Khush Cinema: Shorts

Saturday, October 16, 5:00pm

Move over Bollywood! Despite lingering stigmas and the threat of violent repercussions, it’s the queers that are generating a new dynamic independent cinematic tradition. In EVERYTHING, a young gay South Asian man negotiates culture, prejudice, and identity, while MINI MOVIES is a Bollywood epic on speed! A young COOLIE GYAL comes out to her parents, and a sous-chef’s fantasies come to life in the colorful song-and-dance montage SOMEONE LIKE YOU (CHUTNEY EDIT). Winner of many international film festival awards and banned in India until recently, THE PINK MIRROR (GULABI AAINA) is witness to the happiness, jealousies, passions and anguish of two drag queens as they compete for the attention of a handsome hunk.
Please join us for a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Harjant Gill, moderated by members of Trikone-NW, a group of queer South Asians in Seattle.

EVERYTHING; Harjant Gill, director; 2003; USA; 8 minutes; video
MINI MOVIES; Vishwas Kulkarni, director; 1998; India; 3 minutes; video
COOLIE GYAL; Renata Mohamed, director; 2004; Canada; 7 minutes; video
SOMEONE LIKE YOU (CHUTNEY EDIT); Andil Gosine, director; 2004; USA; 4 minutes; video
THE PINK MIRROR (GULABI AAINA); Sridhar Rangayan, director; 2002; India; 40 minutes; video (in Hindi with English subtitles)
Total Running Time: 62 minutes

Northwest Film Forum Cinema
Director in attendance
Copresented by Trikone Northwest

 

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