24th(2022)
Opening Film (1) | Discovery (12) |
Asian Shorts (20) | I-Teens (6) |
New Currents (26) | The Landscape of Here in Now (5) |
Polemics (6) | Queer Rainbow (7) |
Feminist Collective (9) | The moments with Yeri HAN (10) |
Remembering Oblivion (4) | Restored (10) |
Film X Gender (2) | Barrier Free (1) |
Documentary Ock Rang (2) | Special Screening (1) |
In Memory of KANG Soo-yeon (1) |
Deepa DHANRAJ
This is a documentary about reproductive violence in the ¡°family planning program¡± in India in the 1970s. The Indian government outsourced brutality by earning corruptive money from the international adoption industry and allocating a quota for sterilization operations at the same time. Women didn¡¯t know exactly what surgery they got or the side effects. They were victimized by the deceptive birth control policy. The film makes the viewers realize two things are connected to each other, not in extreme ends: being forced or being robbed of their reproductive rights when the patriarchy controls women¡¯s bodies. It weaves together footage of Indian women coming together to speak their minds. It is similar to Wang Nanfu and Zhang Jialing¡¯s One Child Nation (2019), a documentary about the One-Child Policy in China. [Kim AkA, Cinefemme]
Deepa DHANRAJDeepa DHANRAJ
Dhanraj is an award-winning filmmaker who has been actively involved in women's movements since 1980. She has an extensive filmography spanning nearly three decades that includes many films on education and health as well as several award-winning documentaries.