FILM "Sonita" as part of The Best of Dharamshala International Film Festival at Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 17th October 2017

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 17/10/2017 18:30 17/10/2017 20:00 Asia/Kolkata FILM "Sonita" as part of The Best of Dharamshala International Film Festival Event Page : link here C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Duration : 1 hour 30 mins. 

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
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Venue : C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : FILM "Sonita" as part of The Best of Dharamshala International Film Festival

One of India’s most alternative, off beat and eclectic film festivals held once a year in McLeod Ganj in Dharmshala, the Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) was first started in 2012. Conceptualized by filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam of White Crane Films as a means of bringing quality contemporary, independent Indian and World Cinema to the culturally diverse location of Dharamshala. On 17, 23 and 26 October, we present a selection of the finest films presented at DIFF 2016

Sonita (Germany/Switzerland)
(90 min; 2015; HD; English subtitles)
Director: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami

Multiple award winner including IDFA Audience Award & DOC U! Award, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2015; Audience Award – World Cinema Documentary & Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2016; SOS – Kinderdörfer Award, Munich International Documentary Festival (DOK. fest) 2016; among others

Sonita is an 18-year-old female, an undocumented Afghan illegal immigrant living in the poor suburbs of Teheran. She is a feisty, spirited, young woman who fights to live the way she wants, as an artist, singer and musician in spite of all the obstacles she confronts in Iran and her conservative patriarchal family

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