2022 Birdsong Documentary Hmong, English mins 18 Virtual 2022 Laos Drama Tickets 4/28/23, 12:00 PM Free with IMFF Badge Directors Sparsh Ahuja & Omi Gupta Omi Gupta and Sparsh Ahuja are filmmakers based between London, Melbourne and New Delhi. Their first collaboration, 'Child of Empire', a VR experience of the 1947 Partition of British India, premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The film opened to glowing reviews in The Economist, and was also the front page article of The Hindu weekend following Sundance. Sparsh is lead producer on 'Lost Migrations', a series of three animated shorts on postcolonial South Asia. Omi has written one episode in this series, called ‘Seabirds’, which follows the story of the Tamil exodus from Burma following the Japanese occupation in the Second World War. Their work has exhibited at the BFI and V&A, London. Director: Sparsh Ahuja & Omi Gupta Producer: Writer: Sparsh Ahuja & Omi Gupta Cast: Neng Chue Vang, Neng Chi Lee, Chia Por Lee Editor: Crew: This Event is supported in part by a Mini Grant from Humanities Texas. Community Partners for the Film More Films

Dhaanu, a poor villager, heavily in financial debt, stealthily returns from the city to the village one night. He is hiding from a moneylender who he owes a handsome sum of money. Pushed against the wall, he decides to sell his donkey, Bhasmasur, in the city. Bhasmasur India | 1h 14min | Hindi with English subtitles 4/19/18, Meem-er Night MEEM-ER NIGHT INFO & TICKETS SYNOPSIS Dhaanu, a poor villager, heavily in financial debt, stealthily returns from the city to the village one night. He is hiding from a moneylender who he owes a handsome sum of money. Pushed against the wall, he decides to sell his donkey, Bhasmasur, in the city. Dhaanu's son Tipu, who yearns to go the annual fair in the city, shares a very strong bond with the donkey, Bhasmasur. Tipu in his own childish ways tries to stop Bhasmasur from being sold, but remains unsuccessful. Dhaanu decides to take Tipu to the city too. The trio set off on a journey from the in lands of Rajasthan towards the city, by foot. Along the journey, numerous events take place, bringing the father and son closer. But, will Dhaanu be able to make this bond last? TRAILER

A New York actor & playwright investigates the pasts of his Bangladeshi immigrant parents, unearthing a lost history in which South Asian Muslims, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans forged an extraordinary multiracial community in mid-20th century Harlem. April 15, 2023 at 11:45:00 AM AFS Cinema Virtual April 28 - May 1, 2023 Texas Premiere In Search of Bengali Harlem USA, Bangladesh | Documentary 2022 | 85 min | English, Bengali In-Person Q&A w/ directors Alaudin Ullah & Vivek Bald TICKETS DONATE TO NEPAL Official Selection of DOC NYC & CAAMFest 2022 As a teenager in 1980s Harlem, Alaudin Ullah was swept up in the revolutionary energy of hip-hop. He rejected his working-class Bangladeshi parents and turned his back on everything South Asian and Muslim. Now, as an actor and playwright contending with the Islamophobia of post-9/11 Hollywood, Ullah wants to tell his parents' stories - but he has no idea who they really were. In Search of Bengali Harlem follows Ullah from the streets of New York to the villages of Bangladesh to uncover the pasts of his father and mother. In doing so, he discovers a lost history - in which South Asian Muslims, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans forged an extraordinary multiracial community in the tenements of mid- 20th century Harlem. Restoration Process About the Artist Alaudin Ullah is a playwright, actor, and the son of one of the first Bengali Muslim men to settle in Harlem. Ullah is the author of the acclaimed one-man show, "DISHWASHER DREAMS," based on his father’s life in New York City in the 1930s-60s. Ullah premiered the show at the New Works Now! Festivalat New York’s Joseph Papp Public Theater, and was subsequently awarded one of the Theater’s prestigious Emerging Writers Group Fellowships. Ullah has since performed DISHWASHER DREAMS across the US, including most recently a 2021-22 run at Chicago's Writers Theater and at Connecticut’s Hartford Stage. Ullah’s three-act play "HALAL BROTHERS" centers on the interactions between African American and Bengali Muslims in a Harlem halal