Liar’s Dice
The Chicago South Asian Film Festival revealed the film lineup for this year’s festival to be held between September 18th and 21st, 2014. The festival will present over 25 films in downtown Chicago, at the Showplace ICON Theater in South Loop,and in Evanston, at The Evanston Public Library. This year’s Festival will open with the Chicago premiere of Liar’s Dice by director Geethu Mohandas, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and includes dynamic performances from Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Geetanjali Thapa and Manya Gupta. Festival circuit favorite, M Cream, will be the Friday night feature. Monsoon Shootout will be the centerpiece film and also includes the audience favorite, Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Invigorating performances in Ankhon Dekhi directed by Rajat Kapoor, known for his roles in Dil Chatha Hai, Bheja Fry and Monsoon Wedding, will close out the Festival on Sunday evening.
A full list of films to be presented in the windy city is provided below.
A Boy Called Boris (Director: Ashok Vish): Short Film; United States; Max Kolby, Brian Gildea, Jose Amor
Algorithms (Director: Ian McDonald): U.S. Premiere; Documentary; India
Blouse (Director: Vijayeta Kumar): Chicago Premiere; Short Film; India; Sumeet Vyas, Imran Rashid, Ronjini Chakraborty, Preeti Sharma
Brahmin Bulls (Director: Mahesh Pailoor): Chicago Premiere; Feature; India; Sendhil Ramamurthy, Roshan Seth, Cassidy Freeman, Justin Bartha
Color of War (Director: Sai Pawar): Chicago Premiere; Short Film; United States; Matt Pohlkamp, Tristan Coe, Jon Peterson, Scott E. Myers
Fandry (Director: Nagraj Manjule): Chicago Premiere; Feature; India; Somnath Avghade, Kishor Kadam, Sanjay Chaudhri, Suraj Pawar Payeshari
The Fading Valley (Director: Irit Gal): Chicago Premiere; Documentary; Israel
Give Into the Night (Director: Sonejuhi Sinha): Chicago Premiere; Short Film; United States; Sarita Choudhury, Alisha Nagarsheth, Vijay Bhargava
Hit the Road (Director: Gor Baghadasharyan, Mushegh Baghdasaryan): Documentary; India; Ric Gazarian, Keith King
Int. Café- Night (Director: Adhiraj Bose): U.S. Premiere; Short Film; India; Naseeruddin Shah, Shernaz Patel, Shweta BAsu Prasad, Naveen Kasturia
Jaya (Director: Puja Maewal): Short Film; India; Faimida Shaikh, Anil Rathod, Jaihind Kumar
It’s About Time (Director: Snehal Patel): Chicago Premiere; Short Film; United States; Omi Vaidya
Kaphal- Wild Berries (Director: Batul Mukhtier): Feature Film; India; Harish Rana, Pawan Singh Negi
Katiyabaaz (Director: Deepti Kakkar, Fahad Mustafa): Chicago Premiere; Documentary; India
M Cream (Director: Agneya Singh, Aban Raza): Chicago Premiere; India; Imaaduddin Shah, Ira Dubey, Auritra Ghosh, Raaghav Chanana, Barry John, Tom Alter
Mitraa (Director: Ravi Jadhav): U.S. Premiere; Short Film; India; Veena Jamkar, Sandeep Khare, Mrunmayee Deshpande
Mohammad (Director: Shahnawaz Ali): World Premiere; Short Film; Qatar
Munnariyippu (Director: Venu): Feature; U.S. Premiere; India; Mammootty, Aparna Gopinath
Odh- An Odyssey (Director: Naina Panemanglor): Short Film; India; Devashish Boralkar, Priya Bagalkote
Phoring (Director: Indranil Roychowdhury): Chicago Premiere; Feature; India; Ritwick Chakraborty, Sohini Sarkar, Shankar Debnath, Akash Adhikary
Present Continuous (Director: Aner Preminger): Chicago Premiere; Feature; Israel; Hagit Dasberg, Eyal Nachmias, Matan Preminger, Tamar Preminger
Purple Skies (Director: Sridhar Rangayan)- Chicago Premiere; Documentary; India
Rangzen-Freedom (Director: Gaurav Saxena): U.S. Premiere; Short Film; India; Tenzin Dayoe, Sonam Phunsok
Tamaash- The Puppet (Director: Satyanshu Singh, Devanshu Singh): Chicago Premiere; Short Film; Kashmir; Zahid Ahmed Mir
Veil (Director: Sreemoyee Bhattacharya): Chicago Premiere; Short Film; India; Joey Debroy, Daminee Basu
What Remains (Director: Sarita Khurana): Chicago Premiere; Short Film; United States; Ananya Kumar-Banerjee, Sumitra Rajkumar
View the full film schedule here: www.csaff.org/film-schedule/