Doosra Chasma: A Travelling Film Festival To Galvanize Gender Parity
by The Daily Eye Team October 12 2015, 3:39 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 43 secsThe festival comes out of the commitment of the NGO Population First to work for gender parity and acknowledges the power of the moving image in aiding the same. a Pakistani film about four women who put their lives at stake to challenge the might of the Taliban; Nirnay– a non-fiction film tracing a young woman’s efforts to make sense of her own life and that of her friends in Ghaziabad; an engaging Iranian film Facing Mirrors about a women who drives a taxi in Tehran to support her son and herself following her husband’s incarceration; True love story, an Indian animation film that sings the glory of romance; and Pegue, a mixed media animation from UK about a girl in a conservative community struggling to come to terms with her gender identity.