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Lina Fruzzetti

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In My Mother's House

In My Mother's House · 2017

In My Mother's House

MovieDocumentary

One day in 2005, Lina Fruzzetti receives a startling email that reads, "If this is your father, we are cousins." There follows a decade-long quest to learn more about her Italian father who died young in Italian ruled Eritrea and her Eritrean mother who does not dwell on the past. Above all, Fruzzetti strives to understand her far-flung African, European, and American family against the backdrop of colonial rule, worlds at war, migration, grief, diasporas, and the global world in which we all live.

Songs of a Sorrowful Man

Songs of a Sorrowful Man · 2009

Songs of a Sorrowful Man

MovieDocumentary

Charismatic and unconventional, Dukhushyam is a painter, composer, and singer whose nontraditional methods of reinvigorating the traditional art of scroll painting and story singing has had wide effects on the culture of of West Bengal.

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In My Mother's House

In My Mother's House · 2017

In My Mother's House

MovieDocumentary

One day in 2005, Lina Fruzzetti receives a startling email that reads, "If this is your father, we are cousins." There follows a decade-long quest to learn more about her Italian father who died young in Italian ruled Eritrea and her Eritrean mother who does not dwell on the past. Above all, Fruzzetti strives to understand her far-flung African, European, and American family against the backdrop of colonial rule, worlds at war, migration, grief, diasporas, and the global world in which we all live.

Director

Songs of a Sorrowful Man

Songs of a Sorrowful Man · 2009

Songs of a Sorrowful Man

MovieDocumentary

Charismatic and unconventional, Dukhushyam is a painter, composer, and singer whose nontraditional methods of reinvigorating the traditional art of scroll painting and story singing has had wide effects on the culture of of West Bengal.

Director