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Guru, A Hijra Family (2016)
Directed by Laurie Colson, Axelle Le Dauphin
Documentary · 1h 16m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Laurie Colson, Axelle Le Dauphin
Details
- Original title
- Guru, une famille Hijra
- Release date
- 2016-09-22
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Tamil
- Countries
- Belgium
- Production
- Tarantula, Opening Night Productions, Kolam Productions, Wallonie Image Production