24th(2022)
| Opening Film (1) | Discovery (12) |
| Asian Shorts (20) | I-Teens (6) |
| New Currents (26) | The Landscape of Here in Now (5) |
| Polemics (6) | Queer Rainbow (7) |
| Feminist Collective (9) | The moments with Yeri HAN (10) |
| Remembering Oblivion (4) | Restored (10) |
| Film X Gender (2) | Barrier Free (1) |
| Documentary Ock Rang (2) | Special Screening (1) |
| In Memory of KANG Soo-yeon (1) |
Tobacco Embers
Yugantar
- India
- 1982
- 25min
- DCP
- black and white
SYNOPSIS
The film documents, re-enacts, and takes forward one of the largest movements of unorganized labor of its time and context, which sparked unionizing processes across India throughout the 1980s.
PROGRAM NOTE
Tobacco Embers reenacts women’s movements. It focuses on the women workers who were rarely noticed during the unionizing processes across India in the 1980s. Starting with the scene capturing women workers walking toward the factory, it filmed moments of women sorting out and grinding tobacco leaves all day, inhaling tobacco dust without guarantee of proper meal times, and falling asleep in the corners of the factory. Reenactments of their massive non-violent protest to claim basic rights look real. [Nandule, HAEPARI]
Director
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YugantarYugantar
Yugantar, India’s first feminist film collective, was founded by Deepa Dhanraj, Abha Bhaiya, Navroze Contractor, and Meera Rao. From 1981 to 1983, Yugantar developed projects in partnership with existing or developing women’s groups around the country. Rich synergies between their activist and creative practices mark Yugantar’s films as a potent chapter of feminist filmmaking, inspiring reflections on political friendship and other modes of contemporary coexistence.
