[Event/films] BFS "Past Continuous" March 31- April 1

[Rakesh 'arky' Ambati]

Hi Patrons of Arts, 

Here is another set beautiful documentaries from
Bangalore Film Society.

Cheers

---arky 


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Program For 31st of March and 1st of April

Bangalore Film Society is proud to present the first
edition 
of "Present Continuous" a new BFS program which aims
to bring 
before you the best in documentary film-making from
around the 
world. 

Friday 31st March 2006        Time: 6.30 pm

BORN INTO BROTHELS            Dir: Zana Briski & Ross
Kauffman

Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in
Sonagachi, 
Calcutta and the relationships they developed with
children of women 
in prostitution who work the city's red light area. 
This film is a 
chronicle of filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross
Kauffman's efforts to 
look at the world of Calcutta's red light area partly
through 
photographs taken by children living in the area.  The
film focuses 
on the children who are born in the brothels and live
their entire 
lives within the damp and dismal walls of Sonagachi
area in Calcutta.
Winner of Oscar for Best Documentary, 2005 and 33
other 
international awards. (Re-screened by popular demand)

Saturday 1st April 2006                      Time:
6.30 pm

WAY BACK HOME                                 Dir:
Supriyo Sen

Filmmaker Supriyo Sen narrates the story of his
parents who had to 
migrate from their small-town in East Bengal, present
day 
Bangladesh, to Calcutta (India) after partition of
India in 1947. 
After 50 years Sen takes both of them on an emotional
journey back 
to their place of birth. During the course of it, they
talk about 
their home, their neighbors, their flight and their
new life in 
independent India. In this connection, both of them
reveal that they 
have physically adjusted their life in Calcutta, yet
they remained 
mentally attached to their `Desh'. The film is, on the
one hand, a 
remarkable document of modern India's history because
Sen questions 
also the rationality of India` partition.
Winner of the Golden Conch at the Mumbai Int'l Film
Fest and the 
2003 BBC Audience Award for best documentary at
Manchester's 
Commonwealth Film Festival.

Admission: -
Non- Members: - We expect that you will consider
taking up 
memberships that will enable you to participate in all
BFS 
screenings for a year hence.
OR
For those who seem to linger about on the membership-
a minimum 
contribution of Rs. 30/- per movie or Rs. 50/- for
entire screening 
will be collected per participant.

Venue:- Centre for Film and Drama (CFD)
               Sona Towers,
               Miller's Road,
               Bangalore.

Ph:-  25492774/ 25492779
Mob:- 9886213516
Email: bfs at bgl.vsnl.net.in


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