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JUNGLE DREAMS
A feature based on Chendru, a Bastar muria tribal who had acted in a Swedish film forty years ago. The present film studies the impact of the Swedish film on this simple tribal boy viz-a-viz his relationship with kinsmen and the changes in his life forty years later.
[ A ZDF (Germany) ] |
| Duration: 29 minutes |
Format: Betacam SP |
Language: German/English |
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BISHNOI COMMUNITY
The Bishnois of Rajasthan are a 500 year
old community living by environment-friendly tenets provided in their religion. Their practices have helped them sustain and prosper under harsh desert conditions, in marked contrast to other communities in the same region.
[ ZDF ] |
| Duration: 3 mts. |
Format: Betacam SP |
Language: English |
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ARE YOU WITH ME?
This feature gives an insight into the HIV & AIDS scenario in the state of Manipur in northeast India. It travels back into time into the beginnings of injecting drug use and the subsequent spread of the HIV virus. Following into present times, when awareness is much higher but the task to combat drug use, HIV & AIDS and the status of widows is formidable. In this context, the film puts a pioneering organization, the Manipur Network of Positive People, and its efforts in the community across the entire state into focus. The film is centred around people who tell the story of this difficult world in their own words.
[ Produced for DFID - PMO, India and Internews Europe ] |
| Duration: 38 minutes |
Format: HDV |
Language: English |
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Little Tales From India
This feature is based on personal stories of people living with HIV/AIDS in district Nizamabad, state of Andhra Pradesh in India.
[ Brot fur die welt, Germany ] |
| Duration: 52 mts. |
Format: HD |
Language: English |
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“SARASAR SACH”: THE WHITE LIE
This programme is about the Reservation Policy for tribals and lower-caste people in India. The policy periodically evokes hostile and aggressive reactions from urban and upper class groups. This class is basically unaware of the centuries-old religio-economic exploitation of the reserved group.
[ Doordarshan ] |
| Duration: 29 mts |
Format: U- Matic |
Language: Hindi |
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SPOTFILMS SHOWREEL
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JHARIA COAL FIELDS
An underground fire has been raging in the coal belt of Jharia, in Bihar, for the last 75 years. It has so far destroyed 40 million tons of coal, and been a constant threat to life in an area of 450 square kms. As yet, nobody has been able to find a method of tackling the fire.
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| Duration: 2:52 mts. |
Format: Beta SP |
Language: English |
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RIVER POLLUTION
Large-scale industrialisation and overpopulation in cities has choked and polluted the rivers. Water treatment is becoming an up-hill task for the authorities. There is greater need of checking the discharge of untreated industrial and human waste directly into the rivers.
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| Duration: 3:01 mts. |
Format: Beta SP |
Language: English |
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At the other end of the world: India. It was difficult for Chahinaz to imagine this country, poor but developed. The issue of women is another Indian paradox: on the one hand, women are worshipped as goddesses of knowledge (Saraswati), wealth (Laxmi) and power (Shakti)... On the other hand, thousands of women suffer domestic violence every day. Thousands of others are burned, poisoned because their dowries are not sufficient, or killed before birth through the technology of sex determination...
Of three and a half million elected representatives in India, over a third are now women. Does this mean a shift in attitudes? The Indian director Neelima Mathur takes us to a village in northern India, in the province of Himachal Pradesh, to meet Shakuntala Sharma. At 50, she was elected to the board of her village...
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A Land of Paradoxes
At the other end of the world: India. It was difficult for Chahinaz to imagine this country, poor but developed. The issue of women is another Indian paradox: on the one hand, women are worshipped as goddesses of knowledge (Saraswati), wealth (Laxmi) and power (Shakti)... On the other hand, thousands of women suffer domestic violence every day. Thousands of others are burned, poisoned because their dowries are not sufficient, or killed before birth through the technology of sex determination...
Of three and a half million elected representatives in India, over a third are now women. Does this mean a shift in attitudes? The Indian director Neelima Mathur takes us to a village in northern India, in the province of Himachal Pradesh, to meet Shakuntala Sharma. At 50, she was elected to the board of her village...
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| Duration: 7 mts. |
Format: HDV |
Language: English |
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