Little Hall, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA

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(Pratibha Parmar, 2006, 94 min), (William Grieves, 1968, 75 mins)

Scottish humor meets Bollywood masala in this lesbian rom-com. Nina’s Heavenly Delights follows the mixed fortunes of the Scottish-Asian Shah family and their award-winning Indian restaurant, The New Taj. After her father’s sudden death, Nina has to return home to Glasgow to save the family business. Winning a televised cooking competition with the help of the charming co-owner Lisa seems to be the best option…until sparks (or shall we say spices?) fly in the kitchen…and closeted Lisa’s feelings are thrown into turmoil. Curry, romance, and familial ties are the main ingredients of this queer-foodie fairy tale!

Exploring the limits of film’s capacity to capture reality, William Greaves master-class in documentary reflexivity plays out like a cinematic rendering of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. After recruiting students from New York’s Actor’s Studio to perform a simple scene, Greaves tasked a second crew to record the first crew, and then a third crew to record the second, creating layers of fact and fiction that unravel like Russian Dolls. Dubbed 'the most versatile and durable of African-American independents' by J.Hoberman, Greaves revelatory experiment faded into obscurity after its completion, only to find widespread critical acclaim 25 years later. A conceptual masterpiece that deconstructs the hierarchical power dynamics of cinematic production, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm presents a manifesto for the potentialities of truth on film.

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