Director Sourabh Kanti Datta says that he had chosen his subject way before figuring out the document’s context and story. After parting ways with his co-directors of the well-known award-winning movie ‘I Am Bonnie’, he had to choose a subject often considered challenging to portray to prove himself, which, in his case, was women.
Fatima is proof that he has succeeded, and this is coming from nobody but the audience at NIFF. One of the audience loved how everything was shot as it was rolling on, with no staged scenes or locations.
The fact that it shows “the real faces of bureaucracy and the police force with no filters” was eulogised by the audience. Be it secretly recording the conversations, hiding the camera, boldly facing the police, or merely accompanying Fatima Khatun, an activist challenging sex trafficking and voicing out, shone through.
The opportunity to exchange talks with the Director delighted the audience since Fatima clearly shows what goes behind making a documentary on sensitive topics.