A film that explores "questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through the stories of a photographer, an ailing monk and a stockbroker. Top of Page Tickets Top of Page Tickets Ship of Theseus 143 minutes / Languages - English, Hindi, Arabic, Swedish (with English Subtitles) / India / North America release 2014 SYNOPSIS Ship of Theseus is a 2012 Indian drama film written and directed by Anand Gandhi, and produced by actor Sohum Shah. The film explores "questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through the stories of an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and an enterprising stockbroker".The title of the film alludes to Theseus’ paradox, most notably recorded in Life of Theseus, wherein the Greek philosopher Plutarch inquires whether a ship that has been restored by replacing all its parts remains the same ship.The film opens with a visually impaired and celebrated photographer in the process of undergoing a cornea transplant that will restore her vision. Though the surgery is a success and Aaliya’s vision is restored, she has trouble adjusting to her newfound sense of sight...The second story is of an erudite monk, who is part of a petition to ban animal testing in India. When he is diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, his reluctance towards medication is questioned and he must now depend on the people he’s been fighting against ...And the final story is of a very young stockbroker who just had his kidney transplanted. He soon learns of a case of kidney tourism involving an impoverished bricklayer. His initial fear is that his new kidney originally belonged to this man...These three stories were developed by Writer/Director Anand Gandhi, addressing the idea of the self, change and death. A Film By Anand Gandhi http://recyclewala.blogspot.com/ TICKETS ARE UNAVAILABLE Tickets TRAILER PICTURES FROM THE SCREENING

A wronged young tribal woman, in the absence of systemic justice, turns rebel, but struggles to be able to fulfill all the expectations that the path to retribution demands. Back to Film Program Virtual Exclusive WATCH ONLINE: April 22-25th, 2022 Cycle India I 20 mins I Drama I 2021 I Hindi, Telugu, Oriya, Bengali w/ English subtitles BUY & WATCH ONLINE A wronged young tribal woman, in the absence of systemic justice, turns rebel, but struggles to be able to fulfill all the expectations that the path to retribution demands. Cycle' is a multilingual short film shot on a phone camera as found footage, and filmed in three uninterrupted long takes. The film features a large and ethnically varied cast, most of who were facing a camera for the first time ever. This film plays with the A MATTER OF SURVIVAL shorts program online. About the Artist Devashish Makhija has written and directed the multiple award winning short films TAANDAV, 'EL' AYICHI, AGLI BAAR (And then they came for me),'RAHIM MURGE PE MAT RO (Don’t cry for Rahim LeCock), ABSENY, HAPPY, and the full length features AJJI and BHONSLE. His short and feature films have competed at the international film festivals of Rotterdam, Gothenberg, Black Nights, Beaune, Busan, Glasgow, Tampere, MOMA, APSA, Barcelona, Singapore, amongst many others. He has had a solo art show 'Occupying Silence'; and wote Tulika's bestselling children's books When Ali became Bajrangbali and Why Paploo was perplexed , as well as a Harper-Collins collection of short stories Forgetting , the Neev Literature Award winning novel Oonga, , and the forthcoming book of poems Disengaged.

CATAMARAN revolves around the Tsunami-affected lives of the middle-aged Singaram, who is now taking care of his orphaned niece Anandhi, who is a teacher, and nephew Mani, who are the children of his elder and younger sisters, respectively. Catamaran (Kattumaram) AUSTIN Aug 25th (6:30 pm) INDIA | 72 minutes AUSTIN SCREENING Wednesday, November 14th 2018 | 7:30 PM AFS Cinema, 6406 N IH-35 Suite 3100, Austin, Texas 78752 Tickets - aGLIFF Co-presented with: SYNOPSIS CATAMARAN revolves around the Tsunami-affected lives of the middle-aged Singaram, who is now taking care of his orphaned niece Anandhi, who is a teacher, and nephew Mani, who are the children of his elder and younger sisters, respectively. As the fisherman Singaram works hard to provide for his family, he also tries to arrange a groom for his niece, who rejects the many alliances he suggests. Once on an impulse, when he proposes to his niece, she is shocked. Singaram soon comes to know that she is in love with a fellow female teacher, Kavita. As Singaram comes to terms with his niece's sexual orientation, he is ostracized by his community because of her sexual transgression. The patriarchal Singaram's ego is deflated, and he empathizes with the plight of the village barber, the transwoman Alankaram. Director: Swarnavel Eswaran Trailer

