Idhi Katha Matramena - An Yugantar Film, 1983

Yugantar Film Collective (also known as Yugantar) was an all female feminist film collective founded in Bangalore, India, in 1980 by Deepa Dhanraj, Abha Bhaiya, Navroze Contractor, and Meera Rao. It was the first feminist film collective in India. Between 1980 and 1983, during a time of radical political transformation in India, Yugantar created four pioneering films together with existing or ensuing women’s groups. Yugantar filmed in different locations in India. They collaborated with a group of domestic workers in Pune, documented female factory workers in Nipani, worked with Sri Shakhti Sanghatana, a feminist research and activist collective based in Hyderabad and with members of the Chipko movement. A retrospective of the films of Yugantar was shown at Berlinale as part of Forum Expanded in 2019. The films were digitally restored and archived by Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art (Institut für Film und Videokunst) in Berlin.