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Baby Arabia
Feature Documentaries , Desi Spotlight , Music in Film Focus
Documentary Feature, 2010, 73 min
Directed by: Panu Aree
Interests: Documentary

The story of artists and their humble, homegrown art that puts a human face on the troubled image of Islam. Read More

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In Camera
Desi Spotlight , Feature Documentaries
Documentary Feature, 2009, 83 min
Directed by: Ranjan Palit
Interests: Documentary

In this meditative and strident overview of the career of Ranjan Palit, award-winning documentary cameraman, the filmmaker himself shows us the images and questions that have haunted him throughout his 25-year career. Celebrated for films that document the struggles of powerless people to save their homes and ancestral traditions, Palit still questions the good he has done for them and wonders if he’s merely turned their lives into images and then memories that are destined to be forgotten. Read More

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Memories in March
Desi Spotlight , Feature Narratives
Narrative Feature, 2010, 120 min
Directed by: Sanjay Nag
Interests: Drama

Siddharth, a 28-year old man, is killed in an accident and his grief stricken mother comes to Kolkata to collect his belongings. Looking through what the young Siddharth has left behind in his home, office and among his friends at the advertising agency he had recently joined, she discovers a son and a life she had not known existed. She finds she must share his belongings and her grief with others he had left behind. Read More

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Phas Gaye Re Obama
Desi Spotlight , Economy Focus , Feature Narratives
Narrative Feature, 2010, 150 min
Directed by: Subhash Kapoor
Interests: Comedy

Om Shastri (Rajat Kapoor), an Indian-American businessman is about to have his home foreclosed. Faced with few choices, he comes to India to sell his ancestral property but the recession has also hit India and he struggles to find a buyer. Within days of landing in India he is kidnapped by a 'recession-hit' underworld gang those who think that he is still a millionaire ut who are soon disappointed to hear that he is bankrupt. Read More

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Rafting to Bombay
Desi Spotlight , Feature Documentaries
Documentary Feature, 2009, 71 min
Directed by: Erez Laufer
Interests: Documentary

Rafting to Bombay is the story of how 5 year old Nahum and his mother escaped the Nazis in Poland, crossed Europe by train and sailed on a raft on the Tigris River until they reached the exotic and fascinating India of monkeys, elephants and Rajas. But Nahum's childhood experience, which is remembered as an enchanting fantasy, was in reality, a chilling story of a last minute escape. Read More

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Slackistan
Comedy Focus , Desi Spotlight , Feature Narratives , Middle East Focus
Narrative Feature, 2010, 85 min
Directed by: Hammad Khan
Interests: Drama

Islamabad, Pakistan. A group of privileged and westernised twenty-something friends while away their days and nights driving around town, partying, surfing the internet and smoking shisha pipes. As the country outside their world starts to crack, Hasan and his friends must face up to relationships, internal angst and life choices before it is too late. Read More

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When Harry Tries to Marry
Comedy Focus , Desi Spotlight , Feature Narratives
Narrative Feature, 2010, 93 min
Directed by: Nayan Padrai
Interests: Comedy, Romance

When Harry Tries to Marry" is a cross-cultural romantic comedy about a young man who tries to take the risk and the romance out of marriage by deciding to have an arranged marriage. In the process, he learns a lot about love.

This screening is presented in partnership with the Association of Indians In America. Read More