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Tue, Oct 31, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
The film opens the discipline of architecture and filmmaking to self-critique and looks at the way that they imagine and construct a nation and its citizen.
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Fri, Oct 20, 2017 from 02:00pm — 03:30pm, ET
“I am enchanted. I am swept away. I am smiling from one end of the film to the other.”
This was film critic Roger Ebert’s reaction to Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues (2008), an animated film that follows two parallel stories. The first is the ancient tale of Sita, the heroine of the Hindu mythological story of the Ramayana, and the second is the modern biographical tale of Nina, the filmmaker herself.
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Fri, Sep 8, 2017 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Join us for a screening of Deepa Mehta’s acclaimed film Water (2005; 115 min.), part of the Elements trilogy. Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power, the story begins when eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia’s feisty presence affects the […]
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Thu, Aug 10, 2017 from 04:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
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Harvard South Asia Institute (SAI) and The Critical Collective invite you to a program on The 1947 Partition of British India.
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Fri, Feb 10, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Film Screening Deepa Mehta, Filmmaker Deepa Mehta will be screening her latest movie ‘The Anatomy of Violence’ on the sidelines of the India Conference. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Ms. Deepa Mehta, a UN representative, Harvard student activist Gulika Reddy, and Harvard Professor Jacqueline Bhabha Celebrated filmmaker Deepa Mehta investigates […]
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