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Summer Film Series: The Lady

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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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Summer Film Series: Pakeezah

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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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Summer Film Series: Guide

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Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 05:30pm, ET

(India, 1966) After being released from prison for Forgery and Theft, Multi-linguist Raju (Dev Anand) reflects on his life as a Guide; his meeting with the daughter of a prostitute, Rosie (Waheeda Rehman), who was unhappily married to Marco (Kishore Sahu), and wants to take up acting and dancing as a career. Rosie separates and […]

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Shamans of the Blind Country

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Tue, Apr 15, 2014 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

SAI Film Screening Part 1: April 14, 5:30 PM, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA Part 2: April 15, 6:00 PM, Lecture Hall, Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Michael Oppitz, Professor emeritus of ethnography, University of Zurich & former director of the Ethnographic Museum Chair:Jinah Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art […]

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Film Screening: Red Ant Dream

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Wed, Mar 26, 2014 from 04:30pm — 07:00pm, ET

South Asia Institute Film Event Film Screening: 4:30PM – 6:30PM; Q&A with Director: 6:30PM – 7:00PM Sanjay Kak, Indian Documentary Filmmaker Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University ‘Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist’, the revolutionary patriot Bhagat Singh had said almost a hundred years ago, […]

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Film Preview: Rehaai

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Tue, Mar 25, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Film Screening: 4:00PM – 4:30PM; Q&A with Director: 4:30PM – 5:30PM Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director, Kashf Foundation  Chair: Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School Kashf Foundation is the one of the leading micro-finance providers in Pakistan, with special outreach to women headed businesses. Rehaii, is […]

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The Refugees of Shangri-La

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Thu, Oct 24, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Institute Film Event Doria Bramante, Film Producer, Advisory Board member, International Campaign for Human Rights in Bhutan Narad M. Adhikari, Human rights activist, Board member, International Campaign for Human Rights in Bhutan Suraj Budathoki, Founder and Coordinator, International Campaign for Human Rights in Bhutan Chair: Kevin Caffrey, Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social […]

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Summer Film Series: Dor

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Thu, Aug 1, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET

Dor (“String”), a 2006 Indian film, is a story about two women who come from different backgrounds and how fate brings them together. Meera, a young woman who becomes a widow shortly after marriage, is trapped by tradition. Zeenat faces the daunting task of saving the life of her husband, who is on trial for murder. […]

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Summer Film Series: Ontorjatra

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Thu, Jul 25, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET

Ontorjatra (‘The Inner Journey’) is a 2006 Bangla film exploring complex issues of identity and dislocation in a diaspora world. A divorced mother and her son return to Bangladesh after 15 years in London after the ex-husband’s sudden death and funeral. The story follows the transforming experience of the mother and son as they come […]

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Summer Film Series: Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam

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Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 05:30pm, ET

Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam is a based on a Bengali novel by Bimal Mitra, providing a glimpse into the fall of feudalism in Bengal during the era of the British Raj. The film explores a platonic relationship between the lonely and beautiful wife of an aristocrat and a hard-working, part-time servant. The film has been […]

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DAIRA

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Thu, Jul 11, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET

DAIRA (“Circle”) is a 2002 Pakistani movie based on the international bestseller Moth Smoke, authored by Mohsin Hamid. Set in Lahore, DAIRA is a film about givings and misgivings, love and deceit, or as Hamid puts it, the “cooled” and the “uncooled.” It is a story of the vicious circle of love, lust, longing, and […]

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