Haobam Paban's "A CRY IN THE DARK" will be shown April 27, 28; details below.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS NEW YORK PREMIERES OF NEW INDIAN CINEMA
Eleven-Film Exhibition of New Works Includes Features by Established and Emerging Filmmakers
INDIA NOW
Friday, April 27
6:00 PM 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.
Winner of a FIPRESCI (international critics) prize at the Mumbai International Film Festival.
In Manipuri and English, English subtitles. 56 min. New York premiere.
Saturday, April 28
4:30 PM A Cry in the Dark.
Read full information at www.moma.org or
here.
The above information is provided by Somi Roy, a Manipuri-American arts curator living in New York .
This announcement was webcasted on April 04th , 2007
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