Newborns attempts to provide a lens to the survivors of acid violence, to look forward and gaze back. Newborns 9min / doc short / India SYNOPSIS Filmmaker – Megha Ramaswami Newborns attempts to provide a lens to the survivors of acid violence, to look forward and gaze back. They take us through the ennui of their domestic and public spaces in a nameless dystopian city, its factories, houses and motels, and its promises, never honored. Hindi with English Subtitles Tickets TICKETS NOT AVAILABLE TRAILER

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Having found someone she likes, Maya is ready to commit to marriage under one non-negotiable condition: that her mother joins the household. The secret reason behind this requirement is awkwardly revealed during a loquacious exchange about love marriage over lunch between the two families. Maya India | 19 MIN.|Hindi, English Virtual IMFF 2020 Screening Details: Saturday, May 2 2020 | Screening : 9.45pm - 11.00pm SYNOPSIS Having found someone she likes, Maya is ready to commit to marriage under one non-negotiable condition: that her mother joins the household. The secret reason behind this requirement is awkwardly revealed during a loquacious exchange about love marriage over lunch between the two families. DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT Vikas Chandra As you cross the age of 30, one of the first realizations that hits home – is the fact about your parents – that they are not going to be around forever. But since you have not touched 40 yet, you try to deny that fact, and fight with yourself to keep that sinking feeling away. This story emerged as the necessity to confront my own fears – about loss and the need to cope with it. STILLS SLIDE DECK 1/2

A retired professor whose wife has been in a coma for eight months meets a terrified young woman, whose husband has slipped into coma after a sudden accident. Waiting 105 Minutes | Hindi, English, Malyalam with English Subtitles Live with courage, Love with Faith and Laugh with Hope! SYNOPSIS A retired professor whose wife has been in a coma for eight months meets a terrified young woman, whose husband has slipped into coma after a sudden accident. Will grief drive them both insane, or can two lonely strangers support each other? At the heart of it, ‘Waiting’ is a film about a special relationship between two people who befriend each other unexpectedly. It is a film about grief, yes, but it is also about confronting it. Poignant, tender and humorous the brilliant cast draws you in and you wait with them and sometimes for them. What does it really mean to love someone? Is it to have the strength to let go of your loved one even if it kills you... or to have the courage to accept them in whatever shape and form they are in. One could also perhaps call it an anatomy of grief - closely observing what it does to you. But at the heart of it all, it is a relationship film - of Shiv and Tara, the two unlikely characters who become kindred spirits and help each other out. - director Anu Menon AWARDS London Asian Film Festival - Best Director AUSTIN - SUNDAY JULY 24th | 11:00 am Southwest Theaters - Lake Creek 7 Discount Theater 13729 Research Blvd, # 1500, Austin, Texas 78750 DALLAS - THURSDAY JULY 21st | 7:15 pm Angelika Film Center - Plano 7205 Bishop Rd, Plano, Texas 75024 Follow event on Facebook Interested in screening this in your hometown? Write to us COMMUNITY PARTNERS MEDIA PARTNERS TICKETS NOT AVAILABLE Tickets TRAILER STILLS

