Monday,
March 15, 2004
SALAAM 3rd
Mondays (S3M)
The
US Premiere of
This film is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period Feb/March 2002 - July 2003, the film examines the consequences of Hindu-Muslim polarization in the state. The film, which prompted walkouts in preview screenings in India, features graphic accounts of the mass rapes of women by mobs during the bloodbath that left some 2,000 people dead. The riots broke out after a Muslim mob torched a train, killing 59 Hindus. Human rights groups say Gujarat's government, led by India's ruling Hindu nationalists, did little to stop vigilante attacks. Pioneer
Theater
Subways:
Tickets:
$9.00
Final Solution
(India; 2004; 218 minutes)
Part 1 : Pride and Genocide deals with the genocidal violence against Muslims and its immediate aftermath. It probes the patterns of pre-planned violence by right-wing Hindu cadres which many claim was state-supported, if not state-sponsored. Part 2 : The Terror Trail reconstructs through eyewitness accounts the attack on Gulbarg (Ahmedabad) and acts of barbaric violence against Muslim women at Eral and Delol / Kalol (Panchmahals) even as Chief Minister Modi traverses the state on his Gaurav Yatra. Part 3 : The Hate Mandate documents the poll campaign during the Assembly elections in Gujarat in late 2002. It records in detail the exploitation of the Godhra incident (in which 58 Hindus were burnt alive) by the right-wing propaganda machinery for electoral gains. Part 4 : Hope and Despair studies the situation after the storm and its impact on Hindus and Moslem ghettoization, the call for economic boycott of Moslems and continuing acts of violence more than a year after the carnage. About
the Director:
Awards
: Wolfgang Staudte award and Special Jury Award (Netpac),
Berlin International film festival (Feb 2004).
This
screening is co-sponsored by 3rd I NY
and SALAAM Theatre.
Please join us as we continue SALAAM 3rd Mondays -- for this month only, we are at a different venue with a unique and very special event. We will be back at the SALAAM home on 32nd Street next month! Meanwhile, mark your 2004 calendars for the rest of the year. It's always SALAAM time on the 3rd Monday of every month. Don't miss this hot and long-standing monthly event where artists, activists, actors, directors, writers, film producers, screenwriters, journalists, casting agents and industry professionals meet to share an evening that is indeed "the best underground deal in NYC." Thanks to Saba Waheed of 3rd I NY for helping to set-up this special copresentation! 3rd I New York events are made possible in part through public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Fund for Creative Communities/New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. http://www.thirdi.org "We get arts and activism mixed up." SALAAM is a not-for-profit
professional multidisciplinary theatre company
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
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