Directed by Sanjeev Chatterjee 1998. 42min. Pure Chutney is an exploration of the delicious – and even difficult – mix of Trinidadian-Indian culture. The film takes up as its theme the undeniable hybridity of postcolonial …
Films for Classroom Use
Puja: Expressions of Hindu Devotion
By Smithsonian Institute 29 min., 1996 Puja: Expressions of Hindu Devotion introduces viewers to one of the basic elements of Hinduism, the world’s third largest religion. In the Puja, Hindus honor gods and goddesses through …
A Passage to India
By David Lean 164 min., 1984 This breathtaking film based on E.M. Forster’s classic novel is an emotional and deeply personal story of love and class struggle in 1928 India. Adela Quested (Judy Davis) travels …
Partition
By Ken Mc Mullen 78 min. Based on Urdu writer’s Saadat Hussan Manto’s story about the partition of India and Pakistan. McMullen’s film focuses on the historical footnote that inmates of lunatic asylums, like prisoners …
Pakistan: Between Chaitralis and Pathans
51 min Situated in western Asia, Pakistan occupies a region of political and economic tension. This program looks at Pakistan’s complex relations with Iran, India, and the United States and the contributions of its multicultural …
No More Tears Sister: Anatomy of Hope & Betrayal
Directed by Helene Klodawsky DVD (2004) 78 min This provocative film explores the price of truth in times of war. Set during the violent ethnic conflict that has enveloped Sri Lanka over decades, the documentary recreates the …
New Empire
Directed by Kurush Canteenwala 35 min New Empire is a visually impressionistic, non-fiction film that attempts to chronicle a personal encounter with neo-colonialism and the accompanying loss of away of urban being. The encounter is set …
Nee Engey ‘Where Are You’
INDIA / 2003 Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, other languages of India 153 min Director, R.V. Ramani This video can be used for classroom use only. We cannot lend this video for any other purposes. This film …
Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night
A film by Sonali Gulati 2005, 27 minutes, DVD Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night is a documentary on outsourcing of American jobs to India. Told from the perspective of an Indian living in the U.S., …
Miss India Georgia
A film by Daniel Friedman & Sharon Grimberg 1998, 56 minutes, DVD Miss India Georgia follows four contestants during the hectic weeks leading up to Atlanta’s annual South Asian beauty pageant. In discussions with their grandparents …