Indian Film Festival

SDMA and the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) present a film festival in conjunction with Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882–1966) at SDMA and Humanitas: Images of India by Fredric Roberts at MoPA. The Film Festival is curated by KPBS film critic Beth Acomondo.

7:00 p.m., MoPA’s Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater
$7 members/$10 nonmembers/$8 students (includes admission to both museums through Sunday, June 1)

Two Daughters (1961, NR)
May 6, Tuesday

Satyajiy Ray’s gift for nuanced comedy is superbly demonstrated in these exquisite adaptations of two short stories by Indian literary giant Rabindranath Tagore.

Charulata (1964, NR)
May 13, Tuesday

In Victorian India, a restless young woman struggles to come to terms with her enforced upper-class idleness, suppressed literary talent, and illicit love for her husband’s cousin. Charulata is widely considered Ray’s most accomplished film, as well as being the director’s personal favorite.

The River (1951, NR)
May 21, Wednesday

In this lyrical and heartwarming film from director Claude Renoir (and assisted by Satyajiy Ray), The River tells of three teenage girls growing up in Bengal, India, near a large river, each one developing a crush on a one-legged American vet.

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids (2004, R)
May 28, Wednesday

Amidst the apparent growing prosperity of India, there is a dark underbelly of poverty in another side of the nation that is little known. This film is a chronicle of filmmakers Zana Briski’s and Ross Kauffman’s efforts to show that world of Calcutta’s red light district.

Back to Top