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Monday, 22 April 2013
My Rendezvous to the London Film Festival & Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Interview and Reviews -Tashi Khan
Help and assistance Neeley Lara Gail
When I received the email about the festival, I never realised that it would have such an impact on me. I requested some tickets and when I saw my first film of the festival: Salma, it evoked so many emotions, anger, and despair to name a few.
I thought why do women have to suffer and go through so much in the name of belief, culture, and manmade norms? Why does every country, every religion, every race have so many rules and why are they so harsh against women?
It was heart rendering, I just wanted protest against all of the rules, regulations, and dictatorships. At this point I decided to watch all the films and documentaries to learn more about current worldwide issues
I was very much aware of the things happening around us and in various countries but to have an insight into the depth of the issues was a complete heart wrenching experience.
Seeing all the directors and the unit to go to the lengths they did and face potentially dangerous situations in order to record the current societal issues.
I want to give all due respect and credit to the directors and the crews for their courage, efforts and dedication.
Interview with the star of the film In the Shadows of the Sun
Josephat Torner
By Tashi Khan
Help and Assistance by Neeley Lara Gail
In the Shadow of the Sun When I read the details of the films, it was the first which struck me, it entailed an issue which I always wanted to delve further into. So I put my request forward immediately.
When I came out of the screening in Curzon Soho I quickly grabbed a sofa to fiddle in my bag for my phone and to my astonishment there was Josephat sitting right next to me having a chat with my partner! I forgot all about my phone and grabbed my IPad instead. I thought it was a good opportunity to express my emotions in the form of questions and to quell the feelings of distress at the plight of these kids and adults suffering from Albinism.
The Interview
Q: what is the film about?
The film is about the plight of people with albinism in Tanzania.
Q: why make a film about this topic?
Albino people are being attacked and killed for their body parts due to superstition. People think that if they have the body parts of someone with albinism they will become rich.
Q: who do they attack?
They normally attack women and children because they are easier to attack. Because of the threat of violence some parents abandon their albino children because they fear they will be attacked.
They normally attack women and children because they are easier to attack. Because of the threat of violence some parents abandon their albino children because they fear they will be attacked.
Q: What causes people to attack an albino person?
A:It is superstition in some African countries. We are being hunted for our body parts. If you are an albino you suffer stigma. Some people think I am less of a human being. This means I get less opportunities, for example if you want to access education it is really difficult.
A:It is superstition in some African countries. We are being hunted for our body parts. If you are an albino you suffer stigma. Some people think I am less of a human being. This means I get less opportunities, for example if you want to access education it is really difficult.
Tashi khan with JosephatIt is a cultural issue and many people believe the stories they hear about albinos. The killings are concentrated in the rural areas but there are also killings in the cities. One of the beliefs is that people with albinism will not die they will just disappear and you will not see their body. Albinos in the African community are considered less than human. Many albinos are killed in their beds.
Q: how did you survive?
A: I was attacked last year but I survived. I think I have a fundamental human right to life. When I meet Albino children who have had limbs chopped off for body parts and those children being left with disabilities I feel this is a really bad situation. I feel I have to campaign to stop it.
Q:Did you go to school?
A; Yes, my mother sent me to school but many children did not accept me. They told me I was not a human being but my mother tried to do what she could for me which is why I am here.
Q: What is the biggest issue other than killing?
A; Skin cancer kills a lot of Albinos before adulthood. We cannot go out into the sun without skin protection, otherwise we have a risk of skin cancer.
Q: What about jobs?
A: You can get a job but it is very difficult. In countries with a good human rights system it is easier to get a job.
Q: What are you trying to achieve with the film?
Q: What are you trying to achieve with the film?
A: I am promoting it because of the right to life. I want to raise awareness of the issues facing the African albino community so that in future people with albinism can enjoy their human rights and not be stigmatised or segregated or isolated. I want us to be able to live like other people and have social interaction and not be forced to live in camps. In Tanzania we are forced to live in camps. However I am married to a wife who does not have albinism and I spend a lot of time travelling to raise awareness of the issues shown in the film.
