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What's on at the third eye Asian Film Festival today
Updated On: 02 November, 2010 09:54 AM IST | | The Guide Team
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:
Sanglan The Pawn Shop
YB Chavan Centre, nariman point
Takhdid
Time: 11 am to 1 pm
Takhdid is a Uzbek language film that has been directed by Khilol Nasimov.
Cape No 7
Time: 2 pm to 4 pm
Aga, a band singer, returns to Hengchun with frustration. Tomoko is a Japanese model assigned to organise a local warm-up band for the Japanese super star's beach concert. Together with five ordinary Hengchun residents who were not expected to be great or anything, they form an impossible band.
All That I Love
Time: 4 pm to 6 pm
This Polish film revolves around Janek, the teenage son of a navy captain, who forms a punk-rock band whose songs express a frustration with socialism and a desire for freedom, echoing sentiments of the Solidarity movement.
Songs From The Southern Seas
Time: 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
Ivan is Russian, his neighbour Assan is Kazakh. They live in a small village in Kazakhstan. When Ivan's wife gets pregnant and gives birth to a brown boy, he suspects that she has been cheating on him with Assan.
Plaza Theatre, dadar
Ocean of an Old Man
Time: 10 am to 1.30 pm
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.
Judge
Time: 11.30 am to 1 pm
Caught in complex death penalty deliberations, a judge and a convicted criminal both discover that justice is rarely a simple matter.
Ek Din Pratidin
Time: 1.30 pm to 3 pm
The narrative underlined what happens when a working girl doesn't return home after work.
Sanglan The Pawn Shop
Time: 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm
An owner and her appraiser, the security guard, a seaman and a loan shark are among the characters we meet at Olivia's Pawnshop, a small struggling pawnshop in the heart of Tondo in Manila.
The Aquarium
Time: 6 pm to 8 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.
Bonchiu00a0
Time: 8.30 pm to 10.30 pm
The film sets up an opposition between modernity and tradition, pleasure and business, peace and war, turning this 50 year narrative of an Osaka fifth generation businessman's life into a version of Japanese 20th century history.u00a0
Plaza Theatre (Mini), dadar
Granaz
Time: 10.30 am to 12 noon
The plot revolves around little Milad, who encounters an old lady on his way to school.
Nirrutar
Time: 12 noon to 1.30 pm
Nirrutar is a film which has been directed by Kumar Sohni.
Short Film Fiction Competition -- Group III
Time: 2 pm to 4 pm
Short Film Fiction Competition - Group IV
Time: 4 pm to 6 pm
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