UPDATED FILM: Continuous Journey

note: The film “Cake” is no longer being show, in its place, we will show “Continuous Journey” at the same date and time.

Director: Ali Kazimi
English | Documentary, 2004
1 hour, 27 minutes | Canada & India 

Continuous Journey chronicles events of 1914 voyage boat Komagata Maru who was transporting Indian immigrants to Canada. Due to a 1908 Canadian regulation, 376 immigrants from British India were rejected as this immigration policy excluded Indians and South Asians from entering the country. The stand-off lasted two months with a complex tale and global ramifications at a time when the British Empire seemed omnipresent becoming a turning point in the freedom struggle in India.

Cake: NO LONGER BEING SHOWN

Director: Asim Abbasi
Pakistan | Drama, 2018
2 hours, 5 min.| Urdu, Sindhi

Estranged family members begrudgingly reconnect in an effort to deal with the care of their aging parents. This colorful dramedy follows the tense reunion of two thirty something sisters where family secrets are revealed, forbidden romances both old and new are explored.