The documentary tells the history of the “Gulabi Gang”, where gulabi is for pink, with special attention to Sampat Pal Devi and Aarti Devi. The Pink Gang was founded in 1990, but his leader Sampat Devi gave it a name only in 2006. The gang is based in one of India’s poorest regions, which lies to the south of Dehli, in the Banda district, on the borders with Uttar and Madhya Pradesh. The peculiarity of the gang is that all of its members are women. They all wear pink saris and are armed with a lathi, a special stick with an ancient and contradictory origin.
The Pink Gang defends the villages from every abuse, especially against criminals. In this area and in many other areas in India, people are often victim of violent bandits, who steal the few belongings of the people and sometimes abuse the women. Until the birth of the gang the crimes suffered by the women were not even recorded after they had been declared to the police. No matter who committed the violence (a husband, a brother or a criminal) every official control would give the same result: no crimes against women.
Violence is not the best way to see the acknowledgement of a right, but it is often the only possible way.
Women in Shroud is a documentary about the violent injustice in the Iranian legal system, particularly towards women. Through verité footage and interviews with women who were accused (often without adequate proof) of adultery and sentenced to the death penalty, and interviews with several dedicated women's rights activists and a volunteer lawyer who have helped to appeal and to overturn these women's death sentences, the film exposes the arbitrary and highly subjective nature of Iranian judicial justice, and the discriminatory cultural and moral double-standards applied by the judges towards sentencing women they believed to be guilty of adulterous behaviour.
In this new comedy from director Larry Charles (BORAT, "Seinfeld"), comedian and TV host Bill Maher ("Real Time with Bill Maher," "Politically Incorrect") takes a pilgrimage across the globe on a mind-opening journey into the ultimate taboo: questioning religion. Meeting the high and low from different religions, Maher simply asks questions, like "Why is faith good?" "Why doesn't an all-powerful God speak to us directly?" and "How can otherwise rational people believe in a talking snake?" For anyone who's even a little spiritually curious, this divine entertainment will deepen your faith...in comedy!
A film by Nahid Persson, Produced by Setareh Persson & Nahid Persson
From Nahid Persson, the filmmaker of the award-winning Prostitution Behind the Veil, comes an intimate portrait of a polygamist family in a rural Iranian village. Persson reveals the intricacies of the relationships between the four wives, their husband, their astoundingly free-spoken mother-in-law and their numerous children. Sometimes humorous and often heartbreaking, this film follows the daily lives of the wives whose situation has turned them into both bitter rivals and co-conspirators against their abusive husband.
A Villé, Climont et Saales, au coeur de l'Alsace où la présence de noirs africains est quasiment inexistante, la présence d'une femme noire et pasteur semble insolite, "une graine de poivre dans une sauce blanche".
documentaire, 2006, 52' FilFil Films www.filfil.fr
