Year: 2021
Country:
USA
Language:
English, French, Danish
Run Time:
57 minutes
In TERRIBLE CHILDREN, director Shanti Thakur shares a deeply personal account. Her father, Hari, gives her a letter written by his dad that he didn’t open for 20 years. When he hands it to her, he says, “maybe you can do something with this.” Spoiler alert, she does. Thakur discovers her father was banished by his family for marrying her mother, a woman from Denmark. She learns numerous stories about her father’s intergenerational trauma and forging a new path for himself. This documentary explores many themes and topics, from masculinity and race to the partition of India in 1947. Thakur brilliantly blends different facets of storytelling into one stunning documentary. —N.A.
Allen Theatre
Sunday, April 03, 2022 at 2:35 PM
Monday, April 04, 2022 at 11:50 AM
CIFF46 Streams On Demand
Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 11:00 AM -
Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 11:59 PM
Streams Access: United States and US Territories
Accessibility (?)
Closed Captions: Yes
Audio Description: No
English Subtitles: Yes
Related Event
46th CIFF College Program
Sidebar
Asian Cinema
Competitions
Ad Hoc Docs Competition
Reel Women Direct Award for Excellence in Directing by a Woman
Director
Shanti Thakur
Producer
Shanti Thakur
Screenwriting
Shanti Thakur
Cinematography
Benjamin Wolf
Editing
Shanti Thakur
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