Solaris Pictures presents
Friday, December 13, 2013 | 3.00pm
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SALMA
90 min / UK, India /
2013
Tamil with English
subtitles
Dir: Kim Longinotto
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Synopsis
Poignant portrait
of well-known Indian Tamil poet Salma. She spent twenty-five years of her
life behind closed doors, at first in her elderly home and later in that of
her parents-in-law. A fate that is common to many Muslim women around the
world. Salma fought back, however, and regained the freedom that had been
taken away from her at such a young age.
Master documentarian Kim Longinotto of PINK SARIS fame tells yet
another extraordinary story of a woman’s courage and resilience.
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Festivals & Awards
World Premiere -
Sundance Film Festival, 2013
Winner - Best Intl
Feature & Best Intl Director Documentary Edge Festival, New Zealand, 2013
Winner - Best
Documentary, Indian Film Festival Stuttgart, 2013
Nominated, Prix
Europa
Winner - Best Film
International Human Rights Films Festival, Tunis,
Grierson Award,
Nominated Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme - International
Winner - Panorama
Audience Award, 2nd Place Berlinale, 2013
HotDocs
International Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2013
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Director’s Statement
“I was in a seminar
at a Film Festival in Delhi and a woman, Urvashi Butalia, told a group of us about
Salma. It was such an inspiring and unusual story that I knew immediately
that I really wanted to make a film about her. What seemed amazing about the
story, and I still can’t quite believe we’ve actually done it, is that it
starts by describing the fate of millions of women all over the world and not
many women escape it and manage to tell the tale.
It’s a kind of
legend - this woman who is locked away in a tiny room for 9 years, then gets
married and still isn’t allowed out - who then becomes an activist, a
politician, trying to help other women in her community and also a famous
poet. It’s an amazing story.
With this one the
challenge is to do justice to the story and make it compelling to watch. You
have to invent ways of using images. You can’t just have the dialogue.
You have to find
the emotion and really take the audience into someone’s life. Take them back
there and help them re-live it. You have to think flexibly and follow the
strands that people offer you. You have to be open to the feelings that
people reveal that they don’t normally express.
The film must
embrace the complexities and contradictions. For instance, Salma’s mum was
her jailer, her betrayer but she still loves her daughter and wanted to save
her. She helped her escape. Salma calls it “The knots and ties of love” - Kim
Longinotto
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Director’s Bio
Master documentarian Kim Longinotto
is a British documentary maker, most famous for making films which highlight
the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination around the
globe. Longinotto studied camera and directing at the National Film and
Television School in Beaconsfield, England, where she now tutors. After her
famous Pink Saris (screened at 2nd Flashpoint HRFF), Salma is her second
documentary film set in India. Currently she is shooting for latest feature
documentary, The Dreamcatchers which is her first film shot in USA.
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Links
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Seating
is on a first-come, first-served basis
Alliance Française de Bombay
40, Theosophy Hall, 1st
Cross Lane, New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400020
Ph: 022 2203 5993
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