Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 2018 • 95 minutes

Those who witnessed the scientific spirit fostered by the Enlightenment would scarcely believe that over 400 years later, Faith would still have an upper hand over Reason. Today as technologically advanced nations still debate the me...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 2018 • 123 minutes

Those who witnessed the scientific spirit fostered by the Enlightenment would scarcely believe that over 400 years later, Faith would still have an upper hand over Reason. Today as technologically advanced nations still debate the m...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 2012 • 168 minutes

For thousands of years India’s Dalits were abhorred as “untouchables,” denied education and treated as bonded labour. By 1923 Bhimrao Ambedkar broke the taboo, won doctorates abroad and fought for the emancipation of his people. He ...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 2002 • 135 minutes

Filmed over four tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the USA following nuclear tests in the Indian sub-continent, War and Peace is a documentary journey of peace activism in the face of global militarism and war. The film...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 1995 • 120 minutes

FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR explores in two parts the possibility that the psychology of violence against “the other” may lie in male insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the very construction of “manhood.”

Part 1: TRIAL BY FIR...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 1995 • 121 minutes

FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR explores in two parts the possibility that the psychology of violence against “the other” may lie in male insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the very construction of “manhood.”

Part 2: HERO PHARMAC...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 1992 • 75 minutes

Since gaining independence in 1947, India has been a secular state. But now, as religious fundamentalism grips much of India’s population, the greatest danger to the nation’s extremely strained social fabric may come not from Sikh or...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 1985 • 75 minutes

BOMBAY OUR CITY tells the story of the daily battle for survival of the 4 million slum dwellers of Bombay who make up half the city’s population. Although they are Bombay’s workforce – industrial laborers, construction workers, domes...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 1998 • 42 minutes

Traditional fishing communities around the world are under threat of mass displacement by the industrial fishing practices of gigantic factory ships. Private capital, with the aid of international lending agencies, have embarked on a...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan, Simantini Dhuru • Documentary • 1995 • 57 minutes

The Sardar Sarover Dam in western India, lynch-pin of a mammoth development project on the river Narmada’s banks, has been criticized as uneconomical and unjust. It will benefit urban India at a cost borne by the rur...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 1990 • 60 minutes

IN MEMORY OF FRIENDS documents the violence and terror in Punjab, India – a land torn apart by religious fundamentalists and a repressive government. After examining the political turmoil of the late 1970′s and the rise of Sikh funda...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 1981 • 40 minutes

On April 6, 1980, the Canadian Farmworkers Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among Chinese and East Indian immigrant workers in British Columbia that provoked the formation of the union, and the response o...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 1978 • 45 minutes

An important historical record of a traumatic period in India’s recent political history, PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE focuses on the State of Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi from June 1975 to March 1977. During the Emergency the media...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 2009 • 5 minutes

A message from the economically displaced children of a slum colony in Mumbai who are educating themselves in the face of government apathy.

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 2006 • 5 minutes

Global censorship of the war on Iraq has stifled the outrage that may have otherwise curtailed the ongoing atrocity of occupation. Not only have the real causes of war been hidden but also its effects. Most people see a sanitized and ...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • With Naseeruddin Shah, Aamir Khan, Kittu Gidwani, Chandrachur • 1998 • 5 minutes

Made in the aftermath of Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests, Ribbons gives new meaning to an old film song by Kishore Kumar – a kind of “Imagine” composed before the days...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 1996 • 22 minutes

Textile mills were once the backbone of Bombay’s economy and provided the city its working class culture. Today, foreign investment and rising real-estate prices have made selling mill lands more profitable than running mills. Mill ‘...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 1974 • 30 minutes

Waves of Revolution, made during the repressive days of the Emergency in India, documents the 1974-75 uprising of the people of Bihar in Eastern India. By 1974 India with its few rich and many poor had become a seething mass of disco...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • With Sambhaji Bhagat • 1996 • 5 minutes

We Are Not Your Monkeys is a music video that reworks the epic Ramayana story to critique the caste and gender oppression implicit in it. Sung by Sambhaji Bhagat and composed by Sambhaji, the late Daya Pawar and...