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OUR FAMILY
Director: Anjali Monteiro & K. P. Jayasankar
English (subtitled), 56 min, 2007, India
What does it mean to cross the line that divides gender? Is there life beyond a hetero-normative family?
et in Tamilnadu, India, 'Our Family' brings together excerpts from 'Nirvanam', a performance by Pritham K. Chakravarthy; and a family of three generations of trans-gendered female subjects. Aasha, Seetha and Dhana, who are bound together by ties of adoption, belong to the community called Aravanis.
The film juxtaposes the "normality" of their existence with the dark and powerful narrative by Pritham: 'Nirvanam' (Liberation) that presents the tumultuous journey towards a reinvented selfhood. The pleasures and dilemmas of becoming the "other" is the motif of the film; and weaving performance and everyday life, it problematises the divides between "us" and "them".
Subject: Borders, Ethnography, Exclusion, Livelihoods, Portraits, Queer
Awards and Screenings
Awards:
Special Mention of the Jury, Signs, Kerela, 2007;
Certificate of Merit & Special Mention of the Jury, Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), 2008;
Gold for Best Sound Design, Gold for Best Script, Silver for Editing, Certificate of Merit for the Best Documentary, Indian Documentary Producers Association (IDPA), Mumbai, 2008.
Selected Screenings:
Madurai Film Festival, 2007;
International Video Festival of Kerala, 2008;
Viscult Festival, Finland, 2008;
Nigah Queerfest, New Delhi, 2008;
Kolkata International Film Festival, 2008;
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Producer
Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Creative Crew
Camera & Graphics: K. P. Jayasankar / Editing: K.P. Jayasankar, Anjali Monteiro / Sound: Elangovan R., K. P. Jayasankar, Anjali Monteiro
Territory: WORLD
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