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70 mins | 2019 | India | Hindi with English subtitles
Direction & Editing: Priya Sen
Cinematography: Ankur Ahuja
Filmed over the course of a year in Ambedkar Nagar in Delhi, ‘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.
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Festival Screenings 2019
Official Selection at BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, August 2019
Bangalore Queer Film Festival, August 2019
Open City Documentary Festival, London, September 2019
Dharamshala International Film Festival, September 2019
Dialogues: Calcutta International LGBT Film & Video Festival 2019
Awards
Gender Sensitivity Award at Dharamshala International Film Festival 2019
Director
Priya Sen
Priya Sen is a New Delhi-based filmmaker and artist who works with nonfiction and experimental forms across film /video, sound and installation. Sen’s work has screened at festivals and venues including The Kitchen NYC; BFI London Film Festival; BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia; Forum Expanded Berlinale; Experimenta International Festival of Moving Image Art, and Dharamshala International Film Festival among others. She was a featured filmmaker at the 65th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar 2019. ‘Yeh Freedom Life’ is her first feature documentary.
