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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Posted 4:30 PM by Anurag

Films for Freedom, Bangalore - May screenings (Only for Members)

Films for Freedom, Bangalore

will screen

DIRTY LAUNDRY
Directed by Sanjeev Chatterjee
Duration: 42minutes
On Friday, 11th May 2007
at 6.30pm
at Centre for Film and Drama (CFD), 5th Floor, Sona Towers, Millers Road, Bangalore

Synopsis - It is said that Gandhiji became Indian in South Africa. Now more than a hundred years after Gandhiji left South Africa to pursue a life of Indian nationalist politics, South Africans of Indian origin continue the quest to define themselves and who they are. Dirty Laundry is a travel essay and historical journey that offers a glimpse of this struggle for self-definition and cultural identity in today’s world, from the role of South African Indians as revolutionaries in the anti-apartheid struggle upto the activities of the present. This film is part of a series known as ‘The Politics of Memory’ in the Indian Diaspora.

CONTINUOUS JOURNEY
Directed by Ali Kazimi
Duration: 87minutes
on Saturday, 12th May 2007
at 6.30pm
at Centre for Film and Drama (CFD), 5th Floor, Sona Towers, Millers Road, Bangalore

Synopsis - In 1914 the Komagata Maru, a vessel carrying 376 passengers from British India, became the first ship transporting migrants to be turned away by Canada. During the two-month detention in the harbour, Canadian authorities drove the passengers to the brink of thirst and starvation. The affair exposed the British Empire’s myths of equality, fairplay and justice, and became a turning point in the freedom struggle in India. Continuous Journey is a multilayered film essay that interweaves photographs, archival newsreels, home movies and official documents to unravel a complex and little known incident.

THE LEGEND OF FAT MAMA
Directed by Rafeeq Ellias
Duration: 23 minutes
on Sunday, 13th May 2007
at 6.30pm
at Centre for Film and Drama (CFD), 5th Floor, Sona Towers, Millers Road, Bangalore

Synopsis - This is a bittersweet story of the Chinese community in Calcutta, intertwined with the nostalgic journey in search of a woman who once made the most delicious noodles in the city’s Chinatown district. Thriving street food, disappearing family-run eateries, mahjong clubs, a Chinese printing press that has shut down and its handwritten counterpart that continues to deliver the news every morning, and the first all woman dragon dance group preparing for the Chinese New Year make up the Chinese heritage in Calcutta. The Chinese here were pained and hurt by the treatment of their people in the aftermath of the Indo-China war, causing them to migrate to Canada and elsewhere.

Screenings will be open to MEMBERS ONLY. Please come in a little early and register.

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