Palna’s Daughters (Palnan Tyttäret)
UK Premiere
20:30 Thursday 2 April 2009 at Barbican (Cinema 3)
The box office has now closed for this film.
Plus post-film discussion: with Pasi Väliaho (Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London) and Jonathan Campion
Tickets: £7.50 online (£9.50 full price) / Barbican Members - £6.50 online (£7.50 full price) / Concessions £7.50The box office has now closed for this film.
“Mommy, you have to eat a lot of chocolate so you´ll become the same colour as me, a pretty brown.” This is the story of Devi, a seven-year-old girl found starving in Delhi.
Taken by the police to the Palna orphanage, she is soon put up for adoption. “Then two people with white faces came to play with me, and after three days I understood that they would be my mummy and daddy.”
A funny and incredibly moving journey into the world of adoption.
To read a review of the film, click here.
Director: Kiti Luostarinen
Country: Finland
Length: 70 minutes
