Theme: MIGRANT STORIES
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 Winter's Elegy
(18:00 mins/ Bhojpuri with English subtitles/ 2022 / India / Documentary)
Dir. Aakash Chhabra
Dir. Aakash Chhabra
In the cast-off town of Panipat in North India, the history of fabric is fused with that of its migrants. A young textile worker retells the modern history of this city, once known for its battles. The film essay ruminates on the memort of clothes and the desires of women workers who work all day in the ultraviolet lights longing for sunshine.
Meelon Dur | Miles Away
(50:10 mins/ Bundeli with English subtitles/ 2023/ India/ Documentary) Dir. Megha Acharya
Prod. Chambal Media, Paula Chakravartty, Michelle Buckley
The everyday-lives of three female labourers working in a brick kiln in India takes an upsetting turn after an unexpected rainfall halts their work. What unfolds is a threatening tale of unorganized labour and economic debts in a rapidly urbanizing India.
The everyday-lives of three female labourers working in a brick kiln in India takes an upsetting turn after an unexpected rainfall halts their work. What unfolds is a threatening tale of unorganized labour and economic debts in a rapidly urbanizing India.
Raat: Night Time in Small Town India
(34:17 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ 2022/ India/ Documentary)
Dir. Arti Ahirwar, Ashraf Hussain, Rajkumari Ahirwar, Vikas Khatri, Tabassum Ansari, Kulsum Khatoon, Khushi Bano, Parmeshwar Mandrawaliya, Santra Chaurthiya, Rajkumari Prajapati, Manisha Chanda, Anita Sen, Rani Devi, Ajfarul Shaikh
Prod. The Third Eye
What is that you can see at night? What is allowed, what is not? What do you become a witness to? Camera in hand, some women and men from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jharkhand venture out to record the experience of nights in small town India. Who is watching and who is being watched? Are nights crafted in silence? Is there still movement, labour that is invisibilised? Who has access to the night? Who hides inside?
Together
(22 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ 2021/ India/ Fiction)
Dir. Azad Alam
Dir. Azad Alam
Prod. Priyanka Singh
Desperate to make ends meet during Covid19, Munmun, a migrant domestic worker and mother of two kids takes on the risky job of nursing her ex-employer Rekha’s husband. The two women, who were at loggerheads in the past, find themselves under the same roof during the lockdown.
Desperate to make ends meet during Covid19, Munmun, a migrant domestic worker and mother of two kids takes on the risky job of nursing her ex-employer Rekha’s husband. The two women, who were at loggerheads in the past, find themselves under the same roof during the lockdown.
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