Desperately Seeking Helen
- Documentaire
- 80 min
- anglais
- 2000
Director Eisha Marjara’s story takes us first to her childhood in snowbound small-town Quebec and then to Bombay India where she desperately tries to track down Helen, a famous movie star in the worlds 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 70’s pop culture of Marjara’s youth and enters the fascinating world of the Bombay movie industry—“Bollywood.”
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Awards and recognition : Prix de La Semaine de Critique (Locarno Film Festival); Special Jury Prize (München Dokumentarfilm Festival)
Distribution : Office National du Film du Canada
Diffusion : Festival du Film Locarno - Festival; Dokumentarfilmfestival München - Saint John's Women's Film festival - Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival - Mumbai Documentary Film Festival