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A young girl in Mumbai IN THEATERS: Shorts Program 2 April 17th, 2022 AFS Cinema WATCH ONLINE: April 22-25th, 2022 Eventive Mono No Aware India I 20 mins I Coming of Age, I 2021 I Hindi w/ English subtitles BUY & WATCH ONLINE Poorna, a 10-year-old girl in suburban Mumbai, wakes up to her routine morning and a sense that something in her home has changed and shifted.. As the day progresses with a school outing, she visits an old hill and an old age home. She becomes absorbed in ‘Mono no Aware’ - a Buddhist word for ‘watching the passing’, as she discovers the bittersweet circus of life - the ephemeral nature of all things bad or beautiful. This film plays with SHORTS PROGRAM 2 , in theaters and with the BEYOND THE END OF THE WORLD program online. NOTE: This film is coming to theaters and our virtual cinema. WATCH IN THEATERS Back to Film Program About the Artist Koushik grew up in Krishnanagar, a historic small town at the border of two Bengals. He studied photography and then film direction at National Institute of Design, a school set up by legendary Charles and Ray Eames in Ahmedabad, India. An apprenticeship at the World Wide Video Centre, The Netherlands, exposed Koushik to the video art scene of the late nineties. The experience of working with many pioneering artists laid the foundation for his expression. Back home, he made documentaries that were shown at international festivals including ‘FLYING IN A BLUE DREAM’ a film on ‘guitar God’ Joe Satriani, which was published worldwide by Sony BMG & Epic Records. He started APOPSTROPHE, one of India's most reputed companies for advertising & commercials, in 2007. The company has produced commercials for Gillette, Amazon, Dell, Livon, and many more. KALI Collective, a content development company, is his new venture focusing mainly on narrative projects. Trailer

Set‐up on a pre‐arranged date by their old‐fashioned Indian parents, Ravi and Rita seemingly have nothing in common. The situation turns both awkward and enlightening when they find themselves trapped inside together for a week. All Upcoming Events GET TICKETS Rehana, an assistant professor at a medical college, struggles to keep the harmony between work and family, as she has to play all the complex roles of a teacher, doctor, sister, daughter, and mother. One evening, she witnesses a student storming out of a professor’s office, crying. Deeply impacted, Rehana becomes dedicated to pursuing consequences for the perpetrator. She enters a maelstrom of controversy as she confronts aspects of her university, society, and herself that previously lay dormant. Azmeri Haque Badhon earned international acclaim for her resolute and electric central performance, including 'Best Actress' at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. + BAMBIRAK (short film) (Germany, US I German, Dari I 14 mins I dir. Zamarin Wahdat) When 8-year-old Kati stows away in her father's delivery van, Faruk must juggle his responsibilities as a dad while holding down his first job in a new country. Rehana Bangladesh I 107 mins I Drama, Thriller I 2021 Bengali w/ English subtitles About the Artist Born 1985 in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Abdullah Mohammad Saad graduated with a degree in education and research from the University of Dhaka. Live from Dhaka, his first feature film, was selected at Rotterdam and won the Silver Screen Award for Best Director at the Singapore International Film Festival. His second film, Rehana, was the first film from Bangladesh to be featured in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, won the 'Jury Grand Prize' and 'Best Performance by an Actress' Awards at the Asia Pacific Film Awards, and became Bangladesh's Official 2021 Oscar Submission. Trailer Credits Crew Writer/Director: ABDULLAH MOHAMMAD SAAD Producer(s): JEREMY CHUA EHSANUL HAQUE BABU Cinematographer: TUHIN TAMIJUL

< Our Team Devang Pathak Festival Team Festival Programming Devang Pathak is a professional screenwriter, researcher, and script consultant based in Mumbai. He started his writing journey on Anurag Kashyap’s feature film adaptations of Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. He has also been a journalist and writer whose work has been published in publications such as Quartz, Film Companion, BuzzFeed and The Hindu. A lifelong cinephile and advocate for the big screen experience, he started an offline forum and Substack newsletter in 2025 called Revival Cinema Project, which promotes community solutions for systemic issues and challenges in Indian cinema.

