This section contains a selection of academic work about cinema of resistance.

COR creates a set of conditions with an objective to establish a critical relationship between cinema and the spectator, where films are not only presented as objects of consumption, scopophilia or narrative identification but also historicized and contextualized to permit numerous ways of viewing and interpretation.

(Excerpt from the book chapter ‘Reframing the margin: regional film festivals in India, a case study of cinema of resistance’ by Shweta Kishore, 2017)

COR film screenings produce new spaces of interaction at diverse locations where they take place and these spaces could have a lasting impact on those who encounter them. The expansion of such spaces through the circulatory practices of COR could contribute to a strengthening of narratives which resist state and corporate discourses on issues such as caste, majoritarianism, gender or development.

(Excerpt from the article ‘Cinema of Resistance-Film Circulation and Creation of Spaces for Resisting Narratives’ by Fathima Nizaruddin 2020)