and The Public Service Broadcasting Trust
invite you to a LAUNCH of a series of monthly screenings and discussions of
DOCUMENTARY FILMS ON INDIA AND GERMANY beginning with the screening of Backstage Boys: Punjab’s Labour Goes Global by Meera Dewan & I for India by Sandhya Suri The first screening will be followed by a discussion with the Hon. Mr.
Ujjal Dosanjh, Canadian Human Rights Lawyer and Liberal Politician, currently Member of Parliament for Vancouver South.
On 11th January 2008, at 6: 30pm
Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre.
Lodi Road, New Delhi
Backstage Boys: Punjab’s Labour Goes Global: The film reflects the impact of globalization on the century-old tradition immigration from
Punjab to the West. Marginal Punjabi farmers, unable to survive on small land holdings, are lured by the promise of plenty abroad.
Despite the increasingly tough immigration laws abroad & the inherent risks involved in illegal international travel, there is a constant
stream of brave, adventurous & perhaps foolhardy young men willing to
take chances. (30 minutes) The film by a multiple award winning
filmmaker maps this journey, fraught as it is with danger, deportation and even death.
I for India: This is the story of a family of Indian immigrants in England and their relatives who have stayed back in India. For 40 years the families correspond through letters in the form of super-8mm films. When, after 17 years, the dream of the triumphant return seemed
likely to come true, it was too late. The family seemed too “western” for their home country and just nine months later returned to England.
Despite all successful integration, the conflict between the two cultures and two “native countries” continues in the lives of the daughters. (70mins)
Free entry
For further information please visit http://www.goethe. de/ins/in/ ned/enindex. htm
or contact:
Max Mueller Bhavan at 011 – 23329506 ext 292
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