Working Girls

Photo credit: Still from the film ‘Working Girls’

Join us for the screening of Working Girls, a vivid, genre-defying documentary that traverses India to uncover the invisible yet essential work performed by women, encompassing care work and domestic work to surrogacy and sex work. Filmed in Kolkata, Mumbai, Shillong, Latur, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad and Madurai, the film meets domestic workers, farmers, mothers, ASHA workers, dancers, and organisers whose labour sustains society but is rarely acknowledged.

Working Girls challenges dominant ideas about labour, value, and visibility, and dives into the histories of law and gender, using biting humour and powerful music to underscore its themes. Directed by Paromita Vohra and created in collaboration with the Laws of Social Reproduction project, , the film invites us to rethink what it means to work — and who gets to be seen as a worker.

This screening will be followed by a discussion between Kirtana Kumar and the filmmaker.

The film is made in collaboration with the Laws of Social Reproduction Project

Credits

Writer-Director- Paromita Vohra
Concept- Prabha Kotiswaran
Camera- Avijit Mukul Kishore
Editing- Nishant Radhakrishnan, Sankalp Meshram
Sound- Achuth Sahadevan, Namshad Hameed, Rajesh Saseendran, Sneha Sundar, and others
Music- Bonnie Chakraborty
Sound mix- Gissy Michael

This event is part of the programming to celebrate the last month of our first permanent exhibition, VISIBLE/INVISIBLE.