PINK SARIS
(UK, India, 2010, 96 min.)
On schedule:
San Pietro al Natisone, 20. 10. 2019 at 17.00
Gorizia, 16. 10. 2019, masterclass - excerpts
Director, cinematographer: KIM LONGINOTTO
Editor: OLLIE HUDDLESTON
Sound: GIRJASHANKER VOHRA
Music: MIDIVAL PUNDITZ
Producers: AMBER LATIF, GIRJASHANKER VOHRA
Production: GINGER PRODUCTIONS, VIXEN FILMS
Pink saris are worn by a group of women vigilantes from the lowest social class in Northern India, who under Sampat Pal’s leadership take the law into their own hands, especially in cases of the domestic abuse of women – often perpetrated by their husbands' extended families, with whom they are forced to live. Sampat endured a similar fate when she was married as a young girl into a family which beat her often, but she fought back, leaving her in-laws and eventually becoming famous as a champion for beleaguered women and their rights