Traded (2021)

TRADED is a short ethnographic film about the struggles and profligate battle of four women from a small village, Kadiri, in Andhra Pradesh, India, against human trafficking and how they have overcome it, yearning for a better living in their community. The film starts with an introduction to the character and showcases the cultural background. The central characters are the four survivors of human trafficking. After a brief introduction, the film will move onto its next scene, where the three women will talk about their journey of how they are more prone to trafficking. Simultaneously, the film structure develops by all four women talking to each other on-screen and sharing their traumatizing experiences and overcoming that battle. Due to the lack of visuals concerning their past life, they shall be depicted by illustrations not to make the interviews monotonous. The film's central conflict is human trafficking and how members of their own families sell them for money, which is resolved by various schemes that the Government of India provides to help them. In the end, the film illustrates how the life of women has changed and how they are now working hard to educate young girls and aware them so that they never fall for the same trap. Ultimately, the film wants the audience to understand that human trafficking still exists and feel what these women have been through in life, yet they never gave up. They fought their battle and now living happy life. The film wants to provide the audience with a sense of relief by showing how these women's lives have changed with the help of the Government of India.