butcher’s shop on the day of Malcolm X’s murder in 1965. This emotionally charged ensemble drama is in development for stage production in 2022. --- Vivek Bald is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, digital media producer, and scholar. His work over the past twenty-five years has explored the stories and experiences of South Asians in the U.S. and Britain. Bald’s first documentary TAXI-VALA/AUTO-BIOGRAPHY (1994) which examined the lives and activism of New York City taxi drivers from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, was showcased by the Whitney Museum, the San Francisco Int'l Asian American Film Festival and PBS. His second documentary MUTINY: ASIANS STORM BRITISH MUSIC (2003) focused on South Asian youth, music, and anti-racist politics in 1970s-90s Britain. It premiered in New York as part of Lincoln Center’s Independents Night series and screened at two dozen film festivals in thirteen countries. In 2020, Bald consulted upon and appeared in the Peabody Award winning PBS documentary series, ASIAN AMERICANS. He is the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press, 2013) and the faculty Director of MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, a unit devoted to the analysis and incubation of new forms of documentary: including VR & AR projects. Trailer For English subtitles, make sure to turn on the YouTube closed captions. Credits Crew: Director: Alaudin Ullah & Vivek Bald Writer: Alaudin Ullah & Vivek Bald Beyza Boyac ioglu Producer(s): Susannah Ludwig Film Editor: Beyza Boyac ioglu Featured Cast: Thank you to our community partners for this screening! This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A leopard wanders into a housing complex on Mumbai’s forest edge, awakening paranoia in 8 year-old Apu. April 26, 2026 at 3:45:00 PM AFS Cinema United States Premiere Waagh (The Leopard) India | Short 2025 | 20 mins | Marathi, English Shown as part of the Family Shorts Program TICKETS DONATE TO NEPAL FrightFest, London 2025 Beijing International Film Festival 2025 Ahmedabad Children and Youth Film Festival 2025 When a leopard wanders into a redeveloped apartment complex in Mumbai - its natural habitat long since encroached upon - fear quickly spreads. Mumbai is the only city in the world with a forest nestled within its limits, where leopards co-exist with malls, highways, and high rises. When the leopard is found dead, 8-year-old Apu’s world begins to distort. Waagh is a tense psychological drama that explores childhood paranoia, silent fears, and the primal instincts simmering beneath the fragile surface of urban life. Restoration Process About the Artist Mukti Krishan is a filmmaker and writer whose work spans fiction, documentary, and animation. A graduate of Vancouver Film School, she began her career in VFX and animation before transitioning to live-action storytelling, with a focus on emotionally resonant, psychologically layered narratives. Her fiction projects have been supported by the Asia Society Fellowship Grant and the Mumbai Mantra–Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab. As a documentary director, her work has been commissioned by Discovery, YouTube Originals, and Zee5. Her independent film Raqs-e-Inquilab, set in Kashmir, was featured on MUBI and The Atlantic Selects. In the commercial space, she has directed acclaimed campaigns for MTV, Google, Lux, and Asian Paints, among others, earning recognition including a Kyoorius Blue Elephant finalist and a Digies Award for Best Short. Across formats, Mukti’s films primarily explore themes of identity, silence, and the hidden interior lives of her characters. Trailer For English subtitles, make sure to turn on the YouTube closed captions. Credits Crew: Director: Mukti Krishan Writer: Mukti Krishan Kamya Nair Producer(s): Mukti Krishan Film Editor: Abhro Banerjee Featured Cast: Arjun Amedkar Sagar Deshmukh Sharvari Patankar Thank you to our community partners for this screening! This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In a dystopian world where people are forced to wear paper bags over their heads, a newly appointed council member sparks an accidental revolution. April 26, 2026 at 1:00:00 PM AFS Cinema Texas Premiere Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust India, France, Germany | Narrative Feature 2024 | 103 