Pink Saris
Biographies & Inspiring Stories
•
45m
Sampat Pal Devi had had enough of the violence and lack of freedom in Indian women's lives and decided to take matters into her own hands. She gathered like-minded women together and, wearing pink, they started storming the offices of corrupt officials, hectoring and beating abusive husbands and protesting against injustice. The reputation of their Gulabi (pink) Gang escalates and soon tens of thousands of women across northern India are organising and actively opposing repression. This film looks at their successes, failures and why what they're doing is so new in India.
Up Next in Biographies & Inspiring Stories
-
Someday My Prince Will Come
Documentary following nine-year-old Laura Anne and her 11 year-old cousin, Steven, as they move towards the end of their childhoods over the course of a year. Set in a quiet village in Cumbria England against a striking backdrop of factories, fields and windmills frames the narrative as Laura Ann...
-
The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni R...
Best known for Nazi propaganda film, Triumph of the Will, and Olympia, her documentary about the 1936 Olympics, Leni Riefenstahl was an undeniably extraordinary filmmaker. In Ray Muller's two-part exploration of her life and work, Riefenstahl claims to have prioritised art over politics, that her...
-
Return to Homs
Once celebrated as Syria's second best goalkeeper, Abdul Baset Al-Sarout has fought the Assad regime since leading chants at street protests in 2011. Director Talal Derki follows Abdul and his friends over two years as the situation escalates and they transition into militia fighters and leaders....
