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Date(s) - 11/11/2017
3:00 PM - 10:57 PM
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Castro Theatre
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- November 9-12: New People Cinema, San Francisco and Castro Theatre, San Francisco
- November 18: CineArts Theater, Palo Alto
Come celebrate 3rd i’s 15th anniversary this year, as the annual SF International South Asian Film Festival presents some of the best cinema from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Canada, Australia, and the USA. This year’s festival captures the political zeitgeist of our times, offering reflections on the democratic process, the power of the vote, and on the legacy of political revolutions. Home movies become rich fodder for filmmakers, their celluloid memories resurfacing stories about family, immigration, and cross-cultural dialogue. Voices from the margins circulate through the program, centering women’s unsung labor, queer voices, and disappearing landscapes. As always the shorts program gathers an impressive range of local and international offerings, while Bollywood is served up two ways – neo-noir and classic camp.
Saturday, November 11 @ Castro Theatre
- 3:00pm
- Nari: The Unsung Story of the Women Behind India’s First
- Gingger Shankar (USA, 2016, 60mins)
In this unique live multimedia performance, accomplished musician and composer for film Gingger Shankar celebrates the life and work of her mother (Viji Shankar) and grandmother (Lakshmi Shankar). Hailing from India’s first family of music, and renowned artists in their own right, they helped bring Indian music to the West in the 1970s through their close collaborations with Ravi Shankar and George Harrison (The Beatles). Official selection at both the Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, the performance features Shankar on the double violin, accompanied by bandmates Vivek Maddala and Rob Amjarv.
- 5:30pm
- An Insignificant Man
- Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla (India / Netherlands, 2016, 95mins)
Followed by panel discussion. Dubbed the “Bernie Sanders of India”, Arvind Kejriwal shook up the status quo of the Indian political system in the last national election. This revolutionary shift in India’s mainstream political establishment is exposed in this gripping documentary. Training its unwavering lens on inequality, corruption, and the power of elites, this important doc highlights the democratic principles at stake in India and around the world.
- 8:15pm
- Om Shanti Om
- Farah Khan (India, 2007, 162mins)
Bollywood at the Castro!! Serving up a dazzling array of musical showstoppers and cameos by nearly every Bollywood star, Om Shanti Om is a blockbuster extravaganza for the ages. Director Farah Khan pulls out all the stops to squeeze in comedy, melodrama, action, and suspense in a masala mix of epic proportions. Shah Rukh Khan breaks out his disco moves in this star-studded tribute to the swinging 70’s. Bring out those Bell-bottom pants for retro fun, romance and dance! A must-see on the big screen.