documentary

Interviews

A Midwife’s Confession: Democracy Hasn’t Democratized the Home in India

“How many babies have you killed, roughly?” This is a question that tolls through the 2024 BBC documentary, The Midwife’s Confession. Available for free streaming on YouTube, the documentary centres around Katihar in the Kosi region of Bihar, India. The documentary deals with the outlawed yet prevalent practice of female infanticide. A result of the National-award winning journalist and filmmaker Amitabh Parashar’s twenty-eight-year-long journalistic engagement with the topic in Bihar, the documentary investigates the fraught socio-political terrain informed by gender biases and caste realities that forces the midwives to kill the girl children they help bring to life.

10.02.2026

Podcasts

Screening Human Rights Documentaries in Hungary for More than 20 Years- Enikő Gyureskó on Verzió Festival’s Mission in Human Rights and Education

In this conversation at the Review of Democracy, Enikő Gyureskó- the Festival Director of Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival – discusses the program of the Verzió Film Festival, which will take place between 6-13 November; the rationale of choosing specific foci in this year's program; the importance of documentaries in raising awareness about contemporary human rights issues; the collaborations between Verzió with other European festivals to promote human rights; the relevance of educational initiatives and university partnerships to foster critical engagement in Hungary.

5.11.2024