Overview The Invisible Women - Outcast Widows in India - 25 min., RT ANO TV - Novosti, 2015, director Natalya Kadyrova, ( According to an old Indian superstition, a widow’s sins are to blame for her husband’s death. As a result, widows face a lifetime of atonement. They have to cut their hair short, wear joyless white mourning saris, and they are prohibited from attending celebrations and social events. Some families force widows to leave their homes and beg in the streets. Widows become untouchable,...

Overview Јаneu - Bhojpuri: Initiation Rites and Folk Songs/Жану - Боџпури: иницијациски обреди и народни песни - 25 min., Esprito Kashi, film by Rajat Nayyar, Rajat Madan, India, Етнооф, 12.11.2016, Скопје (While rituals in India are majorly seen as men's job, not many know that women hold an equally important role in the purification rituals – of expressing the emotions that develop during the ritual through songs.The film documents the folk songs sung during the initiation ritual (Janeu or Upanayana)...

Overview Inferno Village - When leaving a land of fiery coal pits is scarier than burning alive - 27 min., RT ANO TV - Novosti, 2017, Director Artyom Somov, Author Artyom Vorobey (Jharia in India is like a hellish scene from a demonic horror movie: perpetually wreathed in suffocating smoke from an underground fire that has been burning for 100 years. Jharia’s coal fields represent the country’s richest reserves but the people forced to live here remain steeped in poverty. For many, pilfering and...