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MEET THE PATELS

Duration 1h 28m

Country USA

Director Geeta Patel, Ravi Patel

Language inglise

Subtitle Language estonian, vene

“Meet the Patels” is a laugh-out-loud real life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30- year-old Indian-American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams ... and his parents. Filmed by Ravi’s sister in what started as a family vacation video, this hilarious and heartbreaking film reveals how love is a family affair. In addition to the witty comedic nature of the film, the documentary also uses humor to address a timely social issue: In early 2009, directors, sister and brother team, Geeta and Ravi Patel began to explore and document the societal pressures of marria...Show more

“Meet the Patels” is a laugh-out-loud real life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30- year-old Indian-American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams ... and his parents. Filmed by Ravi’s sister in what started as a family vacation video, this hilarious and heartbreaking film reveals how love is a family affair. In addition to the witty comedic nature of the film, the documentary also uses humor to address a timely social issue: In early 2009, directors, sister and brother team, Geeta and Ravi Patel began to explore and document the societal pressures of marriage in their first-generation Indian American family. Through research in India and America, they discovered that their “Indian Issue” was more of an “American Issue”: the majority of Americans with strong cultural and religious roots shared a serious psychological conflict when it came to dating (and marrying) outside of their skin color, culture, religion, and ethnicity.

The film has won awards at several festivals, including Hot Docs Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Hardacre Film Festival and many others.

 

The movie screens in Estonia in the American Film Showcase program of the U.S. Embassy in Estonia.

Free admission!

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Europa Cinemas
Eesti Kultuurkapital
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Eesti Filmi Instituut
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