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Estudios de nativos americanos • Sociología • Historia de EE. UU. • Estudios americanos • Sociología del deporte • Estudios medioambientales
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¿Qué significa ser un REVOLUCIONARIO AMERICANO hoy? Grace Lee Boggs, una mujer chino-estadounidense de Detroit, que murió en octubre de 2015 a los 100 años, tiene una visión sorprendente de la revolución. Escritora, activista y filósofa arraigada durante más de 70 años en el movimiento afroamericano, dedicó su vida a una revolución en evolución que abarcaba las contradicciones del pasado de Estados Unidos y su futuro potencialmente radical. Este documental ganador del Premio Peabody nos sumerge en la práctica de toda la vida de Boggs de encender el diálogo y la acción comunitarios, trabajo que atraviesa los principales movimientos sociales estadounidenses del siglo pasado: desde los derechos laborales hasta los derechos civiles, pasando por el Black Power, el feminismo, el asiático-americano y el medio ambiente. movimientos de justicia y más allá.
Angela Davis, Bill Moyers, Bill Ayers, Ruby Dee y Ossie Davis, Danny Glover, el marido de Boggs, James Boggs, y una gran cantidad de camaradas de Detroit de tres generaciones ayudan a dar forma a esta historia exclusivamente estadounidense. Mientras lucha con un Detroit en transición, las contradicciones de la violencia y la no violencia, Malcolm X y Martin Luther King Jr., las rebeliones de 1967 y nociones no lineales del tiempo y la historia, Boggs emerge con un enfoque que es radical en su simplicidad y claridad: la revolución no es un acto de agresión o simplemente una protesta. La revolución, dice Boggs, tiene que ver con algo más profundo dentro de la experiencia humana: la capacidad de transformarse uno mismo para transformar el mundo. Con más de diez años de realización, esta película interdisciplinaria tiene un gran atractivo.
University of Oregon | Lamia Karim, Professor & Department Head, Anthropology, Asian Studies
"A deeply humanistic film, THE BENGALI teaches us how to cross cultural differences. It beckons us to think about the meaning of home and belonging. What is home in a transnationalized world? The film asks the audience to think about family and genealogy in our increasingly mobile world."
Vague Visages
“Fatima’s achievements in Khori allow for some profoundly moving sequences in The Bengali. There are small logistic victories and lively conversations about cultural differences; there’s a dance sequence in which young girls interact with an American for the first time — it’s comparable to Chilean children processing their first experience with cinema in Ignacio Agüero’s 1988 documentary One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train.”
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
“A lyrical and poetic documentary that shows how stories and presumptions can change, forging connections that are rich and real - - - not just to the past, but to the world at large.”
Film Threat
"A poignant exploration of heritage and belonging that bridges continents and generations."
Times of India
“The film encompasses the bigger story of the Indian diaspora and the making of America.”
Reel News Daily
“The Bengali is a candid and revelatory dive into past and present, and thus the future. It breaks social and physical barriers, showing the viewer we're all part of a much larger community than we could imagine.”
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Kavery Kaul unfolds the fascinating story of the first South Asian male immigrants to the U.S. who married African-American women and made a home in the black community.”
Broadway World
“A broadly-brushed watercolor landscape of little-discussed history which coaxes audiences into the story. The whole thing is bursting with heart.”
New York Amsterdam News Curtain Raiser
“A touching and beautiful film.”
Indian Express
"An eye-opening journey that connects worlds often seen as separate, showing how heritage shapes lives in surprising ways."
Neon Graffiti
“An absolute gem of a documentary.”
Span
“Kavery Kaul’s documentaries explore the shifting frames of culture, race, class, and belonging. The Bengali addresses the important issue of engagement between people of different faiths.”
AWARDS
Official Selection | DOC NYC
Special Jury Award | Roxbury Film Festival
Best International Humanitarian Film Award | Rhode Island Film Festival
FESTIVALS
Cascadia International Women's Film Festival
Windsor International Film Festival
South Asian Film Festival
Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival
DesiFest
Habitat Film Festival
American Center (Delhi)
American Center (Kolkata)
ADDITIONAL MENTIONS
At DOC NYC: Screen Comment Takeaway; Neon Graffitti favorite
At New Orleans Film Festival: Antigravity top pick; Nola.com gambit top highlight
Theatrical run at Quad (NYC) opening hosted by New York Women in Film & Television and Indian-American Arts Council
Theatrical at Laemmle Royal (LA) opening hosted by 1st Wave Productions & EOS World Fund
One of Nonfics Top 20 Docs of 2022
Special NYC International Migrants Day Screening hosted by NGO Committee on Migration, United Nations Friends of Migration & GCM Champion Countries