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FILEM: Chemman Chaalai (The Gravel Road)
oleh Deepak Kumaran Menon

TARIKH: 14 JANUARI 2017
MASA: 3:00 PTG

Ikuti bersama menonton tayangan istimewa The Gravel Road. Drama yang berlatarkan ladang getah di tahun 1960an di Malaysia, The Gravel Road berkisar tentang kisah Shantha yang tinggal di ladang, di mana pengajian tinggi untuk perempuan hampir mustahil. Shantha bertekad untuk meninggalkan kampung untuk menyambung pengajiannya.

Tayangan filem ini akan disusuli dengan sesi soal jawab bersama pengarah Deepak Kumaran Menon.

“The Gravel Road is an equally rare instance of Tamil-language Malaysian filmmaking. At once brooding and beautifully shot mainly in moonlit forest groves and lonely, muddy lanes, Menon’s story (from a screenplay by his mother) about a teenage girl’s determination to stay in school despite her family’s desire that she upholds tradition and surrender to a life of menial day work, takes equal inspiration from Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy and Malcolm X’s assertion that a race, like an individual, can only  find fulllment through confidence, talent, and an unwavering belief in itself.”—Chuck Stephens, The San Francisco Bay Guardian