FRIDAY | SEPTEMBER 20 | 6-8:30 PM | CANTOR FILM CENTER @ 36 EAST 8TH STREET, ROOM 200
NYU AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESENT
THE WORLD IS FAMILY (96 min, Dir: Anand Patwardhan)
Esteemed documentarian Anand Patwardhan’s moving archival portrait of his parents, whose lives intertwined with Gandhi and India’s independence movements. Post-screening discussion: ANAND PATWARDHAN, NILITA VACHANI (NYU Tisch), and AKEEL BILGRAMI (Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia). Moderator: Tejaswini Ganti (NYU Anthropology).
Co-sponsors: Columbia University: South Asia Institute; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, The Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities; Film Program of the School of the Arts. New School: India China Institute. NYU Department of Anthropology.
Screening is free and open to the public with RSVP. Please RSVP here. Non-NYU attendees may be asked to present a photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees may present their NYU ID.