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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nearly seven years since two students – one from India the other from Pakistan – forged a friendship at the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, and began discussing, among...

'Partition Stories' is a documentary co‐produced by filmmakers Mara Ahmed and Surbhi Dewan. Both are descendants of families torn apart by the Partition ‐ one ended up in India, the...