I am Sirat (Canada)
(87 min; 2023; English)
Directed by Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja who will introduce the film
Caught between duty and self-determination, Sirat Taneja is a transgender woman who must act as her mother’s son when at home in New Delhi but can be the woman she really is with her friends and at work with the Government of India.
The screening will be followed by a Conversation on Gender, Gaze, and Society: The Role of Human Rights Cinema over the Years in Shifting the Gaze Organized in collaboration with Engendered Transnational Arts & Human Rights, I-View World Film Salon Series
Date & Time: 14 May 2024, 06:00 pm
Program Type Films and Exhibitions
Venue: C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building