Distant Thunder (Ashami Sanke)

Dir. Satyajit Ray, Urdu ( English Subtitles), India (1973)

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Sun 19 January 2014 // 19:30 / Cinema

Ray's film about the 1943 famine, caused by the British exporting grain from Bengal. Ray's approach to famine is not to exploit images, but rather to engage the audience in an intensive series of indicators of despair: the slow ratcheting up of the price of staple foods.  Followed by discussion on The Right to Food.