Idhi katha matramena

Is this Just a Story?
Colectivo Yungatar
India
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Is this Just a Story?
Synopsis

Made in collaboration with the activist collective Stree Shakhti Sanghatana, Is This Just a Story? is a departure from the real and ends up as improvised fiction. Shot in just one week, the film stands as a stark, moving portrait of domestic violence, one that will become Yugantar's most popular film. Its cast members put on a careful staging that sublimely reflects the darkness of intimacy. (JHE)

Director biography

Colectivo Yungatar
Colectivo Yungatar

We are featuring the Spanish premiere of the restored films made by the Indian collective Yugantar. A truly landmark film because of how important its creators are, their pioneering feminism, their class consciousness in a country marked by the caste system. Founded in Bangalore in 1980 by Deepa Dhanraj, Abha Bhaiya, Navroze Contractor, and Meera Rao, this collective spent three years making films about the experiences of working-class women, highlighting their political engagement when taking on the various mechanisms of social violence. Inspiring and very timely, Yugantar's film work is a unique exponent of humanism and the poetics of resistance. (JHE)

Finished

Sessions

May

Thursday 04
18:30 h
CINETECA - Sala Borau
Yungatar Collective

Credits

Language
Telugu - Subtitles in spanish and english
Director
Colectivo Yungatar