Films on Health in JAGORI RC (as on May 31, 2007)
Accn No. : CD17 and CD479
Title: Jachha Baccha ki Baatein, Gulabo Ki Kahani, Tota Maina Ki Zubaani
Producer : Akhil Bharatiya Auyrvigyan Sansthan
Duration : Approx.14 Mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Health; breastfeeding; nutrition; child care; maternal health; hygiene; health issues; women’s health; family planning; pandu rog
Abstract : This film is a presentation in two parts (Jachha Baccha ki Batein -CD17), and Gulabo ki kahani tota maina ki zubani- CD479).The first part is on post-natal mother child care. It firmly addresses the dangers of following blindly the traditional views on breast-feeding. The second part of the film is a dramatized presentation on maternal health. It specifically deals with “pandu rog”, a disease where the blood consistency becomes like that of water. This disease is caused due to acute nutritional deficiency in the mother.
Accn No. : CD25
Title : In the Name of Medicine
Mn.Entr. : Sasi K.P
Producer : CENDIT, ICRA, Sasi K.P
Duration : Approx.24 Mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; health impacts; health care; drug industry
Abstract : The film analyses the medical practices in India and the drug industry in particular. The film traces the history of the pharmaceutical industry in India when Western medicine slowly replaced Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani prevalent during the 17th century in India. As of today, the Indian drug industry, first among the Third World Nations, has grown from a meager 10 crore to more than 2000 crore in its revenue generation.
Accn No. : CD29
Title : My Name is Sister
Mn.Entr. : Singh Sehjo
Add Ent. : Jamal Anwar
Producer : MCRC, Singh Sehjo, Jamal Anwar
Duration : Approx.30 Mins.
Notes : Hindi, English
Keywords : Health, Work; health care; working conditions; women workers; nurse; women workers rights; women workers struggle; occupational hazard
Abstract : The film captures the moment when in January 1987, nurses in the hospitals of Delhi went on mass strike to protest on certain basic issues affecting their lives. The film captures the voices of these nurses when they share their living and working conditions. The film highlights the plight of the nurses -stressful working conditions, improper ratio of doctors and nurses in India, training and educational facility and living conditions.
Accn No. : CD30
Title : Kissa Bachhpan Ka-The story of childhood
Producer : UNESCO
Duration : Approx.60 Mins..
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Health; child birth; child care; health awareness; health education; health care,
Abstract : This documentary is about the care of an infant from conception to two years of age. It is presented in five episodes. The first episode discusses the birthing process; the second is on the development of body and brain of the new born; the third is on how the child learns to speak and talk; the fourth episode is the emotional development of the child and discovering the nature of the child and, the final episode is growth of the child in the first two years of life.
Accn No. : CD63
Title : Something like a War
Mn.Entr. : Dhanraj Deepa
Producer : Dhanraj Deepa, D &N Productions
Duration : Approx.60 Mins.
Notes : Hindi, EST
Keywords : Health ,Development; population; poverty; development issues; contraception; women’s health; family planning; birth control
Abstract : This film examines India’s National Family Planning Program from the perspective of women, who are its primary targets. The Program, launched in 1952, was formulated in collaboration with Western population control experts. It is based on the assumption that the irresponsible, anti-national breeding of the poor and control is the magical key to progress. The film traces the history of the family planning program and exposes the cynicism, corruption and brutality that characterize its implementation. It also raises questions about the ethics of internationally funded contraceptive research, which uses Indian women as guinea pigs. The women clearly establish that population control is an empty slogan in the absence of developmental inputs such as education, health care, land reforms, employment opportunities, social security and improvement in women’s status.
Accn No: CD70
Title : Girl Interrupted
Mn.Entr: Mangold James
Producer: 3 Art Entertainment, Mangold James
Prod Yr.: 2000
Duration: Approx.127 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords: Health; women’s health; mental health
Abstract: Set in the 60’s, the film is an account of the times spent in the Mental Institution by an eighteen year girl, Susanna Kaysen, who is a victim of neurosis and other problems of an average teenager. Susanna has the undeniable gift of the cynic and the pessimist, who still hasn’t made up her mind about life’s meaning and is upset about it, a condition called- borderline personality. An almost successful but unintentional suicide attempt lands her in the footsteps of Claymore, a mental institution. In the confined borders of the institution, Susanna is surprised to discover how well she identifies with the pain and flaws of fellow inmates. Here, the atmosphere is sans any prejudice or clichés. Here, everyone is a victim one way or the other. Far from the deplorable world outside the institution, she feels that she’s finally home. And it is this atmosphere that slowly gives way to the realization of her actual needs, her character and her purpose.
Accn No. :CD 82
Title : Jeevandaan
Mn.Entr. : Gupta Pankaj
Producer : CEDAC
Duration : Approx.8 Mins…
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Health; health care; training aid; blood donation
Abstract : This film is a step-by-step presentation of the process of blood donation. It begins with the donor signing a form, answering a few questions, and then having his/her blood tested before donating blood. A disposable needle should always be used when testing and then donating blood. The identity of the donor is kept anonymous as the donated blood is simply identified by a number. The blood is tested for a variety of things before being accepted by the bank. We should not buy blood from an unlicensed blood bank. The donor should be cautious about a few things, such as not to donate blood on an empty stomach, not to donate blood for three months if s/he has not been keeping well, or come down with illnesses like malaria, hepatitis among others. To curb fast-spreading diseases like AIDS, it is important to protect oneself so that one can then donate life-giving blood.
Accn No. : CD83
Title : Subaah ka Bhoola
Mn.Entr. : Gupta Pankaj
Producer : Gupta Pankaj, CEDAC
Duration : Approx.10 Mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Health; gonorrhea; sexually transmitted diseases; AIDS; contraception; nirodh; prostitution; health education; health awareness sexual health; birth control
Abstract : This is a ten minute spot on awareness on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).Ratan, a married man, gets gonorrhea from a prostitute. His friend takes him to the doctor where he is diagnosed of the disease. The physician tells Ratan that he could have passed on the disease to his wife, that he must try and have sex with one partner, but if this is not possible then he should use a condom (nirodh) throughout the sexual act. Also, the doctor does not blame prostitutes for the spread of diseases but rather their contact with multiple sex partners which results in diseases like gonorrhea and AIDS.
Accn No. : CD84
Title : Talking AIDS-Stopping AIDS
Mn.Entr. : Gupta Pankaj
Producer : CDAC
Duration : Approx.27 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; AIDS; health awareness; health education; HIV-AIDS; training
Abstract : This documentary gives the most basic facts about AIDS. It is presented through a question and answer format: What is AIDS? How is AIDS spread?, What does NOT spread AIDS?, Is there a vaccine for AIDS?- There is no cure for AIDS, nor any vaccine to protect people exposed to it. Why is AIDS dangerous? Since it can spread to the point where the whole world can be in its grip (the ripple effect). What can be done to prevent the spread of AIDS? -By the use of safe sexual practices. Besides this, legislative measures can be taken, such as testing the blood in blood banks also, through medical research to come up with a vaccine. But even if a vaccine did come up, the question is if every infected patient can afford it. So, the best method for now is to launch a massive educations program about AIDS through health groups, panchayats, mahila mandals, NGOs, trade unions, student unions, teachers, prostitutes (since they are most vulnerable to it), and other community based initiatives. In India this is yet to be done.
Accn No. CD 85
Title : Karate Khiladi
Mn.Entr. : Lamb Derek
Producer : Scott Mike, Lamb Derek
Duration : Approx.20 Mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Health; health education; health impacts; HIV- AIDS; animation; contraception; sexual health;sex education
Abstract : Karate Khiladi is a cartoon that covers a wide range of issues from child trafficking to sex education and AIDS awareness. Playful yet tragic, this cartoon underlines the prevalence of child trafficking and its relationship to the spread of the HIV virus this film is to spread awareness of AIDS, especially among the street children who number a 100 million in the world’s big cities. These children are most vulnerable to sexual abuse by pedophiles and also general about sex education. They may indulge in casual sex without knowing the full ramifications for their health.
Accn. No.CD86
Title : Suzie’s story
Mn.Entr. : Gillespie Iain
Duration : 21 Mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : HIV-AIDS; HIV-AIDS: women; health education
Abstract : This film is for an AIDS awareness program. A young woman has an affair with bisexual man. The symptoms appear after 5 years, two years after her marriage. It affects her limb movement and voice. A son born to her is also affected and has repeated blood transfusion to boost his immune system. Besides the physical effect; the attitude of self and other people is also changed. Also tells about wrong ideas about spread of disease.
Accn No. CD 87
Title : Karate Kids
Mn.Entr. : Lamb Derek
Producer : Scott Mike, Lamb Derek
Duration : Approx.20 Mins…
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; health education; health impacts; HIV- AIDS; animation; contraception; sexual health; sex education
Abstract : Karate Kids is a cartoon that covers a wide range of issues from child trafficking to sex education and AIDS awareness. Playful yet tragic, this cartoon underlines the prevalence of child trafficking and its relationship to the spread of the HIV virus this film is to spread awareness of AIDS, especially among the street children who number a 100 million in the world’s big cities. These children are most vulnerable to sexual abuse by pedophiles and also general about sex education. They may indulge in casual sex without knowing the full ramifications for their health.
Accn No. : CD95
Title : Nazariya
Mn.Entr. : Kumar Raman
Add Ent. : Nanda Vinta
Producer : Department of Family Welfare, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GOI
Duration : Approx.46 Mins..
Notes : Hindi, EST
Keywords : Health; child birth; child care; contraception; family planning; gender discrimination; health care; maternal health; social attitudes; status of women; pregnancy; Rajasthan
Abstract: The film is put together in a commercial format to keep the viewer interested with songs and a persistent debate about traditional methods of childbirth vis-a vis the ones conducted by trained ANM’s. Right age of marriage, timely birth and spacing of children and emphasis on a proper immunization schedule is stressed upon to ensure a healthy family. It makes for good viewing as the information dissemination is done in an interesting manner.
Accn No. : CD96
Title : Ten Selected Video Spots
Mn.Entr. : Dept. of Family Welfare
Duration : 25 Mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Reproductive Health; Contraception; Birth control; child marriage; Family planning; gender discrimination
Abstract : It is a collection of small films on family planning. The films discuss the wrong ideas people nurture about vasectomy. It stresses on the safety aspect of the procedure and refutes ideas about male weakness after the procedure. The film also highlights the problem of having too many children and its effect on the women’s health, girl-child marriage in young age and misconception about wife being responsible for producing girl child.
Accn No.: CD97
Title : Mahila Swasthya Sangh Scheme in India
Mn.Entr. : Saha P.K. Duration : 25 Mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Health Care; Women’s health; health programs ;Health care services; health education; government programs
Abstract : This film gives information about the Mahila Swasthya Sangh scheme presently being carried out in the states of Haryana, Punjab, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan .The objective of this scheme is to bring about mobilization and community awareness on health through drama, pictures, music and human interaction. This film shows how various issues like early marriage, female foeticide, nutrition, and the government workers along with the participation of village women have addressed immunization programs for children etc.
Accn No.104
Title : Chahe Handicapped Kaho
Mn.Entr. : Alkazi Feisal
Keywords : Health care services; children; disability; polio; pregnancy; social attitudes
Abstract : This film focuses on children suffering from polio, cerebral palsy and various other diseases. It depicts various reasons for taking preventive measures during birth of the child. It gives the message that a handicapped child should not be neglected in the society, rather should be given proper space, love, care and attention.
