Shamim Sarif’s ‘The World Unseen’
Shamim Sarif’s “The World Unseen,” screened at the Laemmle 4-plex in Santa Monica, took Zócalo guests vividly into a distant past: South Africa at the start of apartheid. But the title of the movie – and of Sarif’s eponymous novel – refers to a still smaller, lesser known place: the world of two Indian women who alternately stifle and stoke the spark of their romance, threatened constantly by strictly enforced racial and sexual norms. ‘When all the wild Summer was in her gaze’ Sheetal Sheth, Zócalo’s first guest to …
