Yeh Freedom Life
70 Minutes, Hindi with English subtitles, 2019, India.
A film by Priya Sen
December 18, Wednesday | 7:45 pm
Bangalore International Centre [BIC]
#7 , 4th Main Road, Domlur II Stage
Entry free and open to all
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.
70 Minutes, Hindi with English subtitles, 2019, India.
A film by Priya Sen
December 18, Wednesday | 7:45 pm
Bangalore International Centre [BIC]
#7 , 4th Main Road, Domlur II Stage
Entry free and open to all
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.
SYNOPSIS
Filmed over the course of a year in Ambedkar Nagar in Delhi, 'Yeh Freedom Life' tries to keep up with its protagonists as they manoeuvre erratic and unpredictable love. One of them works at a local beauty parlour, the other runs the family’s small cigarette counter at a crowded intersection. They are surrounded by a cacophonous city; they are both in love with other women. The film accompanies them through their desire to live according to them, their ‘freedom lives’, outside society and family’s constant scrutiny and sanction. But this ‘freedom life’ also leaves them vulnerable to the precariousness of love, when it refuses such constraints.
Festival Screenings 2019
Official Selection at:
BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, August 2019
Bangalore Queer Film Festival, August 2019
Open City Documentary Festival, London, September 2019
Dharamshala International Film Festival, September 2019
Dialogues: Calcutta International LGBT Film & Video Festival 2019
Filmed over the course of a year in Ambedkar Nagar in Delhi, 'Yeh Freedom Life' tries to keep up with its protagonists as they manoeuvre erratic and unpredictable love. One of them works at a local beauty parlour, the other runs the family’s small cigarette counter at a crowded intersection. They are surrounded by a cacophonous city; they are both in love with other women. The film accompanies them through their desire to live according to them, their ‘freedom lives’, outside society and family’s constant scrutiny and sanction. But this ‘freedom life’ also leaves them vulnerable to the precariousness of love, when it refuses such constraints.
Festival Screenings 2019
Official Selection at:
BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, August 2019
Bangalore Queer Film Festival, August 2019
Open City Documentary Festival, London, September 2019
Dharamshala International Film Festival, September 2019
Dialogues: Calcutta International LGBT Film & Video Festival 2019
THE DIRECTOR
Priya Sen is a New Delhi-based filmmaker and artist who works with nonfiction and experimental forms across film /video, sound and installation. Sen’s work has screened at festivals and venues including The Kitchen NYC; BFI London Film Festival; BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia; Forum Expanded Berlinale; Experimenta International Festival of Moving Image Art, and Dharamshala International Film Festival among others. She was a featured filmmaker at the 65th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar 2019. 'Yeh Freedom Life' is her first feature documentary.
