Kicking balls
Synopsis:
Each year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18. That is 23 girls every minute.
In three small villages in Rajasthan, a non-profit org is trying to change this.
Through football, 200 teenage girls playing and training regularly.
What sets them apart is, almost all of them are child brides.
The film explores their sisterhood and journey.
Football has given them the confidence, independence and agency to stand up to the patriarchy and say no to child marriages.
Many have fought to get their marriages annulled.
Some have staunchly refused to go to the husband’s home.
What the future holds for these little girls, nobody knows. But for now, they are in charge, they are confident, and they love kicking balls!
Trailer
Director
Vijayeta Kumar is a film director and writer living in Mumbai.
She is now an independent Director and writer, making short films, branded content and music videos.
She also has two feature film scripts that are in the development stage with Anurag Kashyap’s Good Bad Films.
She likes telling stories about women, in the guise of entertainment.
Her stories have heart and humour, they make you pause, ponder and smile.
She also loves to hire more women technicians on her films.
She’s just finished her first documentary, Kicking Balls. A story and a cause close to her heart, set in Ajmer, her hometown.