Anmol

Anne Mulsou-Dicor is French and Indo-Sikh, raised in Bobigny on the outskirts of Paris. Her story is one of negotiating between two identities that the world often treats as incompatible, and finding that they are not. The film explores her relationship with education, her sense of self, and the particular pressures that Sikh women face: from within their own community and from the broader society that surrounds them. Anne doesn't treat these tensions as insurmountable. She treats them as the conditions of her actual life.

The film is thoughtful on the subject of gender and equality within Sikh culture. Anne speaks with clarity about what Sikhism actually teaches regarding the equality of men and women, and about the gap that sometimes exists between that teaching and the lived reality of Sikh women, especially in diaspora communities. Her voice is direct and personal, grounded in her own experience rather than in abstract argument. Anmol is the Punjabi word for priceless, and this film makes the case that the stories of women like her are exactly that.