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