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Muslim Voices Track Highlight

AN ACT OF WORSHIP
Director: Nausheen Dadabhoy
Runtime: 83 min
Rated: R
AN ACT OF WORSHIP is a polyphonic portrait of the last 30 years of Muslim life in America. Told through the lens of Muslims living in the United States, the film offers a counter-narrative of pivotal moments in U.S. history and explores the impact of anti-Muslim rhetoric and policy on young Muslims who came of age after 9/11.

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An Act of Worship
Hudson, America
In Search of Bengali Harlem

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An Act of Worship – AN ACT OF WORSHIP is a polyphonic portrait of the last 30 years of Muslim life in America. Told through the lens of Muslims living in the United States, the film offers a counter-narrative of pivotal moments in U.S. history and explores the impact of anti-Muslim rhetoric and policy on young Muslims who came of age after 9/11. Documentary Feature. Directed by Nausheen Dadabhoy. 90 min. USA. West Coast Premiere

Hudson America – On the eve of the 2016 election, six first-generation immigrant students from a Bangladeshi Muslim community in Hudson, NY are thrust into a complex vortex of identity politics and fear; arranged marriages; forbidden love; and the guilt of leaving to attend college. As the older generation works hard to support their growing families while becoming ever more insular, the younger generation reexamines gender identity and the cost of love while remaining young ambassadors of Islam. Documentary Feature. Directed by Zuzka Kurtz & Geoffrey Hug. 101 min. USA. Festival Premiere

In Search of Bengali Harlem – As a teenager in 1980s Harlem, Alaudin Ullah rejected his working-class Bangladeshi parents and turned his back on everything South Asian and Muslim. Now, as a playwright in post-9/11 America, Alaudin wants to tell his parents’ stories. In Search of Bengali Harlem follows Alaudin from the streets of NYC to the villages of Bangladesh to explore his parents’ pasts, uncovering a lost history in which Bengali Muslim men dodged racist Asian Exclusion laws to become part of Black and Latinx Harlem. Documentary Feature. Directed by Vivek Bald & Alaudin Ullah. 85 min. USA. World Premiere

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