Coffee And Karma

. Another beautiful documentary I came across during the campus visit to MICA... It's the story of a women in Iraq who believes in her dreams, and wants a lot from life. Ironically, due to circumstances, she ends up having a life where she bears a terrible mental torture from her husband and gradually ends up losing confidence and her real identity. She struggle to evade this torturous life by seeking divorce but her love for her two children binds her to suffer more. The depiction of mental torture prohibiting her to make calls, talk to strangers, study, meet people makes the film one of the most violent movies but without any physical violence scene. A very low budget film but with marvelous acting and theme prompted me to make a note of it here.

This is another documentary in which 11 stories of different countries, each of 9 minutes 11 minutes are shown with some context to September 11 incident. Five of the parts that I saw are here... 1. Story of a Deaf Girl This is my favorite most. It's a story of a deaf girl who falls in love with a guy who is intermediary to the world as he understands her sign language. They marry but her disability brings some tension between them. The feeling of insecurity in the relation prompts her to write a letter to her husband when he goes out to work on Sep11. She writes to him about her decision to go away from his life as she feels she doesn't fit for him being a disabled. And that only "some miracle" can save their relation... However, the guy returns injured in sometime and loses his hearing ability in the incident. 2. Teacher and students This story shows a teacher in Afghanistan telling students about 9/11 incident and asking them to pay homage to victims for

. I never had any opinion about homosexuality, and always was neutral about it. This movie introduced me to a different angle of it, and now I think I respect it. What I loved about the movie was that the relationship between two gays was based on love and not just sex. Perhaps it was one of the best romantic movies I have seen. And the very element of love in the movie makes it easy for audience to accept the sensitive issue. The struggle of one of them in talking to his parents about his preference in contrast to the other guy whose mother easily accepts his son's sexual preference is beautifully projected. The chemistry between the couple is too amazing. I never could imagine romance like this between a homosexual couple. It’s a short documentary, but with a wondeful treatment to a really sensitive topic like homosexuality. .