Screenings





LIST HERE. Immigrant life in America has become increasingly unbearable for many following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Amid the tightening of internal security, immigrants (especially those from South Asia and the Middle East) are forced to suffer daily racist attacks and discrimination in schools, on the streets, in shopping malls, and sometimes even at mosques and gurdwaras. In many cases the attacks are misdirected such as in the case of Sikhs being mistaken as terrorists.


Sweet Amerika tells the story of Balbir Singh Gill (aka Bobby), a Sikh grocery store owner who is kidnapped and tortured by four Americans who ignorantly mistake him for a terrorist because he wears a turban. It is a film that seeks to define what it means to be American and what it means to live the American dream. It is a collage of lives and stories that make up one man’s dream and how a few terrorists quickly and so easily compromise that dream.