Accn No.108
Title : Sanjay Mutto-Testing of hound
Mn.Entr. : MCRC
Duration : 120 Mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Health education; HIV-AIDS; Sex work
Abstract : The film is divided into three parts wherein the first one tells us about the hold of advertising in our daily lives and how unknowingly we are becoming the victims of a consumerist world .The second part shows how we are all part of a system, which is inherently mortal, regardless of what part we play in life. The third part is on AIDS, the manner in which it is mainly linked to commercial sex workers and lower class. It explores the attitude of the society towards AIDS victims, how the virus is spreading through blood banks, unsafe sex and ignorance of the people. And finally how it is has resulted in the increase of child prostitution because of the myth - virgin girls are a cure for aids.
Accn No. : CD111
Title : Odhni
Mn.Entr. : Montero Anjali
Add Ent. : Jaishankar
Producer : Dept of Health Services Studies
Duration : Approx.23 Mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Society; gender roles; sexuality; sexual politics; manhood; reproductive health; sexual rights; masculinity
Abstract : This documentary is a conversation among women on gender roles and sexuality through photographs. The picture shows women maintaining the house and keeping the peace in the family. Girls are being habitually stopped from going outside as that could endanger the honor of the family. The women then talk about sex and sexual politics.
Accn No. : CD123
Title : Artificial Eye: An Angel At My Table
Mn.Entr. : Champion Jane
Producer : Ikin Bridget
Duration : Approx. 111 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Creativity; biography; mental health
Abstract : In the film, the shy and introverted Janet, an ugly duckling, grows up in a materially poor but intellectually intense family that provides understanding and encouragement for her poetic tendencies. While at a teachers’ college, a nervous breakdown is misdiagnosed as schizophrenia. She spends 8 years in a hospital, receiving the full service of over 200 shocks of electrotherapy. After publication of her first book, she is saved from lobotomy. With the help of a grant Janet travels to Europe in the 1950s.In London a psychiatrist assures her that she never had schizophrenia. She returns to New Zealand when her father dies.
Accn No. : CD133
Title : Mental Health
Mn.Entr. : Ranade Shilpa
Producer : Dept. Of Medical and Psyciatric Social Work-TISS
Duration : Approx.60 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; mental health; health care; social stigma; social attitudes; social oppression; society; interventions: strategies; law
Abstract: This documentary can be broadly divided into four parts. The first part is a history of the laws relating to Mental Health in India, from the colonial times (India Lunacy Act, 1912) to the post-independence period up to the late 1980s (Mental Health Act, 1987). The second part is the changes brought about in the treatment of patients, such as greater emphasis on therapeutic versus clinical care. The third part is on the stigma attached to mentally ill patients in the medical community and the society at large. The fourth is on the role of voluntary agencies in the treatment of such patients. The thrust of such agencies is to bridge gaps in state-run mental health services. Community treatment is also practiced. This way, the therapists, parents and the community together help the person to restructure his/her personality. This film ends on the note that present funding resources are very meager and that more funds are needed to adequately help the mentally ill.
Accn No. : CD134
Title : Aaye Begane Desh-II -Sasural: Aurat ki jeevan jatra
Mn.Entr. : Dewan Meera
Producer : SouthView Productions
Duration : Approx.25 Mins..
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Health; gender constructs; gender discrimination; gender roles; mental health
Abstract : This film is on the emotional endurance of women. For a young women life is associated with the kitchen and home. A career girl has to take care of the house as well or face conflict in marriage. She has to forget her identity before her new family can accept her. A rebellious woman is not tolerated in society. A woman has to shut her eyes to these truths and then exist. Reflecting on the past the love given as a daughter, the dream of a good marriage, the pride of becoming a mother and having ones own house is sheer madness. For women who have a break down, the asylum is a convenient place to get rid of them. There is no space that they can call their own. Is there a place that is not alien to them? Is there someone they can call their own?
Accn No. : CD139
Title : Chhupi si Zindagi
Mn.Entr. : Mishra Monalisa
Producer : Mishra Monalisa,Venkataraman Ramesh
Duration : Approx.81 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; HIV-AIDS; social stigma; social structure
Abstract : Asha and Khursheed have never met and do not know the other exists. Both have endured severe isolation and fear. They do not appear in the film, but the dramatized narrative stuns, and bares even our basic ideas about those living with and affected by HIV. No statistics, no tears, no `victims. Just people: their living, not impending death.
Accn No. : CD143
Title : The Indonesian Way
Mn.Entr. : Anand Anita
Producer : Anand Anita,Womens Feature Service
Duration : Approx. 26 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; family planning; health issues; Indonesia
Abstract : With a population of 194 million, Indonesia has the worlds fourth largest population. It also has an impressive drop in birth rate in the last two decades. Much of this progress is due to the unique approach of the government, non-governmental organizations and the religious groups; to bring about a community based approach to family planning and an enhanced quality of life. The film documents the various aspects of the family planning program by speaking to the individuals and organizations that have helped to shape the program.
Accn No. : CD144
Title : The Yellow Haze
Mn.Entr. : Singh Suniti
Duration : Approx.25 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; contraception; health impacts; women’s health
Abstract : This film is an information package on Quinacrine, an anti-malarial drug used by soldiers during World War II but later found to have contraceptive properties. If inserted in the uterus, it causes irreversible sterilization.
Accn No. : CD165
Title : Half Life….A Parable For The Nuclear Age
Mn.Entr. : O’Rourke Dennis
Producer : O’ Rourke Dennis
Duration : Approx.86 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Protests and Movements, Violence; environmental pollution; health impacts; nuclear bomb; Marshall Islands
Abstract : The title of the film, Half Life, is to highlight the effects of a nuclear war on human health and the termination of human life. The Atomic Energy Commission of USA had estimated that Bravo-the Hydrogen bomb would be at least 500 times more powerful than the earlier tests at Bikini. Bravo was detonated on the planned date, March 1, 1954. People began to fall sick and are sick to this day (film made in 1985). Many children were born deformed and people continue to be sick till today. Recent studies show that the radioactive danger to the Marshall Islands is many times greater than the official estimates.
Accn No. : CD172 (Part1)
Title : Women And Health: Women’s Resource Kit: Changing Media Images of Women in Asia
Duration : Approx.100 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; women’s health; health care; status of women
Abstract : This video is a resource kit on women and health. It is part of the Changing Media Images of Women in Asia series. This video uses pictures, advertisements and real life situations to draw attention to women’s health.
Accn No. : CD172 (Part2)
Title : Women And Health: Fifth International Congress on Women and Health, 1992
Duration : Approx.143 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; women’s health; health issues; conference; Copenhagen
Abstract : This video is on the Fifth International Congress held at Copenhagen in 1992. The main theme of the Congress was on Environment, Health and Daily Life. This video covers the talk given by the first two keynote speakers, Kamla Bhasin and Ann Oakley. Kamla Bhasin speaks about women’s health from a global perspective, that is, the need to have sustainable development so that women’s health and daily life is not jeopardized owing to the destruction of their environment. Ann Oakleys talk centered around a western perspective, especially a critique of the medical science establishment as well as on the kinds of medical research being done on women.
Accn No. : CD185
Title : Formula Fix
Producer : Wiadrowski Sally
Duration : Approx.45 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; child care; health awareness; health impacts; Pakistan; nutrition; breastfeeding
Abstract : This film is about the increased infant deaths due to malnutrition. This film is shot in Karachi, Pakistan where the infant death rate is very high due to the substitution of infant foods to breast-feeding. Infant death rates are also high due to contaminated water, pollution, unhygienic conditions etc. Women in rural areas should be given health education and training so that it becomes possible to a certain extent to curtail infant deaths.
Accn No. : CD193
Title : Using Your New Diaphragm
Mn.Entr. : Wallace Peggy
Producer : Wallace Peggy
Duration : Approx.10 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; contraception; health education; women’s health; training aid
Abstract : This video shows how a woman can insert and remove a diaphragm. Dr. David A. Grimes demonstrates this through a model and one of the clients learns to insert and remove her diaphragm. A spermicidal jelly is also to be used on the diaphragm before insertion and should stay in the vagina for six hours after sex. A beginner should learn to insert and remove it several times before having sex. This will help also in removing the awkwardness when using the diaphragm for the first few times. The diaphragm does not interfere with any activities of the user. The sex partner will not feel the diaphragm if is correctly inserted. The diaphragm should be washed with warm water and soap, and put in a cool place. It should be changed after every two years of use.
Accn No. : CD194
Title : You Are Talking To Me Now?
Mn.Entr. : Berry Mike
Producer : Hygia Communications
Duration : Approx. 32 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; interventions: strategies; training aid
Abstract : This video is part of a training package to train young counselors. Some of the lessons learned by the young counselors after sitting at counseling sessions with trained counselors. :(i) Trying to get the clients to talk. This can be done by inviting them to group discussions (ii) Learning to break a piece of Talking to superiors about problems faced in counseling (v) Keeping things confidential (vi) Building up self-esteem of the client so they can adequately describe their feelings (vii) Giving enough time to the client so that s/he can deal with the information (such as a piece of bad news) and then continue with the discussion (viii) The need to challenge a client after gaining his/her confidence (ix) Feeling nervous about counseling (x) Knowing that there is a lot to learn before becoming an experienced counselor (xi) Learning to understand what the clients feel is best for them. The job of a counselor is to help the client realize this, and then help them act on it.
Accn No. : CD195
Title : I’ve Got Gonorrhea
Mn.Entr. : Berry Mike
Producer : Hygia Communications
Duration : Approx. 31 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Society; sexuality; sexually transmitted diseases; gonorrhea; marriage; interventions: strategies
Abstract : This video is on a counseling session between a husband and a wife, with the wife has contracted gonorrhea from the husband. However, gonorrhea is just one part of the problem. The real problem expressed by the wife is lack of time, attention and care during the pregnancy and after the birth of the baby. The husband feels neglected because the wife refuses penetrative sex. At the end of the session, the counselor recommends that the couple go for marriage guidance and sexual counseling. This video is part of a training package for trainees learning to do sexuality counseling.
Accn No. : CD197
Title : Are You Good Enough For You?
Mn.Entr. : Mike Berry
Producer : Hygia Communications
Duration : Approx. 44 Mins..
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; marriage; reproductive health; reproductive rights; contraception; sexual health; sexuality; family honor; Diaspora; health awareness
Abstract : This video is on a group counseling session with girls from the South Asian community in London. The topic under discussion is arranged marriages. Several of the young women are going to have an arranged marriage in the near future. Several questions are posed to the young women: How do you about yourself? How do you feel about arranged marriage? How do you feel about using contraceptives? How do you feel about your body? How do you feel about the first night? This video is one of a series designed for counseling training in sexuality.
Accn No. : CD201
Title : The Diaphragm: The Feasible Choice; Vol 1
Mn.Entr. : Biomedical Communication of University-California
Duration : Approx.40 Mins..
Notes : Portugese, EST
Keywords : Health; contraception; women’s health; Brazil; training aid
Abstract : This is a Brazilian video aimed at a Brazilian audience, but the content can be useful cross culturally. The video introduces the diaphragm as a viable and positive method of contraception. Through interviews with both women and health professionals, the video addresses all of the salient issues involved in deciding to choose to use a diaphragm. It also includes a group orientation that provides a thorough and interactive way of familiarizing women with their own bodies and with the diaphragm through models and self-examination.
