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Singing Pictures – Women Painters of Naya

Name: Singing Pictures – Women Painters of Naya
Released: 2005

Directed by Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti

2005 – 45'

Synopsis

For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya villages near Kolkata, which have formed a scroll painters’ cooperative.