Faniastic documentary that chronicles the lives of several Indian girls, and how their lives change, or don't change after they learn about the art of photography. Very engrossing. Highly recommended.

Normally I would take issue with a documentary filmmaker becoming involved with the subjects of their film's lives, but in this instance it only enhanced the film for me by taking it in a new direction. Everything is hard for the people who live in that area, and the prospects for those children (especially the girls) are dreary to say the least. Once the film begins to focus on the director's attempts to better things for them things really become interesting, I really recommend this doc.

Heillandi mynd af ungum krökkum sem alast upp í hóruhúsum, sjónarhorni þeirra á lífð og tilraun Zönu Briski til að gefa þeim möguleika á að öðlast nýja framtíð.

I liked it because it presents photography as a window into the kids' world. One of the kids had some real creativity and talent as a photographer, and I was quite impressed with and inspired by some of his ideas and techniques.

Meu documentário preferido. Junta um assunto extremamente interessante, com minha paixão: fotografia.

solid doc, worth a watch

"Focuses too much on the production of images and not enough on documenting the world contained within them." - Ed Gonzalez

One of the most powerful and moving experiences that I had to undergo.

This is an insightful look at a group of children stuck in a community that is not given respect or consideration. I appreciated the way the film maker got involved in the community, how she felt compelled to help the children that were not receiving the attention or assistance necessary to thrive. The film ends up being a sobering story about the difficulties of providing aid, especially in a community where the individuals that you are trying to help are not valued.

A heartbreaking, tense account of a woman attempting to help children born into a hopeless world. Briski is dogged in trying to pursue a simple subject (education) through the impossible gates of Indian bureaucracy, class division and family relations, but she's a human figure who wisely allows space for her own fallibility in her film. She finds the kids not quite calcified, but certainly aware of their inevitable positions in society, and what she offers is all the more moving for that.

A lot of people knock the filmmaker for becoming involved in the story. And if she didn't , what then; a ultimately depressing documentary that works the same as every other one before it? If you film something terrible that you can change for the better, and don't, it may make you a better documentarian, it also makes you an asshole.

This is a real eye openner. I saw this at a film festival and it really makes you think about how lucky you are to not have to live the way the people in the film do.

Everyone should see this documentary.

A fairly fascinating (if mildly exploitive) look at Indian kids born to whores.

The narrator-director turned an otherwise interesting documentary into advocate journalism in the second half of the film when she decided to help the children she was filming. It just seemed like "look at the good I did" attention-whoring.

Exploitation I can get behind.

It's a fairly interesting story, and heartwarming and all that... but it does feel a little bit self-serving. "Look at me, and all the great things I'm doing for these kids!" The film really seems to be a lot more about that than it is about the kids and their lives.

Interesting how the story was told.

A great documentary with fictional taste in it.

Two documentary photographers work with the children of prostitutes in Calcutta's destitute red light district, lending them cameras to allow them to document their everyday lives. What follows is a powerful, moving testament to the efficacy of education and compassion in beating poverty, and in shallower terms evidence that photography is far more about experiences than technical skill.

Seeing the beautiful photographs these children take against circumstances that would foster the opposite is a powerful contrast.

Touching, but strangely, felt a little emotionally empty.