Gulabi Gang
A film by Nishtha Jain
96 min/Norway/India/Denmark/2012
23 Jan 2014, 7 p.m., Everest Theatre, Frazer Town
Synopsis
Enter the badlands of Bundelkhand in central India and you have entered a place of desolation, dust and despair. And yet it is hope that this film discovers, as it follows the Gulabi Gang, an unusual group of rural women. Led by the energetic and charismatic Sampat Pal, they travel long distances to fight for the rights of women and Dalits. They encounter resistance, apathy and corruption, even ridicule. Sometimes whole villages connive against them to protect the perpetrators of violence. The film pulls us into the centre of these blazing conflicts and uncovers a complex story, disturbing yet heartening.
AWARDS AND HONORS
WINNER: Best Film, Muhr Asia/Africa Documentary, Dubai International Film Festival, 2012
WINNER: First Amnesty International Human Rights Award, Tri-Continental Film Festival, South Africa 2013
WINNER: Best Documentary, International Association of Women in Radio and Television (AIWRT) 2013
WINNER: Amnesty International Award for Human Rights, Plante-doc, Warsaw, 2013
WINNER: Best Documentary, Kortfilmfestivalen, Grimstad, Norway, 2012
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE: IDFA, Amsterdam, 2012
AUDIENCE TOP TEN at IDFA, Amsterdam the biggest documentary film festival in the world.
OPENING FILM: Dok.fest Muenchen, 2013
OPENING FILM: Documentary Section, Kortfilmfestivalen, Grimstad, Norway 2012
OPENING FILM: Pune Women’s Film Festival 2013
OPENING FILM: Our Lives to Live International Film Festival on gender violence organised by AIWRT.
FIRST INDIAN DOCUMENTARY to have a theatrical release abroad. It was released countrywide in Norway in January 2013.
96 min/Norway/India/Denmark/2012
23 Jan 2014, 7 p.m., Everest Theatre, Frazer Town
Synopsis
Enter the badlands of Bundelkhand in central India and you have entered a place of desolation, dust and despair. And yet it is hope that this film discovers, as it follows the Gulabi Gang, an unusual group of rural women. Led by the energetic and charismatic Sampat Pal, they travel long distances to fight for the rights of women and Dalits. They encounter resistance, apathy and corruption, even ridicule. Sometimes whole villages connive against them to protect the perpetrators of violence. The film pulls us into the centre of these blazing conflicts and uncovers a complex story, disturbing yet heartening.
AWARDS AND HONORS
WINNER: Best Film, Muhr Asia/Africa Documentary, Dubai International Film Festival, 2012
WINNER: First Amnesty International Human Rights Award, Tri-Continental Film Festival, South Africa 2013
WINNER: Best Documentary, International Association of Women in Radio and Television (AIWRT) 2013
WINNER: Amnesty International Award for Human Rights, Plante-doc, Warsaw, 2013
WINNER: Best Documentary, Kortfilmfestivalen, Grimstad, Norway, 2012
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE: IDFA, Amsterdam, 2012
AUDIENCE TOP TEN at IDFA, Amsterdam the biggest documentary film festival in the world.
OPENING FILM: Dok.fest Muenchen, 2013
OPENING FILM: Documentary Section, Kortfilmfestivalen, Grimstad, Norway 2012
OPENING FILM: Pune Women’s Film Festival 2013
OPENING FILM: Our Lives to Live International Film Festival on gender violence organised by AIWRT.
FIRST INDIAN DOCUMENTARY to have a theatrical release abroad. It was released countrywide in Norway in January 2013.
