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Date(s) - 11/18/2017
11:30 AM - 9:30 PM
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CineArts, Palo Alto Square
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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.
Saturday, November 18 @ CineArts Theater, Palo Alto
- 11:30am
- Bad, Brown, Bride: 3 Desi Series
- Various (USA, 2017, 72mins)
Bay Area Filmmakers in Person! Snappy, sexy, and seriously modern, these three shorts series turn stereotypes about desis on their heads, and offer modern portraits of young South Asians in America. Featuring episodes from Shawn Parikh and Devanshi Patel’s Bad Indians, the hit series Brown Girls by Fatima Ashgar and Sam Bailey (recently picked up by HBO) and Ik Jagait and Palvinder Jagait’s locally produced Bullet Bride.
- 1:00pm
- The Cinema Travellers
- Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya (India, 2016, 96mins)
This intimate and poetic gem captures the miracle of cinema in its purest sense, and the timelessness of a tradition that has existed in India for decades – the traveling tent cinema. The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim, and should entice cinephiles with its effusive love of the bygone era of celluloid.
- 3:00pm
- The World of Goopi and Bagha (Goopi Gawaiya, Bagha Bajaiya)
- Shilpa Ranade (India, 2013, 79mins)
Set in a world full of vibrant music and color, Shilpa Ranade’s magical film is an animated adaptation of one of Indian master Satyajit Ray’s most beloved works, and premiered to great acclaim at the Toronto Film Festival. This timeless fable follows the hilarious misadventures of Goopi and Bagha, two tuneless musicians banished from their villages for their cacophonous music.
- 5:00pm
- Newton – SOLD OUT
- 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.
- 7:30pm
- Dance Like A Man
- Ritesh Menon and Lilette Dubey (India, 2014, 100mins)
India’s most successful English-language play (by Mahesh Dattani) is adapted for the screen in this stellar cineplay, a tragi-comedy that captures the tension and jealousy between a rising Bharatanatyam dancer and her parents, both dancers themselves.