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on 08-Jan-04 09:09 AM
January at the Film Club
Venue: Baggikhana, Patan Dhoka
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Tickets: Rs. 50 (available at the venue - tea included)
Organised by: Film South Asia and Yala Maya Kendra
Friday, 16th January, 2004
Kandahar
directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Color, 85 minutes, 2001
Winner of awards at the Cannes, Toronto etc.
Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf presents this partially fictionalized documentary that illustrates the suffering of Afghan women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the year 2000. The quiet, stark, powerful film follows an Afghan native, Nafas (the stunningly beautiful Noulifar Pazira), who left Afghanistan years back and got a journalism degree in Canada, upon which she built a career reporting the plight of women in oppressive nations.
As a woman in Afghanistan she cannot speak out loud, travel without a husband, or show her face, elements which make her journey nearly impossible. Disguised in a heavy head-to-toe burka (the mandatory dress for women), she begins a Kafkaesque journey across the barren land, encountering obstacles both threatening and mesmerizing along the way.
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Friday, 30th January, 2004
No Man's Land
Directed by Danis Tanovic
Color, 98 minutes, 2001
Ciki (Branko Djuric) and Nino (Rene Bitorajac), a Bosnian and a Serb, are soldiers stranded in No Man's Land - a trench between enemy lines during the Bosnian war. They have no one to trust, no way to escape without getting shot, and a fellow soldier is lying on the trench floor with a spring-loaded bomb set to explode beneath his if he moves.
The absurdity of their situation would be comical if it didn't have such dire consequences. With the two men stuck in a bizarre predicament, a frustrated UM sergeant tries to help despite orders to remain at his post. When a journalist waylays the sergeant while pushing for an exclusive scoop, she affects the unfolding of events and turns a news story into an international circus. With the world's press watiting for an outcome, no one willing to take action (lest they accept responsibility), and a soldier still stuck with a bomb beneath him, Ciki and Nino try to keep their humanity amidst the insanity of war.
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Coming up in February
The Pianist by Roman Polanski
Color, 150 minutes, 2002
Rated: R, violence and brief strong language
Films in line will be announced in due time. Thank you for your support.
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