[Reader-list] Film Screening: 'We Homes Chaps'

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Hi all,
The Habitat Film Club is screening Kesang Tseten's 'We Homes Chaps' (Documentary,59 minutes, English) this Tuesday, June 23rd, 09. If you are in Delhi, please do come. The film shall be followed by a discussion.
Gulmohar Hall, The India Habitat Center, Tuesday, June 23rd. 6.30 pm. 
Synopsis:



This film explores the fragile ground where love and  unlove cohabit, illuminating a rare
space where the two are in close proximity but distinct. A unique Scottish
Presbyterian home was founded by a missionary at the turn of the century in
British India. It takes in orphans, mainly destitute Anglo-Indian children, and
subsequently, children of Tibetan refugees and other Himalayan people in
strife. Providing an all-round education with old-fashioned and colonial Christian
values, it is a home for many that would not have had one.  But it is also a universe unto itself,
a “total  institution.” For a
“Homes chap” the institution is a surrogate parent, and an anchor and source of
life-long attachment.

 

It is a love with an edge, a difficult love. Why that is so
is what Tibetan filmmaker and Homes alumnus Kesang Tseten attempts to answer
when he and his classmates of 29 years ago, return to the site of his childhood
in the Village for Children in the lap of Kanchenjunga,  during the heightened emotions of
reunion and the institution’s centennial celebrations. This is a searing and
yet lyrical reflection on displacement, marginality, nostalgia, the powerful
hold of early experience, and the nature of love.
Crew:


Dir/Pro by Kesang Tseten

 

Camera Ranjan Palit

Additional camera Reena Mohan

 

Editing

Kesang Tseten

Passang Dorjee

 

Sound

Location

PM Satheesh

 

Sound mix

Fireflies Stuidio

Shajith 
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