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Guru, A Hijra Family

2016-09-22 fr 76m
Documentary
Set in a small town in the region of Tamil Nadu, in southern India, the film follows the days and works of a hijra family. Silky, Mahima, Trisha, Durga, Kuyili, Priyanka, Vasundhara and Yamuna, under the firm protection of their guru Lakshmi Ma, deliver snippets of their marginal but sovereign existence. From a millenia-old sacred tradition to getting by every second, "Guru" composes with them a poem of intertwined voices in which the world is a tough playground, where the third gender is primarily the resistance force of a life shared.

Director

Laurie Colson

Director

Axelle Le Dauphin

india hijras

Status

Released

Countries

  • Belgium

Companies

  • Tarantula
  • Opening Night Productions
  • Kolam Productions
  • Wallonie Image Production