From the Shadows(2022)
An artist relentlessly sprays silhouettes on public walls tagged #missing, an activist accompanies rescued girls across international borders. Parallel narratives intersect to reveal a sliver of hope when women imaginatively challenge a powerful trafficking nexus operating in a country where every 8 minutes a child goes missing.
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- Theatrical Release
- 31 August 2022
- Director
- Miriam Chandy Menacherry
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Rating
- 6.3/10
Storyline
An artist paints shadowy figures on walls to represent missing people. At the same time, an activist helps rescued girls travel home across borders. Their separate stories come together, showing how women are creatively fighting against a powerful child trafficking network.
“When women vanish, others rise to find them.”
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- The film's title refers to the shadow art created by the artist Shilo Shiv Suleman, who spray-painted silhouettes of missing children on walls across India.
- Director Miriam Chandy Menacherry spent over four years following the stories, including traveling to Nepal and Bangladesh with activist Hasina Kharbhih.
- The documentary was partly funded through a grant from the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program.
- It premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), one of the world's largest documentary festivals.
- The film uses real case files and police records to highlight the scale of trafficking, avoiding scripted reenactments.
- A key scene shows the artist and activist meeting for the first time, which was not planned during the initial filming.
- The soundtrack features original music by composer Sagar Desai, who used ambient sounds from the locations to create the score.