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Subject: FILM SCREENING
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 12:12:33 EST
MIT Film & Media Studies presents
HKHAGOROLOI BOHU DOOR
(It's a long way to the sea)
A film by Jahnu Barua
Wednesday, November 8 at 5pm in Room 26-100
The filmmaker will introduce the film and lead discussion
Winner of the Getz World Peace Prize at the Chicago International Film
Festival, It's a Long way to the sea shows how industrialization and
corrupt practices of modern society effect the life of a simple
boatman in a remote backward village, and how with the help of an
innocent child he learns to survive in the changing environment.
Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door also earned its director the President's Gold
Medal for Best Director of 1995 at the Indian National Film Festival.
Born in 1952 in Assam, director and screenwriter Jahnu Barua began
making feature films in 1983 with Aparoopa, which won the National
Award that year. His other films include Papori and Halodhia Choraye
Baodhan Khai (The Catastrophe), Banani (1990), and Firingoti (1992).
Among his numerous awards are the Silver Leopard at the Locarno
International Film Festival in 1988, and the Silver Lotus at the
Indian National Film Festival in 1992. Mr. Barua also teaches Cinema
at the Xavier Institute of Communications in Bombay.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Info: 253-3599
Sponsored by the Dean of Humanities and Social Science
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