Lovesick - Enzian Theater

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South Asian Film Festival

Lovesick

Audience Award, Best Documentary – 2018 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA)

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Southeast Premiere!

After discovering the first cases of HIV in India in 1986, Dr. Suniti Solomon left a prestigious academic job to build her own clinic focusing on treating HIV/AIDS patients. Several decades and breakthroughs in treatment later, her clinic is one of the highest regarded in the country and her patients are living longer lives. While surviving, some of her patients are not thriving. Being Indian, they feel immense societal and personal pressure to marry, but simultaneously face a stigma of being HIV-positive. Now in the twilight of her impressive career, Dr. Solomon takes the next step in her treatment by creating a matchmaking service for those seeking marriage. Through the service we meet Manu and Karthik, two of her patients who want to share their lives with someone but are fearful they never will. Shot over eight years and told with compassion and care, filmmakers Ann S. Kim and Priya Giri Desai give us a surprising and hopeful story about the universal healing ability of companionship and love.

USA/India, 2018, 74 min, Directed by Ann. S. Kim and Priya Giri Desai, Not Rated, In English, Tamil and Hindi with English subtitles

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