Time & Location April 22, 2024 at 6:00:00 PM We Luv Video | 100 N Loop Blvd E Unit A, Austin, TX 78751, USA About the Event Explore the craft of acting through our engaging class with the International multi-award winning artist Adil Hussain! You will get the opportunity to go over scenes and characters and ask all the questions you wish a successful versatile actor to address. Whether you’re intrigued by the art of acting or aiming to boost your skills, this enjoyable and accessible course is designed for you. Ideal for the total beginner who is either casually curious, a huge fan of the teacher or an aspiring novice actor who envisions a profession in acting. About the Artist Adil Hussain's vast experience, spans over 10 years of theater across Europe, Africa, and India, and he has over 80 films under his belt! He has won numerous awards including 5 Best Actor awards. Credits include Ang Lee's Oscar winning 'Life of Pi', Subhashish Bhutiani's 'Hotel Salvation/Mukti Bhavan', Iram Haq's 'What Will People Say', Prakash Jha's 'Pareeksha', Gautam Ghosh's 'The Wayfarer', Danis Tanovic's 'Tigers', Mira Nair's 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist', Pan Nalin's 'Angry Indian Goddesses', Partho Sen-Gupta's 'Sunrise', Italo Spinelli's 'Gangor', Prashant Nair's 'Umrika', Leena Yadav's 'Parched' and Bauddhayan Mukherji's 'The Violin Player' . Hussain has been the artistic director and trainer of the Society for Artists and Performers in Hampi, and a visiting faculty at Royal Conservatory of Performing Arts, The Hague. He is also a visiting faculty at his alma mater, the National School of Drama. IM Master Class Series: Acting Workshop with Adil Hussain Explore the craft of acting through our engaging class with the International multi-award winning artist Adil Hussain!

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2023 The Queen of My Dreams Narrative Feature English, Urdu mins 96 In-Person 2023 Canada, Pakistan Comedy, Drama Queer Pakistani grad student, Azra, is worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies on a trip home to Pakistan, Azra finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memories, both real and imagined; from her mother’s youth in Karachi to her own coming- of-age in rural Canada. Live ZOOM Q&A with Writer-Director Fawzia Mirza. Tickets 8/4/24, 9:30 PM AFS Cinema Writer/ Director Fawzia Mirza Fawzia Mirza is a Canadian film and TV actress, writer, producer, and director. Her work includes the web series Kam Kardashian and Brown Girl Problems and the 2017 film Signature Move. Director: Fawzia Mirza Producer: Andria Wilson Mirza, Jason Levangie, and Marc Tetreault Writer: Fawzia Mirza Cast: Amrit Kaur, Nimra Bucha, Hamza Haq, Ayana Manji, Ali A. Kazmi Editor: Simone Smith Crew: Alysha Brilla, Matt Irwin, Jesse Griffiths, Meher Jaffri, etc. This Event is supported in part by a Mini Grant from Humanities Texas. Community Partners for the Film More Films

Readings from eminent South Asian authors, in intimate settings, with the aim of creating conversation. Check out our first event with Kalki Koechlin at the Austin Public Library. Indie Meme Lit Exploring South Asian Literature in Austin Indie Meme has always cared about broadcasting progressive South Asian and Iranian voices. We have been doing that via film screenings and festivals now for a decade! As we turn the chapter on a new vision for Indie Meme, we want to expand the avenue through which we bring storytellers to their audiences. Indie Meme Lit is that initiative - we will hold events where we build inter-community bridges through books and writing. We'll highlight South Asian authors who are breaking taboos and telling fresh stories. Past Events Your Driver is Waiting: Priya Guns Elephant in The Womb: Kalki Koechlin

The character of cities over the years, has been tremendously redefined, incorporating an eclectic mix of cultural practices. Top of Page Tickets Top of Page Tickets To-Let 52 mins/Hindi & English with English Subtitles / India Available for Limited theatrical release & special screenings North America 2014 SYNOPSIS Big cities are now primarily cities of migrants coming from corners of the country in search of livelihood and shelter. The character of cities over the years, has been tremendously redefined, incorporating an eclectic mix of cultural practices. Yet, in a city like Delhi, the divisive lines between the landlord and the tenant are very strong. It is a relationship of power, hierarchy and prejudice. The Film gets into the lives of a single man, an artist couple, a music band and the filmmaker himself as they try to understand what home means in the continuous cycle of migration and flux. Best Long Documentary, International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2013 Official Selection, New York Indian Film Festival, 2013 A Film by Spandan Banerjee http://www.overdosefilms.com/spandan.html TICKETS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE Tickets TRAILER

