Amu (a film on Delhi's 1984 Riots): Film Screening in New York

Amu
By: Shonali Bose, India, 2005, 102m, 35mm, drama
When: Fri June 16: 8:45; Mon June 19: 1 pm

Amu begins with the everyday dilemmas of a young Indian-American, Kaju,
returning to the “foreignness” of her Indian homeland. Like an
approaching thunderstorm, the film gathers a potent political charge as
Kaju begins to question her past and realizes how her own privileged
life in America was born out of communal violence in India. After Prime
Minister Gandhi was assassinated by Sikh bodyguards in 1984, carnage
erupted in the streets of Delhi. More than four thousand Sikhs were
killed in three days. In the film Kaju’s parents are among those
affected by the violence. Writer-director Shonali Bose was a student in
Delhi during those days. She worked in the relief camps set up after the
massacre, writing down the stories of those who survived. Bose brings to
the flashback scenes in Amu the intense impact of first-hand experience.
Amu is powered by a sense of outrage still felt today. The film makes a
strong case that this massacre was not spontaneous but planned, and
depicts politicians and police who were involved but went unpunished.
Kaju’s questions produce difficult answers that force her to face the
truth of India’s history - and her own. Official Selection, Berlin Film
Festival 2006; Toronto International Film Festival2005Presented in
association with Asian CineVision (ACV) and with Breakthrough: building
human rights culture

Ticket Information:

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, plaza level
between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.) [New York City]

Subways: 1 to 66th Street Lincoln Center.
Buses: M5 M7 M104
More options available at nearby Columbus Circle.

General admission is $10, $6 for Film Society members
$7 for full-time students with valid photo ID
$5 for seniors 65 & up ~ only at screenings Monday-Friday before 6pm
For group sales, please call (212) 875-5645 weekdays between 11:30am and
5:00pm

For additional information: http://www.hrw.org/iff/2006/ny/index.html