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from the issue of April 21, 2005
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'Born Into Brothels,' 'Head-On' at Ross
Playing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is, "Born Into Brothels," a look at the transformative journey of a group of children in Calcutta's red-light district.
"Born into Brothels" was the winner of the Documentary Audience Award at Sundance 2004, in addition to over 20 other film festival prizes, and an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art, "Born Into Brothels" is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red-light district of Calcutta where their mothers work as prostitutes. Zana Briski, a New York based photographer, gives each of these youngsters a camera and teaches them how to take pictures, simultaneously causing them to look at their world with new eyes. Together with Ross Kauffman, Briski captures the magical way in which beauty can be found in the most unlikely of places and how a bright and promising future becomes a possibility for children who previously had no future at all.
"Born Into Brothels" is not rated.
Fatih Akin's "Head-On" (Gegen Die Wand), opened at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on April 15. "Head-On" is a powerful film about sexuality and suicide, centering on two Turks living in Germany.
Drunken loser Cahit drives his car into a wall; Sibel slashes her wrist because she can't stand living with her traditional Muslim family. The two meet in the hospital and decide to join in a marriage of convenience in which he can get himself a cute young housekeeper and she can finally move away from home.
They live together in Hamburg, where she begins to sleep around dangerously and he grows surprisingly jealous, leading to tragedy. Their lives continue to fall apart, lost to a world of lies and deception, drugs and violence and emotional pain.
"Born Into Brothels" and "Head-On" are showing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center through April 28.
Show times are available at or by calling the film information line at 472-5353.
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