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3Rd I's San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival 2016 3rd i’s San Francisco International South Asian Film Saturday, November 12 @ Castro Theatre Festival 2016 1:00pm Kaul (A Calling) November 10-13, New People Cinema and Castro Theater, San (Aadish Keluskar, India, 2015, 122mins) Francisco Aadish Keluskar’s bold and innovative Kaul can only be described as November 19, BlueLight Cinema, Cupertino a truly transformative cinematic experience. Deeply inspired by the 3rd i's 14th annual SF International South Asian Film Festival presents films of Tarkovsky and Bela Tarr, and firmly rooted in a Marathi milieu, Keluskar delivers a uniquely visceral film that brings equal some of the best cinema from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, UK, Canada, and the USA. From nuanced dramas to witty comedies, this measure of the surreal and the sublime. year’s Focus on Diaspora presents an expansive view on the 3:30pm The World of Goopi and Bagha (Goopi Gawaiya, immigrant experience. Indie Narratives take brave risks and Bagha Bajaiya) explore issues from madness to modernity, sex to social justice; 3rd (Shilpa Ranade, India, 2013, 79mins) i's commitment to the celluloid celebration of Women’s Stories Director Shilpa Ranade and Musician Narayan and Queer Voices continues as strong as ever; and Bay Area Parasuram in Person!! Set in a world full of vibrant music and Filmmakers, shorts and documentaries are on the docket as always. color, Shilpa Ranade’s magical film is an animated adaptation of one More information, including expanded program and ticketing of Indian master Satyajit Ray's most beloved works, and premiered information, is available at: www.thirdi.org to great acclaim at the Toronto Film Festival. This timeless fable follows the hilarious misadventures of Goopi and Bagha, two Thursday, November 10 @ New People Cinema tuneless musicians banished from their villages for their cacophonous music. 7:15pm Masaan (Fly Away Solo) (Neeraj Ghaywan, India/France, 2015, 109mins) With its premiere at the prestigious Cannes film festival, Masaan (an 5:45pm Khoya (Lost) Anurag Kashyap production), has become one of the most (Sami Khan, India/Canada, 2015, 82mins) celebrated independent Indian films in recent memory. Set along the Director Sami Khan and Actor Rupak Ginn in Person!! picturesque Ganges river in Benaras, Neeraj Ghaywan’s film weaves Featuring stunning cinematography, Sami Khan's outstanding feature together two separate stories joined by a common concern, the Khoya is a nuanced thriller about the universal quest to find home effect of narrow-minded tradition on the budding desires of youth. and belonging. When Rog Moreau’s mother dies, the adoptive ties to his Canadian identity begin to feel tenuous, setting him off on a Friday, November 11 @ New People Cinema journey to India to unravel the mystery surrounding his adoption. 7:15pm Original Copy (Florian Heinzen-Ziob & Georg Heinzen, India/Germany, 2015, 8:00pm Castro Reception with the Filmmakers 52mins) A charming portrait of one of the last hand-painters of colorful and 9:00pm Parched dramatic Bollywood posters, Original Copy is an exemplary and (Leena Yadav, India/US/UK, 2015, 116mins) insightful doc about the magic of cinema, and about the keepers of a disappearing artform in the face of India's changing film industry. 3rd i's Saturday Night at the Castro!! Parched takes the riot of Bollywood and infuses it with an indie vision in this warm and Preceded by Events in a Cloud Chamber (Ashim Ahluwalia, incisive film that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. India, 2016, 21mins) Leena Yadav examines the complex lived experiences of women in India through the strident lens of ‘sex in the village’ and produces a 9:00pm One Crazy Thing film that is raucously full of girl power. (Amit Gupta, UK, 2016, 90mins) Skype Q&A with Amit Gupta!! Set in London, Amit Gupta's witty script produces a romantic comedy that echoes the best of Woody Allen. Jay is a former daytime TV star whose life has hit rock bottom until he meets his dream girl. Hannah is bright, beautiful and hates modern life. There's just one