Why interview 2?
Rushing around from one venue to another is a bit of an exercise especially when you get stuck in a choc a block traffic, so I missed a big part of the film and had to see it again to get to the grips and to see how the film started and how josephat got involved.
So after the film I grabbed hold of him and he very politely obliged (though he was surrounded by fans) we had come to an agreement when interview 1 took place.
Interview 2
Q: What is the purpose of these witch doctors?
A: They are traditional healers, they are respected in the community, some are good some just cheat people. there are no hospitals so people depend on them.
Q: What are witch doctors, do they help people?
A; They are traditional healers. Some are good but some cheat people by telling them they will become rich if they take the body parts of albinos.
Q: What about education, can it help to change peoples attitudes?
Q: Should the effort to educate be concentrated in the villages?
Q: Do you think that you will eventually be accepted?
Q: What about your family, you have a wife and children?
Thanks to Josephat for sharing his personal emotions and life time experiences.
By Tashi Khan
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By Tashi Khan
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Saturday, 13 April 2013
My Rendezvous to the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Q. How did you contact these women and how did you come up with this idea?
A. Hmmm! okay, the Sundance documentary film institute and the scold foundation they have a programme called stories of change. Okay, basically they make stories about social entrepreneurs and Bunker Roy from India was one of those social entrepreneurs. He founded the barefoot college in India.
Q. How did you contact these women? Did he (Bunker Roy) tell you about them?
A. Well, we were following him; he went to Kenya, Jordan, Palestine, Columbia, Guacamale, and baquina casa just for this one class. So we followed him in the recruitment process, he goes in person and he goes to very rural village off the electrical grid and he hand picks grandmothers, women that he finds will be very very strong, to come to this college. It was him who chose the women.
Jehane Noujaim
Q. So how did you get in touch with him/them?
A. Well we were following him, followed three women from three different continents, while he was recruiting them in their villages and then train in India for six months to be solar engineers and then come back to the villages. So he went to these countries and chose the women, we followed the women through the process.
Q. Why were there no schools in Jordan?
A. Oh there are schools, plenty of schools…
Q. Oh, there are?
A. Yeah, Absolutely
Q. So why are the kids not going to schools?
A. Okay, so this is a very very rural village, this is not typical; Jordan actually has an amazing educational system. The kids in that particular village, the girls get taken out of school between the age of 10 and 14 because they are hitting puberty, because they don’t want mixing with boys in the school, it’s considered shameful for them to go to school, that’s why.
Right…That’s a bit like Salma, we saw yesterday…
A. Yes, similar situation, they’re not locked up but it’s a similar situation in regards to girls.
Q. Why did you choose this project?
A. Okay. Erm my friend Joanne actually got the call to follow Bunker Roy; she’s my Co-Director on the film, she called me and told me ‘come on we’re going to India next week and we’re gonna film grandmothers and you’re gonna love it’. So initially I was between projects, I thought okay I’ll take a trip to India for three weeks, I’m gonna see what this film is about and then decide whether to continue and then I met Rafea, who is the main character in the film. I got instantly attached to her and it continued to grow and grow and grow.
Oh that’s good…
A.Yeah
Q. Did you have difficulties shooting in these rural areas?
A. I didn't have difficulties shooting in the rural areas
Q. Or with the villagers?
A. No I don’t think so because Rafea and I bonded very quickly and she trusted me very quickly, so I think that made her Mother and her sisters and everybody in the village very comfortable. Besides that, besides trust, when they first met me I was with a government official and there is a lot of illegal activity in that village, so they were a little afraid of the government, so to them I wasn’t only a film maker, part of me was representing the barefoot college in India, which I really didn’t have anything to do with it and part of me was representing the Jordanian government which I also have nothing to do with. But in their minds I’m a modern woman, a modern Arab woman coming in there and I have some sort of connection.
