I am Sirat (Canada)
(87 min; 2023; English)

Directed by Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja who will introduce the film

Caught between duty and self-determination, Sirat Taneja is a transgender woman who must act as her mother’s son when at home in New Delhi, but can be the woman she really is with her friends and at work with the Government of India.

Screening will be followed by a Conversation on Gender, Gaze and Society: The Role of Human Rights Cinema over the Years in Shifting the Gaze

With Deepa Mehta and Sirat

Introduction: H.E. Ms Marisa Gerards, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to India

Moderator: Myna Mukherjee, Director, Engendered

Organised in collaboration with Engendered Transnational Arts & Human Rights, I-View World Film Salon Series; Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Embassy of Belgium; and Naz Foundation