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SUMMARY:Shuddh Desi Romance
DESCRIPTION:Bollywood at the Castro! \nA remarkably fresh comedy\, with lots of sizzle and eye candy to boot! Two professional wedding guests\, with commitment issues\, find themselves in a modern desi love triangle that’s anything but conventional. In fact\, for anyone raised on Bollywood’s classic love stories\, this contemporary take may prove delightfully shocking. Rising star Parineeti Chopra is charming and vivacious\, television heartthrob Sushant Singh Rajput is unassumingly sexy. Bollywood-veteran Rishi Kapoor is a ‘mustachioed’ delight\, and the city of Jaipur sets a gorgeous backdrop for the film. Official Selection\, Toronto International Film Festival 2013. \n\n \nOnline Ticketing for Shuddh Desi Romance 3rdifilms powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/bollywood-at-the-castro/
LOCATION:Castro Theatre\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:2013,festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131109T201500
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SUMMARY:3rd i's Castro Reception with the Filmmakers
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special reception at the Castro Mezzanine where you’ll get to meet all the festival filmmakers up close and personal! Enjoy food and drinks\, get your photograph taken with our celebrity guests and let the DJ get your feet wet for our Bollywood at the Castro screening. \n3rd i’s guest list for the 2013 festival includes:\n• Kunal Nayyar (of The Big Bang Theory fame)\, producer of Beyond All Boundaries\n• Nishtha Jain from Bombay and Sabiha Sumar from Karachi\n• indie directors Vasan Bala (from India) and Prasanna Vithanage (from Sri Lanka)\n• from the Diaspora\, Canadian filmmaker Wilbur Sagunaraj and British filmmaker Pratibha Parmar\n• and a host of California voices including the LA-based \ D’Lo\, Sushrut Jain\, Meena Nanji\, Maya Nasser\, and Jeff Roy\, and the SF-based Cary McClelland\, Crescent Diamond\, Amit Dubey\, Shane Gill\, Cara Jones\, Arpita Kumar\, Maren Grainger-Monsen\, Nicole Newnham\, and Abhi Singh. \nMusic by DJ Gandharv \nFood provided by: \n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n\nTicket Options:\n1. BECOME A SPONSOR\n2. PURCHASE A PASS\n3. PURCHASE A TICKET (online $25\, at-the-door $30): \n \nEvent Registration Online for Castro Reception with Filmmakers 3rdifilms powered by Eventbrite\n\nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/reception-at-the-castro-mezzanine/
LOCATION:Castro Theatre\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:2013,festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131109T183000
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DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20131003T104405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T213032Z
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SUMMARY:Good Morning Karachi
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker in Person!\nSumar\, best known for her astonishing feature Silent Waters\, makes a triumphant return with this uplifting tale. Chance and willfulness propel Rafina’s rise as a fashion model in the city of Karachi. As she climbs the social ladder\, Rafina is caught between two men with very different visions for Pakistan and on the role of women. In Sumar’s deft hands\, this becomes the story of today’s Pakistan\, trying to reconcile the demands of tradition and the aspirations of modernity. The film weaves these contradictions through the very landscape of Karachi\, where political extremism and the world of fashion can – and do – co-exist. \nFollowed by: an on-stage conversation between Sumar and Anusha Rizvi (director of Peepli Live) on the changing role of women in South Asian cinema. \n  \n\n \nEvent management for Good Morning Karachi 3rdifilms powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/good-morning-karachi/
LOCATION:Castro Theatre\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:2013,festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131109T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131109T153000
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CREATED:20131003T104405Z
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SUMMARY:Gulabi Gang
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker in Person!\nNishtha Jain (City of Photos\, Lakshmi and Me) returns to the Bay Area with this thriller disguised as a documentary! In Bundelkhand\, India\, a revolution is in the making as the fiery women of the Gulabi Gang take up the fight against gender violence\, caste oppression and widespread corruption. Undeterred by sneering policemen and condescending bureaucrats\, founder Sampat Pal leads the pink sari-clad women on a remarkable\, and impressive crusade for truth and justice. Watching this documentary makes one want to redefine the term “heroine” in Indian films! \n\n \nEvent Registration Online for Gulabi Gang 3rdifilms powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/gulabi-gang-2/
LOCATION:Castro Theatre\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:2013,festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131109T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20131001T102645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T211246Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond All Boundaries
