Sent Away Boys (2016)
- Directed by
- Harjant Gill
- Country
- India
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A documentary about young men from Punjab who are sent abroad to work and study. It follows their experiences of migration and the pressure they face from their families.
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What happens
Harjant Gill is an Indian documentary filmmaker and teaches visual anthropology at Towson University. His films explore topics related to gender, sexuality, religion and belonging in India and among Indians in diaspora. Gill is the author of Coming of Age in Macholand: Masculinity, Patriarchy, and the Search for Freedom in Indian Punjab, to be published by the University of Chicago Press. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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