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FILMS IN MAY, 2005
 
     
  MADE BY WOMEN 2005
COURTESY : POINT OF VIEW, CREA AND FFSI
 
     
  4th May
 
   
  7:30 PM
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Harlequin (Germany, 1931, 19 mins, 35 mm)  
     
Director: Lotte Reigner
Short Classic Animation
 
         
      My Body (Norway, 2002, 26 mins, 35 mm)  
     
Director: Margreth Olin
Short Documentary
 
         
      The Underground Orchestra (Netherlands / Peru, 1998, 65 mins, DVD)  
     
Director: Heddy Honigman
Documentary
 
         
      The Day I Became A Woman (Iran, 2001, 75 mins, 35 mm)  
     
Director: Marziyeh Meshkini
Feature
 
         
  5th May      
  7:30 PM
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Mona Lisa Descending A Staircase (USA, 1992, 7 mins, DVD)  
     
Director: JOan Gratz
Short Animation
 
         
   
The Dowager's Feast (USA, 1996, 5 mins, DVD)  
     
Director: Joan Gratz
Short Animation
 
         
      Cold Jazz (UK, 1993, 17 mins, DVD)  
     
Director: Jayne Parker
Short
 
         
      True Story About Love (Australia, 2001, 27 mins, DVD)  
     
Director: Melissa Kyu-Jung Lee
Short Documentary
 
         
      Sancharram (India, 2004, 106 mins, 35 mm)  
     
Director: Ligy Pullappally
Feature
 
  6th May      
  7:30 PM
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The Whirlpool (UK, 1997, 8 mins, DVD)  
     
Director: Jayne Parker
Short
 
         
      Barbeiros (Finland, 2001, 12 mins, DVD)  
     
Director: Mervi Jukkonen
Short Documentary
 
         
      Purity (Israel, 2002, 65 mins, DVD)  
     
Director: Anat Zuria
Documentary
 
         
      How I killed My Father (France, 2001, 95 mins, 35mm)  
     
Director: Anne Fontaine
Feature
 
         
 
POLISH FILM FESTIVAL
COURTESY : EMBASSY OF POLAND AND FFSI
  20th May      
  7:30 PM
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QUO VADIS (2001, 160 mins)  
     
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
The film highlights a pagan empire of Rome where a community of Christians suffer persecution under Emperor Nero's rule.
 
         
  24th May      
  7:30 PM
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IN THE DESERT AND WILDERNESS (2001, 111 mins.)  
     
Director: Gavin Hood
Based on a novel by Nobel prize winner H. Siekiewicz, the film tells the story of two children abandoned to their own fate, who wander across wild Africa with their African friends - Kali and Mea.
 
         
  25th May   FUKS (1999, 85 mins.)  
  7:30 PM
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Director: Maciej Dutkiewicz.
The plot of the film is placed in Lithunia when both Poland and Lithunia were under allien rule. Winner of the Academy Award - Oscar 2000.
 
         
 
OTHERS FILMS
 
  17th May      
  7:00 pm
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FILM CLUB DISUCSSUION GROUP meets to discuss Capturing The Friedmans (2003, 1 hr 49 mins) Dir: Andrew Jarecki. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the film is a disturbing meditation on memory, recall, perception and the impossibility of revealing 'the truth'. Film Scholar Shohini Ghosh will present the film.  
         
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