Name of the film A Thin Wall

Directed by Mara Ahmed

Year 2015

CountryIndia

Duration66 mins

LanguageEnglish

About the film

A Thin Wall is a documentary about memory, history and the possibility of reconciliation. It focuses on the Partition of India in 1947, but derives lessons that remain urgently relevant today. Shot on both sides of the border, in India and Pakistan, The film is a personal take on Partition rooted in stories passed down from one generation to another. The filmmakers are descendants of families torn apart by Partition. The film is also a work of art infused with original animation, music and literary writing.

Director Biography

Mara Ahmed’s first film, The Muslims I Know premiered at the Dryden Theatre in 2008..Her second film,Pakistan One on One, opened at the Little Theatre in 2011.A Thin Wall, which was completed in 2015, premiered at the Bradford Literature Festival (UK). It was officially selected by film festivals in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Montreal and Dublin and was screened in Vancouver, London, Brussels and Amsterdam. Ahmed is now working on a documentary about racism in America.