Indian documentaries to show at Tiburon fest

Indian documentaries to show at Tiburon fest

MUMBAI: Three Indian documentaries namely Understanding Trafficking, Dreaming Taj Mahal, Letters to Dharavi and an Indo-Italian co-production Letters from the Desert will be part of 10th Edition of the Tiburon International Film Festival 2011.

Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti directed Understanding Trafficking stresses the difference between women who migrate and join the sex trade and women who are trafficked into the sex trade.

Nirmal Chander Dandriyal’s Dreaming Taj Mahal relates the story of a taxi driver from Pakistan who dreams of visiting India to see the Taj Mahal.

Letters to Dharavi is a documentary by Saravanan Ganesan is the story about a postman working in Asia’s largest slum Dharavi and the problems he faces in delivering letters.

Letters from the Desert directed by Michela Occhipinti is the story of a postman in a desert whose life changes due to a small technological device.

The festival will run from 7 to 15 April in Tiburon, California.