Landless
2018 · 1h 10m
Watch it tonight if you're ready for a sobering, urgent documentary about real systemic oppression—this is important social cinema that deserves attention, even from a debut filmmaker. Skip it if you want escapism, but if you care about understanding caste discrimination and land justice in India, this is essential viewing.
Plot
Landless is a debut documentary film by Randeep Maddoke on the issues faced by Dalits of India in their daily life, caste-based discrimination in numerous ways being one them. It follows the story of the victims of such atrocities like the social boycott, communal attacks by Jatts (upper caste) in the Indian state of Punjab. The project visits the recent uproars in the state on the issues of land.