Accn No.: CD202
Title: La Operation from Puerto Rico
Mn. Entr: Anveshi
Duration: Approx. 35 Mins..
Notes: Spanish (EST)
Keyword: Puerto Rico; women’s health; reproductive health; sterilization; contraception
Abstract: It uses a mix of interviews with women and doctors as well as a historical narrative interspersed with historical footage. Puerto Rico was one of the first countries to launch massive population and sterilization campaigns in response to development and modernization. In the name of progress Puerto Rico’s officials in collaboration with US Aid Agencies launched a campaign that has been called eugenic and genocidal. The population policy in the 1960’s also included mass experimentation with the contraceptive pill for women. These studies were conducted without knowledge or consent of the participants. The conclusion of the film, in 980 shows that while the population has been greatly affected by the campaigns, poor quality of life and incidence of poverty has actually increased, therefore disapproving any direct causation between the two.
Accn No. :CD 222
Title: Sanitation – CRN
Mn Entr: CENDIT
Notes: English/Hindi
Duration: 70 Mins.
Keyword: rural development; sanitation;
Abstract: The film features the birth of indigenous toilets [cheap and useful] made by Sarvodaya Samiti. The material i.e. red clay is sourced from the village itself and it is cheap. The masons are trained and instructed. The next film in the series is about low cost sanitation, where it is shown that diarrhea, cholera, typhoid are all caused by human defecation in the open. The third in the series is how rural sanitation for better health is essential as most water bodies are used for defecation, washing clothes, bathing which in turn causes epidemic.
Accn No. : CD225
Title : Wait Until Death
Mn.Entr. : Sen Supriya
Producer : Perspective Audio-Visuals,1995
Duration : Approx.55 Mins.
Notes : Bengali, EST
Keywords : Work; stone crushing industry; pollution; silicosis; fibrosis; health impacts; working conditions; occupational hazard; workers
Abstract : The film highlights the plight of villagers in West Bengal where a stone crushing factory has caused death to its workers. The most common disease diagnosed is that of silicosis, which happened due to dust inhalation from the crushing machines. This documentary weaves together the collective irresponsibility of the government (local and state), the political parties, politicians and the factory owners.
Accn No.: CD227
Title: Chilkana Camp
MnEntr: Chani G.S.
Duration: 43 Mins.
Notes: Hindi
Keywords: health care; women’s health
Abstract: This is a short play like film on health camp held in a village Chilkana. It examines not only health issues related to women; it touches on other sensitive aspects of a woman’s existence. Told in the form of an entertaining “story” it also shows the camp brings about a certain realization into those who attend and changes many lives in the village
Accn. No.: CD230
Title: Aids and Women - The Greatest Gamble
Main Entr: Peregrine Productions
Notes: English
Keywords: women’s health, HIV-AIDS
Abstract: The film is about the spread of AIDS among women and what you can do to stop the disease. The film goes through the lives of five women who are living with the HIV virus and now they cope with the disease.
Accn. No.: CD239
Title: Terminating Numbers
MnEntr: Khan Aminul Kawser
Notes: English
Duration: 15 Mins
Keyword: Bangladesh; population policies
Abstract: This documentary provides a glance at issues relating to population policies in Bangladesh. The main focus of the film is to reveal how current strategies to decrease the population are based on the false assumption that children of the poor are at the heart of the problem. In turn it also opposes the sterilization of poor, uninformed Bangladeshi women and the distribution of foreign contraceptive among them.
Accn No.: CD259
Title : Adha Asman
MnEntr: Mishra Samina
Notes: Hindi
Duration: 32 Mins
Keywords: Health issues; health care; women’s health
Abstract: Adha Aasman is a video about differential access to healthcare, about what pushes healthcare beyond the reach of most women in India.
Accn No.: CD298
Title: Prasab Nandini- Nandini Birth Scene
Notes: Hindi
Duration: 40mins.
Keywords: childbirth: homebirth; childbirth; dai
Abstract: This film is about birthing which depicts the skills of Dais and their practical knowledge of birthing. The immediate question that arises is of the un-hygienic conditions during the child -birth. The Dai uses a blade to cut the umbilical cord. More attention is paid to bring the baby out rather than anything else.
Accn No.:CD 299
Title: Guzar Jaegi Raat
Main Entr: Ahmad Khalid
Notes: Hindi
Duration: 90 Mins.
Keyword: women’s health; health issues; health training
Abstract: Written and directed by Khalid Ahmad is a story about a semi-literate rural woman who comes in contact with a group of community health workers and a doctor. And therein begins her journey towards emancipation. She begins to work with them and this economic independence instills in her the courage to question and prejudices, traditions and superstitions both in her domestic sphere as well as her community.
Accn No.: CD302
Title: Anant
Mn.Entr. : Kumar Raman
Producer : Voluntary Health Association of India
Duration : 50 Mins.
Notes : Hindi: EST
Keywords : HIV-AIDS; Social attitudes; Social attitudes; social stigma
Abstract : Four people from different walks of life are drawn together under compelling circumstances in the AIDS ward of a city hospital. The world comes crashing down for film star with the realization that he is HIV positive which he acquired as a consequence of his drug injecting habit. He comes across three other persons, a housewife and her daughter and a commercial sex worker in the hospital, all undergoing emotional trauma due to discrimination and rejection by society on account of being HIV positive. The innocence of the little girl draws everyone into a common bond of friendship. The story revolves around their will to overcome odds and live positively and enjoy the remaining days of their life.
Accn No.: CD319
Title: Hamari Baatein
MnEntr: Bedi Nandini
Duration: 63 Mins.
Notes: Hindi (EST)
Keyword: women’s empowerment; body politics; women workers; health issues
Abstract: A small community of women have been at work in Delhi bringing about an awareness amongst women that there bodies are not the property of the state, their families or their men but their own…to value and to be ashamed of. These are ordinary women from the lower economic group of society, who came to work with Action India Women’s Program and over the years chose a way of life that changed their position and status at home.
Accn No.: CD320
Title: Prateeksha
MnEntr: Sharma Tripurari
Duration: 40 Mins
Notes: Hindi
Keywords: women’s health; Rajasthan; health issues; health care; health care services
Abstract: This is a short teleplay about a woman in a village in interior Rajasthan who falls ill with tuberculosis and faces tremendous hurdles in getting even simple medical attention. Owing to the low status of women in such family, her health needs are considered unimportant and largely ignored. Besides lack of health facilities in rural areas, bureaucracy in government health centers, insensitivity and lack of timely intervention by village men-folk are all highlighted in the film.
Accn No.: CD328
Title: Unmasking AIDs
MnEntr: Illistra films
Duration: 43 Mins
Notes: English
Keywords: HIV-AIDS, health issues; health awareness
Abstract: Unmasking AIDs is about a group of friends who attend a youth club set in a multi-racial area of East London. Ginny’s mother Gwen (a family planning worker) helps the young people to produce some improvised dramas on HIV prevention. The real life tensions and dilemmas between Ginny and her mother get mixed up in a ‘mask play’ that culminates in a dramatic finale. The play shows that men and women of all ages may have worries about HIV infection and that talking honestly about sex can sometimes change negative attitudes and behaviors.
Accn No. : CD376
Title : Leprosy Media Campaign Programs: Spots and Dramas
Mn.Entr. : Doordarshan
Duration : Approx.52 Mins..
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Health; leprosy; health education; health issues
Abstract : This video consists of three spots to eliminate the myths surrounding leprosy.
Accn No. : CD396
Title : Controlling Diarrhea
Mn.Entr. : WHO
Duration : Approx.125 Mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Health; health awareness; health care; health education; health impacts; diarrhea; typhoid; polio; malaria; sanitation; animation
Abstract : The film consists of seven parts showing the importance of sanitation in the control of diseases like diarrhea, typhoid, polio, malaria etc. The concept of sanitation is explained followed by the ways to ensure a good sanitation system. This includes methods of storing and using water, construction of a two-pit latrine, soak pit, garbage pit and the smokeless chulha. It ends with spots using popular television characters to reiterate the need and importance of sanitation. An interesting feature about the film is the use simple animation to explain the process of spreading disease and other concepts.
Accn No. : CD413
Title: Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda
Mn.Entr.: Shriprakash
Duration : Approx. 56 Mins.
Notes : Hindi, EST
Keywords : Health issues, Development; Jharkhand; mining; health impacts; protests; development induced displacement; development issues: critique
Abstract : The film is based in Jharkhand, which has large forested areas and a number of tribal communities residing in it. In East Singbhum district, Jadugoda a tribal village gained prominence due to its uranium deposits discovered by the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) and finds use in making nuclear devices and weapons. When the mining began, the management did not tell the villagers about radiation or its affects and did not take any safety measures to protect either the environment or the people working in and living around the mines. The company did not provide any medical support, insurance or rehabilitation to the villagers. People were displaced and dismissed and their houses were razed to the ground by UCIL with support from the administration and paramilitary forces off the area of the mines. The film then focuses on peoples protest against the situation and their continuing efforts to ensure their rights in the form of safety, employment and medical security.
Accn No. CD442
Title : Suniye Mr. Gopal ki: HIV-AIDS par ek charcha
Mn.Entr. : Arts Media
Duration : Approx. 151 Mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Health; health awareness; health education; HIV-AIDS; interventions: strategies
Abstract : This is a training film for resource persons and community groups on the prevention and care of HIV/AIDS. The film provides comprehensive information about HIV/ AIDS; how it spreads while breaking myths about how it does not; testing for the disease; prevention and who would need this information.
Accn No. : CD446
Title : A Dialogue on Health and Healing
Producer : Initiatives: Women In Development
Duration : Approx. Mins.
Notes : Hindi, EST
Keywords : Health; health awareness; health education; child birth; sexual health; sexuality
Abstract : This film is on a mela organized to celebrate and honor healers all over India for their contribution to women’s health concerns. It was held on January 7-11, 2002. Four major issues were discussed: knowledge of ones own body, self-defense, organic farming and sexuality. The mela ended on the note that the issues raised here should take the form of a campaign and a movement.
Accn No. : CD453
Title : Growing up
Mn.Entr. : Arora Venu
Duration : Approx.48 Mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Society; sex education; reproductive health; adolescence; health education; sexuality
Abstract : Growing Up is a 3-part series on sex education and Reproductive Health for 11-15 year olds. This series makes extensive use of puppets, sing along songs and animation; making the film a fun filled learning experience for children. The first in the series is titled From Small to Big and is about human reproductive anatomy and puberty, and the physiological changes that occur with its onset. The second part is titled-Its Not Just Physical. It is about adolescence -the beginning of emotional growth and mental maturity. The third part of the series is titled Boy meets Girl. It is the time when girls and boys start to attract each other with their clothes and make-up styles. Also a time for infatuation and first dating experiences. It is a time when sex and sexuality begins to appear on the horizon, the confusions about it and its consequences.
Accn No. : CD490
Title : Supersize me: A film on epic proportions
Mn.Entr. : Spurlock Morgan
Duration : Approx.100 Mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Health; United States; health impacts; obesity; food habits
Abstract : In Supersize me, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and by subjecting himself to a “MacDonald’s only” diet for thirty days straight. His Sundance award winning feature is as entertaining as it is horrifying as it dives into corporate responsibility, nutritional education, school lunch programs and how we as a nation are eating ourselves to death.
