Screening of Deepa Mehta’s “Earth”
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Mon, Nov 20, 2017 from 06:00pm — 09:00pm, ET
Acclaimed director Deepa Mehta, will screen her seminal film, Earth, and will participate in a conversation after the film.
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Nostalgia for the Future
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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.
More InfoSita Sings the Blues
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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.
More InfoBollywood Screening at Harvard Art Museums
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Sun, Oct 15, 2017 from 12:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
COST Free
Harvard Art Museums will screen two landmark Indian films, Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) and Chak De! India (2007) – Free Admission.
More InfoWater by Deepa Mehta
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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 […]
More InfoLooking Back, Informing the Future: The 1947 Partition of British India
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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.
More InfoPOSTPONED: Film Screening: For Fun
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Thu, Mar 23, 2017 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event A charming story of a group of senior citizens who set up a Peking Opera club in hopes of finding revitalization through singing and dancing. Fast paced and delightful. Cosponsored with the Asia Center
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Wed, Mar 22, 2017 from 04:15pm — 05:30pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event An elderly farmer lives out his final days with his wife and a loyal ox in the Korean countryside. Cosponsored with the Asia Center
More InfoPostponed: Film Screening (TBD)
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Tue, Mar 21, 2017 from 04:15pm — 05:15pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event Cosponsored with Asia Center
More InfoPOSTPONED: Film Screening: Baghban
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Mon, Mar 20, 2017 from 04:15pm — 07:15pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event An elderly couple wish their children to care for them in their old age. But their children see and treat them as a burden, and they must struggle to regain their worth and dignity to themselves and others. Cosponsored with […]
More InfoFilm Screening and Q+A with Deepa Mehta: Anatomy of Violence
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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 […]
More InfoMuzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai
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Thu, Mar 10, 2016 from 04:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Film Screening and Discussion Nakul Singh Sawhney, Filmmaker Chair: Asad Ahmed, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University In September 2013, Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh witnessed a pogrom against local Muslim residents. More than 100 were killed and over 80,000 displaced. This film explores the social, political, and economic […]
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