Axone - a recipe for disaster. Axone explores humor, racism & culture as it follows a group of Northeasterners through a wedding, a feast & landlord-tenant clash in Delhi. Ramprasad ki Tehrvi DFW Screening: April 1st 2020 | Screening : 7.00pm Angelika Film Center & Cafe, PLANO Member Tickets: $12 Non-Member Tickets: $15 Student : $8 North America Premiere Closing Night Film for IMFF 2020 TICKETS (DFW) IMFF 2020 Screening: April 5th 2020 | Screening : 6.15pm - 8.15pm AFS Cinema, Austin Member Tickets: $12 Non-Member Tickets: $15 Student: $8 TICKETS (IMFF@ATX) India | Fiction | Drama, Comedy | 2019 | 106 MIN. |Hindi; English Subtitles Bauji’s entire family comes under one roof for 13 days after he passes away. We get a glimpse of their dynamics, politics and insecurities as each one of them is on their journey to discover their own selves and truth. SYNOPSIS According to the Hindu traditions and rituals, after the death of a person, certain customs are to be performed for thirteen days, known as ‘Tehrvi’. This story talks about the truth behind these thirteen days. It is a satire on the traditions and the rituals of our Indian society. Every kind of relationship has its own truth. But with some close relations, we are not really given any choice, love, respect, and care become an expectation and a responsibility rather than a personal expression. In playing the formal characters enforced on us, we tend to forget to say ‘thank you’ and ‘sorry’ in these relations. With time, it becomes difficult to speak the unspoken but emotions are felt more deeply after reaching a certain age. We are lost in trying to match our notes (sur ) with the world, never bothering to try and find our own unique sur . The day we find our voice, we start living again. Bauji’s wish to have his family under one roof is fulfilled after his death. His slightly whimsical notions about life are understood by his wife after he has passed away. We understand the importance of things only in retrospect, we miss people when they are long gone. The film speaks about understanding our own selves, about not taking our relations for granted and about being grateful for the time we have had and will have. DIRECTOR’S NOTE The topic of death has always been a matter of debate and discussion among humans. With death comes different traditions and rituals based on the society and community we live in, from Jazz Funeral in the West, where the grieving members strike a balance between mourning and joy, to the Sky Burial in Tibet and Mongolia where the dead are left to decay on their own. In Indian Hindu tradition, the death of a person requires customs and prayers to be performed for thirteen days (known as Tehrvi), by the family members and loved ones of the deceased. Though this period may seem as a time of immense mourning and sadness, it is only when we dig deeper we understand about the human psyche. In my film, Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi, after the death of Babu Ji, the head of the family, his kids, in laws and grandchildren come together under one roof to mourn his death. Ram Prasad’s family also looks like a close-knit family grieving the loss of their father, but as we delve deeper we understand each character’s own emotional turmoil and their life problems. In this film I have also tried to highlight the importance of death and the resulting loss. The void they leave behind is unimaginable and how we value them once they are taken away from our world forever. In the end this film will be a gentle reminder for all the viewers to understand that the beauty of life is that it will never come again. DIRECTOR'S PROFILE & FILM CREW Director : Seema Bhargava Pahwa Seema Bhargava Pahwa is a veteran Indian film, television and theatre actress. At the 63rd Filmfare Awards, she was twice nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for the films Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017) and Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (2017). Ram Prasad ki Tehrvi is her directorial debut. PRINCIPAL CREW: Producer - Manish Mundra (Drishyam Films), Jyoti Deshpande (Jio Studios) Story and Script/Screenplay - Seema Bhargava Pahwa Director of Photography - Sudip Sengupta Editor - Dipika Kalra Music - Sagar Desai Cast - Naseeruddin Shah, Supriya Pathak, Konkona Sen Sharma, Parambrata Chatterjee, Vinay Pathak, Vikrant Massey, Manoj Pahwa Sound Design - Resul Pookutty Production Design - Parijat Poddar Production Company - Drishyam Films STILLS SLIDE DECK 1/3

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While attending her sister's wedding in India, Anita is pushed to question whether her life in America is any better than those in her hometown.  Back to Festival Program Texas Premiere Anita India I 17 mins I Drama I 2020 I Gujarati w/ English subtitles While attending her sister's wedding in India, Anita is pushed to question whether her life in America is any better than those in her hometown. Director's Statement: Anita is my thesis film for an MFA in Screenwriting & Directing at Columbia University in. It also serves as a 'proof of concept' for my first feature length film, Salt . I grew up in a community with the belief that a woman who moves to America lives an exciting, independent life. Anita is an exploration of this myth of the independent, young, expat wife and the struggle to maintain this façade. The visual language of this film is rigid and deliberate to convey the increasing dissonance Anita feels upon returning to her family home and the eventual disillusionment of her American dream. + Screens with the feature HAVA, MARYAM, AYESHA GET YOUR FESTIVAL BADGE VIRTUAL PREMIERE : SAT. APRIL 17 - 3:30PM CT About the Artist Born and raised in India, Sushma Khadepaun is a writer/director based in New York City. She writes stories that explore identity, freedom, and the myth of the American Dream. Her short film ANITA premiered In Competition at the Venice Film Festival and went on to win The Gotham Award/Focus Features Student Showcase & the National Board of Review Student Grant Award. Sushma often mentors screenwriters at Sundance Co//ab, a digital expression of the Sundance Labs & Festival , and is an Adjunct Professor at VCUArts. She is herself an alumna of the screenwriting & directing program at Columbia University. She is currently developing her first feature, SALT. Credits Crew Writer/Director: SUSHMA KHADEPAUN Producer: ANKUR SINGH Co-Producer: SASHA JOHN Cinematographer: NIKHIL AROLKAR Editor(s): WILL MAYO SUSHMA KHADEPAUN Sound Department: PRANAV KOTHI SAVITHA NAMBRANTH Colo rist : SUDARSHAN SURESH Cast AREZOO ARIAPOOR as 'Hava' MITRA GADHVI as 'Vikram' SANJIVANI SATHE as 'Mother NIKHIL DAVE as 'Father' BHAKTI MANIAR as 'Sister' DEEP SHETH as 'Groom' Additional Crew Prod. Design: POOJA TALREJA Costume Design : VIDHI GALA Visual Effects : ROB BELLON

