[Reader-list] Selection DocEdge: Documentary Films,Mumbai

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Selection DocEdge
Documentary Films
   
films   
 03.3. - 05.3.2015, 18:00 Uhr    
 Bibliothek Mumbai    
 Library Mumbai  
   
   March 3, 2015 | 6:00 pm   
   Screening followed by a Q&A session with the directors John Webster (Finland)   
   and Maciej Drygas (Poland), moderated by Surabhi Sharma.   
   
   ABU HARAZ | Dir.: Maciej J. Drygas | 73 min, 2013   
   A Sudanese village on the River Nile, where a large dam will be built and village will disappear under water…   
   
   ROOMS OF SHADOW AND LIGHT | Dir.: John Webster | 57 min, 1999   
   Story of an organization that helps women in the red light district in Mumbai.   
   
   
   March 4, 2015 | 6.30 pm   
   Selection from DocEdge:   
   
   SOUND OF TORTURE | Director: Keren Shayo | 58 minutes, 2013   
   Award winning film on live calls from a radio broadcast to the torture camps in Egyptian Sinai desert,   
   where hundreds of Eritrean refugees are held hostage...   
   
   TWO MOTHERS (Meine Mütter - Spurensuche in Riga) | Director: Rosa von Praunheim, colour and b/w | 87 min., 2006   
   The German gay film icon Rosa von Praunheim (Holger Mischwitzky) goes in search of his “real” unknown parents, it leads to a moving view of German history.   
   
   
   March 5, 2015 | 6.30 pm   
   Selection from DocEdge:   
   
   MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE | Director: Marc Bauder, colour | 88 min., 2013   
   Rainer Voss used to be one of Germany’s leading investment bankers, paints an alarming picture of a megalomaniacal, quasi-religious parallel universe, hidden behind the mirrored facades.   
   
   Entry Free
 
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   - Rohit