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A CELEBRATION OF LIFE  (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SHUKLA DAS ]
[ Theme : Health ]
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Through the experience of a cancer survivor, Harmala Gupta, the film reflects on the need for palliative care, helping the terminally ill to undergo treatment in the comfort of their homes.

A HANDFUL OF SUN  (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : NIRU SINGH ]
[ Theme : Health ]
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A close look at the life of Asha, a middle class housewife who has been infected with HIV virus through her husband. The film looks at the predicament of 'innocent bystanders' who contract HIV without participating in any potentially risky situation.

A LIFE LESS ORDINARY  (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : RAABIYA JAYARAM ]
[ Theme : Health ]
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A film on children living with HIV in India. It looks at the lives of three children who talk openly about their life and how the HIV virus affects it. It also attempts to bring in the larger perspective of the status of HIV programs in the country, through the voices of practitioners who are working with HIV+ children.

INTO THE ABYSS   (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : VANDANA KOHLI ]
[ Theme : Health ]
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A look at the growing incidence of depression in Delhi including dramatised sequences of a 24 year old management executive’s state of mind, even as the disorder begins to set in.

 

-Radio and Advertisers Practitioners Award (RAPA) 2003, Best Documentary



JHANSI NI RANI-LAUGHING CLUB   (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : DARSHAN DAVE ]
[ Theme : Health ]
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The film explores the power of laughter through the popular phenomenon of laughing clubs in contemporary India that bring together people from all ages and walks of life once a day to laugh.

MAATARI KATHA   (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : RITU BARNA MANIYAR CHUDGAR ]
[ Theme : Health ]
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The film explores issues related to the causes of maternal mortality, measures for prevention and interventions practiced today by the primary health centres, in order to combat the death ratio in the future.

MARBLE MUTTON WITH SLURRY WATER   (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : K. BIKRAM SINGH ]
[ Theme : Health ]
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The film documents the story of the residents of Udaipur and Rajsamand districts in Rajasthan. As to how their lives have been adversely affected by the disposal of slurry, generated during the mining of marble which is becoming a hazard for people’s health and environment.

MOTHER COURAGEOUS   (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : DEBALINA MAJUMDER ]
[ Theme : Health ]
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Each year 40,000 women die in Uttar Pradesh alone due to pregnancy related causes. In a journey across seven districts in Uttar Pradesh, the film explores opinions of government officials, activists, ordinary men and women to reveal social discrimination and state sponsored neglect of women's maternal health.

NEMESIS OF MOTHERHOOD   (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SNEHASIS DAS ]
[ Theme : Health ]
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The film focuses on the problem of high maternal mortality in Orissa. Every minute the death of a mother shatters a family and threatens the well being of a surviving child due to an unholy alliance between poverty, ill health and lack of access to existing health services.

QUACKS-DOCTORS OR KILLERS   (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MANOJ RAGHUVANSHI ]
[ Theme : Health ]
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This film investigates quackery and the medico-legal issues pertaining to unlicensed and unqualified practitioners of medicine. It looks at the quacks who brazenly continue to ply their trade despite lakhs of deaths every year.

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