Re: Publicity Materials for 'Remembering Kurdi'
Alito Siqueira
Dear Friends,Saumyananda Sahi, the director of the just completed documentary film Remembereing Kurdi (Films Division, details on the facebook page below) would like to screen the film to small audiences in informal settings, educational institutions, etc. followed by a discussion at which he will be present.If you would like to screen the film in your college, school, class, group or venue, do contact Somayanada at his email ID or call 8806199899. Somo as he is better know, does not expect to be compensated.Thanks for your attention and I do hope you will have the opportunity to see the film.With regards,alitoLooking forward to hearing from you, and with my best regards,SomoFacebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/rememberingkurdithefilm/A Small Note on the Screening:
PLACE: Community Center, Vadem Colony No. 1
DATE: Saturday the 6th of August, 2016
TIME: 7:30 PM
ENTRY: Free for All
The 64-minute documentary film, ‘Remembering Kurdi’, was directed by Saumyananda Sahi and produced by the Films Division of India.
The film tries to piece together fractured memories of a village that was submerged by the Salaulim Dam over three decades ago, but which resurfaces annually for a few weeks during the summer - allowing its prior inhabitants to return to perform rituals, visit the graves of their ancestors, have picnics in the ruins of their homes, and remember what is lost.
In chronicling the continuing importance of the places of our past, and in observing how people return even after being rehabilitated elsewhere, the film reflects on how memory is such an integral part of our sense of belonging, and how land can mean so much more than an entity to be bought and sold, or to be abandoned in the name of development.
The first public screening of the film will take place in Vadem Colony No.1, on the banks of the Salaulim Reservoir. This is where many of the people from Kurdi were rehabilitated after submergence, and this is where many of the scenes of the film were shot. This screening is therefore dedicated to the people who Remember Kurdi – without whom there would be no film!
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