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Idhi Katha Matramena (Is This Just a Story?). 1983. India. Directed by Yugantar. Courtesy Arsenal Berlin

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India’s first feminist film collective, the Yugantar was founded in 1980 by Abha Bhaiya, Navroze Contractor, Meera Rao, and Deepa Dhanraj to collaborate with grassroots women’s rights groups on a series of provocative exposés. Dhanraj’s related film What Has Happened to this City? streams from July 29 through August 12.

Idhi Katha Matramena (Is This Just a Story?). 1983. India. Directed by Yugantar. With Lalita K., Poornachandra Rao, Rama Melkote. In Telugu; English subtitles. 25 min. The Yugantar Film Collective coillaborated with Sri Shakhti Sanghatana, a feminist research and activist collective based in Hyderabad, on this portrait of exploited women domestic workers.

Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali (Tobacco Embers). 1983. India. Directed by Yugantar. In Marathi; English subtitles. 25 min. The Yugantar Film Collective joins with women factory workers in the Indian state of Karnataka as they attempt a strike action.

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This film accompanies Films from the Arsenal: Scenes from the Feminist Struggle in Colombia and India.
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