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A fighter for Goan independence, a piano teacher, and a radio presenter, Edila Gaitonde was also a filmmaker, having directed around two dozen documentaries in 8mm and Super8. Despite their amateur format, Edila's films are particularly well-crafted (professionally filmed, edited, and sound-designed with music and narration). They are delicate portraits of the things around her, where her pedagogical drive merged with her enthusiasm for the world: the Azores, Lisbon, Goa, London, New England.
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In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.