Waiting

Atul Gupta & Shabnam Ara, India, 38mn 45sc

A story of missing people – boys and men picked up by security forces and simply disappeared. The location is Kashmir. Sandwiched between India and Pakistan, Kashmir is a battleground for both.
Since the men are not declared 'dead', their wives are not widows, but 'half widows'. They live with the memories of their love and have to switch from being a woman in the veil to a bread-earner. And all this in a war zone where anybody can be picked up or shot by a security forces or by any one of the militants roaming in the valley. These women are true survivors of a cruel period in the history of this 'paradise on earth'.