This film festival will screen 20 films, including seven narrative features, twelve short films, and one docu-series with a diverse line-up of films from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and the United States, bringing together South Asian stories and perspectives from around the globe.
The festival will open with the Los Angeles premiere of Tarsem Singh’s forbidden romance Dear Jassi and close with Nithilan Saminathan’s Tamil film Maharaja , a twisted revenge saga starring superstar Vijay Sethupathi and ace filmmaker Anurag Kashyap playing the villain.
Features include the special presentation of stylized violence in Kill, written and directed by Nikhil Nagesh Bhat and produced by Karan Johar and Guneet Monga and the coming-of-age story Girls Will Be Girls, written and directed by Shuchi Talati. The lineup also includes screening of films like Undercurrent; Ben and Suzanne, A Reunion in 4 Parts; A House Named Shahana and a special screening of two episodes of documentary series Defiance: Fighting the Far Right.