Accn No.CD554
Title : Rikki Tikki Tavi
Mn.Entr. : Suri Surender
Duration : 75 Mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Health Care; Disability
Abstract : British Officer Lawsin’s John and Chand, a local boy, are great friends, who love the beauty and creatures of the forest. One monsoon day, the heavy rains force the dam gates to open and the flood waters carry away the struggling animals. John jumps in to save a falling mongoose, and on bringing him ashore he finds that the ice cold waters have paralyzed his legs. John names him Rikki. One day, a snake comes to bite John while he was dozing off in the garden while reading a book. The birds inform Rikki to save John. During a gallant fight, Rikki emerges a hero while John miraculously gains back strength in his legs.
Accn No.CD532
Title : The Bhopal Survivors Story
Mn.Entr. : Razak Ruma
Duration : Approx. 27 Mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords: Protests and Movements; protests; health impacts; environmental pollution; Bhopal Gas tragedy; interventions: strategies
Abstract : On March 2004, twenty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy women from 12 bastis gather around the house of the State Minister for Welfare and demand for clean drinking water. There are
5,00,000 people who are still suffering from the gas leak in 1984. Union Carbide did not provide any solution to the problem or disclose the chemicals released during the gas leak. Seeing the plight of the victims, an NGO, Sambhavna Trust, was set up. It did an indepth study of the consequences of the gas on human beings.
Acc No.CD547
Title : Neel Parbat ke Paar
Mn.Entr. : Anand Vivek
Duration : 73 Mins
Notes : Hindi; EST
Keywords : Health care; Children’s film
Abstract : Devraj is a dynamic boy who displays a great sense of heroism and selflessness. Having lost his father in a mountain accident, and much to his mother’s wishes, he helps his aged grandfather in tending their flock. There is an also a matter of getting a life saving herb which would save his sister. The story traces their journey to the area where the herb grows and the numerous near death collisions they encounter with nature……
Accn No. CD571
Title : Erin Brockovich
Mn.Entr. : Soderbergh Steven
Duration : 130 Mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Single mother; Environment; Health impacts; protests and movement
Abstract : Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in USA.
Accn No.CD585
Title : Poster Women
Mn.Entr. : Zubaan
Keywords : Women’s movement; campaigns; violence against women; health; environment; literacy; political participation; religion; communalism; women’s rights
Abstract : A visual history of the women’s movement in India. This is a collection of posters on various facets of the women’s movement – health, environment, violence, literacy, political participation; religion and communalism, women’s rights amongst others.
Accn No. CD602
Title : Gender Trouble
Mn.Entr. : Mortimer Roz
Duration : Approx. 24 Mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Sexuality; gender issues; identity politics; health care; hemaphrodism; intersex women
Abstract : In this sensitive, thought provoking and moving experimental documentary, four intersex women speak about hemaphrodism, surgery, gender and identity with eloquence and candour. This film questions how medicine and society have treated the intersexes, and breaks the codes of silence and secrecy that have surrounded their lives.
Films on Violence Against Women in JAGORI RC (as on June 30, 2007)
Accn No. : CD12
Title : Voices of Baliapal
Mn.Entr. : Joshi Vasudha
Add Ent. : Palit Ranjan
Producer : Joshi Vasudha, Palit Ranjan
Duration : Approx.43 mins
Notes : Oriya, EST
Keywords : Protests and movements; land rights; protests; violence against women; violence against women: campaigns
Abstract : The film depicts the agitation of the residents of Baliapal over the issue of their relocation and conversion of Baliapal into missile testing range. The residents refuse to leave the land and refer to Baliapal as the “Land of Gold “which is their means of livelihood. The campaign is to retain their land is expressed by non violent medium plays, street theatre, songs and demonstrations and refuse any kind of compensation towards the eviction.
Accn No. : CD37
Title : Breaking the Barrier
Mn.Entr. : Narain Sushma
Producer : TISS, Narain Sushma
Duration : Approx.60 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Violence; domestic violence; Mathura rape case; dowry; Sec498A; role of Government; women’s cell
Abstract : This documentary is a journey into domestic violence in India. It starts out with the social situation of women victims of domestic violence and then links it up with the role of the state and women’s movement on this issue. It was women’s collectives that first offered a platform where women could speak out about domestic violence. However, the thrust of these collectives and the women; movement was on dowry deaths. Dowry deaths were recognized as the only form of domestic violence. Despite the thrust on dowry, the movement did bring the issue of domestic violence into the fore, which resulted in a legal amendment, Section 498A, that criminalized domestic violence. (The women’s movement had a split verdict on Section 498A. Some felt that is did enough for victims of domestic violence while other s felt it did nothing. The argument of the latter was that Section 498A did not answer the need of the women’s economic rights, marital rights and rights to shelter, issues which the domestic violence bill did.)Implementing Section 498A though became difficult. The police force (part of the state apparatus) wanted to stay away from the issue, unless a woman claimed dowry harassment and/or serious physical and psychological violence. The police were given training but the change in attitudes was minimal. Exploring options other than legal reforms is what the state did to make itself more accessible to women. The police accepted the proposal by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to set up a special cell for women victims of domestic violence. Here they could talk about their violence and receive support.
Accn No. : CD40
Title : Stree Dhan Ya Nidhan?
Mn.Entr. : Singh Nalini
Producer : Singh Nalini
Duration : Approx.28 mins
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence; dowry; violence against women; marriage; stree dhan
Abstract : The religious texts do not mention the giving of dowry, but there is mention of stree dhan. Stree dhan is the wealth that a girl brings from her parents/family and is only for her use. In the modern times though, stree dhan has been replaced by dowry. A woman has no right over dowry. But why has stree dhan been replaced by dowry? A girl is seen as a burden and dowry is given as compensation for her uselessness. It is this perception that leads women to be harassed and even killed for dowry.
Accn No. : CD52 and CD103
Title : The Women Betrayed and Atmaghaat
Mn.Entr. : Singh Sehjo
Add Ent. : Jamal Anwar
Producer : Singh Sehjo, Jamal Anwar
Duration : Approx.40 mins
Notes : English
Keywords : Violence, Development; development: feminist critique; development issues; tribals; Jharkhand witch hunt; widows; violence against women; political parties
Abstract : This film is a critique of development from a women’s perspective. The forest and hills of Jharkhand were enough to meet the needs of the tribal people of the area. But then came “development”; the forests were cut and the hills were mined, for coal and iron. When the forests and hills were laid barren, the tribal villages fell to sickness, disease and economic collapse. People’s anger against poverty was transferred on to the weakest members of the community- women, and specially widows. Women were targeted as witches. Family members began accusing their women of being witches. Old widowed women were killed because they were physically weak and a burden on the family. Young widows were also targeted because their youthfulness could threaten the modern and (sexual) order of the village. The political parties paid no attention to the situation-it was seen as a cultural issue to be resolved by the tribal people themselves. The film ends on the note that the tribal people have to take care of their own problems, that the government was not going to solve the social and economic issues confronted by them. “We will search for our own answers,” says a woman.
Accn No. : CD66
Title : Reaching for half the sky’ Fourth National Conference on Indian Women’s Movement, in Calicut Conference, 28th-31st.Dec, 1991.
Producer : Khaudaijee Frani, Shroff Behroz
Duration : Approx.46 mins
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Protests and Movements; women’s movement; development issues; property rights; health issues; politics; religion; fundamentalism; media; single women; widowhood; Calicut Conference
Abstract : This film is a documentary on the Fourth National Conference of the Indian Women’s Movement held in Calicut between 28th.-31st. Dec, 1991.There are eight broad themes presented at the Conference: the Women’s Movement, Women’s Education and National Policy Planning; Violence Against Women; Women, Property Rights and the Law; Health; Women and Politics; Religious Fundamentalism and Casteism; Women and Media; and a special session on Single Women. The participants raise important questions for furthering the cause of the Women’s Movement, such as how to generate knowledge of women. The other questions deal with practical issues confronted by women, such as how to start a women’s publishing house, or how to set up family courts.
Accn No. : CD67
Title : Labismina: A survivor of child sexual abuse returns from the underworld
Mn.Entr. : Karimjee Mumtaz
Add Ent. : Lindsay River
Duration : Approx.28 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Violence; children; sexual abuse; training aid; mythology
Abstract : A tape slide by Mumtaz Karimjee with Lindsay River, songs and paintings by Carmen Tunde Williams. The audio visual shows how sexual abuse exists within a historical context of violence where children, women and peoples have been seen, and (ab) used as property. Labismina draws on references to abuse in early written mythology and makes explicit the connections between medical, colonial and sexual violence. Using songs, painting, shadow puppetry, masks, self-portraiture and other imagery, a Black survivors search for own reality is juxtaposed with an analysis of the pervasiveness of abuse in all societies and moves into powerful transformation. Many women-survivors, counselors, and women in education have seen Labismina. The response has been very positive and most have commented that they would find it a very useful training aid.
Accn No. : CD71
Title : Breaking the silence
Mn.Entr. : Anand Anita
Producer : Anand Anita,Women’s Feature Service
Duration : Approx. 28 mins
Notes : English
Keywords : Protests and movement, Violence; violence against women; women’s rights; human rights violation; human rights; violence against women: campaigns
Abstract : This is a documentary on the Global Tribunal of Violations against Women’s Human Rights. It addresses issues related to violence against women in the family and the public sphere. It is for the first time that women’s rights as human rights has been accepted as an integral part Of the Human Rights Agenda. Representatives from almost 1000 NGOs gathered together to publicize their cause, strategize and network with other similar groups through workshops, meetings and conferences. At the end of the conference the women laid out specific actions to be taken: to have their governments formerly recognize that women’s rights are human rights; real structural change to integrate women’s concerns into every level of UN operations and actions to guarantee women’s human rights worldwide including the appointment of a rapporteur on systematic gender discrimination and violence against women.
Accn. No.:CD 90
Title : Khasman Khanian
Mn.Entr. : Gauhar Madeeha
Producer : Ajoka Productions
Duration : 60 mins
Notes : Punjabi
Keywords : Violence against women; Pakistan; Gender Discrimination;
Abstract : Street play on women who are called husband eaters. This is a prelude to the Pakistani play Bari which looks at the lives of three women prisoners. The play captures the misfortune of women born in this world for the sole purpose of catering to the needs of others and in this process of victimization, they are encouraged to be submissive and lose their sense of identity to be known as virtuous people. Victim’s of rape are denied the space to voice their feelings and are humiliated by a barrage of questions which are voyeuristic in nature and tend to circumvent the real issue of violence. The birth of a girl is seen as shameful and sinful making one wonder about their presence in the larger scheme of things. The climax of the play displays that women have clearly not been given their due; ironically because they are the victims not perpetrators of violence.
