Love in the Time of Cholera
Based on the best selling novel by Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, comes an epic love story that spans a lifetime, set against the
breathtaking backdrop of South America during the turn of the century. When a
teenage Florentino Ariza sees Fermina Daza for the first time, a spark of
youthful infatuation ignites a romance that will carry the two from intoxicating
highs to desperate lows over the next 50 years, in the film that dares to ask;
How long would you wait for love?
Before The Rains
Set in 1930s southern India against the backdrop of a growing nationalist
movement, Before the Rains is the English language debut of acclaimed Indian
director and cinematographer Santosh Sivan (THE TERRORIST, ASOKA).
Henry Moores (Linus Roache) has big plans to establish a spice plantation in Kerala. But his plans require a new road to be cleared through the vast hills, and the money and manpower to do it. To secure the trust of the local villagers, he depends on his right-hand man, T.K. (Rahul Bose) and to satisfy his baser needs, he depends on his lover – and house servant – Sajani (Nandita Das), an irresistible, quicksilver beauty. Their sojourn to collect honey in the forest turns into a charged erotic encounter, but they are witnessed by two local boys – and Sajani has a husband back in her village. How long will it be before her betrayal becomes known?
The risk escalates when Henry’s wife and son arrive from England. Domestic demands rein him in, but Sajani will not be cast aside so easily. Threatened with death in her own village, she presses T.K. for help and Henry for refuge. Henry cannot reveal his infidelity, so he does what any man in his position might have resorted to at the time. Can his power and privilege still protect him?