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Bilal can see but his parents cannot. He is only three years old and hardly understands what blindness is. Bilal also has a little brother, Hamza. And inside a tiny dark and dank room together they live in a curious game of seeing and not seeing. Neighbors and relatives surround them. The film tells this unusual story by observing the little boy over a year by capturing rare moments of sharing love, fun, cruelty and hope… the wonder world of Bilal.

Subject: Childhood, Portrait, Exclusion, Citizenship, Survival, Ethnography

Awards and Screenings

Winner of:
Golden Award Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival, 2009;
Best Documentary (Horizons) DOK.FEST, Munich 2009;
Best Documentary We Care Film Festival, India, 2009;
Best Documentary IDSFFK, India, 2009;
Best Documentary ZIFF, Zanzibar 2009;
Silver Ace Las Vegas International Film Festival, 2009, Jury Special Award Festival Internacional del Cine Pobre de Humberto Solás, Cuba 2009;
Silver Palm Mexico International Film Festival,2009;

Special Screenings
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, An exhibition of contemporary films from India, 2009 and OVNI Archives, Spain, 2009.

Producer

Sourav Sarangi, Co-producer: Kristiina Pervilä-Andersson

Creative Crew

Camera: Sourav Sarangi, Somdev Chatterjee / Editing: Sourav Sarangi / Sound: Sourav Sarangi, Pankaj Seal, Ayan Mukherjee

Territory: INDIA

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