FESTIVAL LINEUP
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
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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 -
Sat Afterparty @ Delilah (9:30PM)
Sat Afterparty @ Delilah (9:30PM)
Delilah
Saturday, December 3, 2016 9:30 pm Free Admission
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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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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 -
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
