''Breaking Free'' is a 2015 film directed by

Sridhar Rangayan Sridhar Rangayan (also spelt Sridhar Rangaihn; born 2 April 1962) is an Indian filmmaker who has made films with special focus on queer subjects. His queer films, '' The Pink Mirror'', '' Yours Emotionally'', '' 68 Pages'', '' Purple Skies'', ...

and produced by

Solaris Pictures Solaris Pictures is an Indian film production company based in Mumbai. It was created by Sridhar Rangayan, and Saagar Gupta in 2001. The two have gone on to create several award-winning films under Solaris Pictures' banner, focusing on LGBT is ...

. In this documentary, filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan embarks on a personal journey to expose the human rights violations faced by the LGBTQ community in India due to a draconian law Section 377 and homophobic social mores of a patriarchal society. The film was selected to be part of the Indian Panorama (non-Fiction) and screened at

International Film Festival of India The International Film Festival of India (IFFI), founded in 1952, is an annual film festival currently held in Goa, on the western coast of India. The festival aims at providing a common platform for the cinemas of the world to project the excel ...

in 2015. It won the Rajat Kamal

National Award The National Film Awards are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the Indian film industry". Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian P ...

for Best Editing (Non-Fiction) in 2016 for its editors Pravin Angre and Sridhar Rangayan. It also won the Barbara Gittings Human Rights Award at qFLIX Philadelphia in 2016. It is currently streaming on Netflix.

Cast

* Anand Grover * Arvind Narrain * Ashok Row Kavi *Jaya Sharma * Manohar Elavarthi *Maya Sharma *Pallav Patankar *Shobhna Kumar *Sridhar Rangayan *Vivek Anand

References

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Solaris Pictures
* {{LGBT in India 2015 films Indian LGBTQ-related documentary films LGBTQ-related films based on actual events 2015 LGBTQ-related films 2015 documentary films