HRWIFF Documentaries about South Asia

SALAAM Theatre
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
invites you to attend...

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center
Presents Documentaries about South Asia:
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BORN INTO BROTHELS
by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman,
USA, 2003, 85m, video,
documentary in Bengali & English with English Subtitles.

The most stigmatized people in Calcutta’s red light district, are not the prostitutes, but their children. In the face of abject poverty, abuse and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother’s fate or creating another type of life. Briski, a professional photographer, gives the children lessons and cameras, igniting the latent spark of artistic creativity within them. Their photographs are prisms into their souls, not anthropological curiosities or primitive imagery. This film is a true testimony to the power of the indelible creative spirit. Co-presented by the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival.
Sunday June 13th 8:00 pm
Monday June 14th 6:30 pm
Tuesday June 15th 1:00 pm

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FOR A PLACE UNDER THE HEAVENS
By Sabiha Sumar,
Pakistan, 2003, 53m, video, doc,
In English and Urdu with English subtitles

Acclaimed director Sabiha Sumar offers a fresh and insightful perspective on Pakistan in this finely crafted personal film. Beginning with the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Sumar traces the relationship of Islam to the state in an effort to understand how women are coping with and surviving the impact of religious fundamentalism on civil and political life in her country. Mixing political analysis with interviews with activist colleagues, noted Islamic scholars and Pakistani women who have chosen to embrace fundamentalism, Sumar’s provocative questions dramatically capture the tension between liberal and fundamentalist forces that are shaping life in contemporary Pakistan.

Preceded by: WHEN THE STORM CAME by Shilpi Gupta, USA, 2003, 24m, video, doc
The women of Kunnan Pushpora trek through the jungle to collect firewood for fuel in the militarized valley nestled at the foothills of the Himalayas known as Kashmir. But they are haunted by a night now deeply entrenched in their collective memory. When the Storm Came tells their story and gives a human face to the commonly used “weapon” of war - rape. Co-presented by Breakthrough: building human rights culture.

Monday June 2: 4:30 pm
Tuesday June 22: 6:15 pm
Thursday June 24: 9:30 pm
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VENUE:
Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, Plaza Level
between Broadway and Amsterdam
Manhattan, NY 10023

General Admission: $10 per ticket
($6 for Film Society members; $7 for full-time students with valid photo ID; $5 for seniors 65 years and above, only at screenings Monday-Friday before 6pm.)

Thanks to Susan Fou and The Film Society at Lincoln Center.

For an energizing and engaging event, make it SALAAM time.

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SALAAM Theatre is a not-for-profit professional multidisciplinary theatre company
celebrating South Asian American artistic excellence through creative risk-taking
and experimentation that challenges all boundaries, connects all peoples and
links all the arts in the spirit of progressive solidarity.

Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
SALAAM Theatre (South Asian League of Artists in AMerica)
http://www.SALAAMtheatre.org

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