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A Cry in the Dark
2006. India. Haobam Paban Kumar. 56 min.
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[:Preceded by [Bare]:]
2006. India. Santana Issar. 11 min.
Introduced by Santana Issar
Saturday, April 28, 2007, 4:30 p.m.
Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1
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A Cry in the Dark
2006. India. Directed by Haobam Paban Kumar. A documentary about resistance in the face of overwhelming military force. In 2004, Thangiam Manorama, a thirty-two-year-old woman from a village in India's eastern state of Manipur, was arrested and reportedly raped and killed in police custody. The circumstances of her death and its subsequent cover-up sparked widespread outrage and a popular uprising. Kumar, a native of Manipur, bears witness to acts of brutality and courage as unarmed protesters—many of them women leaders—are beaten, shot at, tear gassed, and humiliated by soldiers of the Assam Rifles regiment, who flout their acts of violence before international human rights activists, journalists, and cameramen. New York premiere. In Manipuri and English, English subtitles. 56 min.
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[:Preceded by [Bare]:]
2006. India. Directed by Santana Issar. A poignant short in which the filmmaker uses home-movie footage and recorded telephone conversations to reach out to her alcoholic father. New York premiere. 11 min.
In the Film exhibition India Now
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