Aakaler Sandhane: In September, 1980, a film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943. It was a man made famine, a side- product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of those millions who died of starvation. The film documents the convivial life among the film crew and the hazards, problems and tension of film making on location. The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple folk watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present. The uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals bizarre connection, involving a village woman whose visions add a further dimension of time—that of future. A disturbing situation, indeed, for the “famine-seekers”!All welcome 6pm Cinema, Goldsmiths.
More Bengali Films at Goldsmiths
Tuesday's CCS Film Night 6pm–9 pm RHB SH/Cinema Goldsmiths
Its 150 years since the 1857 uprisings, 60 years since Independence (for Pakistan and India) and 40 years since Naxalbari (see, dialectics!)... In a kind of angular appreciation of these anniversaries, the film slot for CCS in Autumn term 2007 will be a series of great Bengali films.
We will start with Satyajit Ray's "The Chess Players" on the 2nd of October
16 October - Aakaler Sandhane - Mrinal Sen
23 October - Antareen - Mrinal Sen(will start one hour later because of Keith Hart's Inaugural Lecture in IGLT (at 5.30)
Then in the following weeks, some Ritwik Ghatak, films by Arparna Sen and one by Buddhadeb Dasgupta - dates to be announced (but its nearly every tuesday at 6)
All welcome.
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