DESPERATELY SEEKING HELEN

Docudrama (82 min CANADA)

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The vamp sweeps across the screen singing and dancing,  a cinematic bad-girl of epic dimensions. Director Eisha Marjara cannot  get her out of her mind. 

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Marjara’s story takes us first to her childhood in snowbound small-town Quebec and then to Mumbai India where she desperately tries to track down Helen, a famous movie star in the world's largest dream factory. Helen becomes a passage into Marjara’s real world—her unsettling youth, life threatening anorexia and the devastating 1985 Air India bombing which took the lives of her sister and mother. This film revisits the pop culture of Marjara’s youth and enters the fascinating world of “Bollywood.” 

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Winner - Prix de la semaine de critique, Locarno film Festival, Locarno Film Festival

Special Jury prize, Dokumentarfilm festival Munchen

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