Free from judgment, and filmed with an eye for poetic detail, Tana Bana offers a snapshot of a society teetering on the edge of a brutal modernity, with all the opportunities and losses that entails.

Tana Bana pulls that trick off with great aplomb. The film takes us through a day in the life of the weavers. We meet the men at the loom, the designers of the saris, and the chaps who sell the ...