Accn No. : CD93
Title : Sati
Mn.Entr. : Sen Aparna
Producer : NFDC, Sen Aparna
Duration : Approx.180 mins
Notes : Bengali
Keywords : Violence; sati; violence against women; social issues; social oppression; social attitudes; gender issues; West Bengal; disability
Abstract : This film is set in the early nineteenth century right before the practice of the Hindu custom called Sati (wife sacrificing herself on her dead husband’s funeral pyre) was outlawed. Uma is a mute orphaned woman considered unfit for marriage by an orthodox Brahmin society. She is compelled to marry a banyan tree because of a faulty astrological chart. The title Sati is symbolic of the fate of a mute orphan married off to a tree
Accn. No.: CD101
Title : Aaj Ki Baat
Mn.Entr. : Prasad Anuradha
Producer : BAG Films
Duration : 26 mins
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence against Women; sexual abuse; case studies
Abstract : This is a talk show hosted by Anuradha Prasad to discuss the rising incidence of sexual violence on women. The panel consists of ex- CBI Director [Vijay Karan], Jayanti Patnaik [NCW chairperson], Kirti Singh [Lawyer] and Dr. Puneet Bedi [ Gynae.]. The film showcases five cases of women who have been raped and have been further violated by a policing system, reflective of patriarchal attitude and apathy. As a society we need to realize that all of us are equally responsible for each incident of rape and the stereotypes it suffers from thereafter.
Accn No. : CD107
Title : Father, Son and Holy War
Mn.Entr. : Patwardhan Anand
Producer : Patwardhan Anand
Duration : Approx.120 mins
Notes : English
Alt.Ttl. : Pita, Putra Aur Dharamyudhh
Keywords : Feminism, violence against women; violence; matriarchy; patriarchy; sati; witch hunt; Babri Masjid; communalism; riots; Hindu nationalism;
Abstract : FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR explores in two parts the possibility that the psychology of violence against “the other” may lie in male insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the very construction of “manhood.”
Accn No. : CD109
Title : Tu Zinda Hai
Mn.Entr. : Ekta Parishad
Add Ent. : PRIA
Producer : Ekta Parishad, PRIA
Duration : Approx.57 mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Protests and movements; women’s empowerment; women’s movement; women’s participation; women’s organisation; Madhya Pradesh; patriarchy; protests; violence against women; domestic violence; alcoholism
Abstract : Tu Zinda Hai is a film about women in activism. It is a film about women challenging structures of authority the sarkar, the landlord, the liquor contractor, the abusive husband. It is about the backlash they face from these forces and their indomitable will to survive against odds. It is a tribute to this very spirit, to struggle, to be alive! But most of all it is about their changing identities and self-perception as women in our society, as women who have stepped out of traditional female role models and are paving new paths on the roads towards women’s empowerment. The women profiled in this film are the activists of Ekta Parishad, a mass-based people’s forum working in the villages of 35 districts of Madhya Pradesh.
Accn No. : CD114
Title : Boy’s Don’t Cry
Mn.Entr. : Pierce Kimberly
Producer : Hart Sharp Entertainment, Independent Film Channel, Killer Films
Duration : Approx.114 mins
Notes : English
Keywords : Violence; sexual assault; sexual violence; sexuality; identity politics; gender constructs; rape; violence against women; violence at public place
Abstract : Boy’s don’t cry is a true story about a girl called Teena Brandon who impersonates as a boy. She calls herself Brandon Teena. Brandon is liked by his male friends who think he is sporty and fun to “hang out” with. His female friends find him sensitive, caring and easy to relate to. Brandon falls in love with a girl and keeps the truth about his gender a secret from her. All is well until he gets exposed. His identity is revealed in the fact that he is actually a girl comes as a cruel shock to everyone. To punish him, his male friends rape and torture him brutally. The police receive the story of Teeina’s rape with incredulity. They can hardly sympathize with a girl who dresses and looks like a boy. She, in turn, gets raped a second time by the indignity imposed on her by the jeering policeman. The end is even more tragic. Not satisfied with the extent of their brutality, she is shot dead by the very men who raped her.
Accn No. : CD128
Title : Chaar Diwari
Mn.Entr. : Kriplani Gulang
Producer : Kriplani Gulang, HELP, Women and Child Development Division
Duration : Approx.45 mins
Notes : English, Hindi
Keywords : Violence against women; wife abuse; domestic violence; battered women; psychological violence; police; law; personal vs. public; economic dependence; women shelter; family honour
Abstract : This film is on the issue of domestic violence. It presents the situation of battered women across class lines. The film is broadly divided into four parts: the first part is a narration of the kinds of violence suffered at the hands of their husbands and in-laws, The second part addresses the all painful question: why did she not leave? and, the all looming question: where does she go? The women give many reasons for stay on silent and hanging on to the marriage. The third part addresses why men can become violent against their wives. The last part is on finding ways for women to leave the abusive relationship. Here the economic independence and emotional strength of the women is explored.
Accn No. : CD141
Title : Daughters of Maat
Mn.Entr. : Bennurakar Chalam
Producer : Asian Women’s Human Rights Council (AWHRC)
Duration : Approx.150 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : World Court of Women; Beijing; Palestine; Rwanda; Philippines; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Algeria; genocide; comfort women; ethnic violence; violence against women: campaigns;
Abstract : The First Asian Court of Women was held in 1995. Subsequently, four other courts of women were held. These courts of women culminated in a World Court of Women on Crimes against Women titled In the Court of Women, held on
September 2, 1995 at the NGO Forum, Huairous in the IVth World Women’s Conference, Beijing. The court is dedicated to Maat, the goddess of Truth and Justice in ancient Egypt. The stories of violence against women were told in detail by the victims. Women in Palestine spoke about the violence of the Israeli military; women in Rwanda spoke against the genocide in Rwanda; women from the Philippines told about the use of comfort women by the Japanese army in World War II; the rape of women in Bosnia-Herzegovina due to ethnic conflict, women victims of the fundamentalist forces in Algeria; prostitution and trafficking in Thailand. The women also spoke against the violence done to them in the name of development. The Bhopal gas tragedy and structural adjustment policies were highlighted. The conference also pointed out the violence done to women in the name of culture. Forced feeding, dowry, witch killing, female infanticide, female circumcision, and flesh trade are some of the examples. However, there are many women who have and are fighting against the violence inflicted on women. Some of these women are Vandana Shiva (India), Pam Greer (Australia) and Susanna Ounie-Small (New Caledonia). The conference ended on the note that women will need to do a lot of strategizing to overcome the violence done to them.
Accn No. : CD142
Title : Justice in Women’s Court
Mn.Entr. : Crinali el Taller
Duration : Approx.40 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Violence against women; violence against
women: campaigns; interventions: strategies
Abstract : This film is a cry against torture, violence the violations of human rights, mainly in the case of women. It affords many women the opportunity to talk about their suffering. This film hears of women and movements, resisting violence, of them struggling for wages, of them surviving through all this and more. This film offers a space in which women are listening to other women who have suffered and whom they can understand. It is a conference on women’s courts. Courts that listen to the voices of women survivors and that look at, not only punishing the aggressor but at sustaining, supporting and healing the victim.
Accn No. : CD157
Title : Leila and The Wolves
Mn.Entr. : Srour Hethy
Duration : Approx.90 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Protests and Movements; Palestine; violence against women; patriarchy; protests; Lebanon
Abstract : The British/Lebanese Leila and the Wolves features Leila who has survived numerous Beirut bombings. Leila’s resilience is intended to symbolize the endurance of all Lebanese women. The “wolves,” in this instance, are of the human variety: male predators who continue to rattle sabres and wage wars, no matter the price the innocent must pay. Curiously, while offering a feminist viewpoint, the film implies that the “liberated” Lebanese woman is more a part of the problem than a part of the solution.
Accn No. : CD171
Title : Women And Violence: Women’s Resource Kit: Changing Media Images of Women in Asia
Duration : Approx.60 mins
Notes : English
Keywords : Media, Violence; media analysis; portrayal of women; social construction; social oppression; social structure; society; status of women; violence against women
Abstract : A male-dominated society looks upon women as objects. The commodification of women also implies control and ownership. Making women into objects is the first step towards inflicting violence on them. This video is a resource kit on women and violence. This video uses various picture and commercial cinema clippings to show the violence committed on women.
Accn No. : CD182
Title : Southall Black Sisters
Duration : Approx.67 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Violence; domestic violence; violence against women; violence against women: campaigns; London; interventions: strategies
Abstract : This video is a campaign against domestic violence in a London neighborhood. The accused man alleges that his wife committed suicide, while the protestors say that the man murdered his wife. After the march the women gather together to talk about domestic violence. They point out that Asian women do not know that a shelter is available at the South Hall for women in an abusive relationship. They say that women should not drink the poison of domestic violence alone but rather organize to protest its presence in the home. This case is the first of its kind as the protestors went to the police station to register a case of murder rather than suicide as registered by the abusers family.
Accn No. : CD189
Title : When This Day Is Named
Mn.Entr. : ASR
Duration : Approx.29 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Protests and movements; status of women; Islam; women’s movement; Pakistan; sexual harassment at workplace; violence against women; violence at workplace
Abstract : For Pakistani women, the last 14 years has been a constant struggle against Islamization. The women have seen a decline of their legal and democratic rights although they have fought every step of the way on anti-women measures with the passing of the Shariat Bill. The state now intends to further regulate all legal, moral, social conduct under a monolithic interpretation of Islam. Women’s organizations are concerned that this will be further detrimental to women. However, as women confront their different realities and forms of oppression and movement has found its place in history.
Accn No. : CD192
Title : Kiranjit Ahluwalia
Duration : Approx.15 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Violence against women; domestic violence
Abstract : This short video is of a woman named Kiranjit Ahluwalia, who was convicted for murdering her husband. For about 10 years she was beaten up, humiliated and tortured by her husband and one day unable to bear anymore she poured kerosene over him and set him fire. Eventually he died of severe burns and they said “it was murder”. All the women’s organizations joined hands to free her. They held demonstrations and processions in favor of Kiranjit stressing the point that “Self defense is no murder” and finally the court acquitted her. She along with other women who fought for the release rejoiced at the newfound freedom.
Accn No. : CD198
Title : It’s All Linked Together: African Conference on Women in Stockholm-Sweden
Mn.Entr. : Pakko Nasrin
Producer : Warberg Eva
Duration : Approx.22 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Protests and Movements; Africa; women’s organization; women’s network; women’s rights; women’s work; working conditions; women’s health education; violence against women; conference; development: feminist critique; development issues: critique
Abstract : Between 12-14th of March, 1993, a conference on African women took place in Stockholm, Sweden. With the Africa group being the main organizers organizations and individuals from the solidarity movement, Women’s organizations, and the Christian movement from the North and the South came together to meet and exchange experiences. Women had been invited from Angola Mozambique, Nimibia, and South Africa. More than 600 people, the majority being women, participated in the conference. There were workshops, lectures, music and dancing for three days. The subjects of the workshops were: violence against women, women and education, women and health, and women in the work market. In this film, the Egyptian author Nawal El-Sadawi talked about how colonialism and patriarchy are linked together. The conference aimed at studying models of development and the concept of development with critical eyes to draw attention to the problem from two perspectives, the gender perspective and a North South perspective. It is for the first time that a conference of this nature took place in Sweden.
Accn No. : CD214
Title : Bandit Queen
Mn.Entr. : Kapur Shekhar
Producer : Kaleidoscope Entertainment Ltd., Channel Four Films, Kapur Shekhar
Duration : Approx.119 mins.
