Come celebrate 3rd i's fifteenth 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.
Filmmaker in Person! Deeply moving and smart, Arshad Khan’s outstanding documentary Abu is a quintessential immigrant story that captures the tumultuous journey of his family's move to Canada, from Pakistan, in the early 90s.
This moving portrait of a Berkeley street philosopher explores the Hate Man’s enigmatic life, including why, thirty years ago, he chose to quit his job as a successful New York Times journalist, drop out of mainstream society and live in the streets. Challenging conventional notions of success, conformity, progress and morality, 'Hate' lucidly discusses and defends his own 'downward mobility' and personal theories of human communication among countless other issues.
This evening of neo-benshi performances will consist of screening several film clips re-narrated live for the audience.
Dutta’s magical new film follows an eighth-century architect across the lower Himalayas in search of a temple site.
Three shorts studying the 18th-century Indian artist Nainsukh.
A film about contemporary landscape painter Paramjit Singh.
Dutta painstakingly recreates the eighteenth-century artist Nainsukh’s brilliant miniature paintings through sumptuous compositions set amid palace ruins.
An intricately mosaicked portrait of nonagenarian artist Ram Kumar.
"Amit Dutta’s Cinematic Museum" is a series of films by the director/artist exploring the visual arts of India.
The Hate Man, Street Philosopher is a quirky, entertaining and moving portrait of a Berkeley street philosopher. Free outdoor screening.
"Little Stones" profiles four women, each of whom are contributing a stone to the mosaic of the women's movement through their art.
3rd i is proud to co-present three films at Frameline 41: "Abu," "IRL Unbound," and "Signature Move."
3rd i co-presents at QWOCMAP’s 13th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival.
3rd i co-presents two films at BAMPFA: "Kalpana," an experimental drama from 1948, and "Celluloid Man," a portrait of a film preservationist.
3rd i co-presents two films at BAMPFA: "Kalpana," an experimental drama from 1948, and "Celluloid Man," a portrait of a film preservationist.
A Conversation with Shah Rukh Khan and screening of his film "My Name is Khan."
A moving homage to the bygone era of celluloid, "The Cinema Travellers" captures the splendor of the moving image through India’s traveling movie caravans.
A moving and bittersweet drama that gracefully captures societal customs in India surrounding death and family, and is based on real hotels that administer such services.
A moving and bittersweet drama that gracefully captures societal customs in India surrounding death and family, and is based on real hotels that administer such services.
