Uzma Aslam Khan on A Thin Wall
Pakistani novelist Uzma Aslam Khan, whose work is included in A Thin Wall, introduced the film in these words at the screening at Hampshire College in April 2017: I’m thrilled...
VIDEO: The Edges that Blur by Mara Ahmed for TEDxRochester
Born in Pakistan, raised in Belguim, and now living in New York has provided Mara Ahmed with a unique worldview. As a desendent of those impacted by the creation of...
Comfort food for the diaspora | The McGill Daily
Sarah Shahid: Spaces Between was followed by Mara Ahmed’s documentary, A Thin Wall, on the 1947 Partition of India, which separated the British-occupied land into India and Pakistan. Shot on both...
Partition Stories: The time my grandmother carried Ghalib across the border
Surbhi Dewan: My engagement with lost homes and homelands began the day I was born into a family of survivors of the Partition (of the British Empire that led to...
VIDEO: Mara Ahmed on The Profile
Interview with director of “A Thin Wall” at TVapex, after screening in London, April 9, 2016.
On “The Muslims I Know” from George Payne
George Payne: There is something so refreshing and compelling about telling people’s stories when they have your complete attention, respect and cooperation. Because her interviewees trust her completely, Mara Ahmed’s...
A Thin Wall: Nationalism and the Partition of India by Mara Ahmed
Mara Ahmed: The documentary film “A Thin Wall,” a personal take on the partition of India shot on both sides of the Pakistan-India border, took me 7 years to complete....
VIDEO: A Thin Wall on RCTV
"On this episode of Conversations with Creatives, filmmaker Mara Ahmed discusses the film, A Thin Wall, that she and Surbhi Dewan made about the 1947 partition between India and Pakistan....
Mara Ahmed, the Filmmaker Behind A THIN WALL by Carol White Llewellyn, RCTV
I had the wonderful fortune to screen the film, A Thin Wall, while on the programming committee for the High Falls Film Festival. It was a stunningly beautiful documentary about...
VIDEO: Filmmaker Mara Ahmed on Voice of America’s Cafe DC
“Meet Mara Ahmed, a filmmaker born in Lahore, now living in the US. She discusses her film “A Thin Wall” about the Partition of India and the personal impact on...