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    Is This Just a Story?

    Yugantar Film Collective 1983 India Documentary b/w 28min DCP
    A collaboration with the feminist activist collective Street Shakhti Sanghatana, provoked by an urgency to broaden discourses and political practice on domestic violence. The fictional reconstruction of domestic violence in the film explores the complex inner struggle of its female character. The film’s capacity to speak to multiple experiences allowed the film to travel extensively, spoke powerfully to diverse female audiences and sparked debates amongst feminist activists.

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    Yugantar Film Collective

    Yugantar Film Collective is India’s first feminist film collective. The all-female collective was founded in Bangalore by Abha BHAIYA, Deepa DHANRAJ, Meera RAO and Navroze CONTRACTOR in 1980, when India was going through a period of political transformation. Working collaboratively with existing or ensuing women’s groups, they produced four pioneering films and forged novel filmmaking practices, political vocabularies that still resonate today.

    Yugantar Film Collective

    1981 Maid Servant

    1982 Tobacco Embers

    1983 Sudesha

    1983 Is This Just a Story?

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