Yeh Freedom Life tries to keep up with its protagonists, as they manoeuvre erratic and unpredictable love. One of them works at a local beauty parlour, the other runs the family’s small cigarette counter at a crowded intersection. They are surrounded by a cacophonous city; they are both in love with other women. The film accompanies them through their desire to live according to them, their ‘freedom lives’, outside society and family’s constant scrutiny and sanction. But this ‘freedom life’ also leaves them vulnerable to the precariousness of love, when it refuses such constraints.
70min, Hindi with English subtitles
Direction & Editing: Priya Sen | Cinematography: Ankur Ahuja | Sound Mix: Hashtone Mumbai
Selected Screenings
The Kitchen NYC, 2019
65th Flaherty Seminar, 2019
Open Documentary Festival, London, 2019
Bangalore Queer Film Festival, 2019
BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, 2019
Dharamshala International Film Festival, 2019 (winner of the Gender Sensitivity Award)
DIALOGUES, Calcutta International LGBT Film and Video Festival, 2019
IAWRT, Delhi, 2019
Outfest LA, 2020
New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) 2020
Seoul International Women's Film Festival 2020
Tasveer Film Festival, Seattle 2021
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