15 JULY 2017 AND 16 JULY 2017 | FILM SCREENING | CINEMA GHAR IN COLLABORATION WITH DRISHTI

FILM: QUARTER NUMBER 4/11 | 15 JULY 2017

Quarter number 4/11 is a film with a low angle, ground zero perspectives of development, as seen by somebody who is being crushed under its weight. It is one man’s lone, long, losing fight to hold on to his ground where he was born, grew up and earned his living. It’s the narrative of a man who is being forced to evacuate his ground to make space for ‘development’.

FILM: MY FANCY HIGH HEELS | 16 JULY 2017

This film is about dreams and beautiful high-heeled shoes. The film tracks the people behind the processes involved in creating beautiful heels. It reveals a young female assembly-line worker, with her own feelings of joy, disillusionment and sorrow; a Taiwanese businessman in China, managing a contract manufacturing firm and negotiating with international customers; the inner world of a fashionable, well-off young woman of New York; and the cruel realities of the slaughterhouse.

SOURCE: CONFLICTORIUM ARCHIVES