DESTINASIAN: VIEWFINDER
Friday 7 -- Sunday 16 November 2008 Admission
FREE
Open Monday-Friday 9am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday 12-4pm
Viewfinder Photography Gallery, London se10
www.viewfinder.org.uk
A vibrant and eclectic group show that illustrates journeys to, from
and around the Indian subcontinent – as well as showing the journeys
that Asian culture has taken from its traditional homelands to contemporary,
urban and multicultural contexts.
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Friday 7 -- Sunday 9 November 2008
Greenwich Picturehouse, London se10
A weekend of rich pickings from the world of
South Asian independent documentary feature films
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Friday 7 November, 8.30pm
Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears
(Main Feature Presentation)
Dir. Simon Chambers, 62 mins, UK, 2006
(English & Bengali with subtitles)
A lively and surprisingly funny film about a feisty Bangladeshi girl
and her East London family. This is a intimate portrait of a melodramatic
family as they prepare for two weddings. (Contains explicit language.)
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Saturday 8 November, 9pm
I for India
Dir. Sandhya Suri, 70 mins, UK, 2007
(English & Hindi
with subtitles)
This award-winning film reveals a bitter-sweet time capsule of alienation,
discovery, racism and belonging, I for India is
a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through
the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.
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Sunday 9 November, 2pm (Matinee)
Hors Jeu (The Cricketers)
Dir. Jacqueline Farmer, 54 mins, France, 2008
(English, Tamil, French & Sinhalese
with subtitles)
Eleven Sri Lankans escape the civil war, are refused entry into Britain
and find themselves living in France. The players escape the conditions
of their lives in exile by forming a cricket team and decide to take
part in the National Championships.
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Sunday 9 November, 8.30pm
Between The Lines: India's Third Gender
Dir. Thomas Wartman, 92 mins, Germany & India
, 2005
(English & Hindi with subtitles)
A fascinating documentary that follows photographer Anita Khemka as she
explores the hidden hijra (eunuch) subculture
of Bombay. Khemka is fascinated by the ornate femininity and captivating
spiritual powers of these biological men who dress as women but reject
identification with either gender. (Contains explicit language.)
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