Dec 10 2025 to Dec 10 2025 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

105 minutes | Panjabi, Hindi with English Subtitles | India, France and Norway | 2024

Inquilab di Kheti (Farming the Revolution) plunges viewers into the heart of India’s historic year-long farmers’ protests against newly enacted agricultural laws during the COVID-19 lockdown. Witness how over half a million protesters—spanning generations, religions, classes, and castes—converged to create thriving communities of resistance at Delhi’s border protest sites. Through intimate footage, the film captures the daily rhythms, resilience, and unwavering determination of this extraordinary movement, culminating in a hard-won triumph.

Filmmaker Nishtha Jain will be in conversation with Sandhya Kumar after the screening. A Q&A session with the audience will follow.

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Speakers

Nishtha Jain
Documentary Filmmaker
Nishtha Jain is India’s leading documentary filmmaker best known for her critically acclaimed films: The Golden Thread (2022), Gulabi Gang (2012), Lakshmi and Me (2007). Her latest film, Farming the Revolution (2024) premiered at Hot Docs and won the Best International Documentary Prize. Experiential and immersive, her documentaries are subjective, focus on the quotidian, and embrace the surprises and imperfections inherent in actuality.

Jain is a Chicken & Egg Award winner (2020); a Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (AMPAS); a Film Independent Global Media Maker Fellow (2019-20); and a Recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2019).

Her films have been screened at over 250 film festivals including IDFA, Busan, Hot Docs, Zurich, Viennale et al. They have won numerous international awards. and have been written about in academic journals/books.

Sandhya Kumar
Sandhya Kumar is a filmmaker and editor based in Bangalore. A graduate of San Francisco Art Institute and Jamia Millia University, New Delhi, her work is inspired by the desire to make visible the poetry of everyday life.  She has received film grants from the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) and the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) and has been an ATSA fellow at ARThink South Asia. Sandhya is a trustee of Vikalp Bengaluru; a filmmakers’ collective committed to creating platforms for documentary films to reach wider audiences.