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Cat&Docs Boards ‘Cinema Paradiso’ Style Doc ‘The Return of the Projectionist’ Ahead of Visions du Réel Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
'The Return of the Projectionist,' which is running in the main competition at Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel, has been picked up by Cat&Docs.
The film chronicles their growing friendship, reminiscent in some ways of the tender relationship between Toto and Alfredo in Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 classic “Cinema Paradiso,” as the pair strive to get the project off the ground, roping in local women to sew together a large white sheet that will be used as a screen. Beautifully shot in and around the remote village, the film is laced with delicate moments of self-deprecating humor, illustrated by the opening scene where Samid and a friend climb the misty mountain on horse-back with a laptop in search of an internet connection to make an online order for a light bulb without which the projector won’t work. Indian films were very popular across the Soviet Union, offering an alternative to Western movies, and a form of entertainment influenced by a post-colonial ideology depicting ordinary people dealing with issues of class justice, which the regime approved of.
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