Gaalibeeja (Wind Seed; Kannada)

(96 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)

Written and Directed by Babu Eshwar Prasad who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The road is the central protagonist which connects the various characters. The film opens with Prakash, a road engineer, leaving for a site visit to an unnamed village. Along the way, he gives a lift to Jaffer, a former seller of pirated dvds from whom Prakash receives a set of road movies from him. The sequences in the films and the people that Prakash meets in life began to resonate with each other. The road is a metaphor for life, for the journeys we make and the transitory relationships that are formed in the process