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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.

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.

Sat Afterparty @ Delilah (9:30PM)

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.

Revelations

Vijay Jayapal / Feature Competition / India / 2016 / 118 mins

A young Tamil woman, grappling with unknown tensions in her four year long marriage, develops a complex relationship with her new neighbor, a middle-aged man, who has a mysterious past of his own. This relationship soon begins to unravel many secrets, which change their lives forever. Set in the fascinating city of Kolkata, the film tries to explore themes such as guilt, redemption and female sexuality in the context of an Indian marriage.

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.

Fri Afterparty @ DL (9:30PM)

Shor Se Shuruaat

SUPRIYA SHARMA, ARUNIMA SHARMA, RAHUL V. CHITTELLA, PRATIK RAJEN KOTHARI, AMIRA BHARGAVA, ANNIE ZAIDI, SATISH RAJ KASIREDDI / Closing Night / India / 130 mins

Shor se Shuruaat is an omnibus feature of mentored short films, around the central theme of “Shor”- noise. 7 films, from 7 different directors conveying 7 different stories on the same theme, The short films have been mentored by stalwarts like Mira Nair, Shyam Benegal, Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Nagesh Kukunoor, Sriram Raghavan and Homi Adajania.