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker in Person!\nProducer Kunal Nayyar (of The Big Bang Theory fame) in person! \nFor Prithvi (a boy wonder who hopes to be the next Sachin Tendulkar)\, Sudhir (a fanatic who bikes across India from game to game)\, and Akshaya (a young girl who sees the game as a way out of poverty)\, cricket is a religion. The doc follows the story of these three characters\, leading up to the World Cup of Cricket in the spring of 2011\, and chronicles their struggle to celebrate this beloved sport against overwhelming odds in life. Both entertaining and enlightening\, this is a window\, not just into the world of cricket\, but also into life in India in the 21st century. \n\n\n \nOnline Ticketing for Beyond All Boundaries 3rdifilms powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/beyond-all-boundaries/
LOCATION:Castro Theatre\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:2013,festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131108T215000
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CREATED:20131002T012515Z
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SUMMARY:Simple Superstar
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker in Person!\nWilbur Sargunaraj\, India’s first YouTube star\, makes his feature debut! Witness the creative genius of this “champion for the common man\,” as he takes on bullies in the street\, counsels young lovers\, and sings about the mouth-watering “Chicken 65!” Through all the twists and turns\, Wilbur delivers a sharp reading of India’s divise class and caste structures. Part autobiography\, part road trip\, and part instructional video\, this wacky musical will have you laughing and cheering for the simple man from Southern India. The film was entirely crowd-sourced\, and the cast and crew is made up of Sarunaraj’s social media followers. \n\n \nEvent management for Simple Superstar 3rdifilms powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/simple-superstar/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:2013,festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131108T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131108T191500
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20131003T105531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131020T051638Z
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SUMMARY:Peddlers
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker in Person!\nRepresentative of the new wave spawned by indie-guru Anurag Kashyap\, this stylish psychological thriller set in Mumbai\, tells the tale of two young drifters caught in Mumbai’s seedy narcotics world. Hot on their trail is a rookie cop whose sexual impotence drives him to frustration and violence. Bala’s vision conjures up a powerful and dramatic finale\, where the destinies of all three players collide. The film had an explosive debut at Cannes’ Critics Week last year. \n\n \nEvent registration for Peddlers 3rdifilms powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/peddlers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:2013,festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131107T213000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131107T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20131003T104712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T210658Z
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SUMMARY:These Birds Walk
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE:\n• All ONLINE TICKETS to this film are now sold out.\n• There will be a LIMITED number of tickets available AT THE DOOR.\n• Please arrive EARLY (we recommend at least 45 mins before showtime) to ensure that you get a ticket.\n• RUSH tickets will be released 10 mins prior to the start time of the film. \nIn Karachi\, Pakistan\, a runaway boy’s life hangs on one critical question: where is home? A lyrical\, ethereal portrait of youth and street-life in Karachi\, this stellar piece of cinema verite is simultaneously heart-wrenching and life-affirming. Seen through the eyes of an ambulance driver and a runaway boy\, the film is an ode to childhood and has been rightfully compared to Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. Produced by the Sundance Film Institute\, this is one film that should not be missed! \n\n \nSell Tickets Online through Eventbrite
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/these-birds-walk/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:2013,festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131107T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131107T191500
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CREATED:20131003T105102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T211256Z
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SUMMARY:Mohammed to Maya
DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in Person!\nMeet Maya Jafer (formerly Mohammed): a Tamil\, Muslim originally from Chennai\, India. Incredibly accomplished\, Maya has two doctorates in holistic medicine and a successful professional career in Los Angeles. Jeff Roy’s intimate documentary follows one year in her life as she travels to Thailand to undergo sexual reassignment surgery. Throughout her transition\, Maya battles to redefine her spiritual and cultural devotion\, and to maintain her faith. A perceptive and engaging take on modern rites of passage\, and the difficulties of letting go and starting new again. \nWith short: Performing Girl (Crescent Diamond\, USA\, 2013\, 25mins)\, a portrait of acclaimed Sri Lankan transgender performance artist D’Lo. \n \n \n&nbsp \n\n \nOnline event registration for Mohammed to Maya 3rdifilms powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/mohammed-to-maya/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:2013,festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131106T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131106T230000
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CREATED:20131003T105748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T210648Z
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SUMMARY:The Revolutionary Optimists
DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in person!\nEmmy-nominated Bay Area filmmakers Monsen-Grainger and Newnham capture the inspiring stories of young South Asians as trail-blazing agents of change. In the slums of Calcutta\, Amlan Ganguly and his proteges – Shika\, Salim\, Kajal and Priyanka – use street theater\, dance\, and data as their tools to mount vaccination drives for polio\, turn garbage dumps into playing fields\, and conduct education campaign around health issues. It’s truly extraordinary to bear witness to the undeniable sea change Ganguly has set in motion. \nWith short: Bhiwani Junction (Abhi Singh\, India/USA\, 2013\, 18mins)\, about a young boy’s dreams of becoming a star pugilist. \n\n \nOnline Ticketing for The Revolutionary Optimists_3rd i 2013 powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/the-revolutionary-optimists/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:2013,festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130830T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130830T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20130818T005209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024128Z
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SUMMARY:Deewaar: Bollywood Under the Stars
DESCRIPTION:Join 3rd i Films and ICC\, Milpitas for an outdoor screening of Yash Chopra’s classic Deewaar. Bring a blanket and a picnic dinner and come prepared for our special dialogues contest and sing-along. \nThe story of two brothers\, one a criminal (Amitabh Bachchan) and the other a police officer (Shashi Kapoor)\, who go head-to-head is a quintessential Bollywood-style face-off between good and bad. Known for its excellent dialogues and stylish editing\, Deewaar was a box office phenomenon on par with Sholay! The film also reflected the concerns and frustrations of a young India epitomized by Amitabh Bachchan as the Angry Young Man\, and Parveen Babi as the face of the new liberated Indian woman. Deewaar was awarded the Filmfare Best Picture award in 1975 cementing its place in the history of Indian cinema as one of the top twenty-five films of all times. \nPlease register for this free event by sending an email with your name and the # of tickets you would like to outreach3rdi@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/deewaar-bollywood-under-the-stars/
LOCATION:India Community Center\, Lotus Room\, 556 Los Coches St\, Milpitas\, CA\, 95035\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130818T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130818T170000
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CREATED:20130801T071107Z
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SUMMARY:3rd i co-presents at CAAM Festival in San Jose
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Be Out\, the Sun is Shining is about a romantic Indian-American girl named Diya who falls in love with a hip Brooklyn bartender\, Paddy\, to whom everyone is disposable and no relationship is meant to last. Diya becomes immersed in his world of struggling actors/musicians/artists who live potentially displaced in Bushwick\, a Latino immigrant neighborhood of Brooklyn\, New York. \nSunday\, August 18th at 5 pm at Camera 3 Cinema. \nTickets can be purchased via CAAM’s website here.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-co-presents-lets-be-out-the-sun-is-shining-at-caam-festival-in-san-jose/
LOCATION:Camera 3\, 288 S 2nd St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130726T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130726T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20130627T052623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024143Z
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SUMMARY:3rd i Co-presents at Laborfest
DESCRIPTION:3rd i Films co-presents at\nLaborfest\, the FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival \nBHOPALI\nWith introduction by Dr. Jaysi Chander \nIn 1984 in Bhopali\, India\, at the Union Carbide plant\, a deadly gas leak killed over 20\,000 people. The company now owned by Dow Chemical refused to properly maintain the safety equipment in the plant\, and their criminal negligence cost the lives of workers and members of the community. Today\, hundreds of thousands of Bhopal families are still suffering from this man-made catastrophe\, and are fighting for compensation and justice. \nIt was the worst industrial accident in the world\, yet\, Union Carbide executives have not spent a day in jail\, and Dow refuses to properly care of the thousands of workers and their families who are still suffering for their cutting of costs. \nThis film was made to continue to struggle to break the information censorship by the corporate media. \nContinuing industrial disasters show that these corporations are not only out of control\, but also flagrantly engaged in practices leading to the murder of workers and residents in the drive for greater profits at any cost. \nAlso on the Program:\nTHE MACHINIST\n50mins\, 2010\nDirected by Hannan Majid & Richard York \nThis important film shows the story of Bangladeshi garment workers by following three Dhaka garment workers. It looks at their everyday lives\, their struggles at home\, the constant battles they face with their factory owners\, and puts a face to the men and women who make clothes for GAP\, Walmart\, and other companies. The owners of these factories\, who are also in the Bangladesh parliament\, have murdered union organizers and violently prevent their workers from gaining any labor and human rights. \nThrough illuminating the lives of these workers\, the film explains why the recent industrial disasters are a logical result of the corruption and corporate control of the government of Bangladesh.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-co-presents-at-laborfest/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, 518 Valencia Street\, San Francisco
