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Event Type : Film Event

Summer Film Series: 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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Amar Akbar Anthony

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Thu, Jun 27, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET

Amar Akbar Anthony is a 1977 Bollywood film about three brothers who were separated during childhood and who grew up in three separate homes, adopting different religions. The film was directed by Manmohan Desai and features Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, and Rishi Kapoor. Amar Akbar Anthony was the biggest blockbuster of 1977 and won several […]

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Summer Film Series: Amar Akbar Anthony

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Thu, Jun 27, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET

Amar Akbar Anthony is a 1977 Bollywood film about three brothers who were separated during childhood and who grew up in three separate homes, adopting different religions. The film was directed by Manmohan Desai and features Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, and Rishi Kapoor. Amar Akbar Anthony was the biggest blockbuster of 1977 and won several […]

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SAI Film Event

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Thu, Feb 14, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Stir. Fry. Simmer Vani Subramanian, Film Maker; Visiting Fellow, Cornell University Chair: Theodore Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies & Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University The film screening (54 minutes) will be followed by a discussion with the film maker. Reception to follow film screening and discussion Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of […]

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Quarter Number 4/11 – Film Event

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Fri, Dec 7, 2012 from 05:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

RESCHEDULED: NEW DATE & TIME   Ranu Ghosh, Documentary Director and Screenplay Writer Jaya Bhagat, Edward S. Mason Fellow 2013, Harvard Kennedy School Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Quarter Number 4/11 is a ground zero perspective of urban real estate development, as witnessed by director/cinematographer Ranu Ghosh and narrated through the plight of […]

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Film Screening: Little Zizou and Q&A with director Sooni Taraporevala

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Sat, Oct 27, 2012 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

Join internationally acclaimed filmmaker Sooni Taraporevala for a screening of her film and Q&A afterwards, as part of an ongoing exhibit at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts of her photography, Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India (Oct. 25 – Dec. 20).   Little Zizou is a comedy for all ages. It is the rambunctious […]

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Sooni Taraporevala in Conversation with Homi Baba

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Thu, Oct 25, 2012 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India – special opening event.   Internationally-acclaimed screenwriter and photographer Sooni Taraporevala will discuss her work with Homi Bhabha,  Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English, the Director of the Humanities Center and the Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost at Harvard University. From October […]

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Film Event: Saving Face

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Thu, Oct 4, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm, ET

2012 Academy Award for Documentary, Short Subject Directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Daniel Junge Every year, hundreds of people- mostly women- are attacked with acid in Pakistan.Saving Face follows several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a London-based reconstructive surgeon who has returned to his homeland of Pakistan to help them restore their […]

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Holy Kitchens Series: True Business

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Mon, Sep 17, 2012 from 05:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

A film about the Sikh culture of generosity and sharing through the tradition of their community kitchens.   Presented by Vikas Khanna, Michelin Starred Indian chef, restaurateur, food writer, film maker, humanitarian and the host of the TV Show MasterChef India. Introduction by Harpreet Singh, College Fellow and member of faculty in the Department of […]

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Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Love Sublime/Love, Truth and Beauty)

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Sun, Sep 16, 2012 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm, ET

AJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1978 There is nothing quite like Satyam Shivam Sundaram: it’s a meditation on love and beauty, a raunchy, Russ-Meyer-esque T&A melodrama, an exposé of the dangers of rural electrification and a throwback psychedelic musical.

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Jagte Raho (Stay Awake)

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Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:30pm, ET

RAJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1956 A Chaplinesque tramp gets more than he bargained for when he wanders into a luxury apartment building in search of a glass of water.

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