Writing With Fire
India / 2021 / 94 min
In Hindi with English subtitles
World Cinema Documentary - Audience Award & Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

Speaking truth to power makes for just another day at the office for the fearless journalists of Khabar Lahariya, India’s only all-female news network and the subject of Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s inspiring documentary. The wife-and-husband filmmaking team shines a light on the Dalit (meaning “untouchable”) women who employ mobile phones and streaming platforms to challenge India’s stifling patriarchy and unjust caste system, by investigating rapes, murders, systemic corruption, and the rise of Indias far-right. Winner of the Audience Award and Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, this rousing work documents an ongoing, real-life battle for truth and justice, and the everyday wonder-women who make it happen.

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Rintu Thomas
Sushmit Ghosh
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28/10 8:00PM Broadway Cinematheque
07/11 9:50PM PREMIERE ELEMENTS
08/11 7:55PM PALACE ifc
26/11 8:00PM Broadway Cinematheque
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