Universitat de València

Cinema in Valencian in Gandia 2015

‘Rastres de sàndal’

Original version in Valencian, Hindi and English and subtitled in Valencian

Directed by: Maria Ripoll

Nandita Das, Aina Clotet, Naby Dakhli, Rosa Novel, Godeliv Van den Brandt, Subodh Maskara

Tuesday 26 May 2015, double feature: at 17:30 and 20:00

Mina is a thirteen-year-old orphan, who works as a maid for a wealthy family in Mumbai. Though they were split up when they were children, she never forgot her small sister, Sita. Mina will become a Bollywood actress, married to the eldest son of the family where she worked.

Finally, she will find her sister in Barcelona. But Sita's adoptive parents have erased all her past. Now her name is Paula and works as a biologist.

Free admission with the ID of the Universitat de València.

And more cinema in Valencian in Gandia:

- 9 June, 20:00, ‘The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared’

It’s Allan’s 100 birthday, and all people in his residence is about to celebrate it, but he has his own plans. He climbs out the window and flees to the station. He hops on the first bus and takes a suitcase full of money from a stranger, a suitcase he just had to keep an eye on. Now, he is chased by the gangsters, police and residence workers.

- 16 June, 20:00, ‘Jimmy’s Hall’

The Irish activist James Gralton emigrated to the United States when he was young, and this was used as an excuse to deport him in 1933 for his political activities. He became the only deported politician in Ireland history.