Title of the film Red Ant Dream
Directed by Sanjay Kak
Language Gondi, Punjabi, Odia (English subtitles)
Country India
Year 2013
Duration 120 mins
PRINCIPAL CREW
SCREENPLAY Sanjay Kak, Tarun Bhartiya
CINEMATOGRAPHY Ranjan Palit, Setu Panday
EDITING Tarun Bhartiya
SOUND Madhu Apsara
About the Film
Deep in the jungles of Bastar, Maoist rebels fight for indigenous rights against corporate exploitation. In Punjab, revolutionary ghosts of Bhagat Singh haunt modern protests. And Odisha's hills echo with tribal songs challenging mining giants.
The documentary weaves these threads of resistance into a tapestry of hope and struggle. We see the everyday realities of insurgency, the poetry of revolutionary songs, and the faces etched with both fear and defiance. But is a new dawn possible amidst the constant rumble of bombs and whispers of dissent?
About the Director
Sanjay Kak is an independent documentary filmmaker and writer whose work includes the films Red Ant Dream (2013) about the persistence of the revolutionary ideal in India, Jashn-e-Azadi (How we celebrate freedom (2007) about the idea of freedom in Kashmir, and Words on Water (2002) about the struggle against the Narmada dams in central India.
Sanjay is the editor of the anthology Until My Freedom Has Come – The New Intifada in Kashmir (Penguin India 2011). He is also the editor and publisher of the critically acclaimed photobook, Witness – Kashmir 1986-2016, Nine Photographers which was published independently under the imprint of Yaarbal Books.