Newton Kumaar, a rookie government clerk who belongs to a Dalit community, is sent on election duty to a Naxal-controlled town. Austin Dec 5th 2017 | DFW Dec 7th 2017 Newton GET TICKETS India/2017/106 Minutes/ Hindi with English Subtitles SYNOPSIS Newton Kumaar, a rookie government clerk who belongs to a Dalit community, is sent on election duty to a Naxal-controlled town in the conflict-ridden jungles of Chhattisgarh, India. Faced with the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels, he tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the odds stacked against him. He is disappointed when the voters do not turn up for the election. Later when a foreign reporter turns up at the polling station the security forces force the villagers from the constituency to turn up to cast their votes. Soon Newton realizes that they have no idea what the election is about. He desperately tries to educate them but the security head pushes him aside and tells villagers that voting machine is a toy. The foreign reporter gets a good news report about India's democracy Newton wants to sit at the polling booth for the stipulated time but is forced to flee due to a naxal attack which he realizes later was staged by the police. On the way back he decides to collect votes of four villagers who suddenly turn up from nowhere inside the forest from which the security forces are escorting Newton back. The chief of security is reluctant to let them do so. Taking his duty very seriously, Newton steals his gun and points it on the chief of forces till the villagers cast their votes. He even keeps him at gunpoint after their voting for the remaining two minutes of his official duty. The security forces then beat him up out of frustration. The movie concludes with a shot of the area 6 months later, showing mining activity ongoing, the Chief of security is shown shopping and indulging his wife and daughter over a bottle of olive oil. Newton is shown in his office keeping up with his old ways before a visit by the local election officer Malko and they agree to have tea but as per rules followed by Newton in the lunch time. GET TICKETS Interested in screening this in your hometown? Write to us TRAILER Tickets AUSTIN SCREENING Tuesday, December 5th 2017 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM AFS Cinema, 6406 N IH-35 Suite 3100, Austin, Texas 78752 ***Director Amit Masurkar will be present for a post-screening Q&A*** RSVP for our year-end Member-only party (for 2017 and 2018 members) GET TICKETS - Austin DFW SCREENING Thursday, December 7th 2017 | 7:15 - 9:15 PM Angelika Film Center & Café, Plano, TX Post screening Skype with filmmaker Amit Masurkar, followed by a Member Mixer *** If the ticket widget does not load, click here *** FILM SPONSOR FOOD SPONSOR COMMUNITY PARTNER MEDIA PARTNERS DIRECTOR'S PROFILE Amit Masurkar is born and brought up in Mumbai and studied in IES School, Dadar. Amit dropped out of an engineering course at Manipal Institute of Technology at the age of 20 to pursue filmmaking. He later acquired a BA degree in History from Mumbai University. STILLS Newton Still 2 Newton Still 1 Newton Still 4 Newton Still 3

Meet our 2019 sponsors, patrons and supporters. We are grateful to these organizations to help bring independent films from Southeast Asia to our audience. Our Sponsors 2018 IMFF Sponsors IMFF 2019 is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin, Economic Development Department IMFF 2019 Producing Sponsors IMFF 2019 Directing Sponsors Indie Meme Patron Sponsors Indie Meme Benefactor Film Sponsors We are grateful to our 2015 , 2016, 2017 and 2018 sponsors. Media Partners

A frustrated filmmaker can't get his latest feature to click. Things take a turn for the worse when the lead character he also plays runs out of the edit and into real life. ​ Back to Film Program $15 TICKETS ($12 for members) WATCH ONLINE: April 22-25th, 2022 Southwest Premiere I am Belmaya Nepal I 91 mins I Documentary I 2021 I Nepali w/ English subtitles BUY & WATCH ONLINE Nominated for 'Best Documentary' at the British Independent Film Awards Shot over 5 years, I am Belmaya follows the life and early filmmaking career of Belmaya Nepali, an aspiring documentarian from Nepal. Orphaned at age 9, Belmaya faced an unstable home life and discrimination due to her family status as 'low-caste' Dalits. She fell in love with photography at an orphanage in Pokhara, but had few opportunities to practice. Without a clear path forward, Belmaya found herself married and raising her first child, a daughter, in a restrictive home and social environment. Years later, a filmmaking course offers Belmaya another chance to pursue the visual arts and she leaps at the opportunity. Determined to record and relay the stories of her community, she begins documenting the lives of girls and women like herself - seeking opportunity in education, work, and all stages of life. "wonderfully engaging and unfettered" - BuzzMag, UK "an uplifting tale of determination and passion" - The Upcoming About the Artist(s) Born in a hill village near Pokhara, Belmaya Nepali had little formal education. As a child she often worked, cutting grass and collecting heavy firewood, and faced derision from some at her school. Orphaned at the age of 9, she moved to a home in Pokhara where she was introduced to photography at 14. She’d grab the camera at every opportunity, participating in exhibitions at the British Council in Nepal and the Royal College of Art in London. Her work was included in a book, My World, My View . In 2014, aged 21, she embarked on a documentary filmmaking training. Her graduation film, Educate Our Daughters , about the importance of education for girls, was selected for numerous film festivals. Belmaya has gone on to document the hardships of boatwomen in Pokhara, Rowing Against the Flow, for Thomson Reuters Foundation. Sue Carpenter is a documentary filmmaker, writer, photographer, and co-director of the documentary, I Am Belmaya , which follows a young Nepali woman, Belmaya, whom she met in 2006, when teaching in Pokhara. Sue also became a producer of Belmaya's first documentary short, Educate Our Daughters , which was selected for 7 international festivals, triumphing at the UK Asian Film Festival 2019. Sue is director of Tideturner Films , with the mission of making independent documentaries, particularly those that instigate social change and turn the tide on injustices against women. She is a keen supporter of her community and in 2019 completed the documentary, The Wonderful Walk, about the regeneration of Herne Hill Station Underpass and creation of a magnificent 40 metre mural. Sue is a founder trustee of GlobalGirl Media UK , a charity that trains girls in digital media skills to change the male-dominated narrative in the media. Trailer Thank you to our community partner for this screening!