Director
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.
Mareecha/ Hunuman
Ramayana: epopeya hindú en torno al dios Rama, cuya esposa Sita fue raptada hasta que él la salvó con la ayuda de unos monos. Sita Sings the Blues: la historia de Nina, una mujer moderna cuyo marido la abandona vía e-mail, contada en paralelo a la leyenda de Sita. Esta colorista y emotiva cinta de animación combina distintas artes del 2D para narrar sendos relatos separados por el tiempo y unidos por un parecido. Un musical en el que monos voladores, dioses y una artista con el corazón roto se mueven al ritmo jazzístico de baladas de los años veinte.
Gautam Rao
College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is surprised to find that he has been assigned Indian roommates.
