Freedom Film Festival, Chennai

Freedom Film Festival, Chennai

23 Aug; 10 am to 1 pm; Discovery Book Palace, KK Nagar

Curated by Amudhan RP

Organised by MARUPAKKAM 30

Schedule 

10 am to 1 pm 

Caste, Constitution, Justice

Dir: Amal Raj;. 34.49 min; Documentary; India

This documentary attempts to trace the constitutional struggle undertaken and spearheaded by (late) Mr P S Krishnan, IAS (of 1956 batch). He along with like-minded IAS officials, dreamt an impossible dream, i.e., to dismantle the caste system and reclaim the dignity, rights and justice on behalf of the SC, ST and OBCs and other marginalised communities of India.

Punishing the Professor

Dir : Aayna; 28 min; Documentary; India

P. Senrayaperumal was forced to drop out of school to play his part in the caste-bound genre of Raja Rani Attam theatre. He and his brothers spent their childhood playing female roles — enduring slurs, sexual harassment, and bearing the burden of tradition. At age 23, he made a desperate gamble to reclaim education all by himself, even while dancing through nights to survive. He did earn the education that he was systemically denied. He got a PhD on the folk tradition he had been practising, all the while holding on to the promise of higher education in the country. A promise that, in his case, was tragically short-lived.

Naan Revathi

Dir: P Abhijith; 115 min; Documentary; Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada; India; 2025

Njaan Revathi is a brief journey into the life of transwoman A. Revathi, a writer, activist, and actor. It depicts the lifelong ordeals and struggles of a trans person. Revathi left her home in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu in the mid-1980s and lived in the hijra communities of Delhi and Mumbai. Over the years, she became a trans rights activist, a well-known writer and speaker, and more recently, a theatre actor.

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