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BAWANDER (AKA SANDSTORM)
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This award-winning Indian drama is based on the shocking true story of a woman   activist in rural Rajistan in the early 1980's. Sanwari (played brilliantly by   Nandita Das), a young married woman, joins the national Saathin movement   which seeks to stamp out such social evils as child marriages. Her             encouragement of other village women to join her in her fight raises the ire   of the upper-class landlords, who extract their revenge by brutally            gang-raping her in front of her husband Sohan (Raghuvir Yadav). But even this    does  not stop Sanwari, who instead of hiding her shame, surprises the village by fighting for justice, only to be raped again--this time, by the corrupt,    chauvinistic justice system. With Gulshan Grover and Deepti Naval. In Hindi    Madhur Bhandarkar---India---2001---165 mins.
CASTE CRIMINELLE ZAUBERMAN
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This program focuses on the difficult lives of Indian women born into the        criminal caste due to their ancestors' transgressions. In English with French    subtitles.                                                                       Yolande Zauberman---France---1989---66 mins.
INDIA (ROSSELLINI)

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Unlike most of his neorealist contemporaries, Roberto Rossellini's concerns were not just political, but global and spiritual. Invited by the prime minister to come film in India in 1957, Rossellini made this influential semi-documentary and a more scattered ten-part television series. The feature, India, Matri Buhmi, is filled with gorgeous color photography and long takes of life in India--its people, customs, wildlife, natural terrain, and modernization. If that's not spicy enough for you, here's some arthouse gossip: Rossellini's writing partner on this project, Sonali DasGupta, became a romantic partner as well, leading to an unsightly divorce from Ingrid Bergman, and his fourth marriage to DasGupta.

Roberto Rossellini---France/Italy---1958---90 mins.
PANIHARI: WATER WOMEN OF INDIA
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The Panihari are women in the Indian state of Rajasthan who walk across great    distances to fetch water for their families. In this documentary,                Indian-American filmmakers Abi Devan and Sudhi Rajagopal train their cameras     on one such woman, Paru, whose struggle to attain natural resources is similar to that of her Panihari brethren. Traveling 10-15 miles by foot in scorching   temperatures, Paru endures great hardship and suffering to obtain a resource   that many in the West take for granted.                                          Abi Devan/Sudhi Rajagopal---USA/India---2004---30 mins.
WORSHIP OF MUSIC
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This is a concert of "ragas," the most ancient style of Indian music, by the     brothers Dagar, master Muslim musicians living in Bengal, India. The music has   its roots in Islam and Hinduism, and the highest virtue for its singers is       accuracy and fidelity to performance traditions. Commentary is provided by     Asian arts expert Faubion Bowers. 1972, 27 mins.