Fleeting Beauty (2004)

Country

New Zealand

Runtime

10 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Indian woman and her white lover navigate their relationship in New Zealand. Their personal story touches on the colonial history of the Indian subcontinent.

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What happens

Fleeting Beauty is a 2004 Independent short film directed by Virginia Pitts, a lecturer of Waikato University. The film stars Nandita Das and Will Wallace in the lead. The film is about the story of an immigrant Indian woman and her white lover in New Zealand. The film attempts to explore the colonial history of the Indian subcontinent. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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