Singapore South Asian Film Festival [ SAIFF ] will be starting from Sep 01 2017 & honoring Abhay Deol with South Asian Icon of the Year, Shabana Azmi with South Asian Women of the Year and Javed Akhtar with South Asian Literary Award.~
SAIFF launches with the grand red carpet World Premiere of Albert Pinto “Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai” starring Nandita Das and Manav Kaul, Directed by Soumitra Ranade.
Special screenings will be held of Afghanistani director Siddiq Barmak’s Osama (2013), which was awarded the Golden Globe for ‘Best Foreign Film’, Leena Yadav’s Parched (2015), Singaporean director K. Rajagopal’s much-acclaimed film A Yellow Bird (2016), Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Once Again, and a much-anticipated Bengali film Roktokorobi (2017), by young, promising Bangladeshi director Amitabh Bhattacharya will be held.
The Singapore South Asian International Film Festival (Sg.SAIFF) 2017 festival will be held from September 1st-10th, across various prominent venues in the city. The festival showcases forty feature films, shorts and documentaries from India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, as well as special screenings from Singapore, carefully culled out from hundreds of recent productions to exhibit new films of emerging filmmakers, as well as highly anticipated titles by established ones.
Apart from screenings, the vibrant weeklong festival also offers an eclectic mix of events and programs – World Premiere, screenings, workshops, award ceremonies, panel discussions, master classes and music performances.
Abhayanand Singh, Festival Chairman, shared his thoughts, “The festival is a landmark initiative showcasing for the first time in the city, South Asian cinema of such scale and quality. We, therefore, wish to make a big impact and become a significant cultural gateway in the years to come. Through the powerful medium of cinema, we hope to build closer ties between the global city of Singapore and the developing nations of South Asia.”
Amit Aggarwal, Artistic Director says, “The challenge and drive in selecting films for Sg.SAIFF was to create a program that is truthful to the exciting new voices and stories which richly bring out the complexities of South Asia.”
Ashok Purang, Festival Director says, “Sg.SAIFF aims to bring together an exclusive gathering of filmmakers, actors, film critics, and industry players to engage in vibrant discussions on the larger transformative role of cinema as a craft, representation, and industry in current times.”
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