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130703T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130703T210000
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CREATED:20130815T112858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024149Z
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SUMMARY:3rd i is pleased to co-present "The Ode"
DESCRIPTION:3rd i Films is pleased to co-present The Ode\na part of Trikone Bay Area‘s DesiQ 2013 \nWhere:\nDelancey Street Screening Room\n600 Embarcadero\, San Francisco \nWhen:\nWednesday\, July 3 \n6pm-7pm\nReception with hosted wine\, sparkling water and hors d’oeuvres; book signing of “Ode to Lata” by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. \n7pm-9pm\nScreening of The Ode\, based on the novel Ode to Lata by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla\, starring Sachin Bhatt (Bombay Dreams)\, Wilson Cruz and Sakina Jaffrey. The screening will be followed inmediately by a Q&A with Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla\, who co-wrote the screenplay for the movie\, and Sachin Bhatt in person. \nTickets:\nTickets are $15 (complimentary for registered participants of DesiQ 2013)\, available at the door\, and include admission to the reception\, film screening and Q&A. Cash only. \nFor more information about Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla or “Ode to Lata”\, visit www.ghalibdhalla.com. \nThe screening is presented as part of DesiQ 2013\, a conference on South Asian lesbian\, gay\, bisexual and transgender issues. This will be Trikone’s fourth such conference since 1995. For information about the DesiQ 2013 conference\, visit www.desiq.org.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-is-pleased-to-co-present-the-ode/
LOCATION:Delancey Street Screening Room\, 600 Embarcadero\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130621T213000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130621T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20130815T111301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024155Z
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SUMMARY:3rd i is honored to co-present at Frameline37
DESCRIPTION:3rd i is honored to co-present CHUPPAN CHUPAI / I AM GAY AND MUSLIM at  Frameline37\, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. \nWhen: Friday\, June 21\, 9:30 PM\nWhere: Roxie Theater\, San Francisco\n3117 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA \nChuppan Chupai director Saad Khan in person.  \n \nThese two docs— one set in Pakistan and the other in Morocco — challenge viewer preconceptions about being both Muslim and gay. \nI AM GAY AND MUSLIM \n“My sexuality doesn’t harm my religion. I am Muslim and my sexuality keeps me Muslim.” With these words\, one of the subjects of I Am Gay and Muslim gives lie to the idea that being gay and being Muslim are antithetical to each other. Director Chris Belloni follows several young men in Morocco\, all of whom try to reconcile their multiple identities as gay\, as Muslim\, and as Moroccan. Though homosexuality is illegal in Morocco there is still space for gay men to live and love one another\, and some\, like 21 year-old Rayan\, do so openly. His and the other stories on display in this beautiful portrait of Moroccan gay culture explode the myths about what it means to be gay and to live in the Muslim world.\n— MORDECAI STAYTON \nPreceded by CHUPPAN CHUPAI \nChuppan Chupai (Hide and Seek) follows the lives of four LGBT Pakistanis: activist Neeli\, flighty but “famous” Kami\, shy Waseem\, and Jenny\, a transgender woman who struggles with her transition. All live under the specter of Pakistan’s sharia laws forbidding homosexuality. Throughout the film\, their lives in the urban centers of Lahore and Rawalpindi are shown to be alternately joyous and painful— symptomatic of life around the world. \nMore info and tickets
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-is-honored-to-co-present-at-frameline37/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130615T200000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024203Z
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SUMMARY:3rd i is pleased to support the SF Ethnic Dance Festival
DESCRIPTION:When: Saturday\, June 15th\, 8pm\nWhere: Lam Research Theater\nYerba Buena Center for the Arts\, San Francisco \n  \n 
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-is-pleased-to-support-the-sf-ethnic-dance-festival/
LOCATION:Lam Research Theater\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, 701 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130608T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130608T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20131002T112141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131002T112702Z
UID:1819-1370718000-1370718000@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:3rd i presents "Bollywood Divas"
