North American premiere

North American premiere
Filmed over the course of nearly fifteen years, Nani India follows a French man married to an Indian woman as he documents his travels to his mother-in-law’s home in India. He explores the religious rites and traditions of his in-laws, the lives of the people they meet, their occupations, and their family stories. We see his children growing up between two cultures revealing the lasting impact of their travels to India.
2023 | 97 min | Hindi (s.t. French)
Jean Rouch International Film Festival Official selection (Paris, France)
Gange sur Seine—International Indian Film Festival (Paris, France)
Luleå International Film Festival (Sweden)
Filmmaker’s country : France
Country of filming : Inde
*The screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Benoît Raoulx and his daughter, moderated by Tatiana Burtin.
Tatiana Burtin has worked in local consultation, cultural mediation, teaching and literary research. She is currently a political attaché, while pursuing her activities as a director and actress for over 15 years. With the Passeurs de Voix collective, which she co-founded, she created J’irai migrer chez vous…, a theatrical promenade on the journey of refugees around the world, produced at several Montreal festivals and at the Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée. She was co-chair of the Table de concertation culturelle Villeray-Parc-Extension from 2020 to 2025, and has been a director of Théâtre À L’Envers since 2024.
Benoît Raoulx is a teacher-researcher in social geography and a documentary filmmaker. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Caen Normandie. After training at Ateliers Varan (Paris), he made several films: Traplines in Vancouver (2003), Las Playitas (2007), L’Encyclopédie des migrants (2017, with F. Leterrier), which have been screened at various documentary film festivals and meetings in France and elsewhere. He coordinates a “Film et recherche en sciences humaines et sociales” (FRESH) program, supported by several academic and cultural institutions in France and Tunisia, at the confluence of creative documentary filmmaking and research in the humanities and social sciences.


5:30 pm | Cinéma Public
5 pm Audience welcome
5:30 pm Screening begins
505 Jean-Talon St. E.
Montréal, QC
H2R 1T6
Free admission, subject to availability