Film Screening: Borderlands

Borderlands is a film that explores the sadness of geography. Six different stories of ordinary people, small pawns in the big games between nations and states. These people have to live with the choices they never made, but were forced upon them. The greater arc of the story deals with borders that divide land, people, families, but what borders can divide hearts.

Surjakanta, an independent filmmaker in Manipur tries to bridge the gap between revolutionaries and the government through his films. Kavita, a border control personale, in Nepal, tries to catch human-traffickers equipped with just her bare hands and limpy gait. Deepa has to make a new home in Jodhpur, India after her migration from Pakistan. Noor, a human smuggling victim, in a shelter home in Kolkata longs for her home in Bangladesh. Dhauli, in Nargaon, gets to see her family once every year, through a barbed wire that separates millions like her from their loved ones. Rekha, a Punjabi housewife, tries to break through the monotony of her daily life and open up about her fears, regrets, joys, and passions with her son.

Samarth Mahajan (Director)
Nupur Agrawal (Associate Director)
In Collaboration with Reality Beyond Dreams