Zero Bridge
Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2011
(Tariq Tapa, Kashmir/India/USA, 2008, 35mm, 96 min)
Seattle premiere!
The first film from Kashmir in 40 years!
A neorealist tale of unexpected friendship and moral complication set and shot in the Indian-occupied city of Srinagar, Zero Bridge is the debut feature of Tariq Tapa, a US-born filmmaker of Kashmiri/Jewish-American descent. It tells the story of Dilawar (Mohammad Imran Tapa), a wayward teenage pickpocket who longs to reunite with his adoptive mother in Delhi, but finds himself morally and emotionally attached to a young woman whose passport he has stolen. The film avoids any direct mention of the violent political turmoil in the region but intimately explores the pressures of living inside a militarized zone.
"Made for a song with a non-pro cast and DV camera gear out of his backpack, Tariq Tapa's debut feature shows the young Kashmiri-American as a filmmaker of enormous promise and precocious maturity." —Village Voice
"Has a lot of heart and shows us a world that’s completely fresh and strange to cinema--the streets, homes, stores, offices, parks, rivers, boats, and mountains of Srinagar." —The Stranger
"A moving slice of life from a corner of the world usually seen only in news reports or as a mountainous backdrop for Bollywood musicals." —Seattle Times