DESCRIPTION:Bollywood Divas: Queering Desi Cinema\nby Kareem Khubchandani and Anuj Vaidya \n\nWhen: June 8 (Saturday)\, 7pm\nWhere: ATA\, San Francisco\nCost: $10 online; $12 at the door\n(online ticket sales at: bollywooddivas.brownpapertickets.com) \nAn evening of satire\, comedy and drop-down drag Bollywood ‘ishtyle’!! \nIn Khubchandani’s LESSONS IN DRAG\, Professor Lahore Vagistan\, a drag queen attempting to make it from the Chicago Stage to the Bollywood Screen\, educates her classroom about the day’s topic\, Fillum. By combining ethnographic interviews\, works of fiction by queer South Asian novelists\, comedic drag sequences inspired by Bollywood\, and improvised audience interaction\, Kareem stages the many ways in which film becomes a tool of survival for marginal subjects. \nVaidya’s BAD GIRL WITH A HEART OF GOLD finds the artist in conversation with his own film of the same name. The performance explores the genealogy of the vamp in Bollywood — from her origins in the Jewish stars of early Indian cinema and culminating in the iconic roles of the anglo-Indian actress Helen in the 60s and 70s. The performance weaves many of Helen’s signature roles together to pose the question: Can Helen escape her perpetual death by Bollywood? \nPresented in collaboration with the APICC’s United States of Asian America Festival and QCC’s National Queer Arts Festival \nThis program was supported by:\n  
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-presents-bollywood-divas/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130601T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130601T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20130815T114212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024209Z
UID:1596-1370111400-1370111400@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:3rd i Films co-presents at the SF Green Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Powerless\nFahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar\, India\, 2013\nEnglish and Hindi with English subtitles.\nSneak Preview. \nWhen: Saturday\, June 1\, 6:30 pm\nWhere: New People Cinema\, Japantown\, SF \nWould you risk your life to flip a switch? In Kanpur\, India\, putting oneself in harm’s way to deliver electrical power is all too common\, especially for Loha Singh. He earns his living by giving electricity to those who can’t afford it\, splicing lines from paying utility customers. While an admirable feat against the Goliath power company that charges well beyond reasonable fees to the people of Kanpur\, Loha’s actions perpetuate the problems of the city by lessening the power supply — an amount that is distributed based on the number of paying customers. The situation intensifies for both parties and feeds into a vicious cycle of supply and demand. Somewhere in the middle of this battle is Ritu Maheshwari\, the power company’s woman-in-charge\, caught between two sides that do not share her understanding that change comes slowly and in increments. Powerless sheds light on the opposing corners of this political ring\, from Singh’s electrical Robin Hood\, tapping wires for neighbors\, to the myopic utility company whose failure to understand economics forces it deeper into financial disarray. This vibrant exposé gives a whole new meaning to the words “power struggle.” \nFor more information on the programs and to purchase tickets\, please visit the SF Green Film Festival website.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-films-co-presents-at-the-sf-green-film-festival/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130521T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130521T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20130815T120328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024214Z
UID:1600-1369135800-1369141200@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:3rd i co-presents "The Island President" at the EPA
DESCRIPTION:As part of The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency Region 9) Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage employment program\, 3rd i co-presents The Island President at the EPA. May 21\, 2013. \n 
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-co-presents-the-island-president-at-the-epa/
LOCATION:EPA\, Arizona-California Room\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130518T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130518T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20130815T120522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024221Z
UID:1603-1368885600-1368892800@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:3rd i co-presents at AHSC Cinema Showcase
DESCRIPTION:3rd i co-presents with CAAM at the 3rd Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC) Cinema Showcase. \n3rd Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC) Cinema Showcase\n\nDate: Saturday\, May 18th\, 2013\nTime: 2 pm to 4 pm\nLocation: Asian Art Museum\, Samsung Hall\, 200 Larkin Street \nAdmission to the museum will be free all day and there is no additional cost to watch the films! Click here for the full schedule of films.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-co-presents-at-ahsc-cinema-showcase/
LOCATION:Asian Art Museum\, Samsung Hall\, 200 Larkin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130517T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130517T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20131002T105118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024233Z
UID:1802-1368819000-1368819000@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:3rd i presents "From Mutiny to Bengali Harlem: Stories of the Diaspora"
