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Fri, Oct 16, 2015 - Sun, Oct 18, 2015, ET
The recent revival of cinema in Pakistan has generated excitement and captured the imagination. A new generation of filmmakers ranging from the conventional to the experimental are exploring the possibilities of re-imagining family, friendship, love, the nation, and retelling ways of injustice and cruelty. Love, War and Other Longings is an invitation to come and participate in […]
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Thu, Sep 10, 2015 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Film Screening and Discussion Zara Hayes, Director Ruth Barron, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Chair: Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh is the worst industrial disaster of the 21st century, […]
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Fri, Apr 17, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
Film Screening and Discussion Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa, Directors Chair: Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School 4:00-5:30 pm – Film Screening 5:30 – 6:30 pm – Discussion and Q&A with Directors Katiyabaaz is a 2014 Indian Hindi documentary film directed by Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa about the problem of power theft in Kanpur. Released in India on August […]
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Thu, Mar 26, 2015 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
6:00 – 7:00 PM Documentary Screening 7:00 – 8:00 PM Panel Discussion Lakshmi Iyer, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Diane Rosenfeld, Lecturer on Law and Director of the Gender Violence Program, Harvard Law School Beena Sarwar, Editor, Aman ki Asha, Jang Group Pakistan; former Nieman Fellow and Fellow at the Carr Center for Human […]
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Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 05:00pm, ET
Film Screening Depicts the extraordinary journey of Kashmiri women from loss, separation, pain, anger, helplessness to hope, faith, grit and determination thrown up by tragedies and circumstances around them. The film is about ‘women in wait’ for their loved ones, who went missing in the conflict ridden valley of Kashmir, India, in last two decades. […]
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Fri, Oct 31, 2014 - Sun, Nov 2, 2014, ET
Pakistani Film Festival Cosponsored by the Brown University India Initiative Fri Oct 31: Hallow’s Eve: Chainsaw Spatter 6:00 pm Zibaah Khana (77minutes) Sat Nov 1: Saint’s Day: Directors in Conversation 11:20 am A Brief History of Pakistani Cinema Lecture by Iftikhar Dadi 12:00 pm Josh (104 minutes) 2:00 pm Q+A with Josh Director, Iram Parveen […]
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Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 06:00pm, ET
SAI Film Screening Based on a true story that sent shock waves through India in 1992, this drama concerns Sanwari (Nandita Das), a lower-caste woman with a husband, Sohan (Raghuvir Yadav), and two children, who is raising her family in a rural village. While it’s generally Sanwari’s nature to mind her own business and take […]
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Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 05:30pm, ET
The film is set against the backdrop of unrest in East Pakistan in the late 1960s leading up to the Bangladesh War of Liberation. In this setting, a small family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world. All film screenings are free and open […]
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Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 05:30pm, ET
Fatima, a committed schoolteacher living the cosmopolitan high life in Karachi, has her life shattered when her nanny, Nusrat, inexplicably disappears. Josh is the story of Fatima’s search, despite the warning of her friends and family, for a dangerous truth in Nusrat’s feudal village. Musically intense and colorfully raw, JOSH takes a sneak peek inside […]
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Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:30pm, ET
(India, 1966) After nearly getting arrested, Hiraman promises to himself that he will never assist any black-marketeer nor transport bamboo. He manages to save enough money to buy another cart, and is hired to take an attractive woman, Hira Bai, on a 30-hour ride to a Mela. He subsequently falls in love with her – little […]
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Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 05:30pm, ET
(UK/France, 2011) While Aung San Suu Kyi becomes the core of Burma’s democracy movement the relationship she shares with her husband struggles to endure against a background of political turmoil and sacrifice. All films screenings are free and open to the community.
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Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 05:30pm, ET
(India, 1972) A girl, whose mother dies of sorrow from her husband’s family’s rejection, grows up singing and dancing like her mother. She works as a dancing girl and is courted by a prince, but can think only of a man she has never met, who left her a message on the train. She dreams […]
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