Drama,
9:48 minutes,
Punjabi with English subtitles,
BC,
2009
Synopsis
Those Ten Minutes is the story of Shveta, a young Immigrant wife
who has followed her husband to Canada.
Brought up in a traditional environment of gender discrimination, she’s
expected to do her duty and produce a male hire for the family even if
it entails a series of selected abortions of female fetuses and her own
failing health.
Alone, without family for social support, Shveta has to make the
ultimate decision to continue living as a burden or break free and give
her daughter a chance for leading a dignified life.
Creative team
Writer/director/producer: Sonal Bawa Bakshi
Personal statement
Sonal Bawa Bakshi says:
"This film is about issues related to social status of women, unwelcome birth of girls and selected abortion of female fetuses.
My point of making Those Ten Minutes is to tell women that it's time to take a stand for daughters and not let their daughters get suppressed the way they have been.
It's time we give ourselves a chance to see the potential we have as women and not have anyone degrade us in any form or way regardless of our gender."