NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS

Directed by: Pratibha PARMAR

UK. 2006. Fiction. 94min. Color. OV/FrS.

Synopsis

Nina Shah is a feisty young Indo-Scottish woman with an identity crisis. Nina previously left home under a cloud after a row with her father. When her father dies suddenly, Nina is forced to return and run the family owned Curry House. This reunites her with her childhood friend Bobbi, a Bollywood drag queen and brings her face to face with Lisa, a charismatic young woman to whom Nina's father sold 50 percent of the restaurant. Nina embarks on a personal mission to win the 'Best of the West' curry competition, a highly coveted prize in the world of Indian cuisine. But Nina's feelings are thrown into turmoil when she realises that she is falling in love, with Lisa! Can she win both prizes?

Pratibha PARMAR

Born in Nairobi (Kenya), Pratibha Parmar is an Indo-British director. Before she began to make films, she was a youth and community worker working in the Asian community with young women. Then she has directed and produced music videos, fiction films and many documentaries focused on issues related to race, sexuality and gender. Together with writer Alice Walker, she denounced female genital mutilation in Africa in Warrior Marks (1993) winner of the Public Prize at the 11th International Women's Film Festival in Madrid. Her films were screened several times in our festival. This year, Pratibha Parmar comes back with Nina's Heavenly Delights, her first feature film. In this occasion, we will pay a tribute to this talented director by exhibiting some of her most significant works: Khush, 1991 (winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary Short at the Frameline Film and Video Festival in San Francisco, 1991; winner of the Public Prize at the 7th International Women's Film Festival in Madrid, 1991), A Place of Rage, 1991 (Best Historical Documentary - San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival), Jodie: An Icon, 1996 and Wavelengths, 1997.

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