4 FEBRUARY 2017 AND 5 FEBRUARY 2017 | FILM SCREENING | CINEMA GHAR IN COLLABORATION WITH DRISHTI

FILM: PAPA | 4 FEBRUARY 2017

Papa- A paralysed mother, Sushma and her young son, Rajiv, are learning to adjust to their new life. A recent accident has left their lives scarred forever.

FILM: FIREFLIES IN THE ABYSS

Fireflies in the Abyss- The ‘rat-hole mines in the Jaintia Hills of North East India are hostile pits where men and boys risk their lives every day to scratch coal out of hard rock with just a pickaxe and a torch. 11-year old Suraj, toils in the dangerous mines with an indomitable spirit and a stubborn smile, hoping to one day escape the dark abyss and return to school. The film follows Suraj and several other miners whose lives intertwine with his. Fireflies in the Abyss illustrates how even seemingly insurmountable obstacles can help the human spirit grow.

FILM: CHAR | 5 FEBRUARY 2017

CHAR- Rubel, a fourteen years old boy smuggling rice from India to Bangladesh. He has to cross the river Ganga acting as the international border. Years later a fragile island called Char was formed within the large river. With his family and a herd of homeless people, Rubel decided to settle in this barren expanse. Rubel dreams of going to his old school in India but reality forces him to smuggle stuff to Bangladesh. After a scorching summer dark monsoon clouds roll on; the river swells up again. We see the edges of the island cracking.

‘Char may disappear someday but we won’t”, smiles the boy.

SOURCE: CONFLICTORIUM ARCHIVES