problem. How does Jay tell Hannah about the leaked sex tape which made him an internet sensation? Sunday, November 13 @ New People Cinema Saturday, November 19 @ BlueLight Cinema 12noon Aligarh 12noon Gaalibeeja (Wind Seed) (Hansal Mehta, 2015, India, 114mins) (Babu Eshwar Prasad, India, 2016, 96mins) Premiering to a standing ovation at the Busan Film Festival, Aligarh is A unique cinematic experience, Gaalibeeja is a meditation on cinema one of the most vital films to come out of India in recent years. and modernity from an exciting new voice in Kannada cinema. Based on the true story of Dr. Siras, a linguistics professor who While paying homage to the likes of Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, faced suspension due to his sexual orientation, the film is a heartfelt and Abbas Kiarostami, artist-turned-filmmaker Prasad blends social demand for the right to love, and a poetic call to transcend identity. critique with exquisite cinematic form in his take on the “road movie”. 2:30pm United Red Army (The Young Man Was, Part 1) 2:00pm Korla (Naeem Mohaiemen, Bangladesh/USA/Japan, 2012, 70mins) (John Turner and Eric Christensen, USA, 2015, 78mins) This striking and Skype Q&A with Naeem Mohaiemen!! Followed by panel discssion!! Korla Pandit was a spiritual hypnotic documentary offers a fascinating interrogation of the seeker and a godfather of exotica music who charmed American legacy of radical left-wing movements. Using archival sound and housewives on television in the 1950s. What lay behind Korla’s surveillance video, Mohaiemen reconstructs the hijacking of an metaphysical musings and his enigmatic Indian facade? And what of airplane at the hands of the Japanese Red Army in 1977, when it the ‘dark secret’ that he took with him to his grave in 1998? Find was forced to land in Dhaka, Bangladesh. out in this fascinating and exotic tour through Pandit’s dizzying life. 4:45pm Gardaab (Whirlpool) 4:15pm Lala Begum (Harune Massey, Pakistan/USA, 2016, 93mins) (Mehreen Jabbar, Pakistan/India, 2016, 58mins) Harune Massey in Person!! With echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Starring legendary Pakistani actress Marina Khan (Tanhaiyan), Gardaab is a taut and stylized thriller about two lovers caught in a Mehreen Jabbar’s evocative and endearing Lala Begum is a complex web of family and gang warfare in the underbelly of Karachi. Harune and impressive drama that delves into the ghosts of Pakistan’s past. Massey's restrained direction offers a compelling meditation on Two estranged sisters come to terms with their haunting past: of love, and on the fragility of human life, and points to an exciting new the loves they shared, of the sacrifices they made, and of their wave of Pakistani filmmakers on the horizon. struggles with the colonial heritage that defines their lives. 7:15pm Coast to Coast: Mumbai to the Mission 5:45pm Original Copy (Various, India/UK/USA, 2015-16, 82mins) (Florian Heinzen-Ziob & Georg Heinzen, India/Germany, 2015, Bay Area Filmmakers in Person!! From power to pleasure, 52mins) courage to comedy, this year's kaleidoscope of cinematic offerings A charming portrait of one of the last hand-painters of colorful and engage the sexual and the sensual: a young man gathers strength to dramatic Bollywood posters, Original Copy is an exemplary and approach his crush, while a young woman plots a shocking escape insightful doc about the magic of cinema, and about the keepers of a from marriage; Audrey Lorde's poetry and Justin Bieber's music disappearing artform in the face of India's changing film industry. become fodder for queer interventions; and SF's Sexy Circus ponders its future. 7:15pm Between The Lines (Ritesh Menon, India, 2015, 79mins) Skype Q&A with Nandita Das and Subodh Maskara!! Nandita Das, one of India’s finest actresses, writes and stars in this stellar feature which examines how gender inequality cuts across class lines. A high-profile lawyer couple end up arguing on opposite sides of a criminal trial, resulting in the blurring of their personal and professional lives. Features superlative performances by Das and real-life husband Subodh Maskara..
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