This twelve-minute film looks at how young people's religious identities can be linked to their practice of the visual arts, and how this can change over time. When Sonia Narang made this film for Practical Matters, an Indian Jewish...
WASHINGTON, D.C., 10 MAY 2011 – The Asia Society Washington Center held a screening of the documentary Next Year in Bombay, which shed light on a little-known subcontinental subculture.
The film tells the tale of the Bene Israel Jewish community,...
How long would you wait to make a dream come true? If the dream was to narrate a life tale, how long would it take?
Sarath Kottikkal had to wait seven years for his turn. After seeing the premiere of...
Danny Ben-Moshe, an Australian academic, is working on a documentary on the forgotten Indian Jews who established the world's largest film business.
Danny Ben-Moshe, hundreds of miles away in Melbourne, came across her obituary the same week. It prompted an...
More than half a century ago, the magnificent synagogues of Kolkata were packed with members of a vibrant Indian Jewish community. The congregations are no longer present—less than two dozen remain—but the mosques are still maintained by numerous generations...
Migrant communities of Middle Eastern Jews arose throughout the enormous region between Shanghai and Port Said in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Bombay and Aden are two essential knots in the formation of these far-flung Jewish diasporas, according...
Danny Ben-documentary Moshe's focuses on Indian Jewish actors as forerunners who paved the way for other women to break into the Hindi cinema business.
She's still referred to as the Dream Girl. However, when Hema Malini decided to pursue a...
Rachel Jacobs, who is she? The question consumes Sadia Shepard from the minute she uncovers the name-inscribed pin in her grandmother Rahat's wardrobe. Years ago, Rachel changed her name to Rahat, lived as a Muslim in Pakistan, and buried...
Need another reason to appreciate how hospitable India has been to immigrants, and how this openness can reshape a city and a culture?
Dwelling in Travelling, a film by Shubha Das Mollick follows the Jewish community in Kolkata via their...
Chaï Chaï Films & Les Poissons Volants present
"Next year in Bombay" (documentary - 55 min - 2010)
Directed by Jonas Pariente and Mathias Magin
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