Still from No Easy Walk To Freedom
Still from No Easy Walk To Freedom
 

No Easy Walk to Freedom

par Nancy Nicol
NO EASY WALK TO FREEDOM documents the growth of queer organizing in India in an attempt to overturn a colonial-era law criminalizing homosexuality.  
2014  ·  1h30m  ·  Canada, Inde
(sous-titres)
À propos du film
In 2001, the Naz Foundation, an HIV/AIDS non-governmental organization in Delhi, filed a petition against section 377, an 1861 British colonial law that criminalizes “carnal intercourse against the order of nature.” In 2009, the Delhi High Court struck down section 377 in a precedent-setting ruling celebrated by activists, human rights and legal experts worldwide. Citing Nehru and Ambedkar, architects of the Indian constitution, the High Court upheld “constitutional morality” and equality over this colonial era law. However in December 2013, the Supreme Court of India set aside the 2009 verdict and upheld section 377, recriminalizing LGBT people in India. In an ironic twist of history, defenders of section 377 in India argued that decriminalizing homosexuality is “contrary to Indian culture,” and that “homosexuality represents western values.” In fact, homosexuality was never criminalized in India prior to the British, and pre-colonial societies in India were replete with diversity of gender identity/expression and sexual orientation. Section 377 in India was the first of such laws enacted by the British, which were later spread throughout the colonial empire. Today, this colonial legacy remains responsible for half of the laws that criminalize people on the grounds of sexual orientation, worldwide.  No Easy Walk to Freedom is moving examination of the struggle to decriminalize homosexuality in contemporary India, told through the voices of HIV AIDS workers, queer activists, community leaders and legal experts. It is a history with far reaching implications for the struggle to remove these colonial era laws and to uphold lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights worldwide.
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Festivals et prix
2015
6th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, Mumbai, India, Centerpiece Documentary Feature
2014
Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival, Mumbai, India
Inside Out LGBT Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, World Premiere
Editor
Nancy Nicol
Cinematographer
Shakeb Ahmed
Producer
Nancy Nicol
Sound Editor
Daniel Pellerin
Researcher
Phyllis Waugh
Soundtrack Composer
Toronto Table Ensemble
Sound Recorder
Pratik Biswas
Research Consultaton
Naisargi Dave
Line Producer
Pearl Sandhu
Production Manager
Gurbeen Bhasin
Assistant Editor
Kaija Siirala

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