Sahamatha Film Society Mangalore.,

as part of their monthly film screening are screening two films

MALLI Tamil and SCHINDLER’S LIST English on

02 December 2012 at Karavali Lekhakiyara Vachakiyara Sangha. Urva Store. Mangalore.

 

3.00 PM MALLI- Tamil 1998 Dir: Santosh Sivan

Malli

Directed by:-Santosh Sivan

Produced by Santosh Sivan

Written by Santosh Sivan, Ravi Deshpande

Starring :-P. Shwetha, Priya, Janagaraj, Parameshwaran

Music by Aslam Mustafa

Cinematography:- Santosh Sivan

Editing by A. Sreekar Prasad

Release date(s) 1998

Running time 90 mins

Language Tamil

Plot:

The film revolves around the story of Malli (P. Shwetha), a poor girl who spends most of her time helping her family by collecting firewood, and playing games in a nearby forest with her deaf and mute best friend. Amongst her many dreams, her one main wish is to get herself a colourful dress to wear to a lively festival. However, during her quest she meets an old, local storyteller, who shares with her a story of a magical blue stone that can cure her best friend’s muteness. With new horizons to pursue, she sets off to find this mysterious blue wishing stone.

Awards:-

2001 Independent Spirit Awards (USA)

Nominated – Independent Spirit Award – Best Foreign Film – Malli – Santosh Sivan

2001 Political Film Society (USA)

Nominated – PFS Award – Peace – Malli – Santosh Sivan

2001 Satellite Awards (USA)

Nominated – Golden Satellite Award – Best Motion Picture (Foreign Language) – Malli – Santosh Sivan

1999 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (USA)

Nominated – Adult Jury Award – 2nd Place – Malli – Santosh Sivan

The film has won the following awards since its release:

1998 Cairo International Film Festival (Egypt)

Won – Golden Pyramid – Best Film – Malli – Santosh Sivan

Won – Best Director – Santosh Sivan

2004 Los Angeles Indian Film Festival (USA)

Won – Audience Award – Best Feature Film – Malli – Santosh Sivan

5.30 PM SHINDLER’S LIST-English. 1993. Dir: Steven Speilberg

Schindler’s List (1993)

 

Director: Steven Spielberg

Running time: 195.5 minutes

Awards: Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Original Music Score, More

Producers: Branko Lustig, Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen

Release date: November 30, 1993

Screenplay by Steven Zaillian

Based on Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally

Starring:- Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall

Embeth Davidtz.

Music:- John Williams.

Cenematography:- Janusz Kaminski.

Editing:- Micheal Kahn

Plot:- “whoever saves one life saves the world entire”

 

Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis’ rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who’ve been herded into Krakow’s ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow’s Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), an embittered alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony.

Schindler arranges to continue using Polish Jews in his plant, but, as he sees what is happening to his employees, he begins to develop a conscience. He realizes that his factory (now refitted to manufacture ammunition) is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps. Soon Schindler demands more workers and starts bribing Nazi leaders to keep Jews on his employee lists and out of the camps. By the time Germany falls to the allies, Schindler has lost his entire fortune — and saved 1,100 people from likely death. Schindler’s List was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture and a long-coveted Best Director for Spielberg, and it quickly gained praise as one of the finest American movies about the Holocaust.

 

This is the film that saw Steven Spielberg undeniably graduate from flashy entertainer to modern day auteur.

Shot in shilling black and white, it lives on in popular imagination as the most powerful and accessible anti Nazi message to emerge from the movies.

Emotion drips from screen and the importance of a social conscience, both for the individuals and the wider society in which they live, is spelled out in profound terms.

 

 

Academy Awards:-

Best Picture:-Steven Spielberg,Gerald R. Molen Branko Lustig,

Best Director:- Steven Spielberg

Best Adapted Screenplay, Steven Zaillian

Best Cinematography, Janusz Kamiński

Best Art Direction Ewa Braun. Allan Starski

Best Film Editing, Michael Kahn

Best Original Score, John Williams