LIAS Film Series: "Court"

TUESDAY, 4.7. • 7:30 pm

04. Jul

In the LIAS film series in cooperation with the SCALA programme cinema, international films on cultural and socially critical topics are accompanied by introductions and discussions every month.

Court
An Indian courtroom drama -film debut of director Chaitanya Tamhane, providing insights into the Indian legal system. Introduction and discussion with legal scholar Prof. Radha d'Souza (LIAS Senior Fellow), who was herself a lawyer at the Bombay High Court.

The body of a canal worker is found in a gully in Mumbai. As a result, an old political folk singer is arrested and put on trial for allegedly inciting the worker to commit suicide with one of his protest songs. The trial takes place in an Indian district court where the hopes and dreams of the ordinary people of the city meet lawyers and judges who decide their fates.
The gripping drama captures absurd moments in court and everyday discrimination in the multilingual immigrant metropolis of Mumbai. The young filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane (*1987, Mumbai) observed trials in Mumbai himself to prepare his film. Court brought him his breakthrough in India and was awarded Best Debut Film at the Venice International Film Festival, among others.

India 2014 - Director: Chaitanya Tamhane
116 min - Original with English subtitles

Free admission - Followed by a discussion with Radha d'Souza (LIAS) in English.