Palm Springs Iff 2019: ‘Hamid’Review by Peter Belsito
I believe I’ve never seen a film from Kashmir before so this all looked and felt new.
Hamid is the story of a young village boy, a budding shipbuilder, whose loving father disappears near the film’s beginning. In his search for his dad, the boy enlists the help of God and the story drives on that relationship.
Hamid’s father, like many men in Kashmir, has suddenly gone missing, and the young boy finds his life turned upside down as he begins looking everywhere for him. Some 8,000 people have vanished since the conflicts of 1989, so it is no wonder that Hamid’s mother has become numb to tragedy, indifferent to the world around her, and unhelpful in answering Hamid’s many questions. Finally, she tells Hamid that his father has gone to God. Lonely and missing his father terribly,...
I believe I’ve never seen a film from Kashmir before so this all looked and felt new.
Hamid is the story of a young village boy, a budding shipbuilder, whose loving father disappears near the film’s beginning. In his search for his dad, the boy enlists the help of God and the story drives on that relationship.
Hamid’s father, like many men in Kashmir, has suddenly gone missing, and the young boy finds his life turned upside down as he begins looking everywhere for him. Some 8,000 people have vanished since the conflicts of 1989, so it is no wonder that Hamid’s mother has become numb to tragedy, indifferent to the world around her, and unhelpful in answering Hamid’s many questions. Finally, she tells Hamid that his father has gone to God. Lonely and missing his father terribly,...
- 1/14/2019
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
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