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The Opening Film
17 November, Th
19:30 — 23:15
ANGRY INDIAN GODDESSES
Pan Nalin, India / Germany, 2015, 104 min
2015 — Rome Film Fest, Best Film
2015 — Toronto International Film Festival, Best film
2016 — Toronto Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film
and Video Festival, Best film
India’s first female buddy movie Angry Indian
Goddesses is a fresh, realistic portrait of women
in India today. Frieda, a fashion-commercial
photographer trying to find her own art, gathers
her closest girlfriends from all over India to travel
to Goa for a surprise announcement: she’s getting
married! Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette
party that lasts for a full week—a riotous roller-
coaster ride in a sumptuous setting. Through
the fun and frenzy, heartbreak and heartache,
passion and obsession, youth and innocence, secrets
tumble out, tensions emerge, bonds are formed
and emotions run high. Soon events will take
a more serious turn, but for the moment these women
are determined to seize the day.
Anushka Manchanda
«The women you will see on screen in the Angry Indian Goddesses
are women that I am surrounded by, a true reflection of urban
India. After taking this film all over the world, we have realised
one thing - women everywhere are the same. We all want
one thing - the freedom of choice. We want to make our own
destinies. As women, we can really change the world if we stand
by each other, and this is what AIG asks of you».
Pavleen Gujral
Natalia Khodyreva —
psychologist, feminist
«Angry Indian Goddesses is like a chameleon. It shows a different
colour and gives a different perception to every viewer, be it an Indian,
American, British or Russian and be it a boy, a girl, a man, woman
or a child. I feel like one or the other aspects of the movie really
settles down well inside your heart since it has so many layers.
The one thing that stays with you forever is to be true to yourself,
to be who you really are, what yourself wants you to be. Angry
Indian Goddesses is a vision into the future, where one is free - free
to choose their sexuality, religion, education and life».
Join Actresses Anushka Manchanda and Pavleen Gujral after the screening for a Q&A and
discussion on women’s rights in India and Russia.
Moderator —
Alisa Tayozhnaya,
film critic, journalist