Notes : Hindi, EST
Keywords : Violence; sexual abuse; sexual harassment at public place; sexual oppression; sexual violence; rape; violence against children; violence at public place; marital rape; caste issues; social oppression
Abstract : In the caste wars that are so common in the country Phoolan, a lower caste girl was married off and repeatedly raped as a child by her husband. She leaves him and comes back to her parent’s village but is propositioned by the son of the village chief. Protesting leads to her victimisation by the upper castes and finally being kidnapped by gang of dacoits. Eventually she herself takes to the gun and kills many upper caste men.
Accn No. : CD228
Title : Damini
Mn.Entr. : Santoshi Rajkumar
Producer : Soorma Bunty, Morani Aly, Santoshi Rajkumar
Duration : Approx.150 mins
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence; rape; sexual violence; sexual assault; sexual abuse; violence against women; social attitudes; family honour ; family relations ;psychological violence
Abstract : This movie beautifully portrays the character of a woman “Damini” with the message that violence against women exists till she protests and cries out for justice. The theme revolves around the character Damini who represents truth and innocence. After her marriage in renowned wealthy family, Damini happens to see a cruel act done by her brother-in-law. She wants the pray to get justice, but the family including her husband opposes her, which leads her to quit the home. She is helped by a drunkard, an ex-advocate, who helps her in all respect to reach to her aim.
Accn No. : CD231
Title : Kya Kehna
Mn.Entr. : Shah Kundan
Duration : Approx.150 mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Society, Violence; pregnancy; sexual rights; psychological violence; violence against women; social attitudes; social stigma; society
Abstract : The film is about a girl who becomes pregnant outside marriage. The protagonist of the film Priya is a girl from a small town where in college she meets Rahul to whom she gets attached. Despite pressure from family and friends that she should end her relationship with this fellow, she doesn’t stop. Her love and attraction for Rahul leads her to become pregnant. Rahul refuses to marry her and then her family, friends and society all start raising voices against her. Priya is determined to give birth to the child. Her childhood friend Ajay who had always loved her comes to her support. It is Priya’s courage that helps her fight all odds. Later when Rahul realizes his mistake, proposes to marry her, she chooses Ajay who respects her and still ready to marry her.
Accn No. : CD232
Title : Main Jala di Jaungi
Mn.Entr. : Chani G.S
Producer : Chani G.S
Duration : Approx.20 mins
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence against women; street theatre; sati; bride burning; dowry; identity politics; gender roles
Abstract : This is a film on discrimination and violence against women performed by street theatre group. Bride burning, sati, dowry are enacted by the theatre group. Women are portrayed as having only one identity in society, that of being a “good” wife, mother and daughter in law. There is no space for a woman to form her own identity. She is confined to the four walls of the house.
Accn No. : CD246
Title : Arth
Mn.Entr. : Bhatt Mahesh
Producer : Bhatt Mahesh
Duration : Approx.150 mins
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence; marriage; family relations; psychological violence; extramarital relation; desertion
Abstract : Arth is the story of a woman who suddenly faces the fact that her husband is in love with another woman. It depicts the struggle she faces in creating an independent world, financially, emotionally and mentally, for herself. She refuses to get into the socially accepted path of getting married once again, by choosing to live along with her adopted daughter.
Accn. No.:CD 253
Title : Bazaar
Mn.Entr. : Sarhadi Sagar
Producer : Talwar Vijay
Duration : 120 mins
Notes : Hindi; EST
Keywords : Status of women; Violence against women
Abstract : Najma and Salim are in love, but theirs is a platonic relationship, as Salim is a deep thinker and prefers that women like Najma be financially independent, and not be dependent on men. On the other hand, Sarju and Shabnam are in love, and would like to get married, however, Shabnam’s dad has finalized her marriage with a much older man, who is wealthy, and has shown an interest in Shabnam. An engagement ceremony takes place with this older gentleman, and Shabnam. Sarju, though devastated, must now attempt to convince Shabnam’s dad, as well as Shabnam’s future husband, to change their respective minds, and let him marry Shabnam, with results that will change their lives forever.
Accn. No.:CD 356
Title : Mrityudand
Mn.Entr. : Jha Prakash
Producer : Jha Prakash
Duration : Approx. 150 mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence; patriarchy; gender constructs; gender discrimination; gender identity; gender issues; gender roles; violence against women; violence against women: campaigns; domestic violence; social attitudes; social oppression; social stigma; society; social structure;
Abstract : The story revolves around the grim and ruthless politics in a village, centering on an impoverished family of landowners. The central characters are a young couple, Vinay and Ketki. They are quickly plunged into the midst of machinations by several powerful and unscrupulous villagers. Foremost among them is contractor Tirpat Singh a powerful, corrupt and ruthless man who oppresses poor people and especially women with impunity. Vinay too becomes influenced by Tirpat, and under this influence spirals down a dark road of domestic abuse, alcoholism, and selfishness that alienates his loving wife and tears apart the whole family, despite her best efforts to fight this. The rest of the movie deals with their efforts to break out of this morass, both within their relationship as well as outside of it, and Ketki’s long, hard, and bloody struggle to confront and defeat the forces of oppression and male domination in the village.
Accn. No.:CD 357
Title : Tejasvini
Mn.Entr. : Chandra N.
Producer : Ratnam A.M
Duration : App 172min
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence against Women; Rape; Police Atrocities; Political Process; Sexual Assault
Abstract : Tejasvini is a young police officer with a determination to do away with crime, corruption and injustice. She finds herself in the midst of a politician-criminal nexus in her new posting as Assistant Superintendent of Police. The criminal is a wealthy businessman who keeps the police and politicians on his side by bribing them heavily. He has one worry though: What if the political party he supports should lose the election? To deal with this situation, he decides to have his son elected as MLA and eventually as Chief Minister. Tejasvini fights to keep some semblance of justice in a terribly distorted system.
Accn. No.: CD 358
Title : Daman
Mn.Entr. : Lajmi Kalpana
Producer : Dept of family welfare ministry of health & family welfare
Duration : Approx.180 mins
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence against Women; Domestic Violence; Gender Violence
Abstract : Durga a poor girl was married to a rich but cruel and insensitive man. For years she silently suffered the atrocities of her husband. Inspite of being brutally raped by her husband she remained silent to protect the husband and the family from disgrace. But to save her daughter from the obnoxious father she runs away from the house. The husband had not only made her life a living hell but also had tarnished the daughters mind towards marital fears.
Accn No. : CD361
Title : Grahan
Mn.Entr. : Nair Shashilal
Producer : Nair Shashilal
Duration : Approx.120 mins
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Rape; rehabilitation; mental health; violence against women; social stigma; social attitudes; sexual violence; sexual assault; law
Abstract : This movie is based on the traumatic experience of a rape victim and the legal and social circumstances that are built around the rape case that eventually drive her to insanity. The film tries to bring to light some issues with regard to rape and the associations of guilt and victim blaming.
Accn No. : CD388
Title : Lajja
Mn.Entr. : Santoshi Raj Kumar
Producer : Santoshi Raj Kumar
Duration : Approx.190 mins
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence against women; tradition; society; status of women; social attitudes; social oppression; rape; gender roles
Abstract : Lajja is story of five women belonging to different strata of society and in different stages of their lives trying to survive, living up to and fighting oppressive traditions, social expectations and prevalent norms. The story also symbolically tries to critique the character of Sita who is supposed to be the ideal women and who was constantly subjugated and expected to sacrifice herself for her husband Ram, in the epic Ramayan. Each of the women characters in the movie are given her various names.
Accn No. : CD389
Title : The brides of Hyderabad
Mn.Entr. : Sastry KNT
Producer : Doordarshan, PSBT, Sastry KNT
Duration : Approx.30 mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence; adolescent girls; child marriage; Muslims; marriage; violence against children; case study; sexually transmitted diseases
Abstract : The film talks of very young girls from Hyderabad who are married to men much older than them, usually sheiks from the middle east due to the extremely poor conditions of their families. The film showcases the story of Ameena, an 11 year old girl who went through a similar plight but was helped by an air hostess Amrita Ahluwalia to return home. The case got a lot of media publicity. The Shiekh escaped but Ameena’s parents were fined and her father passed away. The film covers the details of this case. According to a survey, 130 girls below 18 years of age had similar stories. The men who married these girls would come to India for a vacation and then marry these girls hoping to get rid of their sexually transmitted diseases. The girls who were interviewed feel they can support their entire families if they get married to these rich men, however nothing prepares them for the violence to follow. Several of these girls are abandoned and return home. It is an interesting film that successfully highlights the issues of poverty, violence and the inability of people to negotiate, that leads to this kind of exploitation under the garb of nikaah.
Accn No. : CD393
Title : Can’t Take it Anymore
Mn.Entr. : Rai Meenakshi
Producer : Doordarshan-PSBT collaboration with Prasar Bharati
Duration : Approx.29 mins
Notes : English, Hindi
Keywords : Violence, Work; sexual abuse; sexual harassment at workplace; violence at workplace; Vishaka guidelines; case study; law; violence against women
Abstract : The film captures issues of Sexual Harassment against women at the workplace. It tries to give a social, legal and personal illustration of the issues that affect women harassed at work.
Accn No. : CD414
Title : Junoon ke Badhte Kadam
Mn.Entr. : Raza Gauhar
Producer : Raza Gauhar
Duration : Approx. 33 mins.
Notes : Hindi, EST
Keywords : Violence; state violence; violence against women communal violence; communalism; conflict situations; Gujarat; fundamentalism; Muslims
Abstract : This film is based on the communal riots in Gujarat of 2002 .It resulted in an extreme reaction against the Muslim community. This film includes personal narratives of Muslim families, who were victims and witnesses to the brutal violence faced by their relatives and friends .The role of the state and its institutions, in supporting the violence is also brought to light. In order to explore and enlist the various issues that surrounded this incident interviews with people of different social and occupational sections are presented. The film successfully captures the various dimensions and manifestation of the growing communal character of India nurtured and encouraged by powerful players resulting in a systematic demolition of its secular character and targeting of its religious minority community.
Accn No. : CD417
Title : Gudiya Camp Mein Kyon Hai?
Mn.Entr. : Nayak Meena
Producer : Kalsutri, Nayak Meena
Duration : Approx. 18 mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence; riots; Gujarat; violence against children; conflict situations; interventions: strategies; communal violence; psychological violence
Abstract : The film is an account of the experiences of the director and her work with children of the victims of Gujarat riots in 2002 who were located in camps when their homes, families and belongings were destroyed. Weaved into this account is a process of questioning about the violence itself, the values that we have instilled as adults and the affect it has on our children.
Accn. No.CD452
Title : Tapish
Mn.Entr. : Rai Meenakshi Vinay
Producer : Rai Meenakshi Vinay
Duration : Approx.60 mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence, Work; violence at workplace; sexual harassment at workplace; women workers; working conditions; occupational hazard; women workers rights
Abstract : This is a documentary film based on the life of a crime reporter who faces sexual harassment at her workplace While the film is seemingly crafted around one specific incident/individual ,the issues in relation to this and their implications in the larger environment also makes themselves clear apparent. The film explores the rights of women at work, the subsidiary position awarded to women when they try to speak of their oppression, respect or the lack of it etc are explored .With a powerful personal narrative and a politically developing perspective, the film is able to create concern with regard to the issue addresses. While the film rallies for a safer working environment for women, it also builds its defence by projecting the currently insensitive environment with regard to this issue.
