
Sanjay Kak
2021In the Forest Hangs a Bridge
Sanjay Kak
Located deep in the forested hills of the Siang valley of Arunachal Pradesh, at the north-eastern extremity of India, Damro village gathers to build a 1000 foot long suspension bridge, the elegant structures of cane and bamboo, that are the distinctive mark of the Adi tribe. Their only tool is the dao, a blade length of tempered steel, the size of a machete.
In the Forest Hangs a Bridge
Red Ant Dream
Sanjay Kak
This documentary deals with the Maoist insurgency in India. It focuses on the Maoists in Bastar, Chhattisgarh fighting against industrialists in Niyamgiri, Odisha, and protesters acting in memory of the Leftist revolutionary Bhagat Singh in Punjab.
Red Ant Dream
This Land, My Land, Eng-Land!
Sanjay Kak
Rita Wolf
Sanjay Kak explores life with artists Rita Wolf, Parv Bancil, and Faruk and Harun Shamser of Joi Bangla Crew as they struggle for a place in the sun. Three decades after South Asians first came to Britain in the 1960s, this compelling film follows a new generation of young creatives, and examines the endless rehearsals that go into the construction of identity.
This Land, My Land, Eng-Land!
Jashn-e-Azadi
Sanjay Kak
Filmmaker Sanjay Kak offers this compelling and intimate glimpse of the daily tensions in Kashmir, where resistance to India's rule among everyday Kashmiris is unrelenting and can flare into violence. Kak follows a man to his son's gravesite and listens to a girl's account of a neighbor killed by the Indian army, all against a backdrop of stunning natural scenery to ask the question, Just what is the meaning of freedom?
Jashn-e-Azadi