Salma film evening

On June 3rd 2014, Meniscus Film Society are holding a special, one-off showing of Salma, as part of arrangements made with VANEL to celebrate Volunteers Week 2014.

The event is open to everyone and full details are below.

Come along, enjoy the film and the social event, and help support Meniscus Films.

Meniscus Community Film Society and VANEL invite you to a showing of “Salma”
on Tuesday 3rd June at Oasis Academy Winteringham, Grimsby at 7.30pm.

Come along from around 6.45pm for a simple vegetarian curry provided courtesy of Himanshu Ghadiali, secretary to Meniscus Film Society. The film will then begin around 7.30pm. Hang around after the film for an informal discussion about the film.

Hopefully this showing will be educational, entertaining, a fun social event, and we hope will highlight what Meniscus Film Society is doing with it’s programme of film screenings throughout the year.

Tuesday 3rd June
food from 6.45pm
film starts 7.30pm
Oasis Academy Winteringham

Free, but donations for food welcomed.

Meniscus Community Film Society aims to “advance education through the media of moving images and sound”. Regular film screenings around North East Lincolnshire reach out to a community audience.

visit the meniscus website

Films are screened on the third Thursday of every month at 7.15pm.

A programme for 2014 can be downloaded (as a .pdf) here.

Synopsis

When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were Salma’s salvation. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and, through an intricate system, was able to sneak them out of the house, eventually getting them into the hands of a publisher. Against the odds, Salma became the most famous Tamil poet: the first step to discovering her own freedom and challenging the traditions and code of conduct in her village.

As with her other work (Pink Saris, Rough Aunties), master documentarian Kim Longinotto trains her camera on an iconoclastic woman. Salma’s extraordinary story is one of courage and resilience, and Longinotto follows her on an eye-opening trip back to her village. Salma has hopes for a different life for the next generation of girls, but as she witnesses, familial ties run deep, and change happens very slowly.