Event Details
The Charlotte Jewish Film Festival Presents Call Me Dancer.
Manish is an athletic street dancer from Mumbai, whose working-class parents depend on their only son's support. When he accidentally walks into an inner-city dance school and encounters a curmudgeonly 70-year-old Israeli ballet master, a hunger develops within him. Ambitious and passionate, Manish is determined to make it as a professional dancer, but the odds are stacked against him. Call Me Dancer is a story of hope, heartache, and hard work. Together, Manish and Yehuda transform each other's lives, searching to uncover who and what they are. Yehuda seeks a purpose and a place to call home. Manish dreams of dancing on the world stage but struggles to break free from the confines of his own economic and social circumstances.
Since the World Film Festival premiere in February 2023, Call Me Dancer has won 23 film festival awards, ten of which are Audience Awards at festivals throughout the US and Canada, in Israel, and the rest of the world.
Join dancer Manish Chauhan for a Q & A after the film.
Price: $15
Time: 2:00 pm
Directors: Pip Gilmour, Leslie Champagne
Language: English, Hindi
Run Time: 84 min
Genre: Documentary
Country/Year: India, U.K., Israel
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