Following are the DOCUMENTARIES that are being shown at Toronto film festival.
Just look through the list, you will stumble upon alot of familiar faces... The stories seems to be very powerful & intruging. Wonder whether i will get to c at least one of it....hmmm...
A JIHAD FOR LOVE Parvez Sharma (Real to Reel)Parvez Sharma’s feature-length directorial debut explores the complex intersections of Islam and homosexuality by following gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Muslims in 12 countries struggling to reconcile a faith they love with their being.
DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT: A NATION'S JOURNEY Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan (Real to Reel)In October 1999, Pervez Musharraf assumed power in Pakistan through a bloodless military coup. Over dinner with the filmmakers, Musharraf’s explains his vision for Pakistan. Sumar and Sathananthan ponder the irony of a president in army fatigues delivering democracy to the masses, and ask the people of Pakistan (tribal chiefs, rural women, teenagers, religious party leaders and the president’s mother) what democracy means to them.
AIDS JAAGO Mira Nair (Mavericks)Four short films by renowned Indian directors Mira Nair, Vishal Bhardwaj, Santosh Sivan and Farhan Akhtar aim to dismantle myths and misconceptions about HIV/AIDS. During Mavericks, leading industry personalities give audiences inside scoop, revealing anecdotes, secrets of their success and previews of their next projects.
FEATURESAMAL Richie Mehta (Canada First!)Humble New Delhi autorickshaw driver Amal’s (Rupinder Nagra) sense of purpose is tested when he inherits the estate of an eccentric billionare. A young, injured beggar, a store merchant, and the billionaire’s friends want to claim their share of the riches, complicating Amal’s struggle between duty and unlikely dreams. (btw it stars naseerudin shah)
BEFORE THE RAINS Santosh Sivan (Special Presentation)The English language debut of Indian director Santosh Sivan (The Terrorist, Asoka), set in 1930s India. When a married British colonialist (Linus Roache) is caught having an affair with his beautiful housemaid (Nandita Das), he convinces his trusted farmhand (Rahul Bose) — a member of the housemaid's tribe — to help find a solution to the potentially deadly situation.
BRICK LANE Sarah Gavron Beautiful 18-year-old Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee) struggles to accept her life in 1980s London, having left her family and home in Bangladesh for an arranged, loveless marriage. But when she meets the spirited Karim (Christopher Simpson), she’s forced out of her shell. Based on the 2003 book of the same name
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE Shekhar Kapur (Gala Presentation)While Queen Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) prepares to defend England from the powerful armada of Spanish King Philip II (Jordi Molla), she must also contend with a manipulative advisor, an assassination plot hatched by her own cousin, Mary Stuart (Samantha Morton) and her inconvenient love for adventurer Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen).
FOUR WOMEN Adoor Gopalakrishnan, (Masters)The lives of a prostitute, a virgin, a housewife and a spinster form stories from four different stratums of society. Starring: Nandita Das, Geetu Mohandas, Padmapriya and Manju Pillai.
FROZEN Shivajee Chandrabhushan (Discovery)Teenager Lasya (Gauri) lives with her father Karma (Danny Denzongpa) and brother Chomo (Angchuk) in a remote village in the northern Himalayas. Then the army moves into the village, which proves unsettling for the peaceful family. The army is searching for an enemy, but instead finds a frozen body.
THE LAST LEAR Rituparno Ghosh (Bollywood Gala) Shakespeare meets Bollywood in this film adaptation of a play by actor Utpal Dutt. Amitabh Bachchan stars as a veteran theatre actor whose lifelong ambition is to play King Lear. Preity Zinta plays opposite Bachchan as a bad actor.
ON THE WINGS OF DREAMS Golam Rabbany Biplob (Contemporary World Cinema)When Fazlu (Mahmuduzzaman Babu) gives his son a pair of second-hand trousers, his wife (Rokeya Prachi) finds foreign money in the pocket, a discovery she hopes will change their lives. The couple enlist villager Siraj (Fazlur Rahman Babu) to help them exchange the cash. But the greed overcomes the men, and desire and deception begins to alter relationships and family dynamics.
THE VOYEURS Buddhadeb Dasgupta (Masters)A small-town actress (Sameera Reddy) tries to make it in the big city but soon discovers that in a modern world, nothing is private, and web cams and closed circuit TVs are constant witnesses to love, obsession, exploitation and human folly.
THE WORLD UNSEEN Shamim Sarif Amina (Sheetal Sheth) isn’t afraid to break the rules of1950s apartheid South Africa. She breaches the traditions of her Indian community and runs a café with a black man. But when she and Miriam (Lisa Ray), a married woman, fall in love, they set in motion a chain of events that changes both women forever. Based on the novel by director Shamim Sarif.
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