Accn No. : D454
Title : JAGORI Spots: Metro girl, Hopscotch, Body Image
Mn.Entr. : JAGORI
Producer : JAGORI
Duration : Approx. 2 mins 30 secs and 15 secs spots
Notes : Hindi, English
Keywords : Status of women; violence against women; domestic violence; sexual harassment at public place; sexual abuse; JAGORI
Abstract : The film has three 30 seconds spots that expose the violence that women suffer. In the Metro Girl, the confident, independent, young glamorous looking girl is shown hiding the scars etched on her body from an abusive relation .If the private sphere is violent, the public domain is no less. In the next spot “Hopscotch” boys and men harass girls and young women with their lustful looks and vulgar gestures; perfect in their knowledge that woman’s place is not in the public domain. In Body Image the less visible violence that haunts women as their desperate bid to have a ‘perfect figure’. The men will not be appeased otherwise. All the three spots have a strong message that women have a right to a violence free life.
Accn No. : CD456
Title : Mother, Sister, Daughter: The Violence They Face
Mn.Entr. : Rana Bandana
Duration : Approx.26 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Violence Against Women; violence against women; Nepal; patriarchy; domestic violence; interventions: strategies; police
Abstract : Women in Nepal suffer many kinds of violence in the family and the public sphere. Discrimination against women starts from child birth. Cultural, economic and religious factors reinforce male dominance and female subservience. A lot of religious festivals are to pray for the long life of the husband, including painful rituals like stamping a brides feet and knees with fire. The women also bear the double burden of looking after the household and working in the fields. Despite their devotions to their men folk, women frequently become victims of domestic violence. There are a lot of NGOs and governmental organizations who want to end this cycle of violence but the hurdle that they face is the lack of laws to prevent violence. In interviews with the police, the officers suggested that women’s cells should be set up in every police post allowing battered women an access to address their sufferings. There were suggestions from women and lawyers and Parliamentarians that woman should be included in the policy making bodies so they can address issues of concern to women.
Accn No. : CD457
Title : Women And War: Trauma and Triumph of Women in ‘71.
Mn.Entr. : Masud Tareque
Add Ent. : Masud Catherine
Producer : ASK (Ain-O-Salish-Kendra), Audio vision
Duration : Approx. 24 mins.
Notes : Bengali, EST
Keywords : Violence against Women; Bangladesh; armed conflict; violence against women
Abstract : Millions of women in Bangladesh were systematically raped and maimed in the 1971 War of Independence. The story of women in the war and their roles, not just as victims of sexual violence, but as fighters and martyrs, has mostly remained untold. Internationally, the brutality suffered by Bangladeshis is yet to be acknowledged as genocide, and the cruelty suffered by women in 71 is yet to be recognized as a war crime. Renowned sculptor Ferdausi Priyabhasini survived nine months of rape and mental torture at the hands of the Pak army and their collaborators in 71. She is one of the first women to speak publicly of her ordeal. This film looks at the experience of women survivors of 71 across the spectrum of class, religion and race, as they give their testimony of pain and strife amidst the devastation of war.
Accn No. : CD458
Title : Murder In Purdah: Pakistan
Producer : BBC
Duration : Approx.43 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Violence Against Women; Pakistan; patriarchy; Islam; violence against women; social oppression social structure; status of women
Abstract : Pakistani women are properties of their men, be it father, brother or son. It is this medieval attitude which results in women being put behind bars for having sex outside of marriage. In the case of male adulterers, they are set free or allowed to escape. Men kill their wives if they have sex with another man. On the other hand, women are put on death row if they kill their husbands in self defense. In rural Pakistan the women are almost invisible. This is the place where the majority of women reside. It is also the place where purdah is strictly followed. Lately there are many stories of women being burnt to death. The women who survive are too afraid to talk against their husband or in-laws. The police/courts also do not help, they do not want to get involved in cases of domestic violence. Pakistanis Islamic sex laws are riddles with injustice but no one in the government dares to change them. There are plans to amend the Constitution of Pakistan and replace it with complete Islamic laws based on the Koran.
Accn No. : CD462
Title : Yet Another Five
Mn.Entr. : Rajakaruna Anoma
Producer : Women’s Development Center
Duration : Approx.25 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Violence; sexual violence; sexual assault; rape; Sri Lanka
Abstract : It is not as if women are violated and raped in the dark of the night or in unprotected places. Women are victims of violence in their very own homes. The tragic part is that women who go through sexual violation are often cast out of their family harassed by the legal system, and do not have many places to go. This documentary is based on the life and dreams of five women in a safe home in Sri Lanka. The women are in the age group of school going girls to adult women. Barring one woman, the rest are violated by people they knew. This film does not focus on Rape one but other forms of sexual violation, such a woman duped by her lover after she becomes pregnant. This film points out that woman victims of sexual abuse and violence in Sri Lanka are reluctant to go to the courts because they do not feel confident that justice will be done or that they will be treated fairly or receive a quick trial. The essence of these stories has an empowering message, the women refuse to give up on their life and dreams in spite of the way life has treated them
Accn No. : CD482
Title : Soldiers in Sarong
Mn.Entr. : Arambam Lokendra
Producer : Arambam Lokendra/North East Network
Duration : Approx.45 mins
Notes : English, Manipuri
Keywords : Protests and Movements; peace initiative; armed conflict; protests; conflict situations; state violence; violence against women; Manipur
Abstract : Manipur, a small state in the North East corner of India is in deep social and political turmoil. Rising insurgency with political aims of cessation from India have produced armed conflict. In the confrontation between the state and the non state forces, violence death and disaster affected many lives. Under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (Assam and Manipur 1958), the security forces secured wide powers to search, arrest and kill people on suspicion. The impact of the exercise of this Act is most acutely felt by the women, who faced the brutalities of the personal struggle. Their lives are testimony to the impact of violence on traditional societies forced into the painful threshold of modernity.
Accn No. : CD483
Title : Singing in the Dark
Mn.Entr. : Asian Women’s Human Rights Council/El-Taller International Producer : Asian Women’s Human Rights Council/El-Taller International
Duration : Approx.180 mins
Notes : English
Keywords : Protests and Movements; armed conflict; conflict situations; peace initiative; protests; state violence; violence against women
Abstract: A video report on the World Court of Women against War, For Peace
Accn No. : CD484
Title : Song of Silence: A video collage of Women in Black Vigils around the World
Mn.Entr. : Bennurakar Chalam
Producer : AWHRC-India, Bennurakar Chalam
Duration : Approx.40 mins
Notes : English, Other languages with EST
Keywords : Globalization; globalization; WSF; women’s organization; violence against women; Women in Black
Abstract : The film is basically about an organization’s (Women In Black) action that was organised by AWHRC and Vimochana on the occasion of WSF. The film however includes and offers a glimpse of the other WIB movements all over the world. “WIB” started in the year 1988 in Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv. As of today it is spread over more than 130 places all over the world. “WIB” in India began in 1992, when there were riots all over the country as a result of Babri Masjid demolition and the women were the main victims.
Accn No. : CD492
Title : Violence against women
Mn.Entr. : KDV
Add Ent. : Kamer, BKDM, FIMa
Producer : KDV, Kamer, BKDM, FIMa
Duration : Approx.7 mins
Notes : French, EST
Keywords : violence against children; violence against women; female foeticide
Abstract : Four Spots showing various forms of violence against women and children.
Accn No. : CD494
Title : Devi: The Goddess
Mn.Entr. : Ray Satyajit
Producer : Satyajit Ray Productions
Duration : Approx.93 mins
Notes : Bengali, EST
Keywords : religion; status of women; violence against women Abstract : In 1860 rural Bengal, Doyamoyee and her husband Umaprasad live with Umaprasad’s family. His father, Kalikinkar Roy, is a devoted follower of the goddess Kali. Since Umaprasad is away at school, Doyamoyee takes care of her father-in-law. One evening, Kalikinkar has a dream that Doyamoyee is an avatar of the goddess Kali and must be worshipped as such. Soon other people come to believe that she is also an incarnation of the goddess. After hearing the news Umaprasad returns home but is unable to remedy the situation as Doyamoyee begins herself to believe that she is an avatar, a belief which soon turns to tragedy.
Accn No. : CD495
Title : Dahan - Crossfire
Mn.Entr. : Ghosh Rituparno
Producer : Agarwal Vijay, Agarwal Kalpana, Ghosh Rituparno
Duration : Approx.150 mins.
Notes : Bengali, EST
Keywords : violence against women; rape; sexual assault; sexual harassment at public place; sexual violence; sexuality; social attitudes; social stigma; mental health
Abstract: The movie’s premise is evocative - a bunch of ruffians try to molest a newly wed woman, while many pass by but no one offers to help, until a brave young teacher infuriated by what she sees, turns on the men and saves the girl. . The film then traces as to how various people react to the incident and the scandal it brings to the family reputation, the newly-wed, her husband, her in-laws, her parents. The brave young teacher, her parent, her grandmother with whom she shares a special bond, her brother who idolizes her.
Accn No. : CD496
Title : Utsab
Mn.Entr. : Ghosh Rituparno
Duration : Approx.124 mins.
Notes : Bengali, EST
Keywords : Society; social attitudes; social issues ;social structure; society; status of women; violence against women; property rights; incest
Abstract : The film features three generations of an Indian family at the annual function of Durga Puja. Bhagabati’s two middle daughters and their families return to their home to celebrate Durga Puja. Each daughter brings along her own baggage of problems.
Accn No. : CD510
Title : Red Alert
Mn.Entr. : Dasgupta Biplab
Producer : SANLAAP, Dasgupta Biplab
Duration : Approx. 15 mins
Notes : Bengali, EST
Keywords : Sex Work; sex workers; violence against women; sex work; sex trade; prostitution; trafficking; adolescent girls; HIV-AIDS; sex workers rights; Bihar
Abstract : This infomercial shows the violence done to young, teenage girls through trafficking .These young girls, mostly from Bihar, are sold to various red light areas. Here they are asked to perform without the man wearing any protection. Red light areas are on the increase, including the remote parts of the country, since pimps have been able to procure more young teenage girls from the Pargana areas. These statistics should raise a red alert in the country, but the Government is not doing much as it considers this problem to be of less priority.
Accn No. : CD514
Title : Bawandar
Mn.Entr. : Jagmohan
Producer : Mundhra Jag, Doshi Gaurang
Duration : Approx.150 mins.
Notes : Hindi with EST
Keywords : Violence Against Women; violence against women; violence at public place; sexual violence; sexual harassment at public place; sexual assault; rape; social oppression; status of women; child marriage
Abstract : Bawandar literally means Sandstorm and is based on the true story of Bhanwari Devi, a Saathin (village worker in a program of the government by the same name), working in a village in Rajasthan who was raped by men of upper caste when she protested against child marriage in the village. The story of the film is introduced and told by a reporter Amy who comes to India to investigate issue of women and child marriages in general and of this case in particular. Her journey unfolds Sanwari’s story beginning with her meeting with her rapists and continuing with an elaboration by Sanwari’s husband. We are then taken further, into the insensitive and abusive investigation of the rape by the various police officers and the doctor. The inadequacy of Sanwari in the situation and the women who try to help her against the prevalent system and attitudes of those in power who run it is also brought in. She eventually finds legal help and the trial realistically take some time. Here the inadequacy of our judicial system in granting her justice is highlighted to some extent. Though the film is not able to do complete justice to the myriad issues involved in this complex case it does bring in the lacunae in the social, power determined patriarchal institutions and systems in the country.
