The Centre de Sciences Humaines and Alliance Française Delhi is pleased to invite you to the Film Screening of: One Side of the Road Directed by Jalil NORDMAN
(Documentary in Tamil/ Eng. with French/Eng. subtitles, 2024, 86 min.)
Date & Time: Wednesday, 27 November 2024, at 6:00 pm
Venue: Alliance Française de Delhi
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Screening followed by a discussion between Rama Devi, Mayur Kuduple (CSH) and the Director
Synopsis: A road runs through a village in Tamil Nadu in southern India. This road is a frontier that divides habitats, and it is a gateway to a wider world, the nearby industrial city, a means of possible emancipation for some, but the enslavement of others by the spatial segregation of castes in these rural areas of southern India. Between 2019 and 2022, four dalits (former “untouchables”) reveal their ongoing struggle to survive: over-indebtedness, poor working conditions in the sugar cane fields and brick factories, domestic and social violence, discrimination and political unrest.
These four characters from the same village, with their intertwined destinies, describe their daily lives through intimate and rare testimonies, which form a life journey around three extraordinary years marked by an international pandemic and its harsh economic and social consequences in rural India. Chance encounters on one side of the road, these voices convey the stories of countless others. Fragile lives on one side, the road is a partition of territory that emancipates, segregates, and brings together all at once.
About the Director: Christophe Jalil Nordman is a Senior Research Fellow at the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD), currently assigned as a research economist at DIAL, and IFP in India. His research focuses on the functioning of labour markets in developing countries, including the formation of earnings, the development and use of cognition and social networks, discriminations, informal sector and household vulnerability, and labour consequences of migrations.
See also: https://neemsis.hypotheses.org/team/christophe-jalil-nordman
For more information, contact: communication[at]csh-delhi[dot]com