Southeast Asian Food and Malaysian Film Screening
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Location
Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
All are welcome.
Film: Maryam (2023)
Maryam, a 50 year old gallery owner seeks blessings from her father to marry her boyfriend from Sierra Leone, while at the same time she needs to overcome challenges from religious bureaucracy, which determines her ability to choose a spouse. In this carefully paced drama, where cats and durian fruits become recurring metaphors, Badrul Hisham Ismail gives us a highly harsh portrait of society. Maryam shows us how the hypocrisy inherent in power structures infiltrates the hearts and minds of people with devastating effects.
Food & Social, 6 pm, Ticknor Lounge
Film Screening, 8 pm, Fong Auditorium