Bim

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Bim is a 1975 Trinidad and Tobago film. It was described by Bruce Paddington as "one of the most important films to be produced in Trinidad and Tobago".

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An Indian boy living in Trinidad is sent to live with his aunt after his father is shot to death during a wedding. At his new school, he is isolated and picked on because of his "coolie" (Indian) heritage among the other negro students. As tension builds during his very first day he was forced to stab one of the negro students as a means of defence to make it home alive. This incident gets Bim kicked out of school and his aunt's home and is forced to live a life of violence and crime to survive. As Bim matures and becomes older, he becomes part of a political movement on behalf of the "coolies" whether or not greater tension would arise between his people and the negros.