Directing

Sanjay Kak

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Directing

Credits

5 titles

Known for

Red Ant Dream poster
6.0

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

2013

No artwork available
NR

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!

1990

How We Celebrate Freedom poster
NR

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?

How We Celebrate Freedom

2007

In the Forest Hangs a Bridge poster
NR

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

1999

Words on Water poster
NR

For more than 15 years, people of the valley have resisted a series of massive dams on their river, and in their struggle have exposed the deceptive heart of India’s development politics. The struggle has forged unusual alliances.

Words on Water

2002

Behind the camera

Red Ant Dream poster
6.0

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

2013

No artwork available
NR

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!

1990

How We Celebrate Freedom poster
NR

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?

How We Celebrate Freedom

2007

In the Forest Hangs a Bridge poster
NR

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

1999

Words on Water poster
NR

For more than 15 years, people of the valley have resisted a series of massive dams on their river, and in their struggle have exposed the deceptive heart of India’s development politics. The struggle has forged unusual alliances.

Words on Water

2002