19 December 2015, 05:30 am
I am Not Here (30 min; 2015; dvd; English)

Directed by Ashvin Kumar who will introduce the screening

 

A film on migrants. Migrants undergo perilous journeys, risking drowning, deportation, arrest, physical and sexual violence in the hope of finding a place of greater safety and economic opportunity in a distant country. Those who survive become nannies, housekeepers and drivers – ever present yet unwilling themselves to disappear into the multitudes of the new country. The film tells the story of three distinct women who undertook this perilous journey in hope of a better life

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Speakers: Ashvin Kumar, Director of the Film; and Christina MacGillivray, Co-Producer and Lead Researcher of the film; Pia Oberoi, Advisor on Migration and Human Right, UNOCHR; Igor Bosc, Work in Freedom Programme, International Labour Organisation; and Karuna Nundy, Advocate, Supreme Court of India