Two DocNomads films selected to Kerala, India
Coming Back to Life by Mantra Watsa and Kata’s Motherhood by Santwana Bayaskar will be in competition at the 16th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala held from 26 to 31 July in Kerala, India.
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By Mantra Watsa (India) • 20' • 2023
Synopsis:
Shéhrazade is a sex worker who is reclaiming her body and mind from trauma by using illustration and animation to express her point of view and to tilt the power dynamic between voyeur and object. "I thought I could fight the other sex with sex," she contends, as she literally draws on her unique experiences of love and healing.
By Santwana Bayaskar (India) • 22' • 2022
Synopsis:
Can someone become a mother without giving birth to a child? Twenty-nine-year-old filmmaker Santwana, who is not yet ready to become a mother, and forty-five-year-old doula Kata, who, though childless herself, helps many couples bring their children into the world, are searching for the answer to this question together. This highly intimate documentary empathetically introduces us to the most beautiful and vulnerable moments of life surrounding childbirth.