Salim Baba
NEW DOCS
On the streets of Kolkota, India, Salim Baba runs a “cinema cart”—a one-hundred-year-old hand-cranked projector that has been modernized for sound, modified with found materials, and mounted on a pushcart. He shows scraps of 35mm film, creatively edited into a brief montage of songs, fights, and dialogue. Children trail this enchanting relic of an earlier age, trading their coins for a glimpse beneath a black curtain of a flickering, magical world of scratchy sights and sounds. Nominated for an Academy Award. LB
Director
Tim Sternberg
Producers
Francisco Bello, Scott Mosier, Raja Dey
Release Year
2007
Festival Year
2008
Country
United States, India
Run Time
15 minutes