When mother comes home for Christmas [videorecording] / a co-production of ZDF, the Greek Film Centre and FilmSixteen.

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Publication details: Athens, Greece : P. Papazoglou Video, 1998?Description: 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

text

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unmediated

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DDC classification:

A00970

Production credits:

Director/writer/editor, Nilita Vachani ; producers, Vangelis Kalambakas, Nilita Vachani ; camera, Vangelis Kalambakas ; music, Ross Daly.

Awards:

Best Documentary 1996, Jury prize of the Festival dei Popoli, Florence; Best Documentary 1997, Jury prize of the Festival Internazionale Cinema Delle Donne, Torino.

Summary: Documentary look at the life of a "guest worker." Film follows for two months the life of Josephine Perera, a Sri Lankan widow who left her three children behind when she went to Greece to work as a housekeeper for an affluent Greek family with a young child. Film follows her as she returns home at Christmas after having been away eight years. Her earnings, the majority of which have been sent home, have allowed her to keep her children in boarding school, buy a bus for her oldest son’s business and put aside money for a dowry for her daughter who wants to marry a man with no prospects. Film explores the problems created in a society that, as an answer to its unemployment problems, encourages its women to live abroad as domestic workers.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
DVD	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	A00970 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	W26		A00970

Videocassette release of a 1995 program originally aired November 26, 1995, on German television.

Director/writer/editor, Nilita Vachani ; producers, Vangelis Kalambakas, Nilita Vachani ; camera, Vangelis Kalambakas ; music, Ross Daly.

Shot in December 1994 and January 1995 in Greece and Sri Lanka.

Documentary look at the life of a "guest worker." Film follows for two months the life of Josephine Perera, a Sri Lankan widow who left her three children behind when she went to Greece to work as a housekeeper for an affluent Greek family with a young child. Film follows her as she returns home at Christmas after having been away eight years. Her earnings, the majority of which have been sent home, have allowed her to keep her children in boarding school, buy a bus for her oldest son’s business and put aside money for a dowry for her daughter who wants to marry a man with no prospects. Film explores the problems created in a society that, as an answer to its unemployment problems, encourages its women to live abroad as domestic workers.

In Sinhalese and English with English subtitles.

Best Documentary 1996, Jury prize of the Festival dei Popoli, Florence; Best Documentary 1997, Jury prize of the Festival Internazionale Cinema Delle Donne, Torino.

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