13th Tasveer South Asian Film Festival

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Tasveer South Asian Film Festival is the largest South Asian film festival in the United States. Seeking to provide a counterpoint to the images and stories prevalent in main stream South Asia and Bollywood, the festival encourages an atmosphere of thoughtful dialogue and creative inquiry, where filmmakers and audiences engage in lively discussions, forums, and other collaborative interactive formats. In 2018, the festival will screen over 65 films and welcome 5000 attendees over 11 days, in 5 cities. While Pakistan is the festival focus for 2018 and the festival theme is #KnowMe, TSAFF 2018 will include films–shorts, experimental work, documentaries, and narratives of any length–on themes related to South Asia in its entirety: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the various diasporas across the world. Films with a focus on issues of human rights and social justice will be a highlight of the festival again this year.

Schedule

Thursday, Sept 13th, 2018

6:30 pm TSAFF Launch: A Girl In The River

Friday, Sept 28th, 2018

6:30 pm Opening Night : Movie Cake

Saturday, Sept 29th, 2018

12:00 pm Three & a Half

2:00 pm TasVR 2018: Day 1

2:00 pm Drawn from Life | Drawn Together

4:00 pm People Shorts: From Colombo to Karachi

6:00 pm Lala Begum & Shorts

8:30 pm My Pure Land

Sunday, Sept 30th, 2018

12:00 pm LGBTQ Shorts Package 1

2:00 pm Nothing Shorts of Perseverance

4:00 pm Temporary Peace & A Letter to the President

Monday, Oct 1st, 2018

6:00 pm TasVR 2018: Day 2

7:00 pm A Better Man: Film & Panel Discussion

Tuesday, Oct 2nd, 2018

6:30 pm Industry Panel

Wednesday, Oct 3rd, 2018

3:30 pm Lock & Key

5:00 pm Rawaa’n | Simple Simon

7:00 pm Insha’Allah Democracy | Loug – The People

Thursday, Oct 4th, 2018

7:00 pm Centerpiece Film: Salam; The First Nobel Laureate

Friday, Oct 5th, 2018

10:00 am UW Sympsium: Perween Rehman – The Rebel Optimist

7:00 pm Ishu

Saturday, Oct 6th, 2018

11:00 am Her Him The Other

12:00 pm LGBTQ Shorts Package 2

1:00 pm Beyond The Heights | Dust to Dust | Rubai | Grains of Gold

1:30 pm Afghan Cycles

3:00 pm The pits | Turup

4:00 pm Family Friendly Shorts

5:00 pm Honeygiver Among the Dogs

5:30 pm Zahida

5:30 pm Just a Cup of Tea | Jasoosni

8:00 pm Half Widow

Sunday, Oct 7th, 2018

12:00 pm Do We Belong? Film & Panel

3:30 pm Closing Night: Pataakha w/ Vishal Bhardwaj

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