Redlight to Limelight2025

The documentary follows a group of young childern who are passionatley weaving stories with mothers and sisters through their native video production unit, in order to cultivate a meaningful change in the lives of a community of sex workers in the brothel of Kalighat, Kolkata. Keeping aside the ghosts of their grimy reality, women and children get immersed into an incredible joy of storytelling with a burning desire to turn the brothel into a better place.

• India-Finland-Latvia.
• Direction: Bipuljit Basu.
• Production: Nilotpal Majumdar, Uldis Cekulis, John Webster / Touch Narrative, Bindubot Communication, JW Documentaries, VFS Films.
• Screenplay: Bipuljit Basu.
• Photography: Subhadeep Dey, Mrinmoy Mondal, Rupesh Chaturbedi.
• Music: Pessi Levanto.
• Edition: Anirban Maity.