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Jaya Bachchan to inaugurate first Canada South Asian Film Festival

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The maiden edition of the Canada South Asian Film Festival (SAFF) will be inaugurated by veteran Indian actress Jaya Bachchan on October 31st, 2012.  Apart from screenings of feature, documentary and animation films, there will also be a Master Class from Buddhadeb Das Gupta.

The festival will run from 31st October to 4th November, 2012 in the British Columbia cities of Vancouver, Surrey and Abbotsford and will host films from the South Asian countries like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, Afghanistan and India. To commemorate 100 years of Indian Cinema the festival has organised “Memories of their first Indian Film”, wherein cinephiles are invited to send in written accounts on the topic.
 The highlights of the festival are:

Through Her Eyes: Women in South Asian Film
South Asian Mosaic: Lives lived in South Asia
Way Beyond Bollywood: Feature films from throughout India and South Asia
Debut Views: First or second feature films
Docs Docs Docs! – Documentary films
Our Planet Our World – Environmental films

Indian films in the line-up are:

Saptapadii by Niranjan Thade

Life is Good by Ananth Mahadevan

Delhi in a Day by Prashant Nair

Quartet by Buddhadeb Das Gupta

The Tortoise, An Incarnation by Girish Kasaravalli

Color of Sky by Dr. Biju

A Bright Day by Mohit Takalkar

Gangoobai by Priya Krishnaswamhy

Woman From the East by Jeet Matharru

Anhey Ghore Da Daan by Gurvinder Singh

Adwiat Sangeet by Makarand Brahme (Opening Night Film)

White Knight by Aarti Shrivastava

Woh by Buddhadeb Das Gupta

Chitrantada The Crowing Wish by Rituparno Ghosh

Pehchaan 3D by Manny Parmar

Mallamall by Director; Lalita Krishna

Transferred Action by Jayaraj

Noorenbadhu, 180 by Jayendra

Calcutta Taxi by Vikram das Gupta

Blood Relative by Nimisha Mukerji

Land Gold Woman by Avantika Hari

The Man Who Saved the Taj Mahal by Jay Baja


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