mins | English Recorded Q&A with writer-director Ishan Shukla Preceeded by the short film A door to my memory TICKETS DONATE TO NEPAL International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2024 – World Premiere, Bright Future ETPAC Award for Best Asian Film Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF) 2024 – Belgian premiere Cinedays Festival of European Film 2024 – North Macedonian premiere Ishan Shukla’s SCHIRKOA - IN LIES WE TRUST is an animated film that transports you to a future society where nothing is as it seems. Some things about Schirkoa feel familiar, including businessmen with bad habits, globalized urban landscapes, and ties of love and passion. However, everything is put into question when one councilman falls for someone he shouldn’t, and uncovers the true corruption, greed, and control running Schirkoa. Once he makes a key discovery, the fabric of society threatens to collapse on him. With voice acting from Asia Argento, Anurag Kashyap, and Gaspar Noé, this edgy Orwellian tale will haunt as much as it challenges our current notions of culture, civilization, and what the future holds. Restoration Process About the Artist Ishan Shukla created his first comic at the age of six and continued developing original comic work throughout his school years. After working in Singapore’s animation industry for several years, he returned to India and single-handedly completed his first short film, Schirkoa. The film, which later inspired his animated feature Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, received over 30 awards and became the first Indian animated short to be longlisted for the Academy Awards®, followed by screenings at more than 120 international film festivals. He has since founded his own animation studio, Red Cigarette Media, where he focuses on creating deeply personal and artistically driven animated feature films for adult audiences, bridging arthouse sensibilities with broader appeal. Ishan Shukla also directed The Bandits of Golak, one of the nine short films in the Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 anthology from Lucasfilm, which premiered in May 2023 on Disney+. Trailer For English subtitles, make sure to turn on the YouTube closed captions. Credits Crew: Director: Ishan Shukla Writer: Ishan Shukla Producer(s): Bich-Quan Tran,Ishan Shukla Film Editor: Nicolas Titeux Featured Cast: Golshifteh Farahani Asia Argento SoKo King Khan Denzil Smith John Sutton Tibu Fortes Shahbaz Sarwar Lav Diaz Karan Johar Shekhar Kapur Anurag Kashyap Piyush Mishra Gaspar Noe Thank you to our community partners for this screening! This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A recent immigrant from Sri Lanka, 56-year-old Perianayaki’s days always begin at her dead-end job stacking shelves at the local supermarket. As a result of her inability to speak English, she struggles to fit in and build meaningful relationships.Today, on her wedding anniversary, Perianayaki is forced to reconcile with the bittersweet realities of her life. Filmocracy Virtual April 28 - May 1, 2023 Periyanayaki New Zealand | Short 2022 | 11 mins | English, Tamil TICKETS DONATE TO NEPAL Restoration Process About the Artist Since graduating from the University of Auckland in 2018 with an MA in Screen Production, Bala Murali Shingade has been working as a writer, director and actor for screen and theatre. For his MA thesis film, Bala was awarded the Geoff Evans Prize for Screen Excellence. In 2019, he wrote, directed, and edited 800 LUNCHES, a short film commissioned and funded by the Outlook for Someday. Trailer For English subtitles, make sure to turn on the YouTube closed captions. Credits Crew: Director: Bala Murali Shingade Writer: Bala Murali Shingade Producer(s): Film Editor: Featured Cast: Jeyagowri Sivakumaran Thank you to our community partners for this screening! This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

