Q&A with director Avie Luthra! For Opening Night, 3rd i Festival is thrilled to honor the creative genius of award-winning British-Indian director and screenwriter Avie Luthra with a showcase of his comedic, nuanced, complex, and socially insightful short films. Join us for an inspiring retrospective of his brilliant narratives that lift up stories of immigration, […]
SAND CITY is a lyrical and atmospheric exploration of isolation, the human need for connection, and the small acts of survival that bind us to the world. In this arthouse experimental film, director Mahde Hasan explores Dhaka, Bangladesh, where the landscape and its inhabitants share a profound connection: sand. The main characters, Emma and Hasan, […]
At India’s elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), a “Cat” is someone who aces everything. These engineering schools have produced the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, IBM, and other tech giants. In the documentary TECHNOCATS, director Gautam Sonti, an IIT alumnus himself, explores the cost and meaning of excellence, the reality behind the rankings, and the […]
A witty, razor-sharp, heartwarming social satire, acclaimed filmmaker Anusha Rizvi directs her latest tour de force (her first film, PEEPLI LIVE, was India’s offering to the Academy Awards and the first Indian film to screen at Sundance). Set within a Delhi apartment and unfolding during one day, the comedy cleverly turns domestic chaos into a […]
Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s LALI is a darkly comic, colorful, and layered thriller in which ghosts walk among the living and prophecies weigh heavily on a young Punjabi married couple and their families. The bride, Zeba, is a “cursed” woman, her three previous fiancés all dying mysteriously before marriage. She marries Sajawal in a vibrant wedding […]
Q&A with directors Harsha Reddy and Chris Chekuri! In 1998, young American student Harsha ventures into the forests of South India to study tigers. What he finds instead changes the course of his life. Over the next two decades, he returns to the villages of the Chenchu people, a tribal community whose roots run as […]
Magical, sweet, visually evocative, and gently paced, GHOST SCHOOL, directed by British-Pakistani filmmaker Seemab Gul, captures a child’s pursuit of answers in a community weighed down by fear of ghosts and misinformation. This delightful and poignant fable explores corruption from a child's perspective. Journeying through an expansive, sun-drenched landscape, ten-year-old Rabia encounters people from all […]
Specially recorded Q&A with director Lawrence Valin! THE LOYAL MAN, a riveting and romantic gangster thriller directed by audience favorite, French-Sri Lankan Lawrence Valin, is essential viewing for “Valin” fans. Following last year's rave reviews for his sold-out opening night film LITTLE JAFFNA, 3rd i follows up with his first French-Sri Lankan Tamil film to […]
