SPAIN/ BILBAO: the super awesome film fest Cine Invisible Bilbao/ KCD ONGD will screen our THE KALASHA AND THE CRESCENT multiple times this year:
October 2nd 8 p.m.: Arriola Aretoa, Elorrio
October 6th 8 p.m.: Hala Dzipo, Barakaldo
October 16th-24th morning-evening: 9 High Schools, different locations
October 20th 10.15 p.m.: Official venue Golem Cinema, Bilbao
October 23rd 10.30 p.m.: Florida Cinema, Vitoria
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“…My eyes were drawn to a group of carved wooden figures from Pakistan. They looked very different from everything else in the collections and I was intrigued by them. At the time, I did not know what they were or who had made them, but as my research progressed, an extraordinary story emerged connecting the Kalasha people with the Great Game and, most surprisingly of all, Alexander the Great.”
Read more here: http://thewonderhouse.co.uk/model-gandau-funerary-figurines…
Check out our film documenting the challenges faced by the Kalash people, who are struggling to retain their cultural identity under the combined pressures of poverty, tourism, and religious tension: https://culturesofresistancefilms.com/kalash
[Photo courtesy of Iara Lee.]