Pakistan One on One
Pakistan is constantly in the news yet we know very little about the people of Pakistan. This short documentary tries to bridge that gap by answering the question: what does...
A Thin Wall
Rather than being a historical study, this documentary explores the Partition of India in 1947 by interviewing people on both sides of the border. It unfolds as a personal narrative...
A Thin Wall puts people’s stories at the forefront of history by Derek Scarlino, Love and Rage Media
Mara Ahmed, a Rochester-based filmmaker, has a small but notably socially conscious list of works. Her latest film, A Thin Wall, debuted at The Little Theatre in Rochester on April...
A Thin Wall – Review by Phil Ebersole
The movie is in three parts—interviews with their aging relatives and friends about the peaceful life in India before partition, then interviews about their terrible experiences during the massacres and...
VIDEO: A Thin Wall on Indymedia
Ted Forsyth from Rochester Indymedia sat down with filmmaker Mara Ahmed to discuss her new documentary "A Thin Wall" looking at the partition between Pakistan and India that was created...
Film Review: A Thin Wall by Adam Lubitow, City Newspaper
In her lyrically non-linear documentary "A Thin Wall," local filmmaker Mara Ahmed focuses on the lingering effects of the partitioning of India in 1947. Filmed on each side of the...
Documentary Filmmaking Is Now Investigative Journalism: Mara Ahmed
While most independent filmmakers consider documentary films as the poor cousins of commercial feature films, they use this format of filmmaking as a stepping stone to enter the larger film...
Shadow lines by Swetha Ramakrishnan, The Indian Express
Surbhi Dewan was a film student at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, when she met Mara Ahmed, who was taking a part-time course at the university, in 2008. They...
Help comes in small measures, The Hindu, India
Three filmmakers have turned to film lovers for funds to complete their project. Here’s why. Surbhi Dewan and Mara Ahmed The film: Partition Stories documents the memories of families torn...
An unusual celluloid document by Shoma A. Chatterji, The Sunday Tribune, India
Partition Stories, a feature-length documentary, has been shot in three different countries, on two continents. Professor Vazira Zamindar calls the Partition the "wound within, the mother of many millions of...