Sent Away Boys (2016)
- Directed by
- Harjant Gill
- Country
- India
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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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