Bangala Surf Girls
Elizabeth D Costa, 85min, Canada, 2021
Nov 5 | 12:30 PM | AMC Seattle #11
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A coming-of-age documentary about three teenage girls who get a rare sense of agency over their lives when they join a surf club. Over the course of three years, we follow Suma, Ayesha and Shobe as they fight unsurmountable odds to follow their dreams.
Post-film Q&A with filmmaker Elizabeth D. Costa
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How to be a Super Driver
Romie Decosta, 8min, United States, 2021
A how-to video and a reality check on what it takes to be a rideshare driver in New York City.
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Tigress
Maya Bastian, 13min, Canada, India, 2022
An exploration of the disparity between diaspora youth who rebel with drugs and partying, and the youth who rebel by arming themselves and going to war. Trina, a stubborn and rebellious 20-something, encounters another version of herself as a paramilitary fighter for the notorious Tamil Tigers -- and her sense of western privilege collides with the reality of her ancestors.
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Bike
Kaustuv Mukherjee, 13min, United States, 2022
A woman searches for her freedom as she starts her new, lonely, and heavily restricted life as a dependent immigrant in the US.
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Perianayaki
Bala Murali Shingade, 11min, New Zealand, 2022
Perianayaki, a 56-year-old Sri Lankan immigrant struggles to fit in as she goes about her day stacking supermarket shelves. Today, on her wedding anniversary, she is forced to reconcile with the difficult realities of her life.
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Mein, Mehmood
Prataya Saha, 11min, United Arab Emirates, 2022
The story of a simple middle-aged immigrant from the Indian subcontinent who like many others from his generation has left his home for the Middle East, to provide a better life for his family. Through his journey, the film explores the socioeconomic effects of not being fluent in English.
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Shilpi
Samudranil Chatterjee, 5min, United States, 2021
An Indian-American woman grapples with her ties to her cultural identity whilst feeling like an outsider, in a laundromat.
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Unmothered
Urvashi Pathania, 15min, United States, 2020
A tragicomedy about the lies we tell the ones we love. When Priyanka, a rebellious American, goes back to India to immerse her mother's ashes, she discovers her funny family has kept a serious secret.
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In Search of Bengali Harlem
Vivek Bald, 85min, United States, Bangladesh, 2022
Nov 5 | 3:00 PM | AMC Seattle #11
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As a teenager in 1980s Harlem, Alaudin Ullah was swept up in the revolutionary energy of early hip-hop. He rejected his working-class Bangladeshi parents and turned his back on everything South Asian and Muslim. Now, as an actor and playwright in post-9/11 America, Alaudin wants to tell his parents' stories, but has no idea of the lives they led as Muslim immigrants of an earlier era. In Search of Bengali Harlem follows Ullah from the streets of New York City to the villages of Bangladesh to uncover the pasts of his father, Habib, and mother, Mohima. Alaudin discovers that Habib was part of a rich lost history of mid-20th century Harlem, in which Bengali Muslim men, dodging racist Asian Exclusion laws, married into New York's African American and Puerto Rican communities - and in which the likes of Malcolm X and Miles Davis shared space and broke bread with immigrants from the subcontinent. He also unearths the hardships and trauma that his mother overcame to become one of the first women to immigrate to the U.S. from rural Bangladesh. In Search of Bengali Harlem is a transformative journey, not just for Alaudin Ullah, but for our understanding of the complex histories of South Asians and Muslims in the United States.
Post-film Q&A with filmmakers Vivek Bald and Alaudin Ullah
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Americanistan
Ali Godil, 6min, United States, 2022
A rich girl from Pakistan must adjust to lower class American life after getting an arranged marriage. After leaving her family, Iman sacrifices everything by coming to America. She is forced to confront new expectations from her husband, Salim, and struggle with the roles and dynamics of what life is really like in the land of opportunity versus the fantasy in her head.
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Stay With Me A Little While
Sheheryar Sardar, 14min, United States, 2022
Farhan and Aadhya have been together for years, but a mental health crisis brings their relationship to the brink.
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Swipe
Arafat Mazhar, 14min, Pakistan, 2022
A young boy addicted to iFatwa, an app that crowdsources religious death sentences, spends his days swiping on the lives of strangers as he attempts to get a top spot on the Ajar Board.
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Mulaqat
Seemab Gul, 19min, Pakistan, Italy, 2021
Zara, a schoolgirl in Karachi (Pakistan), shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who then blackmails her. Caught between his manipulative behaviour and the desire to experience love on her own terms, Zara searches for the strength to reject the confines of a patriarchal society.
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The Round Lake
Zayan Agha, 11min, Pakistan, 2022
The Round Lake is about two sisters, Hafsa and Noreen, who live in a community without running tap water and so they fight desperately trying to locate enough water to stay alive.
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Desi Standard Time Travel
Kashif Pasta, 19min, Canada, 2022
When a new father suddenly loses his own dad, an opportunity to travel back in time for an evening gives him a chance to end things on a better note. Starring Adolyn Dar (The Expanse), Ali Kazmi (Funny Boy), and Anika Zulfikar.
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Anand Yang in conversation with filmmaker Shaunak Sen | |
All That Breathes receives a standing ovation | |
The audience was fascinated by the beauty and poetry of All That Breathes and moved by all the emotions the film evoked. The Emerald Showcase Screening of All That Breathes followed a very engaged Q&A session with audience members asking questions about the stunning cinematography, to the involvement and representation of the Muslim brothers. Filmmaker Shaunak Sen told us the film was shot over 3 years with 400 hours of footage and set in the context of the tumultuous political and social situation that existed in Delhi in 2019. Sen discussed the language of the film and said, "Because the brothers were such philosophers of the urban, it could not be a restless and anxious film, it had to be contemplative...". | |
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