An illegal immigrant father in the UK looks for his missing daughter while trying to avoid the police radar. April 19, 2024 at 6:15:00 PM AFS Cinema Texas Premiere Footprints on Water United Kingdom | Narrative Feature 2023 | 108 mins | English, Malyalam In-Person Q&A with Director Nathalia Syam & Lead Actor Adil Hussain TICKETS DONATE TO NEPAL World Premiere - New York Indian Film Festival, Winner - Best Debut Award UK Premiere - UK Asian Film Festival Away from the glitz and glam of Birmingham resides an illegal immigrant community who are always in hiding, leaving no proof of their existence, not even their footprints. Raghu, an illegal immigrant in Birmingham - UK, believes that he has finally struck gold as his daughter, Meera, is all set to marry a wealthy groom, a legal resident in the UK. Raghu was a small-scale business owner in India who fled to the UK with his wife and daughter after being mired in a financial scam. The life that awaited them in the UK was far from perfect – they were dumped into shared accommodation, they did not have legit visas, and they were all expected to work for a meagre wage. Raghu regrets this move, but he is left with no choice but to stay on in the UK, make enough money to pay off his debts, and return home with dignity. Six years on, Raghu now works for a fraudulent solicitor who mints money making fake passports and visa appeals. Raghu is his trusted employee, and his boss has paid back his loyalty by finding the perfect groom for Meera. Following a heated argument with Raghu, Meera storms out of the home and never returns. Raghu worries, knowing Meera's habit of making hasty extreme decisions in the spur of the moment. Raghu sets on a mission to find her all by himself without coming under the police radar. Raghu's search for Meera unveils a different side of her life that he never knew existed. Raghu realizes that in his race behind the materialistic riches, he has lost everything and everyone that mattered to him the most. Now, the only priority in his life is to see his daughter safe. But is he too late? Restoration Process About the Artist Nathalia is a London based debutant feature film director of Footprints On Water. Between the British and Indian film industries, she has experience working as an associate director/ 1st AD and has broadcast credits for her previous short-films and commercials. Nathalia is also a Film Practitioner at a Film School in London. Her previous short film, Lehenga, was nominated for the 'Best of British' award at the BAFTA qualifying 'Iris Prize' Award in Cardiff. Trailer For English subtitles, make sure to turn on the YouTube closed captions. Credits Crew: Director: Nathalia Syam Writer: Neetha Syam Producer(s): Mohaan Naadar Film Editor: Suresh Pai Featured Cast: Adil Hussain, Nimisha Sajayan, Antonio Aakeel, Lena Thank you to our community partners for this screening! This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A young boy addicted to iFatwa, an app that crowdsources religious death sentences, spends his days swiping on the lives of strangers. April 15, 2023 at 9:30:00 AM AFS Cinemas Virtual April 28 - May 1, 2023 Swipe Pakistan | Short 2020 | 14 min | Urdu TICKETS DONATE TO NEPAL Official Selection of Annecy International Animation Film Festival, AnimaFest Zagreb, and Bengalura International Film Festival '21 A young boy addicted to iFatwa, an app that crowdsources religious death sentences, spends his days swiping on the lives of strangers. The second animated film created by the Lahore-based Puffball Studios, SWIPE is a confrontation of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, extrajudicial violence, and decreasing space for difference and expression. Restoration Process About the Artist Arafat Mazhar is the Director of Engage Foundation, where 9 years of research came together in the seminal report, “The Untold Truth of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws,” recognized for its rigor by human rights groups and academics. In 2019, Arafat launched the animation studio, Puffball. Puffball Studio’s debut film was the highly acclaimed Pakistani dystopian short, SHEHR-E-TABASSUM. The film takes inspiration from lessons learned on censorship while researching Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws to tell a poignant story about fear and freedom in in Pakistan today. SWIPE is the studio's second film and has screened at many of the world's leading festivals of animation. Trailer For English subtitles, make sure to turn on the YouTube closed captions. Credits Crew: Director: Arafat Mazhar Writer: Arafat Mazhar Producer(s): Arafat Mazhar Rasti Farooq Momin Masood Fatima Anwar Film Editor: Haseeb Rehman Featured Cast: Rasti Farooq Arafat Mazhar Fahad Shah Abeer