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SCHEDULE FOR FEBRUARY FUKUOKA ART MUSEUM EXHIBIT |
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PAPER FLOWER |
In the 1930s in Bombay, an Indian film director is looking for a female to play the leading role in his next film. By coincidence, he meets a woman who is not an actress, but selects her for the role. Gradually, the film director finds himself being attracted to the woman... |
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SANKARABHARANAM |
The daughter of a prostitute has great respect for Sankara, a vocalist. One day fearing she will be purchased by a rich landowner, the girl runs away and seeks help from Sankara., who does help but becomes solitary as a result. |
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BHAVNI BHAVAI |
An old man is telling fairy tales to children in the state of Gujarat in West India. The story is about a king who finally has a child with his first queen after being childless for a long time. However, the jealous second queen schemes and abducts the child... |
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THE OCCUPATION |
Members of an aborniginal tribe of West Bengal come to a woman, formerly of the tribe but who has since married a farmer. Yet when the husband suddenly dies, the landlord tries to take the land away from the woman...A film against aboriginal discrimination produced by the state of West Bengal. |
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ONCE, SOMEWHERE |
A village in Kerala in the latter half of the 1950s gets electricity for the first time. But villagers object to trees being cut down for telegraph poles... |
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MONOLOGUE |
Ajayan shows academic skills as a child but falls into his own shell as he grows up. His brother’s bride tries to heal Ajayan who is shunned by everyone but Ajayan finds himself in mental distress… |
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SHELTER |
A boy is tired of studying after being pressured by his parents to excel in school. So he runs away from home to see his grandfather in the country… |
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MY OWN |
A woman with two children loses her husband in an accident. With her coffee shop in financial distress, the entire family is evicted from their home. She then goes through one misfortune after another… |
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BOMBAY |
A man falls in love with a woman in the countryside and proposes to her but she is a Moslem, which his Hindu parents can’t accept. Having no choice, the two elope…A blockbuster hit with dance and music. |
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THE JOURNEY |
A man retires from the military and lives with his wife in the country. His son in Bombay invites the two to come to the city. Not wanting to go, the man sends his wife to Bombay, where life is not comfortable. |
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WITH FIRE AS WITNESS |
A liberal woman argues with the traditional family of her husband. One day, she is told her mother is dying but is not allowed to go see her. She runs away from home but her actions result in a religious form of life being forced upon her. |
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THE TERRORIST |
A 19 year old terrorist woman is ordered blow herself up to assassinate high ranked men in government. To prepare for her assignment, she goes into town, concealing her identity, only to experience peaceful days for the first time in her life... |
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THE LAST DANCE |
A classical Indian dancer suffers from a forced marriage. He then falls in love with a woman at a temple and she becomes pregnant with his child, but the worst is to come… |
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PATHOS |
An old couple's life turns for the worse when their son secretly sells off their rubber plantation and tells them to go live in an old age home... |
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SHADOW KILL |
In India during the 1940s, an executioner faces a guilty conscious with the possiblility that for his last execution he may have executed someone innocent... |
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OCTAVE |
A wife teaches English in an exiled Tibet government school. She and her husband always look forward to hearing from their son in the air force, but then war with Pakistan breaks out… |
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LOVE IS GOD |
A man tries to attend a wedding but his flight is cancelled due to bad weather. At the airport he meets a jolly, talkative fellow and the two decide to take the train instead… |
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I DID NOT KILL GANDHI |
A retired professor’s memory starts fading due to senile dementia to where he starts to repeat, “I did not kill Gandhi…” |