Selected Titles
program description
Our Selected Titles program presents a carefully curated selection of historical works, cinematic classics, and contemporary films. As a platform dedicated to the cinema of the Global Majority, we recognize the importance of avoiding an oversimplified North-South binary when engaging with colonial dynamics and the romanticization of the Global South.
Many of the films in this program challenge the assumption that moving beyond the Western canon inherently transcends colonial frameworks. Instead, they reveal how imperial and colonial legacies persist, perpetuated by nation-states against minoritized groups, including women and working-class communities, within the Global South.
While most films align with this thematic focus, some have been included as a courtesy to filmmakers who have requested a platform for their work on Cinelogue.
Canada, 2021, 13m
When a young Tamil-Canadian woman comes face to face with another version of herself as a paramilitary fighter for the Tamil Tigers -- her sense of western privilege collides with the reality of her ancestors.
India, 1981, 25m
Molkarin exposes the oppressive working conditions of thousands of domestic workers in Pune. Through re-enactments of significant moments of the original process of unionising, the film narrates the coming together of women workers and union activists to form the Pune Shahar Molkarin Sanghatana (Pune City Domestic Workers Union) to fight for their rights.
India, 1982, 25m
Tambaku Chaakila Oob Aali traces the history and strike actions of the all women trade union of over 3000 tobacco workers in Nipani (Karnataka). It was made in collaboration with female tobacco factory workers.
