Lovers of unconventional, offbeat cinema have been on a roll this fortnight
Lovers of unconventional, offbeat cinema have been on a roll this fortnight. The Asian Film Festival comes right after the Mumbai Film Festival. If you missed the fantastic line up at MAMI, this is your chance to catch some super cinema coming out from our continent. Here's the schedule for today:
YB Chavan Centre, nariman point
Sheika
Time: 11 am to 1 pm
The true story of a mother who lost her four sons to the heartless assassins of Davao City.
Three Times
Time: 2 pm to 4 pm
Three Times features three stories of love set in 1911, 1966 and 2005 using the same actors.
Granaz
Time: 4 pm to 6 pm
The plot revolves around little Milad, who encounters an old lady on his way to school.
The Magic Treeu00a0u00a0u00a0
Time: 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
A storm has knocked down a seemingly ordinary huge oak, yet it was a magic tree ufffd One day, three children -- Tosia, Philip, and Kuki -- find a chair made from that tree which will make any dream come true.
Plaza Theatre, dadar
A Man Who Ate His Cherries
Time: 10 am to 11.30 am
Reza, a factory worker, learns that he is infertile. His frustrated wife Zari files successfully for divorce and Reza has to raise money to pay back her dowry. Reduced to basics, Reza scrounges for the necessary cash until an industrial accident suddenly gives him an idea.
The wedding
Time: 11.30 am to 1.30 pm
The events of this movie take place in a single day: the 24 hours preceding a wedding in a marginal Cairo alley.
The Girls
Time: 2.30 pm to 4 pm
This is an Iranian film by Ghasem Jafari.
Plaza Theatre (Mini), dadar
Ifu00a0Iu00a0Knewu00a0Whatu00a0Youu00a0Said
Time: 10.30 am to 12 noon
The love story of Kiko, a deaf boy, who loves to dance and Nina, a troubled rocker, who abuses her hearing. Crossing paths in a camp that mixes deaf and hearing youths, Nina and Kiko discover the ironies of their comparative lives and a surprising common love for music.
UTOV
Time:Time: 12 noon to 2 pm
Ubay is depressed by his past and the stigma of "son of people's enemy." He lives like a hermit and brings up his only son similarly, unsuspecting of the future burst.
Yangu00a0Yang
Time: 3 pm to 5 pm
The film is about a young woman's struggle with identity, love and belonging.
Sweetu00a0Rush
Time: 5 pm to 7 pm
The film is centred on the character of Marta, a middle-aged woman, who lives a lonely life beside an absent, workaholic husband, until she meets a young man and rediscovers her vital strength and youth.
Fun Republic, Andheri
Oceanu00a0ofu00a0anu00a0Oldu00a0Manu00a0
Time: 10 am to 11.30 am
The film follows the struggles of an elderly British teacher who runs a primary school in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in India post the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004.
Theu00a0Aquariumu00a0
Time: 11.45 am to 1.15 pm
This is a tale of two emotionally closeted Cairoites -- a phone-in radio host and an anesthetist -- whose paths cross at the very end.
Chataku00a0
Time: 2 pm to 3.30 pm
Chatak is a Hindi movie, which has been directed by Reema Borah.
Theu00a0Conflagration
Time: 4 pm to 6 pm
A priest burns down his temple to save it from spiritual pollution.
Summeru00a0Book
Time: 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
Mustafa is a hard-working, ambitious agricultural merchant who is cold and austere towards his family. One day, he has a brain hemorrhage on a business trip and goes into a coma after the operation.
You can register at the venues. Passes are for Rs 400 (Rs 200 for students and film society members). Log on to www.affmumbai.com oru00a0Call 24137791 for more details.
ADVERTISEMENT
Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest news!" Click here!