From the Himalayan mountains to the US suburbs, the children at the center of these stories are finding, and asserting, their place in the world. Back to Film Program $10 TICKETS ($8 for members) WATCH ONLINE April 22-25th, 2022 Shorts Program B - Family Shorts India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, USA I 120 mins I Coming of Age, T hriller, Comedy, Drama I Multiple Languages BUY & WATCH ONLINE From the Himalayan mountains to the US suburbs, the children in these stories are finding, and asserting, their place in the world. FEATURING: Grasshoppers Sleep Here (dir. Balaram J) A mowing man meets a determined girl. Bambirak (dir. Zamarin Wahdat) Kati stows away in her dad's van to see his workday in their new, adoptive country. Baahar ( dir. Prakshi Malik) A school admission causes tension at a family dinner. Hot Chocolate ( dir. Lila Mali) *online only A young man reflects on a comforting tradition. An Early Spring ( dir. Pramati Anand) A rural girl befriends a visiting female backpacker. Chai ( dir. Arshum Rouhanian) In a quiet suburb, a chai and hot chocolate stand compete. About the Artist(s) Balaram J is a writer, designer, animator, and independent filmmaker from Kerala, India and a graduate from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He created animated sequences for the visionary filmmaker Lijo Jose Pellissery's feature films Jallikattu (2019) and Churuli (2021). His thesis film, Story of a Beginning, travelled to 35+ international festivals. He craves stories that make him a better human and wishes to make films that do the same to others. Lila Mali is an incoming University of Texas-Austin freshman passionate about storytelling through animation and filmmaking. A self taught animator who has has been studying film production and direction for 7 years, Lila has worked on several animated projects and is also studying Computer Science. Her short, Hot Chocolate, was created during her senior year of high school and became a state finalist at the 2021 UIL film festival. Born in Afghanistan and raised in Germany, Zamarin Wahdat is a cinematographer and writer/director, who attended NYU Tisch. Her work as a cinematographer has screened & been awarded at at many festivals including Sundance, Berlinale, SXSW, & Tribeca. In 2020, she received an Academy Award for the short doc "Learning how to Skate in a Warzone'' (if you’re a girl). This experience led her to write & direct her first short BAMBIRAK, which received the Sundance Short Film Jury Award for International Fiction in 2021. Prakshi Malik is a filmmaker and dancer creating cinema about women of color from a global perspective. She grew up in Delhi, India and is currently based in the Twin Cities, MN. She was recently awarded the 2020 Short Film Grant by Austin Film Society for her short film, Baahar. Prakshi holds an MFA in Film Production from UT- Austin. . Pramati Anand pursued her Masters in Film & Video from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. She has worked as a creative content strategist and writes a travel and photography blog called ‘Safarnama'. Her film, Jhat Aayi Basant (An Early Spring) was an official selection at the International Film Festival, Goa and is currently doing the festival rounds. Arshum Rouhanian was born & raised in Maryland after his parents fled Iran in light of the revolution. He grew up in a small apartment with 10 relatives.and credits his creativity in part to this time, as he found inventive ways to sneak around and pretend quietly. He graduated from American University with a BA in Film & Media Arts and a minor in Business Admin. He currently works as a Content Producer/ Director/ Editor at Capitol Records in Hollywood. Trailer Thank you to our community partner for this screening!