14th Tasveer South Asian Film Festival

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 2019, the festival will screen over 60 films and welcome 5000 attendees over 11 days, in 5 cities. India is the festival focus for 2019. TSAFF 2019 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

Friday, Sept 7th, 2019

7:00 pm Festival Launch Party

Saturday, Sept 14th, 2019

3:00 pm KD

Thursday, Sept 26th, 2019

7:00 pm Opening Night: The ILLEGAL

Friday, Sept, 27th, 2019

6:30 PM Kaifinama

Saturday, Sept 28th, 2019

12:00 pm She Persisted Shorts

2:15 pm Turtle | Unkept |Hargun

4:30 pm Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence

5:00pm A Monsoon Date | Aunty Sudha Aunty Radha

7:30 pm The Price of Free w/ Kailash Satyarthi

Sunday, Sept 29th, 2019

11:00 am Vellai Pookal

12:00 pm Local Shorts

2:30 pm Living with the Snow Leopard | Pariah Dog

5:30 pm Coral Woman | The Seal | Cul De Sac | Soch | Shit One Carries

Monday, Sept 30th, 2019

5:00 pm Film Industry Day 1: Workshop – Screenwriting Deconstructed w/ Bollywood Screenwriter Gazal Dhaliwal

Tuesday, Oct 1st, 2019

5:00 pm Film Industry Day 2: Panel Discussion – Deep Dive into Making Short Films

7:00 pm Jhalki

Wednesday, Oct 2nd, 2019

7:00 pm Gadhvi

Thursday, Oct 3rd, 2019

6:30 pm Reason

Friday, Oct 4th, 2019

4:00 pm Film Industry Day 3: Symposium – South Asian Films & Rise of Nationalism

7:00 pm Centerpiece Film & Reception: The Sweet Requiem

Saturday, Oct 5th, 2019

12:00 pm Babu | Daughters of the Polo God | Tattini | Elephantbird

12:15 pm Baggage

2:00 pm LGBTQ Shorts

2:30 pm All That Perished At The Edge of Land | Dunkey Following European Dreams | Forbidden

4:00 pm Because We Are Girls

4:15 pm Soundless Dance

6:00 pm Meal | Kattumaram

6:15 pm What We Left Unfinished | Settled

8:00 pm The Last Color

8:30 pm Kayantar | Look at the Sky | The Death of an Audience | Shadow

1:00 pm Closing Night Film: Laal Kabootar

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