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• Report to Mother was part of the Cannes Classics section, 40 years after it was made and never commercially released.
• The Odessa Collective funded the film by traveling through Kerala asking people directly for money, collecting small amounts, village by village.
• The finished film was then shown for free in these same villages, outside any commercial structure.
• In the Weimar Republic, Social Democrats, Communists, and independent leftists founded the Volksfilmverband as an explicit response to the monopolization of the commercial film industry.