Q. You just connected with them…
A. Yeah, Yeah, I connected with them and I had connection to the government somehow and connection to the school somehow so it’s a bit of… yes absolutely 100% trust but maybe a bit of intimidation as well. That I had a connection to the government so maybe they better behave themselves or something like that, I’m talking about the men, the women were wonderful and trusted me right away.
Q. You know the husband of Rafia, was creating problems, did he create problems for you when shooting Rafea?
A. No I mean, I definitely have a way of bonding with people, he was actually much worse with her off camera, off camera he was much worse. I tried to understand him, we had conversations off camera to see why he was like that and I tried to interview him but would have none of it. I understood that he was like that for a reason because he didn’t have education opportunities, his Father died when he was very young, he doesn’t have a chance to work and holding on to that patriarchal voice of authority with Rafia was the only thing he had but you could tell he is a very weak man so I felt sorry for him and we bonded with humour. I mean there was one time he had a knife to my neck, but you know… I gave him that ‘yeah go ahead, dare you’ kind of look and he put it down very quickly. So I didn’t feel very threatened by it.
<Tashi Khan with the directorJehane Noujaim
Q. Did he actually become involved in the solar project?
A. He is in jail, you must have seen the short version, and yeah he’s in jail. In this film that we’re showing tonight he started smuggling drugs to be a man, to have money, to provide for his kids and not let Rafea. He is still in jail, he will probably be out if the sentencing goes according to plan, unless something terrible happens, he will probably be out before Ramadan, maybe in July.
Q. Right, so is he going to be involved in the project?
A. He will not be involved in the project, no. Let’s hope he doesn’t create more problems, the project is for women, for women only.
Q. So how do the men just sit around and do nothing, how do they support their families?
A. Some of them if they are lucky enough to have Jordanian citizenship they get government aid. Some of them make do and they go and pick vegetables, some of them are great entrepreneurs they go and buy sheep and sell them for a higher price at another village, it depends on their motivational level. They can work if they want to. A lot of them think they are too good to do menial labour. Yeah.
Q. Okay, what’s your next project?
A. My next project is actually community outreach with this film. To help Rafea actually start a training centre, garnishing the tremendous output and inspiration and willingness to help her and to help other women in Arab rural communities with this film and help empower them as well.
Oh, that’s great!
A. Insha’Allah, God Willing#
Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief - Denmark/US/England-2012
English Arabic subtitles
Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief - Denmark/US/England-2012
English Arabic subtitles
Friday, 12 April 2013
Review of film AMOUR ( Nominated for Bafta Award)
London Film festival
10 - 21 October 2012
Help and support by Neeley Lara Gail
Me & Our reNdeZvouS
An implicit insight into my views and experiences of the London Film Festival 2012, for all to enjoy!
AMOUR
Director: Micheal Haneke
Initially I was not sure what the film would be like as I had overheard some of the wall comments. Oh my! What a wonderful film experience; intriguing yet frightening to see such spiralling and realistic circumstances.
The plot surrounds this couple living in a city apartment; who are very much in love. Doing things that couples do, going to concerts, the theatre, films etc. The entire film is shot in one apartment in Paris, aside for the first scene where the couple are at a music recital.
The first scene, she has her first attack. They are sitting on the small kitchen table where she is making breakfast and sits down to share it with her husband and all of a sudden freezes, her husband while washing up tries to have a conversation her but she is oblivious to anything around her and does not respond. He leaves the washing up and rushes to make a phone call leaving the tap running.
While he is on the phone he notices the tap stops running so he runs back and finds his wife standing there, as if nothing had happened, doing normal chores. But that was just the beginning of what has to come, slowly her attacks are getting more frequent and more prolonged and finally becomes partially paralysed and speechless.
The wife understands the predicament of her husband but cannot help her state of mind therefore is depending on him. Her husband is very supportive and lovingly wants to do everything himself. Their daughter pays a few visits as she is very concerned about her Mother's deteriorating health but also has her own problems to deal with.
