Suicide Prevention Education Alliance is pleased to support the Cleveland International Film Festival by sponsoring the film PLACEBO, Abhay Kumar’s hybrid documentary PLACEBO is a chilling examination of one of the most competitive institutions in the world—All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. The film screens at Tower City Cinemas on:
Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 11:20 AM
Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 6:00 PM
Festival Location
Tower City Cinemas
230 W Huron Rd
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
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Film Description:
Abhay Kumar’s hybrid documentary PLACEBO is a chilling examination of one of the most competitive institutions in the world—All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. Every year thousands of aspiring doctors apply, but only 0.1% of the applicants can finally count themselves as part of the elite community of admitted medical students (Harvard’s acceptance rate is 7% in comparison). In 2011 a violent student brawl left Kumar’s younger brother Sahil with an immobile right arm, a year before he was expected to write his final exams at AIIMS. With Sahil’s dreams of a successful career in medicine seemingly dashed, Kumar—equipped with only a Handycam—sets out to understand life amongst the “geniuses” at AIIMS and to investigate why more and more students are committing suicide. Through extensive student interviews over a two-year period and surreal animated sequences, Kumar reveals a student body plagued by overwhelming pressure from parents, faculty, administrators, other students, and themselves. Still, despite the many demons haunting current students, the best of the best continue to strive for the “placebo” of prestige granted by this esteemed institution. (In English and Hindi with subtitles) – E.B.
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Discount Tickets:
Tickets are on sale to CIFF Members now and will be available to the general public on
March 06th at 11:00 AM.
Tickets are $13.00 for Members and $15.00 for Non-Members.
Become a CIFF Member and you can purchase discounted tickets today - plus get other members-only benefits like creating your own personal schedule, advanced mailings, exclusive invitations and a whole lot more.
Tickets are available at the Ulmer & Berne Film
Festival Box Office in the lobby of Tower City Cinemas
(737 Canal Road, Cleveland, OH 44113).
Visit www.clevelandfilm.org for Film Festival program updates and comprehensive information about the 39th Cleveland International Film Festival.
Limited free parking WHEN AVAILABLE is offered to CIFF patrons in the Tower City Center Self-Parking Garage and Tower City Parking at Riverview (off Canal Road).
Patrons must have their parking ticket validated
in the Tower City Cinemas lobby.
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for additional parking options.