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24th(2022)



Something Like a War

Deepa DHANRAJ

  • United Kingdom
  • 1991
  • 52min
  • DCP
  • color

SYNOPSIS

The film examines India¡¯s family planning program from the point of view of the nation¡¯s women and exposes the cynicism, corruption, and brutality which characterized its implementation. As women discuss their status, sexuality, birth control, and health, it is clear that their perceptions are in sharp conflict with those of the program.

PROGRAM NOTE

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]

Director

  • 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. 

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