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n(aka “Vivek Bald’s Films and Stories”)\nVivek Bald\, writer\, filmmaker\, and MIT professor\, reads from his new book Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America and presents clips from his work-in-progress\, the film In Search of Bengali Harlem\, and an excerpt from his rarely seen 2003 documentary Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music\, about South Asian youth\, music\, and anti-racist activism in 1970s-90s Britain. \nVivek Bald in person \nSan Francisco event\nWhen: Friday\, May 17\, 7:30 pm\nWhere: New People Cinema\, Japantown\n1746 Post St.\, San Francisco\, CA 94115\nCost: $12\nBuy tickets online! \nThe program lasts for 1.5 hours. \nMore details below. \n \nMutiny: Asians Storm British Music (dir. Vivek Bald\, 2003)\nCombining music documentary and social documentary\, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music charts the meteoric rise of South Asian electronic music in 1990s Britain\, focusing particularly on the decades of cultural cross-pollination and political struggle that led up to that pivotal decade. Shot independently on digital video between 1996 and 2002\, Mutiny features Asian Dub Foundation\, Talvin Singh\, Fun^Da^Mental\, Anjali\, State of Bengal\, and many others\, documenting a crucial moment in the cultural and political coming-of-age of Asian Britain. \n“Concert footage\, TV clips\, interviews and more are briskly interwoven into an energetic documentary.” –Variety \n“Great fun – a journey through some of the most historic moments of the diasporic musical movement.”\n–Gurinder Chadha\, Bend It Like Beckham\nBengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America\n(Harvard University Press\, 2013) \n \nIn the final years of the nineteenth century\, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer\, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their home villages in Bengal. The American demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path\, from New Jersey’s beach boardwalks into the heart of the segregated South. Two decades later\, hundreds of Indian Muslim seamen began jumping ship in New York and Baltimore\, escaping the engine rooms of British steamers to find less brutal work onshore. As factory owners sought their labor and anti-Asian immigration laws closed in around them\, these men built clandestine networks that stretched from the northeastern waterfront across the industrial Midwest. \nThe stories of these early working-class migrants vividly contrast with our typical understanding of immigration. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized\, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America’s most iconic neighborhoods of color\, from Tremé in New Orleans to Black Bottom\, Detroit\, from West Baltimore to Harlem.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-presents-from-mutiny-to-bengali-harlem-stories-of-the-diaspora/
LOCATION:New People Cinema\, 1746 Post Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130502
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130510
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20131002T110547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024239Z
UID:1809-1367452800-1368143999@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:3rd i co-presents at SFIFF
DESCRIPTION:Salma\nDirected by Kim Longinotto \nVeteran British documentarian Kim Longinotto’s latest work is the remarkable story of Salma\, a South Indian Muslim woman who endured a 25-year imprisonment and forced marriage by her own family and in-laws before embarking on a political career and national renown as the most famous female poet in the Tamil language. (England/India\, 2013\, 90 min) \nWhen/Where\nThursday\, May 2\, 6:15 PM – Sundance Kabuki Cinemas\nSaturday\, May 4\, 2:00 PM – Pacific Film Archive\nSunday\, May 5\, 3:45 PM – New People Cinema \n \nThe Last Step\nDirected by Ali Mosaffa \nA Tehran engineer who’s mysteriously died\, his actress wife (Leila Hatami of A Separation) and their physician friend form an ambiguous triangle in actor/director/writer Ali Mosaffa’s fascinating Iranian feature. It’s an enigmatic drama in which time and truth are slippery beasts whose gamesmanship nonetheless never lacks for emotional connection. (Iran 2012\, 88 min) New Directors Prize Contender \nWhen/Where\nSaturday\, May 4\, 7:00 PM – New People Cinema\nWednesday\, May 8\, 6:15 PM – New People Cinema\nThursday\, May 9\, 1:00 PM – New People Cinema \nFor more information\, visit the SFIFF website.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/1809/
LOCATION:Various
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130406T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130406T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20130815T122119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024246Z
UID:1610-1365247800-1365271200@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:3rd i Films is pleased to present Art for Partition
DESCRIPTION:A FREE event  –  April 6\, 2013 \nPresented by 1947 Archive \nDiscover untold stories of South Asia’s 1947 Partition. Engage through lectures\, discussions\, music\, poetry and art. Support the preservation of first-hand accounts by bidding on donated art works or attending the benefit luncheon. \nWhen:\n11:30 am – Benefit Luncheon | Buy tickets\n2:00 pm – FREE Event – Understanding Partition | Reserve Free tickets\n4:00 pm – FREE Film Screening – Earth 1947 | Limited Seating – Reserve Now! \nWhere: UC Berkeley Skydeck | 2150 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\nEnjoy stunning 360-degree bay views from the penthouse ballroom. \nView the art gallery online! | Browse and bid now | Ends April 6 @ 6:30 pm \nFurther info here.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-films-is-pleased-to-present-art-for-partition/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Skydeck\, 2150 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130404T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130404T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20130815T121404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024251Z
UID:1605-1365102000-1365102000@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:3rd i Films & AIF co-present an evening of Films and discussion on Education in India
