FESTIVAL LINEUP
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
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Lens
Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan / Spectrum / India / 2016 / 109 mins
Aravind gets a friend request from ‘Nikky,’ a complete stranger. He accepts it and they begin to video-chat. But the new friend has a bizarre request: to commit suicide while Aravind watches live. Does Aravind have a choice?
Lens (FEATURE)
Village East Cinema
Thursday, December 1, 2016 10:00 pm -
With You For You Always
Azad Alam / HBO Short Film Competition / India / 2015 / 15 mins
45-year old Gayatri lives with her elderly mother and pet dog, Sweety. Gayatri is haunted by the death of her young daughter, Maya, who was raped and killed. Still searching for justice and living in fear from the gruesome incident, Gayatri takes a bizarre step to avoid and escape any more tragedies.
Precedes:
Maroon (FEATURE) preceded by With You For You Always (SHORT)
Village East Cinema
Thursday, December 1, 2016 7:30 pm
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Maroon
Pulkit / Feature Competition / India / 2016 / 92 mins
When an insomniac university professor’s wife goes missing, he slowly becomes delusional in his attempt to cope and his interaction with the outside world gradually enters a different plane of reality.
Maroon (FEATURE) preceded by With You For You Always (SHORT)
Village East Cinema
Thursday, December 1, 2016 7:30 pm -
A Death in the Gunj
Konkona Sensharma / Opening Night / India / 2016 / 105 mins
Set in 1979, A Death in the Gunj is a coming of age story, about a shy student Shyamal Chatterjee. He uses a family road trip to McCluskiegunj, an old Anglo-Indian town, as an escape from his failed semester. At the outset, the makings of a perfect family holiday are in place but something is amiss. In the week that follows, Shutu's quiet unraveling is overlooked by the family revelers, until the holiday ends with an implosion.
Opening Night: Death in the Gunj (FEATURE)
Village East Cinema
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 7:30 pm Available at DoorNew Screening
Village East Cinema
Thursday, December 29, 2016 11:00 pm
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Chidiya
Mehran Amrohi / Spectrum / India / 2016 / 112 mins
Two brothers, Shanu and Bua, aged 9 and 7 respectively, live in a chawl in Mumbai with their mother Vaishnavi. In need of money, Vaishnavi asks Bali Bhai, her kind brother-in- law who lives in the same chawl, to get Shanu and Bua a job with him. Bali Bhai, a spot boy in the film industry, takes the boys to his film set where they see the film's hero playing badminton. The kids don't get the job but they do get the shuttlecock and from there set out on a mission to build their own badminton court, buy racquets and play themselves. But sometimes it is the most ordinary, which is the hardest to accomplish.
Chidiya (FEATURE)
Village East Cinema
Saturday, December 3, 2016 5:00 pm -
Dobaara
Bejoy Nambiar / Spectrum / India / 2016 / 66 mins
22-year-old Parvathy is a free-spirited girl who loves to live life on her terms. However, when she is left with no option but to tie the knot with a man of her parents’ choice, her life takes a 360 degree turn. Mohan and Parvathy migrate, and this marks the beginning of their new life together. But Mohan’s priorities are clearly defined from the very start of their relationship. He invests all his time in his work. His intentions are pure; to build the perfect life for his family. But with a new addition to the family and as the years go by, Mohan gets further involved in his work. It is only after their son, Rohit, graduates that Parvathy decides to take a drastic step, shaking up her 20 years of marriage.
Dobaara (SHORT) preceded by Last Music Store (SHORT)
Village East Cinema
Sunday, December 4, 2016 5:00 pm
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Sat Afterparty @ Delilah (9:30PM)
Sat Afterparty @ Delilah (9:30PM)
Delilah
Saturday, December 3, 2016 9:30 pm Free Admission -
Autohead
Rohit Mittal / Feature Competition / India / 2016 / 98 mins
A documentary crew follows a notorious auto rickshaw driver in the suburbs of Mumbai. As they dig deeper in his life they discover angst, sexual frustration and paranoia. This changes the course of their film. It also depicts the voyeurism of the crew in the process and leads to a terrible end.
Autohead (FEATURE) preceded by Veham (SHORT)
Village East Cinema
Saturday, December 3, 2016 2:30 pm
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Mantra
Nicholas Kharkongor / Feature Competition / India / 2016 / 90 mins
Kapil Kapoor, founded an iconic snack brand during the License Raj in India. Circa 2004, India is in throes of globalization and he is fighting a losing battle against a multinational that has taken over the market. Besides his company, he is desperately trying to save his wife and children who are battling crises of their own. For Kapil to hold onto things that are dear to him professionally and personally, he must confront and overcome demons of his own. Set in the midst of a nationwide India Shining campaign, Mantra tells the story of a family and its travails, and a sprawling and changing rapidly India.
Mantra (FEATURE) preceded by Riff Raff (SHORT)
Village East Cinema
Friday, December 2, 2016 7:30 pm -
The Last Music Store
Megha Ramaswamy / Spectrum / India / 2016 / 38 mins
The Last Music Store documents the curtains going down on the iconic Rhythm House. Bombay city's last & oldest large format music and video store finally yields to the challenges posed by new technologies and piracy and this crumble is captured via the lament of the store's eccentric, long-dedicated, working inmates who are coping with the situation in their own manner.
Precedes:
Dobaara (SHORT) preceded by Last Music Store (SHORT)
Village East Cinema
Sunday, December 4, 2016 5:00 pm