To Kill A Tiger: Now Streaming on Docuseek
Essential documentary films for higher education
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125 min. | Closed Captioned
A film by Nisha Pahuja
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"A masterfully observant film, in which one family’s fight for justice becomes a larger parable about a pressing human rights issue. The film gains access to the voices of a community that becomes potently divided by the rape—not because of the violence committed against the young survivor, but by her family’s bravery in breaking the cycle of silence and shame."
Pat Mullen, POV Magazine
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Oscar® Shortlisted for Documentary Feature Film, made with the support of Women Make Movies’s Production Assistance Program, and winner of the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival, among other awards, To Kill A Tiger, follows Indian farmer Ranjit who takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape.
In a small Indian village, Ranjit wakes up to find that his 13-year-old daughter has not returned from a family wedding. A few hours later, she’s found stumbling home. After being dragged into the woods, she was raped by three men. Ranjit goes to the police, and the men are arrested. But Ranjit’s relief is short-lived, as the villagers and their leaders launch a sustained campaign to force the family to drop the charges.
In India, where a rape is reported every 20 minutes and conviction rates are less than 30 percent, Ranjit’s decision to support his daughter is virtually unheard of, and his journey unprecedented. To Kill A Tiger tells the extraordinary story of Ranjit taking on the fight of his life when he defies convention and seeks justice for his daughter. In the face of death threats, mounting financial pressure and his own insecurities, Ranjit perseveres—motivated by the love for his child and her extraordinary courage to do the right thing.
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