DESCRIPTION:AIF (American India Foundation) in association with 3rd i Films presents two short films followed by discussion. \nFilms: Lucky\, directed by Avie Luthra and Kunjo\, directed by Terrie Samundra (more info below). \nWhen: Thursday\, April 4th\, 7pm – 8:30pm\nWhere: ATA\, 992 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\nTickets: Available on the night of the event\, at the door. \nLucky\nDirected by Avie Luthra\, 20 min (UK/South Africa) \nLucky is an AIDS orphan desperate to leave his rural Zulu village in South Africa for the bright lights of Durban\, and also to get an education there. He is full of excitement and hope but Lucky has to learn about life the hard way\, not through school or education but through an unlikely bond with a prejudiced Indian elderly women. \n*Lucky has won 43 international film festival awards and was shortlisted for an Oscar. \nKunjo\nDirected by Terrie Samundra\, 25 min (US/India) \n\nForced to work to support her family\, Kunjo\, a 12-year-old refugee\, spends her days begging on the streets. When an unlikely friendship blossoms with Preeta\, an educated school girl from a higher caste\, Kunjo reveals her secret passion for storytelling. Faced with betrayal and the complexity of an unconventional friendship\, will Kunjo stand up for herself or submit to her place in society? \n*Winner\, Best Narrative Short\, Athens International Film Festival.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-films-aif-co-present-an-evening-of-films-and-discussion-on-education-in-india/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130324
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20131002T114132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024257Z
UID:1827-1363478400-1364083199@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:3rd i co-presents films at CAAMFest 2013
DESCRIPTION:3rd i is pleased to co-present\, with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)\, three films at CAAMFest in San Francisco\, an 11-day celebration of film\, music\, food and digital media from the world’s most innovative Asian and Asian American artists. \nThe Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist chronicles the life of a Pakistani man altered by 9/11. From New York City in 2001 to Lahore ten years later\, Changez (Riz Ahmed) loses his grip on the American Dream and ends up disillusioned with the country he used to love.\nMarch 17\, 2013\n12:00 pm\nCastro Theatre\, San Francisco \nReluctant Fundamentalist Panel\nMarch 23\, 2013\n4:00 pm.\nUnion Bank Community Room\, San Francisco \nMidnight’s Children: Auteur Deepa Mehta (Water\, SFIAAFF ’06) returns to the festival with her much-anticipated collaboration with writer Salman Rushdie\, an adaptation of his award-winning novel Midnight’s Children. Born at the exact moment of India’s independence\, Saleem leads “midnight’s children\,” those born in India’s first hour\, all with magical powers.\nMarch 17\, 2013\n6:00 pm\nCastro Theatre\, San Francisco \nDosa Hunt: What happens when you put pianist Vijay Iyer\, music critic Amrit Singh\, and members of Das Racist\, Vampire Weekend\, Yea-sayer and Neon Indian into an Indian disco van to track down NYC’s best dosa? Plenty of Bobby Jindal jokes\, heartfelt extolling of the virtues of coconut-hair oil\, and even more in this journey deep into the heart of that virtuous South Asian crepe.\nMarch 21\, 2013\n6:00 pm\nAsian Art Museum of San Francisco \nFor more information about these films or CAAMFest\, check out the website. Details on all the films are under the Festival Guide tab.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-co-presents-films-at-caamfest-2013/
LOCATION:Various
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130316T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130316T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20131002T114854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024303Z
UID:1831-1363453200-1363453200@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:3rd i co-presents CSAS' presentation of "The Mahabharata"
DESCRIPTION:3rd i Films is pleased to copresent\nCenter for South Asia Studies‘ (UC Berkeley) presentation of\nThe Mahabharata: A Re-Telling of an Indian Epic Poem by Jean-Claude Carriére \nWhen: March 16\, 5-8pm\nWhere: Chevron Auditorium\, International House\, UC Berkeley\nTickets: See link below for ticket information \nRenowned French playwright\, screenwriter\, author\, actor and raconteur par excellence Jean-Claude Carrière spent eleven years in India\, tracing the Mahabaharata’s roots in civilization\, geography and its relevance in modern India. His nine-hour magnum opus\, The Mahabharata\, opened in 1985 under the stellar direction of his lifetime collaborator Peter Brook and an international cast\, and quickly became a watershed moment in theatrical history across the Western world. Jean-Claude Carriére gives Bay Area audiences a simple but powerful one-man rendition of the story of Mahabharata\, in the style of the old wandering minstrels of India. \nFor more information on the program and for tickets\, please visit: http://southasia.berkeley.edu/events/JCC.pdf
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/3rd-i-co-presents-csas-presentation-of-the-mahabharata/
LOCATION:Chevron Auditorium\, International House\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130228T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130228T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20131002T113238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T024024Z
UID:1824-1362078000-1362078000@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:Special Screening: Ashim Ahluwalia's "Miss Lovely"
