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🎥 CSH-AFD Film screening of “One Side of the Road” on Nov 27 in New Delhi

One Side of the Road will be screened at Alliance Française, New Delhi, in the framework of the CSH-AFD Film Screening programme. It will take place on Wednesday 27 November 2024 at 6pm. Entry is free and open to all, but seats are limited. Please register on Google Forms.

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 empowers, separates and brings together all at once.

The film has recently received the Best Documentary Award at the India International Film Festival of Boston (13-15 September 2024) and is in the official selection ofthe 26th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2024 (6-10 December 2024).


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Arnaud Natal (November 5, 2024). 🎥 CSH-AFD Film screening of “One Side of the Road” on Nov 27 in New Delhi. ODRIIS. Retrieved April 29, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/12mk5


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