
13 Apr 1929

The Scar of Shame
An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.
A government job brings Seema Valmiki to Mumbai. On her first day, she hears two remarks: a casteist comment from a female officer and a loud “Jai Bhim” from the liftman.Trying to fit in, Seema hides her surname and avoids the liftman's greetings. But Seema is changed when the liftman is fired for wanting to celebrate Dr. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary.
Seema Valmiki
Liftman
13 Apr 1929
An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.
01 Jan 1991
A story about the childhood of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
09 Dec 2019
Manja and Ravi, two dalit kids live in a tiny village in the western ghats. Vaasudeva, a kid from an orthodox brahmin family wants to be friends with them. This leaves Manja and Ravi in a conflict with their daily lives.
A rural village never wanted to be a city’s landfill or a distant blur in Reels but rather home to new imaginations. Bringing Down a Mountain dissects the intersecting themes of access, abolition and caste through the experiences of residents of a rural village and that of a hyper-urban city. The film follows the village residents’ dreams—of mobile data, digital payment and relief from menial work. What happens when the landfill is full, and dreams want to break free?
28 May 1983
The film is a battle between feudalism & Communism. Trouble ensues when Raja, a medical college student, falls in love with his classmate Rani, unaware of a powerful enmity existing between their families based on class differences.
“Over 500 years ago, my tribe arrived on the shores of India from Africa,” says the social worker narrator of Asha Stuart’s Lost Tribe of Africa. His ancestors fled enslavement, escaping into the forest in the Indian state of Karnataka where they live today, most of them Hindu converts. India’s 35,000 descendants of slaves from Africa’s Bantu Region are members of the Siddi tribe. Siddi means “enlightened one,” but the Siddi are “Untouchables” in India’s caste system. “How do you empower the youth in a world whose people think they’re less than human?” asks the narrator, whose life mission is to do just that.
Manjeet Sarkar is an internationally acclaimed stand-up comedian who has been performing for 7 years. He has done six national tours in India of his solo show ‘Untouchable’, performed at the United Nations, and is currently on a world tour. Co-directed by Mike Noone, Untouchable: Laughing Out Caste is Sarkar’s first documentary that covers his groundbreaking journey across India and now the world. It captures his unique perspective on rural and urban life, caste, and class. Untouchable: Laughing Out Caste highlights the universality of issues faced by marginalised communities and the transformative power of artistic expression.
15 Nov 1975
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26 May 2024
A lesbian couple have a confrontational sleepover.
CUBS is set in a corrupt gold-mining town and delves into the complex moral struggles of a young boy.
01 Mar 1996
A 3-episode omnibus based on a popular manga. A movie version was released the following year.
28 Mar 1973
No overview found
01 Jan 1990
A man is assigned to measure out land for subdivision on an estate. People and animals behave strangely, and the man hears a strange story about a woman who disappeared without a trace from the estate twenty years earlier.
27 Jan 1971
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27 Aug 2018
In the mountains of Guizhou, quarry owner Yu goes to inform a woman, Maizi, that her husband is in a coma after a quarry accident. But Yu is attracted to the sensual, hardheaded Maizi, and concocts a story to make her think she is indebted to him. The entanglements that follow evoke some of the painful impacts of China's modernization.
31 Jul 1971
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.
25 Jan 1996
A wild young woman drives the mysterious Cheng into the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman. The passion between the two lovers escalates in tandem with the violence around them, as events take their own inexorable course.
20 Sep 2018
On the eve of her forty-fifth birthday Doris Doorenbos ends up like a divorced woman with two children at a dead end.