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MUMBAI: Excel Home Videos has released NDTV
Lumiere's Caramel and Goodbye
Bafna on DVD.
The
DVDs will be available in stores for Rs
499.
Caramel,
a film named after the sugary stuff that
Arab women cook and use to wax their legs,
is Lebanon's official entry to 80th Academy
Awards for best foreign language film.
The
film opened at the Paris Cinema Film Festival
and won three prizes at the San Sebastian
International Film Festival in Spain.
Directed
by Nadine Labaki, Caramel casts a
rare gaze into the lives of
five Lebanese women, of different religious
backgrounds, as they struggle to deal with
heartbreaks and sexuality.
Goodbye
Bafna is based on the memoirs of former
South African president Nelson Mandela.
Also released under the name, The Color
Of Freedom, Goodbye Bafna has been directed
by Bille August. The story chronicles the
relation between a racist and a black man.
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