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BETWEEN THE LINES - INDIENS DRITTES GESCHLECHT

BETWEEN THE LINES - INDIA'S THIRD GENDER
Thomas Wartmann
DEU, Indien 2005
95 min
V'05

The filmmaker entrusted photographer Anita Khemka with the task of penetrating the secret, complex and ambiguous world of the «hijras», the eunuchs who for centuries have lived on the fringes of Indian society. We thus encounter three «hijras» who, despite their heavy make-up and their flashy clothes, are very different from one another. Representatives of a world which has long since lost its splendour, they find themselves obliged to live on charity and prostitution. Yet they are capable of tragic and unconditional love, and jealously protect their last remaining freedom: that of being neither man nor woman.

Credits
  • Asha
  • Rhamba
  • Laxmi
  • Thomas Wartmann
  • Thomas Riedelsheimer
  • Nararayan Therar
  • Hans Weiss
  • Thomas Riedelsheimer
  • Nils Kacirek
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