FESTIVAL LINEUP
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
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Riff Raff
Ahmed Arif / HBO Short Film Competition / Pakistan / 2016 / 15 mins
One evening in upper-middle-class Karachi, a forty-year-old man maneuvers between the deceptive allure of his social scene, and the reality he has at home...
Preceded By:
Mantra (FEATURE) preceded by Riff Raff (SHORT)
Village East Cinema
Friday, December 2, 2016 7:30 pm -
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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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 -
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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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 -
Gardaab
Harune Massey / Centerpiece / Pakistan / 2016 / 93 mins
Set in Karachi, Pakistan, Gardaab(Whirlpool) is an intimate portrait of a city torn by violence. It’s a story of the city’s inhabitants as they navigate through this violence, fighting to preserve their humanity. A gritty fast paced thriller, the film is also a tale of an unlikely romance that blossoms amidst this chaos.
Gardaab
Village East Cinema
Friday, December 2, 2016 10:00 pm Available at the Door
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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.
Closing Night: Shor Se Shuruaat (FEATURE)
Village East Cinema
Sunday, December 4, 2016 7:30 pm Available at the Door -
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
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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 -
Veham
Hassan Amin / HBO Short Film Competition / Pakistan / 2016 / 14 mins
After waking up in an obscure room with no memory, MUNTAZIR finds a letter and, following its instructions, sets off only to find himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He asks the mysterious JABBAR for directions who again pops up when Muntazir reaches his destination. The two develop an uncanny companionship with Muntazir opening up to his new friend. As more envelopes are delivered, Muntazir fights to regain his memory about where he is and who exactly is Jabbar.
Precedes:
Autohead (FEATURE) preceded by Veham (SHORT)
Village East Cinema
Saturday, December 3, 2016 2:30 pm
