US PREMIERE

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

2001

Bombay Eunuch

Sunday

May 5, 2002

@

12:00 pm

18th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

With in person.
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Director
Alexandra Shiva and Sean MacDonald
Year
2001
Run Time
71
min
Country
Language
English
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
An intimate, moving portrait of one eunuch family’s struggle to survive in today’s changing India.
This film is presented in English with English subtitles.
For centuries, castrated “hijras” of the Indian subcontinent have subverted gender rules as a third sex. Risking severe penalties for speaking to outsiders, Meena discusses her life and the rituals of her closed community in this complex depiction of a people’s fight for survival. Devastated by poverty, AIDS, prostitution, and police harassment, the hijras have maintained a sharp-tongued candor, bawdy humor, and business savvy that enables them to continually reinvent themselves. In Hindi and English with English subtitles.
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The Goddess Method

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Inundated by the weight of tradition and duty, an Indian man peels off layers to ding his true self--with the help of some heavy red silk and henna.
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