DocumentaMadrid
XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
Yugantar's creative peak, Tobacco Embers documents one of India's biggest women workers' movements in the 1980s. The collective spent four months with tobacco factory workers in Nipani to learn the degree of exploitation (including sexual exploitation) they were exposed to, and accompanied them in protest. Shot in raw, magnetic black and white, the film captures that vibrant ferment that would shake the country to its core. (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)
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Finished
Sessions
May
Thursday 04
18:30 h
CINETECA - Sala Borau
Yungatar Collective
Credits
Language
Marathi - Subtitles in spanish and english
Director
Colectivo Yungatar