Location: Rama Naidu Film Studios
City: Hyderabad
Date: Tue, 2011/03/08 – 6:30pm
Price: Open to all
Category: Film screening
As part of Women’s March, Alliance Française is happy to invite you to the screening of 2 documentaries :
A Stone on my Heart
by Preeya Nair
A young film-maker living in the UK returns to Hyderabad where her family lives, on the occasion of her brother’s wedding. As wedding preparations get underway, she discovers that her parents have expectations of her getting married too.Exploring the difficulty of balancing individual freedom against parental and social expectations.
The Indian Knot
by Neeta Jain Duhaut
A probe into the custom of “arranged marriage”, doubts and dilemma faced by marriageable youth, aspirations, disillusionment or contentment of married couples. Through the story of Romira, soon to be married by her family and personal accounts of Anjali, Chitra and Neelam, urban Indian women express themselves on their quest for love. Is it better to marry the person you love or love the person you marry?
Documentary in Hindi / English, with subtitles in English. 2004.
Alliance Française of Hyderabad in association with Goethe- Zentrum of Hyderabad, U.S.Consulate, Moving Images, Sarojini Naidu School of Performing Arts and Kalakriti Art Gallery.