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HAIR INDIA & FLYING ON ONE ENGINE
UK & IRELAND PREMIERE
SATURDAY 4 APRIL
2PM
QFT
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£6 / £5.50
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SCREENING WITH FLYING ON ONE ENGINE
’Great Lengths’ is a company famed for the quality of its hair extensions. Movie stars at awards ceremonies, high society fashion girls and glamour models around the globe depend on its products. The hair comes from ritual ceremonies at Indian temples which annually auction off the spoils.
Hair India is an exceptionally objective film telling the story of a beauty cult in a globalised economy, following an editor of India’s Hello magazine, the owners of ‘Great lengths’ in India and Italy, and the journey of a young girl from an Indian slum to her inevitable Temple offering.
FLYING ON ONE ENGINE
Meet Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet; a larger-than-life character who could show up your hardworking daily routine as lazy time at a luxury spa.
Suffering life without a larynx and an aortic aneurysm that’s a biological timebomb, Dr. Dicksheet stumbles his way from Brooklyn to Mumbai as an eminent plastic surgeon, to perform over 600 surgeries on children with cleft palates and other physical deformities once every year.
Treated like a God, his cantankerous humour is only surpassed by the idolatry facing him in Mumbai and the determined loyalty of the nurse by his side.
This film is a masterclass in character observation and an unabashed celebration of the human spirit conquering physical disability.
“In a speedy 52 minutes, Weinstein introduces us to an amazing character - Dr. Dicksheet has no larynx, he's suffering from a life-threatening aortic aneurysm and he likes to rant - hilariously - about how Mother Theresa didn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize … One of the best films I've seen this year.” AJ Schnack / Indiewire.
www.flyingononeengine.com
A poetic, beautiful documentary that challenges as well as respects its subject.
Official Selection, Joris Ivens Competition, IDFA
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Italy / 2008 / 75mins / Directors: Rafaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi
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