Rasmi Film Society, the oldest existing film society in the State, resumed its physical cinema screening here on Sunday when it screened Arsen Anton Ostojic’s Bosnian war film Halima’s Path.
Film critic Sangeeta Chenampulli inaugurated the programme. Addressing the gathering, Dr. Chenampulli said cinema differed from other art forms in that it could be enjoyed individually even when watching in a group.
Halima’s Path, which had won several international awards, including the Grand Prix Prize at the International Festival of Mons in Belgium and at the 19 th Mediterranean Film Festival in Morocco, was a 2012 Bosnian-Croatian-Slovenian film about a grieving but strong-willed Bosniak woman named Halima.
The film showing Halima tracking down her estranged niece in order to recover the bones of her son lost during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s was appreciated well by the crowds.
“It was a wonderful movie that we could easily connect to the ongoing Russian war on Ukraine. Its topicality was amazing,” said poet Manambur Rajanbabu, president of Rasmi Film Society. Mr. Babu presided over the function.
G.K. Rammohan, V.M. Suresh Kumar, A. Sreedharan, N.V. Mohammedali, and Noushad Mambra spoke. Rasmi Film Society secretary Anil K. Kuruppan welcomed the gathering. Haneef Rajaji proposed the vote of thanks.