Sheikh Thank you to our community partners for this screening! This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A middle aged Indian woman visits a Texas cattle ranch and learns the meaning of true grit. April 10, 2025 at 6:30:00 PM AFS Cinema Virtual May 2 - 4, 2025 Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation Indie Meme Special 10th Year Retrospective Showcase World Premiere Cowboys and Hindus USA | Short 2025 | 16 mins | English TICKETS WATCH ONLINE Limited tickets available on site. A depressed, affluent, middle aged Hindu woman, ASHA, accompanies her domineering husband to a Texas cattle ranch. While there, she befriends a cattle woman who takes the Hindu woman under her wing and teaches her all about cowboy culture. Asha soon finds purpose on the ranch and in her life. She discovers the meaning of true American grit. Film Heritage Foundation used the best surviving elements for the restoration – the original camera negative and the 35 mm print preserved at the NFDC – NFAI. Unfortunately, the sound negative was not available. We digitized the sound from the 35 mm print preserved at Film Heritage Foundation. The film elements were repaired by the Film Heritage Foundation conservators and the scanning was done in Prasad Lab in Chennai We found that due to the deterioration of the print, there were vertical green lines on many parts of the film. While the scanning and digital clean-up was done at Prasad under the supervision of L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, the grading, sound restoration and mastering was done at the lab in Bologna. Both Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, the cinematographer of the film, have been involved in the restoration of the film. Restoration Process Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation The screening will be preceded by a performance by Specific Thing. Specific Thing is the project of local musician Román. Sometimes he plays by himself and sometimes he plays with his snazzy band — he loves to do both! And the music? It draws from folk, punk, pop, latin, communism, animals, friends... He likes to keep it cartoony, quick, and catchy. The band released an album in 2025 called "Now Is Actually Not A Good Time". Find more at @specificthing on Instagram. Meet Specific Thing About the Artist Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation Tejal Desai is an award-winning screenwriter. He was awarded the most coveted and prestigious screenwriting award, the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) for his comedy script LINDA AND HENRY. Subsequently he was hired by Disney Studios to develop and write a sequel to PINOCCHIO. His screenplay, COWBOYS & HINDUS, won the Final Draft Big Break Screenplay competition and was honored on stage alongside Aaron Sorkin at Final Draft’s Hall of Fame Awards. COWBOYS & HINDUS also won the Cinestory Screenplay Competition and was named a semifinalist at the Sundance Screenwriting Institute. Tejal has also written on assignment for Focus Features and Lifetime Television. He produced the feature length drama, ABCD, starring Madhur Jaffrey which premiered at the 43rd London Film Festival and won Best Independent Film at the Houston Film Festival. Currently, Tejal finished writing and directing the short films of Cowboys and Hindus and plans to shoot the feature version in 2026 with Priya Deva and Adil Hussain to star. He ha also finished writing and directing a comedy called Dad’s Final Wish, about a dying man’s final wish is to find his childhood bully and beat him before he dies. Tejal currently lives in Austin with his wife and two sons. Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation Trailer Credits Crew: Director: Tejal Desai Writer: Tejal Desai Producers: Andrew Lee Kirtana Banskota Film Editor: Featured Cast: Priya Deva Samir Khan Paula Saletnik Tara Amin Restoration Effort Led By: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Director, Film Heritage Foundation Restoration Credit: Restored by Film Heritage Foundation in association with Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.(Amul), the cinematographer Govind Nihalani and the director Shyam Benegal. Funding supported by Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.(Amul) Thank you to our community partners for this screening!

