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Contents
· Foulard
· 7 Islands & a Metro
· Made in India
· Colours Black
· Sundari: An Actor Prepares
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December 23, 2008
Winter/Holiday Films:
Short:
 Bit Players: Verne Troyer (Austin Powers) stars in a fictional behind-the-scenes look at WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY through the eyes of two Oompa-Loompas.
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Feature:
 What the Snow Brings: When you’ve lost everything, is there a place you can go back to? After his big city dreams are crushed, Manabu (Yusuke Iseya) returns to Hokkaido, the countryside of his childhood, with confusion, guilt, and secrets. After betting and losing the last of his money at a draft horse race, his older brother Takeo (Koichi Sato), reluctantly allows him to re-enter his life. Through the struggles of the racing horses, the two brothers begin to understand and respect each other again. Masterfully directed, Director Kichitaro Negishi captures the idyllic and relaxed setting of Hokkaido while subtly building emotional momentum centering around hope, acceptance, forgiveness, and redemption. WHAT THE SNOW BRINGS was the big winner at the 2005 Tokyo Festival, taking home the Grand Prix, as well as the Director, Actor and Audience Awards.
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This Week’s New Releases:
Drama:
 Foulard: Aminah is a young Muslim girl living in France. Aminah’s life is turned upside down when France announces a ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves in school. Aminah first seeks the advice of a local imam named Youseff. The imam tells Aminah to keep her headscarf on. Youseff tells Aminah her friends will drop out on account of the ban. The imam suggests Aminah leave school and find a private tutor. Aminah tries a compromise by wearing a beret instead. The school rejects it. The imam and Aminah’s father confront the school. Despite a meeting with the school principal nothing can be done about the ban on headscarves. Until Aminah decides to take matters into her own hands leading to the film’s shocking conclusion.
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Documentary:
 7 Islands & a Metro: A frayed rug round his shoulders, My father came down the Sahyadris And stood at your doorstep, With only his labour in his hands. From “Mumbai” by Narayan Surve The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. This film is a tale of the cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai, through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. It is a chronicle of the journey of an insignificant settlement to the coveted stature of a metropolis. The narrative is structured around imaginary debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, the two legendary writers who lived in this metropolis, over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities. Shot mainly during the monsoon the film portrays some extremely beautiful yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay.
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 Made in India: A rural artist paints her autobiography, Bollywood movie icons’ images get erased after the weekly run of the film, the national flag flutters on 150 kites, installation artist paints pop icons on the rolling shutters of shops, religious icons jostle for attention with plastic flowers on the vendor’s cart, metaphors of life cycle adorn the mud wall of a home, neighbourhood boys craft the tale of WTC on Christmas Cribs and the sale of toy planes goes up. Symbols of nationalism become a fashionable commodity. It is the international culture of regionality. Made in India is a film on contemporary visual cultures in India.
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 Colours Black: The film is an attempt to break the silence around child sexual abuse within the family. In order to make the children’s voices heard, the film is structured around four narratives from their point of view. Children’s world of colour, rhyme, toys, games, fantasy and bedtime stories are the basic ingredients of the narratives, which often get fragmented by the adults’ memory of childhood abuses. The film sets out to explore some other ways of communication and articulation and attempts to break the myth of `privileged language’.
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 Sundari- An Actor Prepares: Sundari: An Actor Prepares is a film based on the autobiography of Jayshankar Sundari, the legendary female impersonator of Gujarati stage in early 20th century Bombay. Sundari literary means beautiful in feminine gender. He earned that title for his rendition of Desdimona in Othello, at the age of 12. Centered around the works of eminent painters Bhupen Khakkar and Nilima Sheikh and theatre director Anuradha Kapur, the film documents the process of his journey from a boy to a man and simultaneously from a male to a female, in the context of contemporary gender discourses and politics of acting.
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