Mira Nair Movies

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at...

The story of Zainab and Arif, who live their son, Munna, in Brooklyn. Zainab makes the complicated decision to leave her protected life and follow...

A wonderful journey through the meaning and relevance of film music composition. Featuring great, albeit brief, insights from some of the modern...

A documentary featuring interviews with 100 influential women from around the world.

Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to...

An alcoholic, cancer-ridden American film-maker decides to produce a Bollywood movie.

A sequel to the 1988 award winning documentary, "Slaying the Dragon," this film looks at the past 25 years of representation of Asian and Asian...

One of a four-film series on the AIDS epidemic in India, this film examines the virus as Indian society's great class leveler, following its...

In keeping with the intergenerational magic of 'Household Saints', filmmaker Martina Savoca-Guay has crafted a compelling new documentary, 'The Many...

It is September 11, 2001, and a young man goes missing in New York. Because of his eastern name and his Islamic religion, he is suspected of being...

An inspiring creative documentary that follows the story of one of Uganda's unsung heroes - Robert Katende. Popularly known as 'Coach Robert', he was...

An East Indian physician works with AIDS patients as an epidemic of the disease hits in Tennessee.

In 1993, the original negatives of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy were burned in a massive nitrate fire at a laboratory in London. Even though...

A retrospective documentary on 9/11 in connection with the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.

The story is inspired by the assassination of Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party.

A documentary exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of 2 strip-tease dancers...

Years ago, when Abhijit was a boy, he learned his father was involved in extramarital relationships. He kept it secret for several years, until...

Via the New York Times: "...film examines the marriage of Ashok Sheth and his wife, Hansa. Ashok moved to New York only days after the wedding, to a...

Portrait of the first laughing club in India, its founding by a doctor who believes that laughter is the best medicine, his outreach to schools,...