I Am Belmaya (2021) on Netflix

Plot summary

Belmaya lives in patriarchal Nepal, and at 21 she has stopped hoping for happiness. A Dalit with a baby daughter and an oppressive husband, she yearns for independence. In 2006 she was a rebellious teenager in a girls' home, and when the chance to learn photography came her way she took it, wanting to change her world; the home then locked her camera away. From 2014 she picks up a camera again, training as a documentary filmmaker. All her life she has been silenced and subjugated, and she now works to challenge the norms of her society and to take charge of her own story.