[Reader-list] [Announcements] [DFA NewsLetter] Four Women and a Room: Screening

[Rahul Roy]

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From: ambarien al qadar <ambarien at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:36 PM
Subject: Four Women and a Room: Screening
To: ambarien <ambarien at gmail.com>, "Delhi Film Archive [DFA]" <
delhifilmarchive at gmail.com>,

Dear all,

If you are in Delhi, please do come for the screening of my film 'Four
Women and a Room' in The Indian Panorama section at The Delhi
International Arts Festival , Delhi.

The film is scheduled on 21st December ,6 pm, Siri Fort Auditorium 3.


About the film:
Late into pregnancy, Mili is confounded with a range of unknown
emotions. Having gone through endless rituals of matchmaking, Latika
is wondering about her desire to be a biological mother. The
dreamscape of the filmmaker throws up images and associations of a
hospital visited sometime back and reminds her of meeting Kalpana, a
fictitious character who might have undergone a sex selective
abortion. Combining techniques of documentary and fiction, Four Women
and a Room unfolds through the metaphor of the labour room and the
conscious and subconscious resonances it has in the lives of its four
protagonists. Set against the complex social history of how abortions
came to be legalized in India as population control imperatives rather
than a pro-choice legislation , the film raises crucial questions
about debates around sex selective abortions, marriage and motherhood
within South Asian contexts while making a strong case for the agency
of women.

Thanks
Ambarien Al Qadar

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