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105 minutes | Punjabi, Hindi with English Subtitles | India, France and Norway | 2024
At the edges of the capital, a nation gathered to defend its right to live with dignity.
Inquilab di Kheti documents the year-long farmers’ protests that unfolded during the COVID-19 lockdown in response to India’s new agricultural laws. Through patient, intimate observation, the film captures how hundreds of thousands of farmers across generations, religions, castes, and classes, came together to form resilient communities at Delhi’s borders. What emerges is a portrait not only of resistance, but of collective care, endurance, and moral resolve.
Following the screening, filmmaker Nishtha Jain will be in conversation with Sandhya Kumar, closing with a Q&A session.
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Nishtha Jain
Nishtha Jain is one of India’s leading documentary filmmakers, known for acclaimed works such as The Golden Thread (2022), Gulabi Gang (2012), and Lakshmi and Me (2007). A Chicken & Egg Award winner (2020) and Member of AMPAS, she is also a Film Independent Global Media Maker Fellow (2019-20) and Fulbright-Nehru Fellow (2019). Her immersive, experiential documentaries have screened at over 250 festivals worldwide and have won numerous international awards. Her recent film, Farming the Revolution (2024), premiered at Hot Docs and won the Best International Documentary Prize.
Sandhya Kumar
Sandhya Kumar is a Bangalore-based filmmaker and editor whose work, shaped by her training at the San Francisco Art Institute and Jamia Millia Islamia, explores the quiet poetry of everyday life. She has received grants from the India Foundation for the Arts and the Public Service Broadcasting Trust, and is an ATSA Fellow with ARThink South Asia. A trustee of Vikalp Bengaluru, she contributes to building platforms that bring documentary cinema to wider audiences while continuing her own reflective and evocative filmmaking practice.
