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Fatima | Freedom Talk: Sex Workers Organising for Change
Duration: 150 minutes without intermission
Seating: Free Seating
Recommended for: 18 years old and above
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23rd
Aug 2024
10:30AM (GMT+8)
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About
Fatima (2022)
Fatima was barely 9 years old when she was married off to a pimp in the red-light area of Forbesganj, a town at the northern end of the state of Bihar in India bordering Nepal. Branded as a ‘Criminal Tribe’ through the ‘Criminal Tribes Act 1871’, Fatima’s nomadic community has been stigmatized and was denied access to their legitimate trades. Men started pimping the women and eventually started trafficking girls from outside as well in order to survive. Fatima left her husband when he wanted to prostitute their minor daughter. She escaped the red-light area in 2007 and became an activist fighting against trafficking. The film shows Fatima and her family facing growing resentment and constantly being overwhelmed by challenges as she continues to motivate and fight for women and children there.
- Runtime: 59 mins
- Country: India
- Film Language: Hindi
- Subtitle Language: English, Malay
Director
Sourabh Kanti Dutta
Sourabh Kanti Dutta won the Indian National Film Award for his directorial debut 'I am Bonnie/45’, that premiered in London at the BFI Flare 2016, and won awards at other festivals. He is also the recipient of the Navroz Contractor Award for Best Documentary Cinematography at IDSFFK in 2019 for the film Longra/27’ directed by Sankha. Fatima was screened at the Melbourne Indian Film Festival 2023, Liberation DocFest (Intl.Competition) Dhaka 2023,and the Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival in New Delhi 2023. Sourabh is a history graduate and a self-taught filmmaker.
Freedom Talk: Sex Workers Organising for Change
Sex workers are often both underrepresented and heavily stigmatised in the fight for labour rights. However, a growing number of sex workers want recognition that sex work is work. At this Freedom Talk, sex workers and their allies will discuss the realities of their work, the challenges they face and their rights.
“Sex Workers Organising for Change” will be moderated by Wathshlah Naidu, media freedom and gender equality advocate.
Panellists are Rahayu Rahmat, who has been active in community work with homeless, drug users, sex workers and HIV/ AIDS Community since 2010. She is a recovering drug user, former sex worker and HIV positive.
And Fatimah Abdullah@Selvi who served as the representative for Women Sex Workers Country Coordinating Mechanism and is the founder and head of Pertubuhan Advokasi Masyarakat Terpinggir(PAMT) for and by sex workers.
This event is part of FreedomFilmFest 2024, which is organised by Freedom Film Network (Pertubuhan Perfileman Sosial Malaysia), a non-profit society dedicated to the development and promotion of social justice and human rights films.
For more information, head over to our website freedomfilm.my
