GDI Film Screening: One Side of the Road
| Dates: | 27 March 2025 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 19:00 |
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| What is it: | Screening |
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| Organiser: | Global Development Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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GDI is hosting a film screening of One Side of the Road, a documentary film by Jalil Nordman (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development-DIAL), on Thursday, 27th March at 5-7pm in A101, Samuel Alexander Building. The award-winning documentary explores the segregation and oppression of Dalit populations in southern India and was filmed as part of a socio-economic research project using an ethnographic approach.
Following the screening, Jalil will answer audience questions in a Q&A. All welcome!
Synopsis
A road runs through a village in Tamil Nadu in southern India. This road is a frontier that divides habitats, and it is a gateway to a wider world, the nearby industrial city, a means of possible empowerment for some, but the enslavement of others by the spatial segregation of castes in these rural areas of southern India. Between 2019 and 2022, four Dalits (former "untouchables") reveal their ongoing struggle to survive: over-indebtedness, poor working conditions in the sugar cane fields and brick factories, domestic and social violence, discrimination and political unrest. These four characters from the same village, with their intertwined destinies, describe their daily lives through intimate and rare testimonies, which form a life journey around three extraordinary years marked by an international pandemic and its harsh economic and social consequences in rural India. Fragile lives on one side, the road appears as a partition of territory that emancipates, separates and brings together all at once
Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/1057611436
Find out more: https://odriis.hypotheses.org/projects/audiovisual/one-side-of-the-road/one-side-of-the-road-film
Travel and Contact Information
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A101
Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
