Atlanta Indian Film Festival

10/2/2021 10:45 AM

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Movies Showing at the Atlanta Indian Film Festival 2021

Ae Savere

An untold tale of a Kashmiri Pandit woman connecting to her roots on visiting Kashmir after 30 years. It is a beautiful film in the form of music video starring Soni Razdan and Taha Shah. Opening Night short

Ek Duaa

A Prayer – Opening Night Film. Ek Duaa is set in the heartland of Mumbai, deals with life of Abida, a mother of two beautiful kids Duaa and Faiz. Her husband Sulemaan is a taxi driver who somehow manages to run the house after borrowing money from lenders. A day prior to Eid, the family gears up for celebration, but something is amiss. There seems to be some discrimination between the two kids, as Abida's mother-in-law Rihana and husband Sulemaan shows their affinity towards the boy child, while little Duaa keeps craving for love. Barring Abida, no one really cares for her in the house.

As the film unfolds we reveal the reason behind the discrimination between the kids. The edgy climax of the film will keep you hooked till the last frame of the movie, Starring Esha Deol and Rajveer Singh

A Short Hello

Short film 11 mins - In the course of one sloth afternoon in August

2020 She musters up courage to reconnect with the person who got away, someone she had wronged. Marquez’s Love In The Time of Cholera may have played Cupid unwittingly. The film has no dialogues except for a short hello starring Dipannita Sharma

Tea and a Rose

starring Adil Hussain. It is a short film 18 mins

Dinner in Lockdown

starring Shibani Dandekar and Shekhar Ravijani. Short film 11 mins

Naap

Sharmaji, fondly known as Masterji is a tailor by profession and lives a content life with his daughter Sakshi in their small yet satisfactory world. An unpleasant incident at his shop threatens to ruffle their lives forever. Short film 18 mins starring Vipin Sharma – of the The Family man fame. Q&A with him and film maker

The Myth Of The Good Girl

This is a Tamil Film.1:20 The sudden sexual awakening of a nineteen-year-old quintessential good girl urges her to race against time to lose her virginity. Feature film starring Akshara Hassan and Usha Uthup. Q&A with them and film maker

Laali

Short film 30 mins starring Pankaj Tripathi. A lonely laundry-man from the sub-urbs of Calcutta finds companionship in an unclaimed red dress which triggers esoteric memories of the past. Q&A with Pankaj Tripathi.

Sheer Qorma

Short film LGBTQ 30 mins - Sheer Qorma is a story of belonging and acceptance, identity and family, and how it comes together under one roof, as resilient, queer Muslim women and non-binary characters of colour, choose to embrace love that exists beyond their personal beliefs and social moralities. Shabana Azmi, Divya Dutta, Swara Bhasker, Jitin Gulati and the film maker Q&A

Yesterday’s Past

Disillusioned Gunu, a young man from Satavaya village, travels relentlessly from death to death, from the memories of a past cyclone into the eye of an upcoming one hoping to reunite with his lost family. Five days before the cyclone, Gunu travels back to his now engulfed village confronting his tragic past, reliving moments as prophesied by a priest who keeps frequenting him. Gunu’s challenging survival on the abandoned coast, his very existence and struggle to survive the fury of

nature makes his journey a poetic portrayal of emotional trauma and human triumph. Will Gunu survive this turmoil and be reunited with his family? By Nila Madhab Panda Feature Film

Ghar Ka Pata

(Home Address) - The movie attempts to weave a narrative of the place and of time gone by, juxtaposing a string of short conversations, filmed impromptu through the streets of ‘Rainawari’, ( a quaint suburb of Srinagar where my home used to be ), with a series of anecdotal experiences with my family when my father took us back to Srinagar 24 years after we’d had to leave the valley of mist. Feature Film by Madhulika Jalali

Giving Away the Bride

13 mins short film Minutes before his anticipated wedding, a young groom receives a text from his wife-to-be. Meanwhile, she is preparing to tell him something that will challenge all his beliefs. An argument ensues, which will determine their future together. Q&A with film maker and actor Vatsal Sheth.

ICU

Short Film - After spending several years trying to distance herself from her childhood and her father, Kia is forced to return. Her father is in critical condition and could pass away at any second; her sister and her mother insist that her last words to him should be a fond goodbye. Kia has to decide what her last few words to her father will be.Q&A with Sheeba Chadha, Aahna Kumra.

ZERO KILOMETER

Kajal, a small town villager woman who is always busy with her family and work as labourer in briquette furnace to feed her child, sister and useless husband. The supervisor of that briquette furnace is always trying to trap Kajal to fall in love with him, but Kajal ignores him and continues her work. Will he won’t he? Is he who everyone thinks he is ? Short film by SHAMAS NAWAB SIDDIQUI

Unwoven Threads of Kashi

In the city of Kashi, a women's ethnic wear (Banarasi Saree) is on a journey where it meets some individuals who are victims of bygone societal practices. Feature film by Abhishek Singh

Shut up Sona

Shut Up Sona is a 2019 documentary film which is made on Bollywood Playback Singer Sona Mohapatra's life. The movie reflects singer's unrelenting fight for an equal space in modern day India. It was directed by Deepti Gupta. Shut Up Sona won National Film Award for best editing.

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