Fleeting Beauty

Fleeting Beauty is a lyrical film that provokes us to reconsider the lessons handed down in history textbooks. While it recounts the travel and enterprise of ancient voyagers in search of spices, it describes how these journeys are...

New Zealand Production

Short 2004 Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama 11.00 minutes

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In the pale diffused light of an overcast afternoon, a woman traces the spice routes of antiquity on her lover's back. She tells her story with the scent of cinnamon, the golden stain of tumeric and the heat of chili.

2004 - Valladolid Film Festival

Montreal Film Festival

New Zealand International Film Festival

2005 - Palm Springs Film Festival

Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival

Directors

Virginia Pitts

Producers

Shuchi Kothari

Sarina Pearson

Screenplay Writers

Shuchi Kothari

Executive Producers

Shuchi Kothari

Karla Rodgers

Rashmi Tank

Cast

Nandita Das
Woman

William Wallace
Man

Crew

Grace Mok | Director of Photography

Eric de Beus | Editor

Production Company

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