FILM TITLE

The Bengali

18+

26th March 2023 | 04:00 PM
Gulmohar

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Image-Description
Country
USA
Genre

Documentary

Language
English
Duration
72 mins
Director

Kavery Kaul

Festival And Awards

Special Jury Award (Roxbury Film Festival); International Humanitarian Award (Rhode Island Film Festival; DOC NYC; New Orleans Film Festival; Cascadia Women’s Film Festival; Philadelphia Asian-American Film Festival; Windsor Film Festival (Canada)

Synopsis

In The Bengali, filmmaker Kavery Kaul takes an African-American woman to India in search of her family’s past. Her grandfather was Bengali, part of the lost history of the first Indians who arrived in the US in the late 19th century. Does he still have family there? Did he really own land? This boldly different encounter between East and West puts the light on the longing of many people to connect with their heritage and the stories passed on from generation to generation.