Small Family Happy Family - PREVIEW

https://store.der.org/small-family-happy-family-p1028.aspx

Zoe Hamilton & Annie Munger
color, 39 min, 2019
in English, Hindi, Thethi
with English subtitles

"Marry young, have two children, and get sterilized" - this is the advice women across India have heard for decades. Families, health workers, the central government all spread the same message. What alternatives are there, anyway? With limited information about other forms of birth control, sterilization is the only option for many. This lack of choice is not an oversight by the government; rather, it's a deliberate policy aimed at controlling India's alarming population size. Women are corralled into temporary "camps" where hundreds are sterilized at a time. Quality is sacrificed for quantity; individual attention for efficiency.

Small Family, Happy Family is a short documentary following Mitilesh, a young woman from rural Madhya Pradesh, as she is recruited by health workers in her village to undergo sterilization and decides with her husband to pursue the surgery. Her story is situated in the larger context of population control in India, revealing how these policies affect the lives of women. The film is an immersive, highly personal glimpse into the lives of women positioned at the turbulent nexus of government policy and reproductive rights. In Mitilesh we see so many other women - in India and in our own countries - who also have tenuous control over their bodies and choices.

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