The Conscious Cinema Initiative (CCI) officially launched in Gurugram on Wednesday with a screening of documentary filmmaker Pankaj Rishi Kumar’s ‘To Die a Frenchman’ at Museo Camera in Sector 28.
The screening, organised by CCI in collaboration with Museo Camera Film Studio, was followed by an interaction with Kumar. Kumar’s documentary, ‘To Die a Frenchman’, the only Indian documentary to have premiered globally in the Harbour section of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), examines the political and social questions surrounding the merger of the former French establishments in India with the Indian Union. The film looks at the debate over identity and belonging that accompanied the end of French colonial rule, particularly in Puducherry.
The organisers said the Gurugram screening was the first official event under CCI and would be followed by similar engagements centred on films that encourage audiences to examine social and contemporary issues.
