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Block 14

  • AMC River East 21 322 East Illinois Street Chicago, IL, 60611 United States (map)
$10.00
  • Knot
    In attendance: Abhay Parveen Gupta (Director/Producer)
    Manish, an innocent little boy struggles to catch up with the reality of his mother's untimely death. Determined to bring her back, he takes up daunting challenges which he believes will bring back his mother.

  • Who Are You, Nanu?
    In attendance: Anjini Taneja Azhar (Director/Writer/Producer), Suchitra Pillai (Producer/Executive Producer), Devika Taneja (Co-Producer)
    After her Nanu's (grandfather in Hindi) ceremonial cremation brings her to the Holy Ganges River in India for the first time, nine year-old oddball Isha befriends the phantom of her Nanu's own rambunctious nine year-old self and discovers the journey after death.

  • Ek Bangla Bane Nyara
    In attendance: Aryan Sheth (Director), Sehran Khan (Producer), Siddharth Chawla (Director of Photography)
    On his deathbed, a cancer-stricken grandfather with a breathing tube‬‭ desperately strives to unite his dysfunctional family for a 9:00pm movie. As‬‭ family tensions erupt into chaos, he remains trapped in silence, a helpless‬‭ witness to their chaotic reunion.

  • Manch: मंच
    In attendance: Sehran Khan (Creative Producer)
    In a quest to run a Hindi poetry show in an Indian restaurant in LA, Samar, goes through a journey of guilt, desperation and failure before Mr. Patel, the restaurant owner, helps him realise a bittersweet truth about living abroad before giving him the stage one last time to perform his poetry.

  • Change
    After learning they are in the running for a Vice Presidential nomination, a Republican senator and his South Asian wife debate the path forward when they are told that their son's name may sound too ethnic for the voting public.

  • Teaching America
    In attendance: Anurima Bhargava (Director)
    High School students and teachers in Arkansas join together to stand up for their Advanced Placement African-American Studies classes, when the state threatens to shut them down.

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