Premiere Screening of EARTH, a film by Deepa Mehta (producer of Fire).
A fundraiser for Green Left Weekly.
With opening speakers
Lynette Dumble: India Solidarity Activist and Global Women's Network.
Reihana Mohideen: Philippines Socialist Labour Party
SEPT 16, 7pm@ CINEMA NOVA Lygon St Carlton. $12/ $9 Conc.
Ph 9329 1320 for info and tickets...
EARTH is set in Lahore in 1947 on the eve of India's partition into Hindu
and Muslim states and tells the story of Lenny, a little girl from the
Intellectual Parsee class (originally from Persia) and her beloved Ayah (or
nanny) Shanta. This beautiful Hindu woman (Nandita Das) attracts many
suitors of different religious persuasions and for a time, her admirers
personify ethnic and religious tolerance. But history sweeps into the lives
of Lenny, her affluent "neutral" parents, and the young Ayah, forcing them
to make painful choices about their allegiances. Ultimately the film is a
meditation, both tragic and deeply felt, on the cost of ethnic cleansing.
It is also a love story. Mehta asks us to examine the way religious
intolerance is manipulated at great cost. This is the work of great
cinematic talent.
LL.VI
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