Unorthodocs: The Cinema Travellers
Cannes prize-winning The Cinema Travellers is a journey with the traveling cinemas of India, which bring the wonder of the movies to faraway villages annually.
Archived Event
| Dates | Mon 21 May 2018 |
| Times | 19.00 - 21.00 |
| Space | Screening Room South Wing |
| Price | £10.00 / £8.00 concessions |
Seven decades on, as their lorries and cinema projectors crumble and film reels become scarce, their audiences are lured by slick digital technology. Filmed over five years, The Cinema Travellers accompanies a shrewd exhibitor, a benevolent showman and a maverick projector mechanic who bear a beautiful burden - to keep the last traveling cinemas of the world running.
“An evocative, subtle and heartfelt snapshot, it also refrains from sentimentality. For all the fondness for the old, there’s equal thrill of the new.”
The Guardian
Celebrating documentary at its most remarkable, innovative and provocative, we present the fifth annual series of Unorthodocs, a programme of award winning, internationally acclaimed documentaries. These are tales that triumphantly defy convention.
The series is curated by film producers and Somerset House residents Dartmouth Films.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmaker Amit Madheshiya.