew Stanton (Director)
98 minutes
Wall-E (short for Waste Allocation Lift Loader, Earth-Class) is the only one of his kind of robot left on earth after a botched attempt at trying to clean the earth that has been overrun with garbage.
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12. = X/ Eila Hutri (Director)
23 minutes
=X is a sci-fi film about recycling and a futuristic research centre.
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13. Printed rainbow/ Gitanjali Rao (Director)
15 minutes
A big city. A tiny apartment. There, in solitude, live an old woman and her cat, stuck in their daily chores against the hiss of the city.
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14. The jungle book/ Wolfgang Reitherman (Director)
78 minutes
The Jungle Book, based on the adaptation of Rudyard Kiplings classic novel, is a song-filled adventure that was the last animated film to receive.
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15. Children of Heaven/ Majid Majidi (Director)
89 minutes
In this simple family drama from Iran, two children invent an intricate plan to conceal the loss of a pair of shoes. The story line is based on two sweet kids who shower love and affection for each other.
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16. 10 on 10/ Meenakshi Rai & Vinay Rai (Director)
30 minutes
The film attempts to evolve a set of indicators for the filmmakers on what makes a good children’s film.
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17. Children of the new millennium/ Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
26 minutes
Ten years ago the UN warned “environmental degradation is killing children”. Today, while children make up only 12 per cent of the world’s population, they still suffer over half the burden of environmental diseases. This programme investigates, why?
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18. Armaan/ UNICEF
56 minutes
This film uses dance and expression of emotions and feelings through body movements on the backdrop of girls’ lives that are full of discrimation and denial of opportunities.
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World Mental Health Day 
World Mental Health Day falls on October 10. The theme for World Health Day 2010 is “Urbanisation & Health”. The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) focuses on attracting worldwide attention on burning global mental health issues through education, information, active support and resources.
In this context, CMCS Digital Archive has also taken a step to share the information about the films available in archive on Mental Health and illness.
1. Exploring Madness Series / Parvez Imam (Director)
Mental illnesses are one of the least understood problems in India. Myths and stigma add to the problems of people suffering from such illnesses. On the other hand there are issues of a lack of infrastructure to treat mental illnesses properly. This film, comprising of six short sections, brings together a variety of such issues related to mental illness in the Indian society. Each section deals with a different issue, ranging from people’s perceptions of mental illness to debates among professionals and from the problems of women languishing in mental hospitals to experiences of those who have recovered. Each film is grounded in the Indian context and explores a different aspect of mental illnesses from a social perspective.
1. Different strokes /4 minutes/ 2006
2. Sentenced for a lifetime / 3 minutes/ 2006
3. Mental illnesses – people and polices / 3.5 minutes/ 2006
4. Three women and the city /4 minutes/ 2006
5. Once upon a Madman /3 minutes/ 2006
6. Mind games /3 minutes/ 2005
7. Exploring madness /19 minutes/ 2005
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2. Forgotten million / Granada T. V.
107 minutes
This film looks at the ways in which different countries treat their mentally ill. The film documents the inhuman treatment such as admission without check-up, lack of medical or psychiatric treatment, torture, isolation and sheer neglect of mentally ill people in four countries – Japan, USA, India and Egypt.
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3. Reaching the unreached / Srinivasa Murthy (Director)
NIMHANS/ 11 minutes
The documentary is an evaluation of mental health facilities in Bangalore.
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4. What you really need to know about “stress” / Graeme Garden (Director)
60 minutes
The documentary is a humorous account of what stress is all about, its effects and strategies for coping with stress.
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5. Ankur : A film on mental disability / Vikas Jadhav (Director)
15 minutes
This documentary film is on the growth and development of the mentally retarded children.
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6. A burden of love: A documentary on Alzheimer’s disease / Brahmanand Singh (Director) ; Priti Chandriani (Director)
45 minutes
This evocative and warm documentary explores the status of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Indian context. Featuring many of those who suffer from it, their family members and caregivers and people from the medical fraternity, the film potrays aspects of this cruel illness with sensitivity and empathy. In the process, A Burden of Love also attempts to dispel myths and misconceptions and to highlight our social needs to manage this illness better.
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7. I want my father back/ Suma Josson (Director & Producer)
90 minutes
The film is on the suicide of farmers in Vidarbha, Maharashtra.
The film traces the lives of some of the farm families through interviews with ordinary farmers and activists. It also brings out the causes of these suicides: The Green Revolution, which imposed heavy expenditures on seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, and drove farmers into loan traps; and ‘Globalozation’ and the WTO (World Trade Organization) regime, which have reduced government support to farmers, and opened their markets to competition from highly subsidized foreign farmers.
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8. Like a spreading clod of earth on the soul / Elke Hockerts-Werner (Director)
58 minutes
This film explores the world of an autistic youth through his own writing. His writings, texts of unusual intensity, are a moving account of his desperate attempts to come to terms with his autism and a painful act of liberation from silence. It is an almost philosophical understanding of a disability that locks him in a cage of isolation.
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9. Schizophrenia: A family dilemma
51 minutes
This video is addressed to families of patients suffering from schizophrenia. It provides information about the nature management and treatment of schizophrenia to help better manage such patients. The film emphasizes the needs for more comprehensive and acceptable services for care of schizophrenic patients.
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10. A common cause for concern: Schizophrenia
55 minutes
This video is addressed to families of patients suffering from schizophrenia. It provides information about the turmoil of schizophrenia patients.
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