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Women in Dark Times| Documentary

Vibha Bakshi's National award-winning Son Rise shows that documentaries can be instruments of social transformation.

In her first Indian documentary, , Vibha Bakshi looked at the public agitation that followed Nirbhaya's gang-rape and the change in laws it effected. In her latest, , the documentary filmmaker has focused on Haryana's sex ratio, skewed as aonly confirms Haryana's deep-rooted patriarchy. Both films have won the National Award for best non-feature films, with also winning the Hemanti Sarkar the prize for best editing.

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