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DIFF - Geeta at The Darwin International Film Festival

DIFF - Geeta

MON 19 SEP

Coming Soon to
The Darwin International Film Festival

80 mins | Rated M (Mature themes)

Directed by Emma Macey-Storch

Starring Geeta Mahor, Atul Kumar Singh, Inderjeet Mahor, Neetu Mahor, SHEROES Hangout


*NT PREMIERE*

SUNDOWN SCREEN, Darwin Waterfront

Geeta Mahor was asleep with her three young daughters when her husband, Inderjeet, crept into their room and maliciously threw acid on them. Geeta was badly injured, three-year-old Neetu ended up severely scarred and almost completely blind, and baby Krishna tragically passed away. And the reason Inderjeet gave for the attack was because he was only getting girls, girls, girls.

Fast-forward 28 years and Geeta and her daughter Neetu live their lives in the urban slums of Agra with gusto, hope and an uncompromising determination to create lasting societal change.

Set against breathtaking Agra landscapes; unpopulated parts of the Yamuna river, and above all the pace and texture of ordinary life in Agra, “Geeta” lets the characters lead us into a complex, contradictory and vulnerable story that opens up more questions than it offers answers. And the biggest and most sobering question is one we have from the very beginning: how does the continued presence of Inderjeet in Geeta and Neetu’s lives square with the independence and agency Geeta and Neetu are seeking as members of activist movement Stop Acid Attacks and in their role as founding members of the revolutionary SHEROES Hangout cafe?

Ultimately ‘Geeta’ is a story about overcoming violence, the enduring power of love, building dreams and the everyday heroism that creates grassroots change.



Geeta was financed with support from Film Victoria, Screen Australia, The Post Lounge, Scout Film Finance and Some Kind of Squirrel Productions, alongside private investment.
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*NT PREMIERE*

SUNDOWN SCREEN, Darwin Waterfront

Geeta Mahor was asleep with her three young daughters when her husband, Inderjeet, crept into their room and maliciously threw acid on them. Geeta was badly injured, three-year-old Neetu ended up severely scarred and almost completely blind, and baby Krishna tragically passed away. And the reason Inderjeet gave for the attack was because he was only getting girls, girls, girls.

Fast-forward 28 years and Geeta and her daughter Neetu live their lives in the urban slums of Agra with gusto, hope and an uncompromising determination to create lasting societal change.

Set against breathtaking Agra landscapes; unpopulated parts of the Yamuna river, and above all the pace and texture of ordinary life in Agra, “Geeta” lets the characters lead us into a complex, contradictory and vulnerable story that opens up more questions than it offers answers. And the biggest and most sobering question is one we have from the very beginning: how does the continued presence of Inderjeet in Geeta and Neetu’s lives square with the independence and agency Geeta and Neetu are seeking as members of activist movement Stop Acid Attacks and in their role as founding members of the revolutionary SHEROES Hangout cafe?

Ultimately ‘Geeta’ is a story about overcoming violence, the enduring power of love, building dreams and the everyday heroism that creates grassroots change.



Geeta was financed with support from Film Victoria, Screen Australia, The Post Lounge, Scout Film Finance and Some Kind of Squirrel Productions, alongside private investment.
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DIFF - Geeta

MON 19 SEP

Coming Soon to
The Darwin International Film Festival


80 mins | Rated M (Mature themes) | Documentary

Directed by Emma Macey-Storch | Starring Geeta Mahor, Atul Kumar Singh, Inderjeet Mahor, Neetu Mahor, SHEROES Hangout


*NT PREMIERE*

SUNDOWN SCREEN, Darwin Waterfront

Geeta Mahor was asleep with her three young daughters when her husband, Inderjeet, crept into their room and maliciously threw acid on them. Geeta was badly injured, three-year-old Neetu ended up severely scarred and almost completely blind, and baby Krishna tragically passed away. And the reason Inderjeet gave for the attack was because he was only getting girls, girls, girls.

Fast-forward 28 years and Geeta and her daughter Neetu live their lives in the urban slums of Agra with gusto, hope and an uncompromising determination to create lasting societal change.

Set against breathtaking Agra landscapes; unpopulated parts of the Yamuna river, and above all the pace and texture of ordinary life in Agra, “Geeta” lets the characters lead us into a complex, contradictory and vulnerable story that opens up more questions than it offers answers. And the biggest and most sobering question is one we have from the very beginning: how does the continued presence of Inderjeet in Geeta and Neetu’s lives square with the independence and agency Geeta and Neetu are seeking as members of activist movement Stop Acid Attacks and in their role as founding members of the revolutionary SHEROES Hangout cafe?

Ultimately ‘Geeta’ is a story about overcoming violence, the enduring power of love, building dreams and the everyday heroism that creates grassroots change.



Geeta was financed with support from Film Victoria, Screen Australia, The Post Lounge, Scout Film Finance and Some Kind of Squirrel Productions, alongside private investment.

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