ENCOUNTERS 2023: Don't Worry About India

Every year since our founding in 2010, The Bioscope has proudly hosted screenings of The Encounters South African International Documentary Festival. Celebrating its 25 year as a festival, Encounters returns to The Bioscope once again with screenings from 23 June - 2 July. Tickets are R80. BOOKING ESSENTIAL.

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Don't Worry About India

Directed by Nama Film Collective | Germany/Switzerland/India | 2022 | 98 min.

In this charmingly made film, a young Indian filmmaker, who has been living in Europe for many years, returns to India to document the 2019 election. As he moves around the country, his footage reveals the fundamental flaws and fissures in India’s majoritarian version of democracy, as well as the vast economic gulf that separates him and his privileged family from those he interviews. And so, what begins as a somewhat naively enthusiastic celebration of his homeland briskly, transforms into a more critical take on things, as it is revealed that Gandhi’s vision of a democratic, pluralist and secular India is in the process of being rapidly reversed by Narendra Modi and his Hindu-nationalist BJP party.