The World is Family

Director: Anand Patwardhan

2023 / 92min / DCP

Patwardhan, one of the most acclaimed and accomplished of contemporary Indian nonfiction filmmakers and a thorn in the side of censorious fundamentalist Hindu nationalist politicians explores his families’ links—on both the paternal and maternal sides—to his country’s anti-colonial independence movement in this cinematic oral history filmed over the course of three decades. An intimate, urgent history lesson that champions forgotten heroes of the era like Pakistani political leader Allah Bakhsh while articulating how present-day tensions between Muslim and Hindu Indians have their origins in the divide-and-conquer period of British rule. “A deeply affecting, immensely powerful cinematic lamentation of lost stories and details.” —Variety

Introduction by filmmaker Mira Nair.