Husband never shows any begrudges in looking after his wife, he lovingly does all chores himself feeding, changing sheets and clothes and he also takes on the responsibilities of all needs. Once he notices that the nurse was ill-treating his wife who he had to appoint to avoid confrontations with his daughter. As her condition worsens he starts to become more protective and doesn’t trust anyone near her including the daughter, leading him to essentially isolate his wife from anyone aside from himself.
The film has been handled very sensitively and is wonderfully portraying the emotions and very true to life where a couples very much in love have to see their loved one deteriorating painfully in front of them and doesn't know how to deal with it except by trying to make them comfortable in every way possible.
The ending portrays an array of emotions and possibly the expected which can almost be interpreted as true love. Did he commit this act out of frustration, pain or love for his wife? Quite possibly it was for all those reasons. A tragic end for both husband and wife. A must see film, this beautifully acted by Jean Louis Trintignant (Husband) & Emmanuelle Riva (Wife). This film is a perfectly structured and a great tribute to cinema.
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
An Interview with Greg Olliver Director of The film Turned towards the sun
Greg Olliver
The director of the filmTurned Towards The Sun
My Review Of Laurence Anyways
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Laurence Anyways
Reviewed & Written by Tashi khanHelp & Assistance by Neeley Lara Gail
Laurence Anyways is a 2012 Canadian drama film written and directed by Xavier Dolan. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival[1][2] where Suzanne Clément won the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actress.[3] The film was also awarded with the Queer Palm Award at the festival.[4]
At the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, the film won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film.[5] The film is also a nominee for Best Picture at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards.
Laurence Anyways
The story starts with intriguing love between Fred and Laurence, a man who wants to come out as a woman. Set in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the impossible and complex relationship of Fred and Laurence, and the trials and criticism they face.
The film is introduced by Laurence, a normal guy, he is an award winning novelist teaching in Montreal. He loves his girlfriend, Frederique very much. On his birthday, he tells Fred that he has felt as if he was born in the wrong body and wants to start his life as a woman. Fred calls him gay, and is very disappointed. They argue and decide to take a step back from their friendship for a short time, but after a while Fred decides to resume her relationship with Laurence.
The romance continues and she supports him fully in public. She teaches him how to do makeup and buys him a wig and female clothing.
Laurence goes to work one day wearing a dress. Everything goes well until he is fired from the school. At this point Fred is very depressed about the whole situation. She feels that she can't cope and decides to move on with her life. She marries another man, Albert, and has a son named Leo.
Laurence goes to work one day wearing a dress. Everything goes well until he is fired from the school. At this point Fred is very depressed about the whole situation. She feels that she can't cope and decides to move on with her life. She marries another man, Albert, and has a son named Leo.
Charlotte tells Fred's husband all about her affair and her life story with Laurence so Albert decides to end the marriage .
Laurence leaves that night and they don't see each other for many years.
The final scene shows Fred and Laurence meet again and its uncanny that the circumstances are almost similiar to what happened when they met for the first time, where friends bet him to introduce himself to Fred.
The film's concept, photography and technique is superb. A must see.
From my point of view it is one of the best films of the festival.
Cast
- Melvil Poupaud as Laurence Alia
- Suzanne Clément as Fred Belair
- Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Charlotte
- David Savard as Albert
^ "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/58878.html. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
- ^ "Dolan in two minds over Cannes". Times Colonist. http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/Dolan+minds+over+Cannes/6497214/story.html. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
- ^ Cannes (2012-05-27). "Awards 2012". festival-cannes.fr. Cannes Film Festival. http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/2012/awardUnCertainRegard.html. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
- ^ AFP (2012-05-27). "Queer Palm 2012: 'Laurence Anyways' de Xavier Dolan distingué à Cannes" (in French). France 24. http://www.france24.com/fr/20120527-queer-palm-2012-laurence-anyways-xavier-dolan-distingue-a-cannes. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
- ^ "Toronto International Film Festival: Awards". tiff.net. http://tiff.net/thefestival/festivalawards. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
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