DESCRIPTION:3rd i Films is pleased to be a community partner for the Global Film Initiative and SFFS presentation of\nAshim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely \nWhen: February 28\, 7 pm\nWhere: New People Cinema\nTickets: $5 (with discount code: 3RDMEM) \nRunning Time: 110mins\nLanguage: Hindi with English subtitles \nFollowed by an in-depth Q&A with the filmmaker\, moderated by 3rd i’s Ivan Jaigirdar \nDelving deep into the underbelly of India’s film industry\, where back-alley producers churn out everything from pulpy horror movies to soft-core porn\, Miss Lovely takes us back to Mumbai of the 1980s with lurid detail and intoxicating style. Working out of sleazy hotels and abandoned warehouses\, brothers Sonu (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and Vicky (Anil George) are prolific producers of trashy\, C-grade films for Mumbai’s booming underground market. But this precarious partnership is put to the test when the brothers meet Pinky (Niharika Singh)\, an exquisite ingenue with a shady past. \nFor more information on the program and to purchase tickets\, please visit the listing on the SFFS website.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/special-screening-ashim-ahluwalias-miss-lovely/
LOCATION:New People Cinema\, 1746 Post Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings and Events,Year-Round Screenings and Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120930T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120930T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20130717T000149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T211300Z
UID:1494-1349019000-1349019000@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:Big in Bollywood
DESCRIPTION:Watch Trailer\nFunny and irreverent\, Big in Bollywood documents Omi Vaidya’s ascendency from an aspiring Indian American actor in Hollywood to a megastar in far away Bollywood. When 27-year-old American-born Omi\, a struggling actor in L.A. miraculously lands a dream role in the Bollywood film 3 Idiots (2010)\, his curious friends\, armed with cameras\, fly to Mumbai to film and document his big premiere and better understand the world of Bollywood. Within a week of release\, 3 Idiots skyrockets to the top of the box office\, becoming the most successful Indian film of all time. From relative obscurity to the heights of Bollywood stardom\, Omi finds himself in the company of Bollywood stalwarts like Aamir Khan. While Omi deals with the challenges of new found fame and struggles with cultural competency in the strange\, new world that is Bollywood — between language classes\, calls to his wife back in the United States\, a press tour that routinely gathers tens of thousands of people — he cheerfully greets strangers on the street who know him only as the “fourth idiot.”
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/big-in-bollywood-2/
LOCATION:Camera 12\, 201 S 2nd Street\, San Jose\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2012,festivals,films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120930T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120930T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20130717T000619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130830T042838Z
UID:1495-1349010000-1349017200@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:Azhagarsamy’s Horse
DESCRIPTION:This family-friendly Tamil film mixes comedy\, romance\, melodrama and musical montage sequences to serve up a gentle satire of rural traditions and superstitions. The small village of Mallayapuram is frantic when they realize the holy wooden statue of god Azhagarsamy’s horse is missing from the local temple. When a real horse turns up soon after\, people are convinced it is the wooden horse come to life bringing luck to the drought-stricken village. However when a man named (coincidentally?) Azhagarsamy arrives claiming the horse is his\, the entire village turns topsy-turvy in this delightful comic romp. Set in the lush landscapes of the Theni Hills in Tamil Nadu\, Azhagarsamy’s Horse features a lively soundtrack that integrate folk forms with Western beats by composer Illayaraj\, and a standout performance by the unconventional leading man Appukkutty. An audience favorite at the Toronto and Chicago Film Festivals! \nPLEASE NOTE: We are sorry to inform you that the 35mm print of this film being screened at Camera12 DOES NOT HAVE English subtitles. We will provide a detailed printed plot summary for non-Tamil speakers.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/azhagarsamys-horse/
LOCATION:Camera 12\, 201 S 2nd Street\, San Jose\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2012,festivals,films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120923T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120923T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T191259
CREATED:20130717T221344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130810T033818Z
UID:1509-1348425000-1348425000@www.thirdi.org
SUMMARY:Valley of Saints
DESCRIPTION:Watch Trailer\nLyrical romance and lush cinematography intermingle in this neorealist feature debut that was a major award winner at the Sundance Film Festival. The breathtaking Dal Lake in Kashmir is a sprawling aquatic community where erupting political violence often distracts from natural beauty. Gulzar\, a young\, working-class boatman\, navigates the floating landscape and dreams of a better life. When he takes on a job assisting a Kashmiri-American scientist to collect water samples for her environmental study\, everything in his own life begins to take on a new hue. Syeed intricately weaves together contemporary ecological issues with traditional culture\, and deftly captures the unlikely romance that blossoms between the boatman and the scientist. The standout soundtrack for the film features music by Kashmiri-American band Zerobridge.
URL:https://www.thirdi.org/event/valley-of-saints-2/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 94103
CATEGORIES:2012,festivals,films
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