MUMBAI: The South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) 2008, presented by HBO, will open with Nandita Das’ Firaaq on 22 October in New York.
The film festival will close on 28 October with Pakistani film-maker Mehreen Jabbar’s Ramchand Pakistani. The film stars Bollywood actress Nandita Das, along with Pakistani actors Rashid Farooqui, Noman Ijaz, Maria Wasti, Navaid Jabbar and child actor Syed Fazal Hussain.
Director Madhur Bhandarkar’s upcoming flick Fashion will be premiered on 24 October at 10 pm.
The seven-day film festival will showcase features, short-films, and documentaries like The Pool, Morning Ritual, To Be…Me, Will Think For Food, Milind Soman Made Me Gay, Lalbatti, A Drop Of Life, The President Is Coming, Rewind, Narmeen, Clean Linen, The Only Thing, The Private Life Of Albert Pinto, Sukrit‘s Sundays, Akasa Kusum (Flowers In The Sky), Arranging Love, Seventh Seam, A Drop Of Life, Healthy. Happy. Holy., Kerala Brides, Mohandas, Shades Of Ray, Antardwand, The Whisperers, Mahek, A Home In The Sky, Lost & Found, 21-12-2012 and Mara Move On.
The SAIFF is a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting established and emerging artists from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.
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