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Film Screening: FINAL SOLUTION by Rakesh Sharma PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
6-9pm
Room 112, Center for the Arts,
UB North Campus.
Free & Open to the Public. In a conundrum fuelled by fascist regimes and apathetic governments, Rakesh Sharma's film Final Solution is an attempt to chronicle the brutal events of a state-sponsored genocide that occurred in Gujarat, India in the year 2002. It is a study of the politics of hate. In 2002, India saw about 2,500 Moslems being brutally murdered, hundreds of women raped and more than 200,000 families left homeless. Right-wing Hindu fundamentalists argued that this bloodshed was necessary to retaliate against the equally brutal and senseless burning and killing of 58 Hindus on the Sabarmati Express train at Godhra, Gujarat on February 27, 2002. The film examines the aftermath of the deadly violence that followed this event between the months February 2002 - July 2003. Borrowing the chilling term Endöslung, meaning the systematic relocation and murders by the Nazis, for the title of his film, Rakesh Sharma seeks to remind that “those who forget history are condemned to relive it."

Selected Awards:

  • Wolfgang Staudte Award & Special Jury Award (Netpac), Berlin International Film Festival
  • Humanitarian Award for Outstanding Documentary, HongKong International Film Festival
  • Best film award at the Index on Censorship's annual Freedom of Expression Awards (London)
  • Silver Dhow (Best Doc category), Zanzibar International Film Festival
  • Best Feature-Length Documentary, Big MiniDV (USA)
Festivals:  Berlinale (International premiere; Feb 2004), HongKong, Fribourg, Sao Paulo, 3 Continents Filmfest (South Africa), Hot Docs (Canada), Vancouver, Zanzibar, Durban, Vermont International Film Festival (USA), Asiatica Filmmediale (Rome), Leeds (UK), Cork (Ireland), Bogota (Colombia), Commonwealth Film Festival (UK), One World Filmfest (Prague), Academia Olomouc (Czech), Voces Contra el Silencio (Mexico), Istanbul 1001fest, Singapore, Flanders (Belgium), International Film Festival of Human Rights (Spain), South Asian Film Festivals (New York, Seattle, Dallas), World Social Forum (Mumbai), Vikalp (organised by Campaign against Censorship) and several other filmfests.

 

The event is being organized through the generous sponsorship of the Graduate Student Association, The Institute for Research and Education on Women & Gender, Chair of the History Department, Department of Women’s Studies, Buffalo Cricket Club and the Media Studies Graduate Club.
 
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