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    Sudesha

    Yugantar Film Collective 1983 India Documentary color 34min DCP
    A portrait of Sudesha DEVI, a woman who is a village activist in the Chipko Forest Conservation Movement in the foothills of the Himalayas. Here people’s livelihoods depend on the forest which is threatened to be destroyed by powerful timber traders.

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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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