Molkarin

zusammenfassung

The film exposes the oppressive working conditions of hundreds of maidservants in Pune and reveals how the women came together to form an organization to fight for their rights.

über die/den regisseur*in

Yugantar is considered India’s first feminist film collective. Founded by Deepa Dhanraj, Abha Baiya, Navroze Contractor and Meera Rao in 1980, the collective made four pioneering films. Working collaboratively with existing or ensuing women’s groups Yugantar forged novel filmmaking practices, political vocabularies that still resonate today.