Director Sooni Taraporevala to present Little Zizou in an Open Screening

19th June, 2009 - Publicado por admin -

Continuing Cines del Sur’s Open Screenings shows, today Friday June 19th at 22:30 in the Plaza de las Pasiegas, the Indian director Sooni Taraporevala will present her film debut, Little Zizou as part of the Itineraries Section.

was born in Mumbai – then known as Bombay (India) in 1957. In 1979, she completed her studies in English Literature, Film and Photography at Harvard University. After post-graduate work in Film Studies at the University of New York, she returned to India to work as a freelance photographer. She has had exhibits in India, the United States, France and Great Britain. Her first film screenplay, written for the film Salaam Bombay!, was enormously successful, and allowed her to devote herself to writing screenplays for a long time in which she collaborated with directors and producers until she returned to India in 1993. In 2000, she published a compilation of her photographic works entitled, Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India – A Photographic Journey.

The film Little Zizou follows the steps of Xerxes, who is known as ‘little Zizou’, an 11-year-old Parsi boy who is mad about football and fervently dreams that his idol Zinedine Zidane will visit Mumbai. His older brother is a gifted artist, full of fantasies that he brings to reality in the most surprising way imaginable. His father, Khodaiji, is a self-proclaimed protector of the faith, moved by a desire for power, who enjoys the attention (and donations) of hopeful believers. Art is crazy in (unrequited) love for the daughter of Khodaiji’s archrival, Pressvala, a free-thinking journalist. Conflict breaks out when Pressvala writes a biting criticism of the aspiring prophet Khodaiji and the public reacts en masse.