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THE PINK MIRROR
Dir: Srindhar Ranayan, India, 2002 Beta SP, 40 mins, Hindi with English subtitles
The Pink Mirror is an entertaining and colourful look into the Indian closet in over the top Bollywood style. Two wily Indian drag queens pit themselves against a slutty westernised gay teenager in a battle to woo a handsome hunk. A clash of East and West. Who will win?
Preceded by...
Paradise Lost
Dir: Inge Blackman, UK, 2003, Beta SP, 24 mins
A filmmaker’s dreamy, atmospheric journey through gay and lesbian life in Trinidad and Tobago.
For Straights Only
Dir: Vismita Gupta-Smith, USA/India, 2001, Beta SP, 22 mins
In a culture of arranged marriage and compulsory heterosexuality, what is it like to come out? “I had to say ‘I’m Gay’ in English… I couldn’t find any equivalent phrase in my own language” says one Indian man.
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 86 mins
WELLINGTON
SAT 12 JUN, 2PM, PARAMOUNT
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