What Comes from Sitting in Silence? - 2026

Within the quiet confines of a one-room office, Khatoon, Mumbai’s first Islamic-law judge of her gender, counsels couples and empowers women to speak out against violence.

– edited and co-produced by Isidore Bethel (USA) / directed and co-produced by Sophie Schrago (Switzerland) / produced by Pauline Tran Van Lieu and Lucie Rego (Hutong Productions, France), Heejung Oh and Sarah Kang (Seesaw Pictures, South Korea)

– Hutong Productions, Seesaw Pictures, Stranger Films Sales

– True/False FF

– 76 minutes

– with support from l’Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (Centre National du Cinéma – Institut Français), la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, la SCAM (Brouillon d’un rêve), ARTE/Cofinova 18, the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea Communications Agency, Docs Up Fund, Normandy for Peace, la Région Normandie, INMAAT, Movies that Matter Rough Cut Service, Women Makes Movies, European Women’s Audiovisual Network, the Gotham Film & Media Institute Documentary Lab, the Logan Nonfiction Program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the True/False & Catapult Rough Cut Retreat, Cannes Doc (Docs by the Sea Docs-in-Progress Showcase), EIDF K-Docs Prime Pitch Excellence Prize, Eurodoc, Medimed, Union Docs UNDO Fellowship, DOK.Leipzig’s Co-Pro Market

PRESS:
– one of the Wall Street Journal’s highlights of the 2026 True/False Film Fest
– one of the The Maneater’s recommendations for the 2026 True/False Film Fest
– The Maneater: “The kinship Schrago has built with Khatoon is apparent.”
– Katie at the Movies: “Intimate and engrossing…Khatoon addresses her personal experiences with men, as does Schrago, who inserts herself into the narrative from behind the camera. The emotions that those things stir are universal, but the most remarkable element about the intimacy of Schrago’s film is how it invites everyone to sit with them and truly listen.”