Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

July 4 - 12, 2008

Amal
Amal

Colour, 35 mm
Canada, 2007, 101 min
EP – European premiere
Section: Another View
http://www.amalthemovie.com
Film trailer: Higher quality | Lower quality

Film screenings:
235 - 5.7., 16:00, Congress Hall - Thermal
4R4 - 7.7., 19:00, Richmond Cinema
9H1 - 12.7., 10:00, Husovka Theatre

Director: Richie Mehta
Screenplay: Richie Mehta, Shaun Mehta
Dir. of Photography: Mitchell T. Ness
Music: Dr. Shiva
Designer: Ark Gabriel
Editor: Stuart A. McIntyre
Producer: David Miller, Steven Bray
Production: Poor Men's Productions Ltd
Sales: Séville Pictures Inc.

Cast

Rupinder Nagra, Koel Purie, Naseeruddin Shah, Roshan Seth, Seema Biswas, Vik Sahay, Tanisha Chatterjee

Synopsis

Amal Kumar works as an auto rickshaw driver in New Delhi, a profession he inherited from his father along with much more important qualities – goodness, honesty, modesty and satisfaction with his lot in life. All day he serves his customers reliably, and each night he collapses from exhaustion at home, where only his caring mother awaits him. Among his customers is an attractive businesswoman who accidentally causes serious injury to a little homeless girl named Rani. There’s also a capricious and bad-tempered man who looks like a tramp… The protagonist becomes an involuntary guide through the city, the film mediates the atmosphere of the busy streets and typical corners of Delhi, and it takes the viewer into various social environments as Amal encounters different people during his working day and as unexpected events unfold which could fundamentally change his life. The story, hovering on the border between fairytale and social morality piece, is told with disarming candour.

About the director

Richie Mehta was born in Toronto where he also studied painting and sculpture. He then took a course in film direction at the University of Toronto. He made a number of short films which he also scripted, among which was the sci-fi System of Units (2004). Amal (2007) is a film adaptation of a story of the same name written by Richie’s brother Shaun. The film was originally a short (Amal, 2004) until Mehta made his feature film debut with the same material. His work won him the Jury Award at the San Francisco International Asian-American Film Festival.

Film Guests

Richie Mehta

Contacts

Séville Pictures Inc.
147 St-Paul Street West 2nd Floor, suite 200, H2Y 1Z5 Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Tel: +1 514 841 1910
Fax: +1 514 841 8030
E-mail: internationalsales@sevillepictures.com
www: www.sevillepictures.com

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