

Tobacco Embers
TAMBAKU CHAAKILA OOB ALI documents, re-enacts, and takes forward one of the largest movements of unorganized labor of its time and context, which sparked unionizing processes across India throughout the 1980s. In the spirit of mobilizing for the leftist labor and the women’s movements the Yugantar collective spent four months with female tobacco factory workers in Nipani, Karnataka in India, listening to their accounts of exploitative working conditions, discussing strategies for unionizing and steps to broaden solidarities for strike actions, and filming previously unseen circumstances inside the factories.
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- Marathi
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical6 May 1982
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival (Digitally Restored Version)17 Aug 2021
BrazilBR
- Theatrical (limited)16CCSP ("Filme como um Objeto no Espaço: Um Olhar Sobre Acervos de Cinema")25 Jul 2026
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival14 Feb 2019
- Theatrical (limited)Kino Arsenal Berlin (Digitally Restored Version)4 Sept 2021
PortugalPT
- Theatrical (limited)Porto, Batalha Centro de Cinema19 Mar 2023
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Tobacco Embers was released on 6 May 1982.
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