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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The Union government has not granted permission for 31 films at the festival, including 18 officially selected films and nine films in the International Non-Fiction section, where ‘Sanitised Republic’ was selected.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The repeated difficulties in screening the documentary have led the film makers to question what happens when someone documents sanitation workers whose labour is indispensable to hospitals and other institutions, but whose voices and working conditions remain uncomfortable to represent publicly.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The film looks beyond the physical act of cleaning hospitals.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The documentary records what happened inside the hospitals during COVID, how the pandemic was managed and what happened to the frontline workers, particularly sanitation workers, who helped keep those hospitals running.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Cleaning, the filmmakers argue, is not neutral labour. It is caste-coded labour.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ A film about sanitation workers and a larger question about who gets to speak.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The documentary has been denied screening at three festivals- the Durgapur Film Festival, the Ritu Rangam Film Festival and IDSFFK. The third festival denial has therefore pushed the filmmakers to ask a larger question about what happens when the experiences of sanitation workers are documented and brought into public view.]]></image:caption>
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