Film Screenings
Annie Colère/Angry Annie
“Men have always had the power to decide if we get pregnant. Imagine if we women could choose. It’s a revolution.” (Annie colère, 2022)
Time travel with us to 1974 France and witness the story of Annie, a feisty woman who encounters many challenges in her fights for women’s reproductive rights. This is a story of resilience, perseverance and the origins of the women’s liberation group Movement for the Liberation of Abortion and Contraception (MLAC).
This film screening will be followed by a discussion led by professor and researcher Dr. Sreeparna Chattopadhyay and Anusha Vikram from the MAP team, who will contextualize the film for the Indian audience.
This film is in collaboration with the Alliance Française Bangalore and part of our series ‘Femme: Beneath the surface’, which aims to spotlight an emerging generation of French storytellers, each dissecting characters that embody the idea of a woman – layered, disoriented and probing.
Set against the backdrop of contemporary France – where questions of class, identity, and belonging remain urgent and unresolved – these films trace the quiet resistance and raw introspection of women thrown into complex situations.
This film is in French with English subtitles.
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Dr Sreeparna Chattopadhyay
Dr Sreeparna Chattopadhyay received an A.M. and a PhD in anthropology from Brown University, USA and a bachelor’s degree in economics Hons from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India.
She is a Professor of Practice at Manipal University, Bangalore, and a visiting faculty member in the school of Social Sciences at FLAME University, Pune. Her research, teaching, and advocacy in the last 17 years can be broadly divided into three interlinked themes: 1) Gendered violence, such as domestic and sexual violence in India. 2) Unmasking intersectional inequities, including those emanating from health systems 3)Analyses of reproduction using a political ecology and a biocultural approach that disentangles the contributions of global health initiatives, local-level technocratic interventions, environmental degradation, and the social determinants of health.
She has been funded by several prestigious international grants, published in multiple international peer-reviewed journals, and her book The Gravity of Hope, which examines the interlinkages between domestic and structural violence, was published in 2024. Her research has also been covered by the national press in India and internationally by the BBC. She has worked for the government, academia, and non-profits in India, the US, and the UK. She is deeply invested in translational research so that research insights can be disseminated to the public and policymakers for greater impact and writes extensively for independent digital platforms and the popular press. She is also the co-editor of Feminist Anthropology, a journal of the American Anthropological Association.
Anusha Vikram
Anusha Vikram works as a Collections Specialist at MAP. She has also worked as an Archivist and Project coordinator for a film ephemera digitisation project at the museum. Her research interests are in South-Asian art history, archival and media studies and transnational cultures.
