Documentary Voices 2014, part 2

10/7/04 to 10/24/04

  • Upcoming
    Films
  • Upcoming
    Events
  • Selected
    Objects
  • Past
    Films
  • Past
    Events

Past Films

  • Bombay: Our City

    • Sunday, October 24 5:30pm

    Anand Patwardhan in Person. A heartbreaking, politically incisive glimpse into the lives of Bombay's slumdwellers. "Patwardhan gives us this story simply and clearly, with restrained passion, and it becomes, finally, appalling and moving."-LA Times. With short Occupation: Mill Worker.

  • War and Peace

    • Saturday, October 23 7pm

    Anand Patwardhan in Person. Patwardhan's monumental, often darkly funny film illuminates the perils of nuclear nationalism in South Asia and around the world. This "solemn, stirring perspective on the competitive chauvinism between India and Pakistan...has a riveting intelligence all its own and earns its epic title."-NY Times. "A tour de force."-UK Guardian

  • Workshop with Anand Patwardhan (Free Admission)

    • Friday, October 22 1:30pm

    Take advantage of this opportunity to engage in a discussion with Patwardhan concerning the themes of his work and his vision for documentary film.

  • Father, Son and Holy War

    • Friday, October 22 7:30pm

    Anand Patwardhan in Person. "Patwardhan's impressive, passionate documentary explores in great detail the roots of sectarian violence in India today, and suggests that religious fanaticism is not the only problem; the cult of machismo is...just as deadly."-Variety

  • In the Name of God

    • Thursday, October 21 7pm

    Lecture by Anand Patwardhan. Patwardhan discusses film and activism following the screening of his fascinating work about the destruction of the Babri Mosque by Hindu fundamentalists. "Hard-hitting, provocative...lucid, courageous."-Variety. With short We Are Not Your Monkeys.

  • A Narmada Diary

    • Thursday, October 14 7:30pm

    Combining politics, ethnography, and environmentalism, this film documents the devastation wrought by India's Sardar Sarovar dam project, as well as the courage of indigenous people who vow to drown rather than be moved. With Fishing: In the Sea of Greed, a powerful indictment of factory fishing and other "rape and run" industries.

  • A Time to Rise

    • Thursday, October 7 7:30pm

    An eloquent document of Indian farmworkers' activism in Canada. With In Memory of Friends, a thoughtful study of the uses of history, religious intolerance, and Bhagat Singh's legacy.