Themes - Non-traditional Choices & Spirited Women

Watch five films on two themes of the 5th Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival here! 

Theme: Non-traditional choicesहम कामगार औरतें 

Pushpa Ka Rickshaw 
(15:49 mins | Nimadi, Malvi with English subtitles | 2023 | Docu)
Dir. Aajad Singh Khichi & Pinky Brahma Choudhury, Shobhit Jain
In a remote village of Charbardi, Puspha Didi breaks stereotypes by driving the e-rickshaw.
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Play it like Payal 
(24:38 mins | Hindi, English with English subtitles | 2024 | Docu)
Dir. Anisha Agale, Asmita Shrivastav, Izza Ahsan, Mohammed Safuvan and Ketan Rathod
Prod. School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
A film about a girl who plays football with boys in Mumbai slums. 
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A Sticky Wicket

(48:30 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ 2018/ Docu)

Dir. Yasmin Kidwai

Sports empowers –irrespective of gender – its sets one free, physically, mentally and emotionally. This film is about a semi-urban slum on the outskirts of Delhi and a group of girls who live there - mostly daughters of domestic workers and daily wage labourers. In the midst of their daily routines of cooking, cleaning, and looking after younger siblings and the house, enters a sport - Cricket. When girls play cricket, it's more than one boundary, which breaks! 

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Kisan Hoon, Nidar Hoon, Par…
(05:21 mins | Hindi with English subtitles | 2022 | Docu)
Dir. Arti Singh| Prod. Green Hub
Through the eyes of Saguni Devi, a farmer based in Rajasthan, this film looks at her challenges.
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Theme: Spirited Women मैं खेलना चाहती हूँ 

Beyond the Hoop 
(16:04 mins | English | 2022 | Docu)
Dir. Animesh Gautam | Prod. NID
This film is the journey of one, among the very few female professional sports photographers in this sports obsessed nation of India.
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Andro Dreams 
(63 mins | Manipuri with English subs | 2023 | Docu) 
Dir. Meena longjam and Jani Viswanath
A love story of an old woman with a spirited soul, and her three-decade old all girls' football club battling economic challenges, patriarchal system & orthodoxy in an ancient North-East village.  
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