Accn No. : CD515
Title : Terrorist
Mn.Entr. : Sivan Santosh
Producer : Sivan Santosh
Duration : Approx.150 mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Violence; armed conflict; adolescent girls; violence; children
Abstract : The film traces the life of a nineteen year old girl Malli, whose whole life comes crashing down with the death of her dear brother. Following her brothers’ footsteps, she too joins a terrorist not an easy one, with death waiting at every corner. But Malli remains unfazed. She feels proud when she is given the responsibility of carrying out a suicide attack…..
Accn No. : CD534
Title : Khamosh Paani: The Silent Waters
Mn.Entr. : Sumar Sabiha
Duration : Approx.150 mins.
Notes : Punjabi, EST
Keywords : Violence; Pakistan; partition; communal violence; violence against women; fundamentalism; Islam; single mother; status of women; honour killing
Abstract : Khamosh Pani is about of a young Sikh girl Veero left behind on the Muslim side of religious divide in 1947 when women lost their honor at the hands of the opposing religious’ side or their lives at the hands of their own male family members. The women who escaped are forced suicide or execution by males in their family ironically to protect family honor. Thousands of Muslim women were abducted or left behind by their families, refugees fleeing for Pakistan in India while similarly Sikh and Hindu women were forced to fend for themselves in Pakistan while their kin escaped to India. Khamosh Pani is one such story about a Sikh girl Veero who is transformed into Muslim Ayesha. The role of single mother Ayesha who is trying to fulfill her own dreams regarding the future of her one and only son Saleem who is in love with the vivacious Zubeida but only till an extremist religious viewpoint enters the life of their village. General Zia’s Islamization in the late 1970’s shortly after the execution of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is part of this story. It is about the transformation of Saleem as he takes the extremist line brought to Charkhi village by two men from the nearby city that succeeds in recruiting cadre from this once peaceful haven. The village contains an old Sikh Shrine which is finally opened to pilgrims from India of that faith. The Sikh group that comes to visit their holy site is welcomed by the town’s people but not so by this newly formed group of extremists and within this Sikh group is a man named Jaswant, originally from this same village before partition and now looking for a sister left behind.
Accn No. : CD536
Title : Manipur : In The Shadows of AFSPA
Mn.Entr. : Bhardwaj Kamal
Producer : Human Rights Law Network, ANHAD
Duration : Approx.52 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Violence; violence against women; violence against women: campaigns; violence at public place; state violence; North East; AFSPA
Abstract : In the mainstream Indian consciousness the North East has always existed as a periphery social, physical, and political. The call of the people for basic rights has been termed as subversive, as threatening Indian national security. Draconian laws have been put into practice. One such law is the Armed Forces Special Powers call it a lawless law. Under the law, military men could shoot to kill without warrant and search. In 1997, a five judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court looked into the constitutionality of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. The changes brought about by the bench were very cosmetic and useless for the people of Manipur. Peoples Independent Inquiry Commission was then set up and it presented its report in 2000. It is 2005 but the report has not even been acknowledged by the home ministry. In 2004, the rape and murder of Manorama Devi by an Assam Rifles personnel proved to be the last straw. Outraged by the incident the Manipuri women bared themselves naked and asked the Assam Rifles men to rape them. This incident brought into fore the AFSPA like never before.
Accn No. : CD537
Title : Bhumika: The Role
Mn.Entr. : Benegal Shyam
Producer : Bijlani Lalit M., Variava Freni .M
Duration : Approx.144 mins.
Notes : Hindi, EST
Keywords : Society; gender identity; gender roles; gender discrimination; patriarchy; performing art; social attitudes; status of women; violence against women
Abstract : The story is based on the personal life of a successful movie star. The protagonist, Usha, comes from a poor family, and makes it big as a successful movie star. Throughout her life, she is given a ‘role’ to play that she doesn’t want to. Someone else decides what she should do with her life, how she should think and act, her mother when she is younger, or her husband, or the people she meets later on. She runs around from one messy situation to the next trying to find the perfect role for her. In all her life’s situations, even though things change, players’ change, the underlying fact that “She is asked to play a role she doesn’t want to” remains. She is, partly, a victim of the circumstances, and partly a result of bad choices and human errors she makes.
Accn No. : CD538
Title : Shabnam Mausi
Mn.Entr. : Bhardwaj Yogesh
Producer : Bhosle Sudesh, Manoj.J.
Duration : Approx. 120 mins.
Notes : Hindi
Keywords : Society; sexuality; sexual rights; transsexuals; political participation; political parties; violence
Abstract : A child is born in a police officer’s house and eunuchs come to his home to celebrate, as is the Indian custom. When they check if the child is a boy or a girl, and sees that it is a eunuch they take the child away. The baby, called Shabnam, is bought up by Halima and the head of the community Amma. When she grows up she gets framed for Halima’s murder. Shabnam manages to run away from police custody and goes to Anupur in Madhya Pradesh. There, she rescues a girl from being raped and suddenly, becomes famous in the village. The local political leader asks her to stand for elections. She accepts, and wins.
Accn No. : CD542
Title : From The Inside Of Our Skins: A video report on the World Court of Women against Racism, August 30, 2001, Durban.
Mn.Entr. : Bennurakar Chalam
Duration : Approx.160 mins.
Notes : English
Keywords : Protests and Movements; conference; racism; violence;
Abstract : The video report documents the World Court of Women Against Racism which was held at the NGO Forum, World Conference against Racism, Durban, South Africa 2001. It shows through visuals and testimonies of women and men victims, survivors and resistors to the different forms and faces of racism, seeking to prefer an understanding of and response to many-layered narratives of the lasting legacy of colonialism.
Accn. No.:JCD558
Title : Matrubhoomi
Mn.Entr. : Jha Manish
Producer : Blanc, Nicolas, Sobelman, Patrick ,Kharbanda, Punkej
Duration : 150 mins
Notes : Hindi
Alt.Ttl. : A Nation without Women
Keywords : Violence against women; violence; female
infanticide; female foeticide; gender discrimination; gender violence; polyandry
Abstract : The film explores a futuristic rural India wherein due to rampant female infanticide, women are practically extinct. The impact of the absence of women on men sees them finding alternative sources of release - pornography, homosexuality, bestiality, violence. When a girl is actually spied, she is promptly married to five brothers. All five - and the father-in-law exercise their conjugal rights in turn. The youngest brother, the only one who treats her ashuman being much to the chagrin of the father and other brothers is killed. After her attempt to escape with the low caste servant body unwittingly triggers off a caste war, she is clapped in iron chains in a cow shed and raped repeatedly by her family and the angry lower caste men. When she finally becomes pregnant, everyone claims paternity. In the throes of the devastating caste war that ensues over her, she gives birth to a girl.
Accn No. : CD560
Title : Waiting… A film on women & children living amongst conflict
Mn.Entr. : Ara Shabnam
Add Ent. : Gupta Atul
Producer : Delhi Biscope Company
Duration : 39 mins.
Notes : Kashmiri; EST
Keywords : Violence against women; Kashmir; Armed conflict; Conflict situations; Association of parents of disappeared persons (APDP); UN declaration on disappeared persons; Intervention strategies; Mental health; Suicides
Abstract : This documentary is on the plight of Kashmiri families whose members have disappeared. The Association of Disappeared Persons (APDP), a civil society group, was formed in 1994. They have exerted their pressure on the armed forces by resorting to the UN Declaration on Disappeared Persons but to no avail. The courts are also ineffective in the face of army rule. The disappearances have taken a heavy toll on the mental health of families. From young boys and girls to adults, the registration of mental health problems has gone up significantly. The suicide rates have also gone up drastically. Amidst this tragedy the only thing that families can do is to wait and hope for the return of their loved ones.
Accn No. : CD572
Title : 15, Park Avenue
Mn.Entr. : Sen Aparna
Producer : Vohra Bipin Kumar; SPS Films
Duration : 122 mins
Notes : English; Hindi
Keywords : Mental Health; Violence against Women; gender roles
Abstract : The film essays a journey into the world of mentally and physically challenged Meethi. Though she remains functional till her twenties and is even engaged, a traumatic experience raises the dormant schizophrenia in her. She now lives in a delusional world. Where she, her husband and children live happily in 15 Park Avenue. A few years later in another chance meeting, she even fails to recognize her once upon a time fiancé’, who is now happily married and now she urges him to look for her perfect world…for 15, Park Avenue.
Accn No. : CD580
Title : Do You Know How We Feel? AAARRGH!
Mn.Entr. : Atgamkar Anita
Add Ent. : Dudani Richa, Nagarajan Anjela ,Sharma Divya
Producer : A Woman’s Place Project, Vohra Paromita
Duration : 20 mins
Notes : English, Hindi
Keywords : Sexual harassment; violence against women; intervention: strategies
Abstract : What is common to girls walking out on the street, waiting at a bus stop and standing in their balconies? Choose one of the following- Leers, Catcalls, A hand brushing your bottom, all of the above. The film that looks at sexual harassment squarely in the face and questions -why should girls be held responsible if ‘boys- will-be-boys’? Through conversations with a range of people the film asks so why do boys harass girls? What is the difference between eve-teasing and sexual harassment? Who is responsible? And what can be done to stop this? While the film explores how sexual harassment constricts girls’ freedom and makes them aware of how to dress, walk and behave, it also looks at living your life without fear, not having to think twice about the choices that you make and demonstrates that you too can dance at a bus- stop and live to tell the tale.
Accn. No: CD 585
Title : Poster Women
Mn.Entr. : Zubaan
Producer : Zubaan
Keywords : Women’s movement; campaigns; violence against women; health; environment; literacy; political participation; religion; communalism; women’s rights
Abstract : A visual history of the women’s movement in India. This is a collection of posters on various facets of the women’s movement -health, environment, violence, literacy, political participation ‘religion and communalism, women’s rights amongst others.
Accn No. : CD586
Title : Lanka -the other side of war and peace
Mn.Entr. : Fatima Iffat
Duration : 77 mins
Notes : English, Singhalese, Tamil
Keywords : Violence; violence against women; conflict situations; armed struggle; Sri Lanka; LTTE;
Abstract : The film is about the effect of conflict situation on the women folk in Sri Lanka. The film traces the lives of women who have lost their near and dear ones in the war and questions the need of war.
Accn. No.: CD 590
Title : Antar Mahal
Mn.Entr. : Ghosh Rituporno
Producer : AB Corp; Vashu Bhagnani
Duration : 118 mins
Notes : Bengali; EST
Keywords : Status of women; Reproductive Health; Motherhood; Violence Against Women; Gender discrimination; sexual assault
Abstract : In late 19th Century, Bengal Bhubaneswar Chowdhury is a wealthy and tyrannical zamindar. He has two main obsessions: his desperate attempts for an heir, which even his new second wife Jashomati seems unable to deliver; and competing with his regional rivals to produce the most magnificent effigy of a goddess for the annual Durga Puja ceremony. That year he concocts a master plan to change the face of the goddess for the most powerful woman on Earth- Queen Victoria. Meantime his two wives try to look out for one another especially as Bhubaneswar begins to sexually assault his younger wife each night. Traumatized and lonely, Jashomati is dangerously drawn towards the youthful sculptor who has been employed to create the great effigy of Durga, Goddess of destruction.
Accn No. : CD593
Title : U