| AADUM KOOTHU
India / North America Premiere
Tamil (subtitles) | Director:
TV Chandran
| | BUY TICKETS | AADUM KOOTHU| Venue: | Clearview Cinema (1871 Broadway at 62nd St) | | Show Time: | 2:00pm - 4:00pm | | Duration: |
106 mins | General Admission:
$13.00 (Online) and $15.00 (At the Door) | $13.00 |  |
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Her visions take her on a journey into many different lives over different time periods in history. They tell the story of oppression and defiance, of love and the search for it, of expression and its rebellions. Aadum Koothu unfolds from the life of college student Manimekhala, a village girl who can see what others don't.
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 | DOCUMENTARY SERIES 1 | | | BUY TICKETS | DOCUMENTARY SERIES 1| Venue: | Clearview Cinema - 1871 Broadway (62nd and Broadway) | | Show Time: | 5:00pm - 7:00pm | General Admission:
$13.00 (Online) and $15.00 (At the Door) | $13.00 | |
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| A SILENT KILLER
India / North America PremiereDirector:
Dhananjoy Mandal
| | | Duration: 22 mins | Synopsis:
Over time, drinking arsenic affected water can lead to such horrifying diseases such as skin and lung cancer. However, the problem is not one that can be easily treated. The documentary asks what can be done to help the millions of suffering people, and wonders if even that will be enough to stop this mass killing in remote parts of India.
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| FROM DUST
U.A.E & Sri Lanka / SAIFF PremiereDirector:
Dhruv Dhawan
| | | Duration: 70 mins | Synopsis:
Despite generous aid from around the world to help in the rebuilding of lost homes, Australian aid worker Cameron suspects that the government is planning to launch a massive real estate development initiative on the newly cleared coastline. The filmmaker's investigative journey reveals the horrible way the Sri Lankan government handled the tsunami crisis by showing how the government taxed humanitarian aid and forbid the American soldiers deployed to the island from rebuilding a single home.
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Presented by:
PENGUIN
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| ANURANAN: THE RESONANCE - CANCELLED
India / World Premiere
Bengali (with Subtitles) | Director:
Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Cast:
Rahul Bose
Rituparna Sengupta
Rajat Kapoor
Raima Sen
| | BUY TICKETS | ANURANAN: THE RESONANCE - CANCELLED| Venue: | AMC 19th East 6 - 890 Broadway (19th and Broadway) | | Show Time: | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | | Duration: |
100 mins | General Admission:
$13.00 (Online) and $15.00 (At the Door) | $13.00 | |
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This film was not approved by the Censor Board and did not arrive.
Tickets will be refunded at the door or exchanged for a different show during the festival.
The story of two couples each with their own struggles to survive as a couple and as indivduals. After living in London for a few years, Rahul and Nandita have recently moved back to Kolkata and become friends with Amit and Preeti. It is the lives of these four friends that create a resonance, a chord, that echoes through their present and future.
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DIRECT TV & FILMY
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| OMKARA
SAIFF Premiere | Director:
Vishal Bhardwaj
Cast:
Saif Ali Khan
Ajay Devgan
Kareena Kapoor
Bipasha Basu
Vivek Oberoi
Naseeruddin Shah
Konkana Sen Sharma
| | BUY TICKETS | OMKARA| Venue: | AMC 19th East 6 - 890 Broadway (19th and Broadway) | | Show Time: | 6:00pm - 8:30pm | | Duration: |
150 mins | General Admission:
All tickets purchased for ANURANAN will be honored. | $13.00 | |
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This is director Vishal Bhardwaj’s successive Shakespeare effort, following the highly celebrated Maqbool which brought the brooding Macbeth to Indian screens. Omkara in spirit stays true to the central theme of Othello and ends up humanizing Shakespeare's characters with the necessary folklore and ethnic charm that is required for a contemporary Indian story setting.
Omi (Ajay Devgan) is a gifted chieftain who heads a gang of outlaws, which include the crafty Langda Tyagi (Saif Ali Khan) and the dynamic Kesu (Vivek Oberoi) amongst his chief cohorts. The story begins when Omi appoints Kesu as his chief lieutenant. Langda’s pride is slighted and raging with envy, he hatches a plot to falsely implicate Omi’s beautiful fiancé Dolly (Kareena Kapoor), in an illicit affair with Omi’s “favorite lieutenant”, Kesu. Using petty insinuations and lies, Langda poisons Omi’s mind until he finally breaks down and begins to act on his anger. Set against the backdrop of political warfare in the interiors of Uttar Pradesh, Omkara follows one man’s descent into sexual jealousy and the final wreckage of his love at the altar of blind obsession.
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DIRECT TV and FILMY
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| DOCUMENTARY SERIES 2 | | | BUY TICKETS | DOCUMENTARY SERIES 2| Venue: | Clearview Cinema - 1871 Broadway (62nd and Broadway) | | Show Time: | 8:00pm - 9:45pm | General Admission:
$13.00 (Online) and $15.00 (At the Door) | $13.00 | |
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| PLAYING THE NEWS
U.S.A / SAIFF PremiereDirector:
Jigar Mehta and Jeff Plunkett
| | | Duration: 30 mins | Synopsis:
Can video games do journalism? This is the question posed by Playing the News, which examines the role played by video game company Kuma War in connecting young people to current events, particularly the war in Iraq. After designing a video game based on the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, Kuma War began to think of itself as a news organization. But war reporting has certainly never looked like this before.
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| MY CULTURAL DIVIDE
Canada & Bangladesh/ U.S. PremiereDirector:
Faisal Lutchmedial
| | | Duration: 75 mins | Synopsis:
A three month visit to Bangladesh becomes a discovery of family and home that runs parallel with the filmmakers attempt to tackle the complex issue of global trade. Accompanied by his ailing mother, he takes us on a very personal journey to bridge the gap between his heritage in Bangladesh and his life in Canada. He connects his politics with his humanity, and weaves together a story that is both thought provoking and touching.
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Presented by:
JUMP TV
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| QUARTERLIFE CRISIS
USA / New York Premiere | Director:
Kiran Merchant
Cast:
Maulik Pancholy
Lisa Ray
Russell Peters
Manu Narayan
| | BUY TICKETS | QUARTERLIFE CRISIS| Venue: | AMC 19th East 6 - 890 Broadway (19th and Broadway) | | Show Time: | 9:00pm - 10:45pm | | Duration: |
90 mins | General Admission:
$13.00 (Online) and $15.00 (At the Door) | $13.00 | |
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Dumped on his 27th birthday by his college sweetheart Angel for being indecisive, Neil makes a silly bet that takes him on a wild ride through New York’s singles scene, accompanied by four testosterone-packed imbecile buddies and one crazy scheming New York taxi driver. On these madcap adventures Neil journeys from life choice paralysis to real life manhood.
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NIRVANA and AVS
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| SAIFF After Party
Free admission for Thursday ticketholders | | | BUY TICKETS | SAIFF After Party| Venue: | BED (530 West 27th Street ) | | Show Time: | 10pm - 4am | General Admission:
$15 online ($20 at the door) | $15.00 | |
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