SF International South Asian Film Festival

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3rd i's 12th Annual SF International South Asian Film Festival
November 6-9, San Francisco
November 15, Palo Alto

This year's festival is pleased to present some of the best documentaries, indie narratives and short films from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Germany, UK and the USA. The special focus on Dance and Music in Film draws upon South Asia’s rich and diverse traditions, and offers an opportunity to incorporate live performance into the festival. Cross-cultural relationships - in the arts and of the heart - are featured this year, as are stories of the surprising resistance and resilience of youth. Our Women Behind the Lens focus continues this year, with an incredible range of up and coming young filmmakers and Oscar hopefuls. And regional stories that span the Indian subcontinent - from Gujrati to Bengali and Marathi to Tamil - find a place on the program.

New People Cinema, SF
Thursday, Nov 6

7:15pm Meet the Patels
San Francisco Premier
(Geeta Patel & Ravi Patel, USA, 2014, 88mins)
Followed by Q&A with Ravi Patel
This incredibly funny documentary follows a young man looking for love–and fed up enough to ask his parents to help him find it!

New People Cinema, SF
Friday, Nov 7

7:15pm Coast to Coast: Mumbai to the Mission
(Various, 2012-2014, 75mins)
Followed by Q&A with Filmmakers
This year’s selection of shorts — local, national and international — employ both drama and comedy to great effect in examining social issues and conflict.

9:15pm Titli
Bay Area Premier
(Kanu Behl, India, 2014, 124mins)
Followed by Q&A with Kanu Behl
Perhaps one of the most thrilling films to come out of India this year, Titli is also a family drama—the youngest of a brotherhood of violent carjackers makes the desperate attempt to break away from his dysfunctional family.

Castro Theatre, SF
Saturday, Nov 8

1pm Fandry
San Francisco Premier
(Nagraj Manjule, India, 2013, 101mins)
Followed by panel discussion
An exceptional and riveting directorial debut, using the great dramatic tradition of forbidden love between lower-caste and upper-caste teenagers to create a powerful multidimensional narrative that’s anything but clichéd.

4pm Upaj: Improvise
San Francisco Premier
(Hoku Uchiyama, USA, 2013, 60mins)
Followed by live performance & Q&A
An unlikely friendship develops between the master of precision, Indian kathak dancer Chitresh Das, and freestyler Jason Samuels Smith, African American tap dancer in this magical collaboration captured on film.

6pm Dukhtar
West Coast Premier
(Afia Nathaniel, Pakistan, 2014, 93mins)
Followed by Q&A with Afia Nathaniel
The starkly beautiful and forbidding mountains of Pakistan provide the setting for this edge-of-your-seat thriller from Afia Nathaniel. Pakistan’s Official Entry to the Oscars.

8pm Reception

9pm Queen: Bollywood at the Castro
(Vikas Bahl, India, 2014, 146mins)
3rd i’s Bollywood at the Castro is one of the most popular events at the festival! Intensely local, gloriously global and unexpectedly moving, Queen takes Bollywood in a new direction.

New People Cinema, SF
Sunday, Nov 9

1pm Mughal-e-Azam: Ruminations on a Spectacle
(90mins)
Illustrated talk by Robin Sukhadia
Followed by Q&A
Robin Sukhadia returns to 3rd i for a close study of this 1960 blockbuster which introduced color to Indian cinemagoers.

3pm Liar's Dice
Bay Area Premier
(Geethu Mohandas, India, 2013, 104mins)
In this stunning and riveting road drama, a young mother searching for her missing husband follows an enigmatic guide through the visually stunning backdrop of the rural Himalayas.

5:30pm Psychedelic Cinema: Radhe, Radhe + Other Shorts
West Coast & Bay Area Premiers
(Various, 2012-2014, 60mins)
An explosion of color and sound on the silver screen captures the essence of this program of shorts.

7:30pm Standup Planet
(David Munro, USA, 2013, 57mins)
On a mission to showcase some of the funniest international comics, comedian Hasan Minhaj tests how far they can push comedy that deals with some of the toughest global poverty, gender, and race issues of our time.

CineArts Theatre, Palo Alto
Saturday, Nov 15

12noon Nirnay
US Premier
(Pushpa Rawat and Anupama Srinivasan, India, 2012, 60mins)
An intimate, thought-provoking documentary that courageously turns the camera on the filmmaker’s own failed cross-caste love affair to examine why the dreams and aspirations of so many women in middle-class India never take flight.

1:30pm Amma und Appa
US Premier
(Franziska Schonenberger and Jayakrishnan Subramaniam, India/Germany, 2014, 89mins)
This German girl and Indian boy enjoyed a blissful, secret love for years, but now it’s time to get married and meet the parents!

3:30pm Zinda Bhaag
(Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi, Pakistan, 2013, 120mins)
Followed by Q&A with Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi
Three young men from Lahore navigate the often terrifying world of illegal immigration.

6:30pm The Auction House
Bay Area Premier
(Ed Owles, UK/India, 2014, 85mins)
A nuanced tale of everyday India and two brothers that struggle to save their family business and a piece of the country’s heritage.

8:30pm Liar's Dice
Bay Area Premier
(Geethu Mohandas, India, 2013, 104mins)
In this stunning and riveting road drama, a young mother searching for her missing husband follows an enigmatic guide through the visually stunning backdrop of the rural Himalayas.

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