DocumentaMadrid
XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
The collective's inaugural work focuses on the suffocating working conditions endured by domestic workers in the city of Pune. Yugantar shows how these women come together to fight for their rights, how they discuss their circumstances, discover their respective backgrounds and come up with strategies for reversing their fate. A film about the power of dialogue as a catalyst for change. (JHE)
Director biography
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)
Images gallery
Finished
Sessions
May
Thursday 04
18:30 h
CINETECA - Sala Borau
Yungatar Collective
Credits
Language
Marati - Subtitles in spanish and english
Director
Colectivo Yungatar