JAI BHIM COMRADE (Anand Patwardhan, India, 2012, digital, 169 min) In-person: filmmaker Anand Patwardhan Described as “perhaps one of the most important documentaries to emerge out of the Indian subcontinent” by Bedatri Choudhury in Screen Slate, JAI BHIM COMRADE focuses on the brutality of India’s centuries-old caste system, and the struggle of Dalit activists to

REASON (Vivek) Anand Patwardhan in person (Anand Patwardhan, India, 2018, 159 min, DCP) The Block welcomes leading Indian filmmaker Anand Patwardhan in person for a screening of his nonfiction epic REASON/VIVEK (2018), an unflinching look at India’s traumatic transformation from the world’s largest democracy to a country gripped by religious majoritarianism. REASON provides a far-ranging