Sunday Matinee: Afternoon Session 2

Mother Kili follows an extraordinary group of Sikh women who come together to summit Mount Kilimanjaro as the first all-South-Asian female team to attempt the climb. What begins as a physical challenge becomes a profound journey of identity, healing, and reclamation, a celebration of courage, community, and the unbreakable bonds that shape us. It is not just a summit story. It is a story of rising.

Becoming Siri Kartar offers a deeply personal look at one Italian woman's spiritual awakening and her transformation into Siri Kartar Kaur Khalsa. Through devotion, discipline, and an unshakeable inner strength, her path into the teachings of Sikhi becomes a story of identity reborn.

Amandeep Kaur was born in Ludhiana. She got married at 24 and arrived in Italy in 2010, in Soriano nel Cimino, near Viterbo. Nobody spoke English. She learned Italian. There was no gurdwara in Viterbo. They went to Terni for a few years, then established one here, and in 2016 bought the place. She started kirtan right away. Last year they started Gurmukhi lessons for the second generation. Now Italy is her home. She sees herself doing kirtan, helping her daughter, and doing seva for people who do not speak Italian.

In 1940s Vancouver, a South Asian woman defies public backlash and confronts a city council meeting to fight for her right to purchase a home in a white neighborhood.