Leena Manimekalai's Films on Demand

90min, Tamil, Subtitled in English

This film is a coming of age tale of a young girl who grew up in an unseeable slave caste group in southern India and how she came to be immortalized as a local deity, Maadathy.

Maadathy was initially refused certification by the Regional Censor Board but secu...

9 minutes, English

The indigenous goddess takes a quintessential trip on being, belonging and becoming in the streets of downtown Toronto.

90min, Tamil, Subtitled in English

A Cinema Verité that captures the fragments of simple lives beaten by three decade long ethnic war in Srilanka. It unfolds in a fisher village at Dhanushkodi, the southernmost tip of India, where life and death co exist.

Sengadal was initially banned by the Re...

30 min, English/Tamil, Subtitled in English

The film follows the journey of two friends Smiley and Glady - looking for a rental apartment in Chennai and the obstacles and social stigma they encounter in not just looking for a home but being single and the fact that they are transgender women.

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35 min, Hindi, Subtitled in English

A video portrait of the first female indigenous journalist and activist Dayamani Barla, her perseverance and tireless
fight against corporations and the state machinery in Jharkhand, India.

Festivals, To name a few;

- Produced with the help of International...

42min, Tamil, Subtitled in English

Notes from the lives of three extra ordinary women – a funeral singer; a fisherwoman; a graveyard worker, surviving the darkest of times against society's norms, to live and work according to the rules they have set for themselves.

Festivals, To name a few;

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60 min, Tamil/Sinhala, Subtitled in English

A film on enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka that shines a light on the resilience and courage of the families of the disappeared across gamut of provinces and ethnicities including Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim communities in their continued fight for ...

52 min, Tamil, Subtitled in English

Leena Manimekalai, the contemporary Tamil woman poet enters the cavern of her own mind and finds there the scattered leaves not only of her own power but of the tradition of her foremothers, female poets from Sangam era, that might have generated that power.

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