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- A look at daily life in the city of Benares, India, one of the most religious places in the country.
- On a random Thursday in 2005, Lina Fruzzetti received a startling email that read, "If this is your father, we are cousins." Attached was a photo of her father, who died when she was two. There follows a decade-long quest to learn more about her Italian father who died young in Italian ruled Eritrea and her Eritrean mother who does not dwell on or speak about the past. Above all, Fruzzetti strives to understand her far-flung African, European, and American family against the backdrop of colonial rule, worlds at war, migration, grief, Diasporas, and the global world which in we all live. In My Mother's House was filmed in Italy, Eritrea, and the United States, and features Italian, Arabic, Tigrinya, and English, with English subtitles. The film alternates between this family's intimate conversations and daily routines, from cramped living rooms to glimpses of everyday life in villages and towns. Telling cultural insights, bring close the wider historical and social worlds in which the events take place. A spare narration complements the changing scenes highlighting the protagonists' experience.
- For generations, Patua (Chitrakar) communities of West Bengal, India have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. In the past they used to receive food or money for their recital of Muslim and Hindu stories and folk myths. Unfortunately, competition from other media significantly eroded this way of life. In response to this cultural crisis and as a way to make extra money, a group of women from Naya formed a scroll painters' collaborative. They candidly discuss issues of Islam and birth control, victimization of women, female education, poverty and work, religious tolerance and intolerance, and depict some of these ideas in the scrolls. Their stories attest to what it means to be a woman in Bengal and India today, demonstrating how a small group of determined women can empower themselves by adapting an ancient art to new conditions.
- Charismatic and unconventional, Dukhushyam is a painter, composer, and singer whose nontraditional methods of reinvigorating the traditional art of scroll painting and story singing has had wide effects on the culture of of West Bengal.
- A record of a four-day ceremony dedicated to the worship of Shiva. Filmed in Vishnupur, West Bengal - a town of temples, crafts and markets, the center of an old kingdom, and a place where daily life and worship are closely intertwined.