Social Justice Film Festival, Coimbatore
27 Sep; 10 am to 1 pm
Clusters Media College
Organised by Organised by Tamilnadu Kalai Ilaykkiya Perumandram - Kovai,
Periyar Ambedkar Marx Sinthanai Kalam & Marupakkam
Curated by Amudhan RP
Schedule :
Voicing for the Rights
Dir : Iqbal Hussain; 23 min; Documentary; India
It is the story of village women who are continuously working to solve the basic problems of their village through participatory meetings. Phoolvanti Bai and Radha Bai are two brave women who break old mindsets and move forward to address village issues, while also bringing more women along in this journey.
Bajau Laut - the Sea is our Home
Dir: Joo Peter; 70 min; Documentary; Malaysia
Their stilt houses are burnt down, their boats destroyed: indigenous people like the sea nomads in Malaysia are denied citizenship and passports as they are disenfranchised as stateless people. But centuries of history and the graves of their ancestors on the Malaysian islands are proof of their roots.
K00pukkadu
Dir : Gita Hudson; 63 min; Documentary; India
Set against the mist-covered hills of Valparai in Tamil Nadu, Koopukkadu is a poignant documentary that gives voice to the invisible lives of tea estate workers who sustain one of India’s most profitable industries while living in its deepest margins.Through intimate interviews with the estate workers, many of them women and descendants of indentured labour, Koopukkadu explores generations of silence, displacement, and systemic neglect.
Making Space
Dir : Nikita Parikh; 14 min; Documentary; India
Alsana lives in a small, chaotic neighbourhood in Ahmedabad, cut off from the rest of the city by an 85 acre landfill on one side and a highway on the other. A room of one’s own is hard to come by, but Alsana has a corner where only her rules apply. It takes on different forms - each an expression of her inner life, at odds with the world. Meanwhile, Alsana’s drawings show signs of the society seeping in, as she grapples with her identity and conflicts closer to home.
