Online Program: “Retro Short Films”
Online CA, United States3rd i's Festival online program this year is “Retro Shorts.” A link to watch will be available here on October 6; no registration is required.
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Past Festival Screenings and Events
COAST TO COAST: MUMBAI TO THE MISSION
Roxie Theater 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSee only at the Roxie Theater, not available online. Filmmakers Hena Ashraf, Naman Gupta and Faroukh Virani in person! 3rd i's signature shorts program brings filmmakers into conversation together from South Asia to California and throughout the Diaspora. With short-form documentaries to dramatic narratives and genres ranging from comedy to animation, this year's edition tackles […]
ANIMAL
Roxie Theater 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSee only at the Roxie Theater; not available online. Cyril Dion’s insightful and transformative documentary takes a fresh look at the world’s ecological crises of climate change and the sixth mass extinction of wildlife, through the eyes of two 16-year-old environmental activists, Vipulan Puvaneswaran and Bella Lack. Through the extraordinary investigative journey of teenagers Vipulan, of […]
IN SEARCH OF BENGALI HARLEM
Roxie Theater 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSee only at the Roxie Theater, not available online. Filmmakers Vivek Bald and Alaudin Ullah in person for Q&A! In Search of Bengali Harlem is a transformative journey for Alaudin Ullah, and for our understanding of the complex histories of South Asian Americans. As a teenager in 1980s Harlem, Alaudin Ullah was swept up in […]
DIL BOLE HADIPPA
Castro Theatre 429 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSee only at the Castro Theatre, not available online. Get your Bollywood groove on with 3rd i’s Bollywood at the Castro! Enjoy a blockbuster classic with exuberance and camp on the BIG SCREEN – one of the most fun and popular events at the festival! Fans know Rani Mukherjee as one of the most beautiful, dynamic […]
MUTINY: Asians Storm British Music
Castro Theatre 429 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSee only at the Castro Theatre, not available online. Filmmaker Vivek Bald in person for Q&A! In a thrilling mix of live music performances, candid interviews and rare archival footage, director Vivek Bald charts the meteoric rise of South Asian music in 1990’s Britain and the decades of cultural cross-pollination and political struggle that led up […]
SHANKAR’S FAIRIES
Castro Theatre 429 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSee only at the Castro Theatre, not available online. Filled with wonder and imagination, Irfana Majumdar’s nostalgic and insightful period piece portrays a privileged family in Lucknow, India in the 1960s. Majumdar’s feature debut delicately weaves together the personal and social lives of a wealthy family, while simultaneously delving into the postcolonial era in which India […]
Adieu Godard
Castro Theatre 429 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSee only at the Castro Theatre, not available online. In this wry, arthouse dark comedy, director Amartya Bhattacharyya pays homage to and draws inspiration from his favorite filmmaker, the legendary auteur Jean-Luc Godard and his early 1960s French New wave films. The elderly Ananda lives in a small village in the rural backdrop of Odisha in […]
FOUR SAMOSAS
Roxie Theater 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSee only at the Roxie Theater, not available online. Filmmaker/actor Ravi Kapoor and actor Venk Potula in person for Q&A!! California Premiere Written and directed by Ravi Kapoor (Miss India America), this fun romantic comedy affectionately incorporates Indian cultural ideals into an American heist movie genre, creating a mixture or “masala” reviewed as the most […]
An Encore Special Talk by Robin Sukhadia
Zoom from your own deviceFulbright scholar, musician/composer and 3rd i alum, Robin Sukhadia, will share the history of raga (melody) and tala (rhythm) on the subcontinent of India.
Free
Alka Raghuram, a Filmmaker’s Workshop
Roxie Theater 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn this interactive presentation, Alka Raghuram -- filmmaker and artist -- will share her works and works-in-progress, her creative process during Covid, and how she creates unique points of view that reflect the characters’ and the filmmaker’s worldview.
Free
A special talk by Robin Sukhadia
Zoom from your own deviceJoin arts professor Robin Sukhadia for special talk by Robin Sukhadia on the healing power of tabla, with a live sound meditation.
In Process With Nishtha Jain
Online CA, United StatesIn this program, filmmaker Nishtha Jain shares her experiences and reflect on the nuances of storytelling in the documentary form. She will offer her insights as an outsider looking in at one of the most significant protests in recent Indian history that transpired in surprising ways.
Writing With Fire
Online CA, United StatesIn a cluttered news landscape dominated by men emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women.
Dance Like A Man
CineArts at Palo Alto Square 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesOne of the most successful plays on the Indian stage (by Mahesh Dattani) is adapted for the screen in this stellar cineplay, a dramatic comedy that captures the tension and jealousy between a rising Bharatanatyam dancer and her parents, both dancers themselves.
Newton
CineArts at Palo Alto Square 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesThis smart and engaging black comedy finds humor in the tenuous nature of democracy. Conscientious clerk, Newton, must keep devious military personnel and oddball bureaucrats in check during election day in the conflict-ridden “tribal” area of Chhattisgarh.
The World of Goopi and Bagha (Goopi Gawaiya, Bagha Bajaiya)
CineArts at Palo Alto Square 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesAn animated adaptation of one of Indian master Satyajit Ray's most beloved works, this colorful film follows the hilarious misadventures of Goopi and Bagha, two tuneless musicians banished from their villages for their cacophonous music.
The Cinema Travellers
CineArts at Palo Alto Square 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesThis intimate and poetic gem captures the miracle of cinema in its purest sense, and the timelessness of a tradition that has existed in India for decades - the traveling tent cinema.
Bad, Brown, Bride: 3 Desi Series
CineArts at Palo Alto Square 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesBay Area Filmmakers in Person! Snappy, sexy, and seriously modern, these three shorts series turn stereotypes about desis on their heads, and offer modern portraits of young South Asians in America.
Coast to Coast: Mumbai to the Mission
New People Cinema 1746 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesBay Area Filmmakers in Person! From light comedy to dark wit, this year's kaleidoscope of cinematic offerings engage the intimate, personal and the intellectual.
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