8:00PM - Capawock Theatre (Also Playing Sunday)

Sita Sings the Blues: The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told

Musical Romance / USA and India / 82 minutes
Cristal Grand Prix, Best Feature, Annecy International Animated Film Festival

With an introduction and post-screening Q&A by filmmaker Nina Paley

With vivid animation and accompanied by the unmatchable vocals of 1920s jazz singer Annette Hanshaw, Nina Paley offers her personal interpretation of the Indian epic, the Ramayana, with a focus on the relationship between Sita and Rama, gods incarnated as human beings. “And even they can’t make their marriage work,” is Paley’s wry conclusion.

Paley’s time in India and the end of her marriage to an Indian man inspired her first feature. A syndicated cartoonist, she began making short films in 1998 and created SITA on her home computer.

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* Festival Premiere is preceded by our Opening Reception at the Mansion House Inn from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. One ticket for both events is required. Our opening night film will replay on Sunday.