Event: gb Film Festival -  the 14th festival so far 

Date : Sunday, 13th February 2005

Time: Starts around 1:30 - 1.45 pm

Venue: 
Conference Room,
National College,
Linking Road,
Bandra West
Mumbai 400 050

Directions
It is about 10 minutes walk from Bandra Station or minimum rickshaw fare. Almost at the beginning of Linking Road, Enter lane opposite Pamposh / Barista.

Contribution : Entry is free. The event is entirely sponsored by GayBombay. However individual voluntary contributions are welcome. 

FILMS to be SCREENED : 

LAW OF DESIRE - 1986 / 1 hr 45 min / directed by Pedro Almodóvar / Spanish with EST

This bold tale of passion's dire consequences is one of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's most smoldering films. Antonio Banderas stars as Antonio Benítez, an obsessive fan of writer-director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela), a cocaine-snorting homosexual hedonist whose last boyfriend, Juan (Miguel Molina), has just moved out. Antonio and Pablo have a few passionate nights, but Antonio's obsessive love soon proves hard for the noncommittal Pablo to escape from. Meanwhile, Pablo's transsexual sister, Tina (Carmen Maura), has problems of her own, including a closet brimming with dark sexual skeletons and Ada (Manuela Velasco), her unofficially adopted daughter. Pablo writes a play for Tina to star in, but when Antonio stalks and murders Juan in a fit of jealousy, the police end up suspecting the character Tina performs in the play. Pablo winds up with amnesia after a car accident, and the troubles just get weirder from there. For American audiences unfamiliar with Almodóvar's style, this film may prove a shocking experience, but his fans know that beneath their transgressive exteriors, his films throb with a palpable love of humanity, life, beauty, and art. This is a fine example of that art, with great music and memorable performances all around.

          Tea break 

3 short fiction films

The voices of the new generation - At the last International Film Festival IFFI - Goa 2004, an interesting program was curated by Dev Benegal and Anuradha Parikh called "24x7 making movies". 
Here people under the age of 24 were invited to come and make movies. They were given the hardware - a professional miniDV camera and a state-of-the-art editing system. The catch was, the films had to be made in 24 hours flat - the shoot, the picture & sound edit and the titles all in one day.  The theme was "Nature and Violence". 
For more info go to - www.24x7makingmovies.com  
Of the 40 short fiction films made, 4 had queer content. 
Three of these will be screened today  - the first festival (besides IFFI) to screen these films. 

  1.   The Filmmaker - director: Rishad D'Cruz - 16 min

  2.   Some Like to Dance - director: Sukanya - 8 min

  3.   Samajh - Spare a Thought - director: Pradeep Nair - 13 min

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YOSSI AND JAGGER - 2003 / 1 hr 11 min / directed by Eytan Fox / Israeli with EST

Based on a true story, Yossi & Jagger portrays the love affair of two Israeli officers in an IDF position on the Israeli-Lebanese border. They are commanders, they are in love, and they try to find a place of their own in an oppressing and rigid system, which sends them to defend a cause they do not necessarily believe in

Yossi, the company commander, is an introvert guy and largely a man-of-the-system. Jagger, the platoon commander, is an open and much more liberated guy. He is the star of the company. Yossi is determined to keep their love in secret. Whereas, Jagger, who is about to finish the service, believes that Yossi should leave the army with him. Shortly before departing for a dangerous ambush, the tension between the lovers gets high almost explosive.

Yossi & Jagger portrays in a courageous, genuine, amusing and sometimes painful fashion the complicated and sensitive topic of "gays in the military". It also portrays the tragic structure of life of young Israelis today. The film presents an enchanting ensemble of young men and women that were supposed, in this time of their lives, to dance, study and love. Instead, due to the mandatory army service and the complicated situation in the region, they have to devote their most beautiful years to their country, to be soldiers, to kill and get killed.

Jimi Mistry (THE GURU, EAST IS EAST) stars in this charming and surprisingly poignant romantic comedy, which is driven by the humor that infuses the multifaceted cultural divide between the young and old, Indian and Western, gay and straight--not to mention real and imaginary, alive and dead--characters. Alim is a young South Indian movie photographer living in London after relocating there from Canada. He lives with his boyfriend Giles (Kristen Holden-Reid), as well as the ghost of Cary Grant (Kyle MacLachlan), whom only Alim can see. Pursuing the ideal world presented in the films of Grant-era Hollywood, Alim seeks and then follows the advice of the ghost. This works out pretty well until his mother Nuru decides to come for a visit. She is a conservative Indian mother who is concerned at Alim's bachelorhood, especially in light of her nephew's impending wedding and the friendly sibling rivalry she shares with his mother. Madcap confusion ensues as Alim tries to keep Giles' true identity and his own, from being discovered by his mother, all the while trying to maintain composure in the style of his mentor.

NOTE :

1. The films are excellent original copies on DVD & VHS.

2. The films are NOT pornographic. Only good, clean gay films.

3. GB as a support group, has created this comfort space/event for gays, many of whom may be "newbies" (those still coming to terms with their sexuality and who have mustered courage to come for such a meeting for the first time). So we request you to be sensitive to the comfort levels of others attending this event and behave and dress accordingly.

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This is a GayBombay (gb) organized event
Rights of admission reserved.
You have to 18 years and above to participate in this event

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If you have any further queries/questions please email at: friend@gaybombay.org 
 
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