Theme: FREEDOM AND ISMS
The Online edition of the 4th Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival (2023) was held from 16th to 30th December 2023. Thank you for watching. See you in 2024!
A Short Film About...
(29 mins/ English and Hindi with English subtitles/ 2008/ India/ Documentary)
Dir. Divya Sachar
A film about how urban Indian women see their bodies. The women who spoke in the film broke several barriers in a country like India, which is still largely patriarchal and conservative. Filmed under PSBT's Gender and Sexuality cycle, the film is
a brave and humorous effort by a group of women who talk very honestly about what no one ever speaks about in
India.
Borderlands
Dir. Samarth Mahajan
An intimate exploration of how everyday lives intertwine with borders in the Indian subcontinent. Divided families meet, love blossoms across borders, traffickers get caught – in this slice of life documentary.
Muktha | Liberated
(20 mins/ Kannada with English subtitles/ 2022/ India/ Documentary)
Dir. Medini Kelamane
A family is getting ready for a marriage alliance yet to be made. As the boy, Shekhara is growing a bit out of age and the girl, Pushpa being physically not very appealing, the marriage has been relatively delayed for both of them.
No City for Women
(94 mins/ English & Hindi with English subs/ 2023 / India/ Documentary)
Dir./ Prod. Rangan Chakravarty
Gurgaon, India's Millennium City, promises many opportunities - but, for women, it also poses specific challenges. Through women's personal narratives, the film explores their experiences of living and working in Gurgaon and illuminates the gendered nature of urban Indian life.
Padhne Umar | Age of Learning
Dir./ Prod. Rangan Chakravarty
Gurgaon, India's Millennium City, promises many opportunities - but, for women, it also poses specific challenges. Through women's personal narratives, the film explores their experiences of living and working in Gurgaon and illuminates the gendered nature of urban Indian life.
Padhne Umar | Age of Learning
(26 mins/ Nepali with English subtitles/2023/ Nepal/ Documentary)
Dir. Shuvangi Khadka
Prod. The Third Eye
After struggling all their lives due to illiteracy, two women in rural Nepal are now making their way back to primary school along with their grandchildren. The film explores what drives these women and what they hope to accomplish in the future.
After struggling all their lives due to illiteracy, two women in rural Nepal are now making their way back to primary school along with their grandchildren. The film explores what drives these women and what they hope to accomplish in the future.
(22 mins/ English/ 2021/ India/ Performance Video)
Dir. Najrin Islam
Prod. reFrame
The performance is based on the lived realities and experiences around the writer's Muslim identity, and the delicate complications arising from the dual need to preserve and assimilate. It deals with the protagonist's entrenched fear of hellfire on having deviated from normative expectations by offering the namaaz while menstruating.
The performance is based on the lived realities and experiences around the writer's Muslim identity, and the delicate complications arising from the dual need to preserve and assimilate. It deals with the protagonist's entrenched fear of hellfire on having deviated from normative expectations by offering the namaaz while menstruating.
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