2023 Terrestrial Verses Narrative Feature Farsi mins 77 Texas Premiere In-Person 2023 Iran Drama Terrestrial Verses follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities, from school teachers to bureaucrats. These stirring vignettes, humorous and affecting, capture the spirit and determination of people amidst adversity, offering a nuanced portrait of a complex society. Cannes Film Festival BFI London Film Festival Live, ZOOM Q&A with Filmmaker Alireza Khatami Tickets 4/20/24, 9:00 PM All Badges, Individual Tickets AFS Cinema Writers / Directors Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami Ali Asgari is a prominent Iranian cinema figure with more than 200 awards to his name. Two of his short films, More Than Two Hours (2013) and The Silence (2016), were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes. The Baby was featured in the short film competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2014. Ali's films focus on the precarious lives of individuals living on the margins of society in his native country, Iran. His debut film, “Disappearance”, was developed at the Cinéfondation Residency of the Festival de Cannes and had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in 2017. "Until Tomorrow," his second feature film, at the Berlinale in 2022. Ali is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Alireza is an award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker based in Canada. Born into the indigenous Khamse tribe in Iran, he is influenced by his heritage's rich storytelling traditions. His films poignantly investigate the interconnection of memory, trauma, and power dynamics, often through filmmakers such as Asghar Farhadi. His debut feature, "Oblivion Verses," developed at the Cinéfondation Residency of the Festival de Cannes, premiered at the Venice Film Festival, winning three awards, including the Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay and the FIPRESCI Prize. Alireza also co-wrote "Until Tomorrow," which premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival. He is currently working on an auto-fictional psychological thriller in Turkey. Director: Alireza Khatami, Ali Asgari Producer: Ali Asgari, Milad Khosravi, Alireza Khatami, Cyrus Neshvad, Reyhaneh Rad Writer: Alireza Khatami, Ali Asgari Cast: Bahram Ark, Arghavan Shabani, Servin Zabetian, Sadaf Asgari, Faezeh Rad, Hossein Soleymani, Majid Salehi, Farzin Mohades, Gouhar Kheir Andish, Ardeshir Kazemi Editor: Ehsan Vaseghi Crew: Adib Sobhani, Hamed Aslani, Masoud Fayaz Zadeh This Event is supported in part by a Mini Grant from Humanities Texas. Community Partners for the Film More Films

An Indian-American family must grapple with a new reality when their high-achieving son drops out of college. Love Goes Through Your Mind 1h 26min | Drama GET TICKETS AUSTIN - Oct 26th and 29th 2018 SYNOPSIS An Indian-American family must grapple with a new reality when their high-achieving son drops out of college and returns home a different person than when he left. His parents are unable to accept or admit that their son is now struggling with mental illness, and with his condition worsening, his younger sister, still in high school and reckoning with her own future, takes it upon herself to rescue him. Directed by: Ronak Shah CO-PRESENTED WITH Tickets AUSTIN SCREENINGS If you are interested in tickets just for this film, you may purchase them using the links below. Please note that you need to purchase 5 or more tickets at one time using the Passphrase provided. Alamo Draft House Village Friday, October 26th 2018 @ 6:30 PM use Passphrase "indielove1" Hideout Theater Monday, October 29th 2018 @ 6:45 PM use Passphrase "indielove2" GET TICKETS GET TICKETS Purchase festival Film Pass (use Coupon Code - "AFFcommunityFP" for $10 off) GET FILM PASS

Mariam, mother & breadwinner for her migrant family in Mumbai, decides to become an illegal surrogate to support her children. However, as the pregnancy progresses she faces unexpected challenges with the family awaiting the child. Filmocracy Virtual April 28 - May 1, 2023 Mariam India | Narrative Feature 2021 | 78 min | Hindi TICKETS DONATE TO NEPAL Official Selection of Busan International Film Festival MARIAM follows a rural family, newly arrived in Mumbai and trying to make ends meet as migrant workers. The breadwinner is Mariam, who has to look after her three daughters and their education during the COVID pandemic. Soon, she finds an unexpected path to earn for her family - serving as an illegal pregnancy surrogate. However, when problems with the potential parents arise the issue of who will ultimately raise the child is called into question. Restoration Process About the Artist Born in Chauri Chaura, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, Arvind Pratap is a self-taught screenwriter, editor and director based in Mumbai. After completing an MBA in marketing, he decided to pursue a career in film making. THE RELUCTANT CRIME (2020), Pratap's first feature, won 'Best Director', 'Best Actress', and 'Best Supporting Actor' at Antakya International Film Festival. His second experimental feature LIFE IS SUFFERING DEATH IS SALVATION had its world premiere at International Film Festival of Kerala. MARIAM, his third feature, received support from Asian Cinema Fund and was selected to world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival. Trailer For English subtitles, make sure to turn on the YouTube closed captions. Credits Crew: Director: Arvind Pratap Writer: Arvind Pratap Producer(s): Abhishek Yadav Sanjay Bhutiani Shubhashish Bhutiani Awanish Kotnaal Arvind Pratap Sajida Sharma Film Editor: Arvind Pratap Featured Cast: Chitrangada Satarupa Bhupesh Singh Thank you to our community partners for this screening! This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.