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Date(s) - 11/12/2017
1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Castro Theatre
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- November 9-12: New People Cinema, San Francisco and Castro Theatre, San Francisco
- November 18: CineArts Theater, Palo Alto
Come celebrate 3rd i’s 15th anniversary this year, as the annual SF International South Asian Film Festival presents some of the best cinema from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Canada, Australia, and the USA. This year’s festival captures the political zeitgeist of our times, offering reflections on the democratic process, the power of the vote, and on the legacy of political revolutions. Home movies become rich fodder for filmmakers, their celluloid memories resurfacing stories about family, immigration, and cross-cultural dialogue. Voices from the margins circulate through the program, centering women’s unsung labor, queer voices, and disappearing landscapes. As always the shorts program gathers an impressive range of local and international offerings, while Bollywood is served up two ways – neo-noir and classic camp.
Sunday, November 12 @ New People Cinema
- 1:00pm
- Shepherdess of the Glaciers
- Stanzin Dorjai and Christine Mordelet (India/France, 2015, 74mins)
A mesmerizing tribute to the unbreakable bond between humans and animals, this meditative doc captures a disappearing way of life that is deeply intertwined with nature. Amidst the stunning landscape of Ladakh, shepherdess Tsering sets out to the high plateaus of the Himalayas, braving countless physical travails, so that her flock of sheep can graze through the winter.
- 2:45pm
- Newton
- Amit Masurkar (India, 2017, 106mins)
Amit Masurkar’s smart and engaging black comedy finds humor in the tenuous nature of democracy, a hard task on the global stage at the present. When conscientious clerk, Newton, is placed on election duty in the conflict-ridden “tribal” area of Chhattisgarh – a democratic stress-center – he must keep devious military personnel and oddball bureaucrats in check, even as the voters remain strangely absent.
- 5:00pm
- Last Man in Dhaka Central (The Young Man Was, Part 3)
- Naeem Mohaiemen (Bangladesh/Netherlands/USA, 2015, 82mins)
Filmmaker in Person! Filmmaker Naeem Mohaiemen brings his razor-sharp critique and keen awareness of global politics to the conversation, as he probes Peter Custers, a Dutch journalist, about the dreams and inspirations (a la Che Guevara) that fueled his decision to travel half-way across the world to participate in a left-wing uprising in Bangladesh. The final installment in Mohaiemen’s trilogy on the legacy of the radical left, this illuminating doc has screened at numerous prestigious film festivals including Rotterdam, Berlin, and IDFA. Preceded by the short Abu Ammar is Coming (2016, Bangladesh/USA, 6mins).
- 7:30pm
- Coast to Coast: Mumbai to the Mission
- Various (India/Sri Lanka/USA/Australia, 2016/2017, 84mins)
Bay Area Filmmakers in Person! From light comedy to dark wit, this year’s kaleidoscope of cinematic offerings engage the intimate, personal and the intellectual: Bollywood and Bolsheviks revels in the pleasures of classic cinema, while the Spice Sisters sizzle down under; Brown Girls assert their sexuality and independence in Chicago, while artists in San Francisco struggle to claim their home in No Vacancy; and Disco Obu takes a humorous and poignant look on the ephemeral nature of fame.