Breaking Free is a 2015 film directed by Sridhar Rangayan and produced by Solaris Pictures.

In this documentary, filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan embarks on a personal journey to expose the human rights violations faced by the LGBTQ community in India due to a draconian law Section 377 and homophobic social mores of a patriarchal society.

The film was selected to be part of the Indian Panorama (non-Fiction) and screened at International Film Festival of India in 2015.

[1] It won the Rajat Kamal National Award for Best Editing (Non-Fiction) in 2016 for its editors Pravin Angre and Sridhar Rangayan.

It also won the Barbara Gittings Human Rights Award at qFLIX Philadelphia in 2016.