Alliance Française de Delhi Learn French, Delf-Dalf Exam, Indo-French Cultural Events
Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/12/2016
6:30 pm
Location
M L Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Francaise de Delhi
Categories
DIRECTOR: Ruchira Gupta
DURATION: 00:47:00
LANGUAGES: English, Hindi
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1996
About Doc’N Talk:
At the crossroad between social sciences research and public debate, those monthly screenings are conceived as the first of a series itself directly related to the “CSH Visual Evenings” initiative. For the past two years indeed, documentaries such as The sky below on partition by Sarah Singh, Nirnay on marriages in low middle class by Pushpa Rawat and Wars and Tears on the Chinese community in India by Dr. Rita Chowdhury, – to name only a few -, have been screened and followed by fascinating conversations on a wide range of contemporary South Asian issues.
In addition, the CSH collaboration with Alliance Française de Delhi (AFD), which host the monthly Doc’N Talk and contributes to the events, involves more diverse audiences on shared topics of interest. As an Indo-French Cultural Centre, Alliance Française de Delhi allow a larger access to primordial tropics. This collaboration also aims to promote young local filmmakers from the yet less-popular Indian Documentary Films Industry.
About Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities:
The Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH) is part of a network of research centres of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
As a research centre, the overall objective of the CSH is to examine the various transition processes that affect India and the South Asian region along with the impacts of globalization. The research fields cover the entire spectrum of Social Sciences and Humanities (economics, political science, international relations, international law, geography, demography, sociology, anthropology and other areas).
About The Selling of Innocents:
The largest red-light district in India – perhaps the world – is The Falkland Road Kamatipura area of Bombay. The young girls who work inside the brothels are modern-day sex slaves. In fact, many of them are Nepalese children valued for their exotic looks.
The Selling of Innocents follows the flesh trade from its source in Katmandu to the sex factories of Bombay. Our crew gained unprecedented access to the story. In one of the documentary’s most shocking and powerful moments, we watch as hidden cameras record a Nepalese farmer selling his daughter into prostitution. Incredibly, the crew even joins a vigilante group of brothel raiders as they rescue child prostitutes. Ultimately, the film is a riveting account of the hope that exists in the most desperate of situations.
Directed 20 years ago by Ruchira Gupta, the documentary marks the beginning of a long road to the abolition of human trafficking. In 2002, the twenty-two women who transparently shared their story in The Selling Of Innocents founded, along with Ruchira Gupta, the today well-known APNE AAP.
The screening of The Selling of Innocents is in line with our wish to put a spotlight on the situation of women in contemporary India. This Doc’N Talk aims to celebrate the 20th anniversary of a documentary with long term social impacts. Beyond the years, The Selling of Innocents still deserves serious attention, since the film nonetheless highlights a primordial contemporary issue.