Our favourite picks from the festival? Rohena Gera’s SIR and Gurinder Chadha’s BLINDED BY THE LIGHT. We are also excited to hear more about Bhaskar Hazarika’s AAMIS, Ronny Sen’s CAT STICKS, and Sapna Bhavnani’s SINDHUSTAN.
Find the full feature film lineup below.
Opening Night Film: SIR
2018 | India | 99 mins | Hindi | English | Marathi
Directed by – Rohena Gera
Cast – Vivek Gomber, Tillotama Shome
Centrepiece: PHOTOGRAPH
2018 | India | 109 mins | Hindi, English, and Gujarati
Directed by – Ritesh Batra
Cast – Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra
Closing Night Film: The LAST COLOR
2018 | India | 90 mins | Hindi
Directed by – Vikas Khanna
Cast – Neena Gupta, Aqsa Siddiqui, Princy Sudhakaran, Rudrani Chettri, Aslam Sheikh
Special Spotlight: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
2019 | UK | 113 minutes | English
Cast: Viveik Kalra, Hayley Atwell, Rob Brydon, Kulvinder Ghir, Nell Williams, Aaron Phagura
AAMIS
2019 | India | 108 mins | Assamese
Directed by – Bhaskar Hazarika
Cast – Lima Das, Arghadeep Baruah, Neetali Das, Sagar Saurabh, Manash K Das, Momee Borah, Chandan Bhuyan
ABODE
2019 | India | 82 mins | Malayalam
Directed by – Jaya Jose Raj
Cast – Seema Biswas
BAGGAGE
2018 | India | 114 mins | Kannada
Directed by – Roopa Rao
Cast – Teju Belawadi, Nischith Korodi, Bhargav Raju, Surya Vasishta, Sharath Gowda, Sri Ranga
BHOGA KHIRIKEE
Directed by – Jahnu Barua
Cast – Seema Biswas, Joy Kashyap, Sanjay Khargharia, Kasvi Sharma, Mohommed Ali Shah, Bishnu Khargharia.
BHONSLE
2018 | India | 128 mins | Hindi
Directed by – Devashish Makhija
Cast – Manoj Bajpayee, Santosh Juvekar, Ipshita Chakraborty Singh, Virat Vaibhav
BULBUL CAN SING
2018 | India | 95 mins | Hindi and Assamese
Directed by – Rima Das
Cast – Pakija Begum, Arnali Das, Manoranjan Das, Banita Thakuria, Manabendra Das
CAT STICKS
2019 | India | 94 mins | Bengali, Hindi and English
Director: Ronny Sen
Cast – Tanmay Dhanania, Sumeet Thakur, Joyraj Bhattacharya, Saurabh Saraswat, Rahul Dutta, Raja, Sounak Kundu, Kalpan Mitra, Soumyajit Majumdar, and Sreejita Mitra
CHEGU
2018 | India | 94 mins | Bengali
Directed by – Nabamita Ghosh
Cast – Ishan, Aurnima, Sudipta Chakraborty, Ena Saha, Chandan Sen, Vinay Pathak
CHIPPA
2018 | India | 90 mins | Hindi
Directed by – Syed Safdar Rahman
Cast – Sunny Pawar, Masood Akhtar, Chandan Roy Sanyal
CHUSKIT
2018 | India | 90 mins | Hindi
Directed by – Priya Ramasubban
Cast – Jigmet Dewa Lhamo, Morug Namgyal, Satyadeem Misra, Sonam Wangchok, Yangchen Dolma
DRAUPADI UNLEASHED
2019 | USA | 1 hour 48 minutes | English
Directed by – Tony Stopperan
Cast – Salena Qureshi, Dominic Rains, Azita Ghanizada, Anna George, Taaha Shah, Saad Siddiqui, Pooja Batra, Anil Kumar, Melanie Chandra, Cas Anvar
HAMID
2018 | India | 112 mins | Urdu
Directed by – Aijaz Khan
Cast – Talha Arshad Reshi, Vikas Kumar, Rasika Dugal, Sumit Kaul, Bashir Lone
JHALKI
2019 | India | Hindi
Directed by – Brahmanand S. Singh
Cast – Boman Irani, Sanjay Suri, Divya Dutta, Tanishtha Chatterjee, Govind Namdev, Joy Sengupta, Akhilendra Mishra, Bachan Pachera
KATTUMARAM (Catamaran)
2019 | India | 73 mins | Tamil
Directed by – Swarnavel Eswaran
KIA AND COSMOS
2018 | India | 124 mins | English
Directed by – Sudipto Roy
Cast – Ritwika Pal, Swastika Mukherjee, Joy Sengupta, Sraman Chatterjee, Zahid Hossain, Mita Chatterjee, Amaan Reza
K.D. (a) KARUPPA DURAI
2018 | India | 123 mins | Tamil
Directed by – Madhumita Sundararaman
Cast – Mu Ramaswamy, Nagavishal, Yog Jagpee
2018 | India | 75 mins | Hindi
Directed by – Rakesh Rawat
Cast – Anshuman Jha, Mukesh Bhatt, Sahdev Raj Singh Hooda, Trushant Ingle, Mukesh Prajapati, Vinod Nahardih
2018 | India | 140 mins | Marathi
Directed by – Adinath Kothare
Cast – Adinath Kothare, Rucha Vaidya, Subodh Bhave, Kishore Kadam
ROOTS
2018 | India | 107 mins | Tamil
Directed by – Anand Ravichandran
Cast – Nivedhithaa Sathish, Srilekha, Avinash Raghudevan, Gabrella Sellus, Mosakutty, Rathaakrishnan
SA
2018 | India | 111 mins | Bengali
Director: Arjit Singh
Cast: Pragun Singh, Srija Ghosh, Anindya Pulak Banerjee
SALUTE
2018 | India | 140 mins | Punjabi, Haryanvi & Hindi
Directed by – Harish Arora
Cast – Nav Bajwa, Jaspinder Cheema
SIVARANJANI AND TWO OTHER WOMEN (Sivaranjaniyum Innum Sila Pengallum)
2018 | India | 123 minutes | Tamil
Director: Vasanth S. Sai
Cast: Parvathy Thiruvothu, Lakshmi Priya Chandramouli, Kalieswari Srinivasan
2019 | India | 110 mins | Bengali
Directed by – Suman Ghosh
Cast – Rituparna Sengupta, Aparna Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee
THE FLIGHT
2018 | India | 83 mins | Bengali
Directed by – Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Cast – Chandan Roy Sanyal, Parno Mittra, Sudipto Chatterjee
YOURS TRULY
2018 | India | 84 mins | Hindi
Directed by – Sanjoy Nag
Cast – Soni Razdan, Pankaj Tripathi, Aahana Kumra, Mahesh Bhatt
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
GOOD GUY, BAD GUY
2018 | India | 79 mins | Tamil
Directed by – Indu Krishnan
Cast – Indu Krishnan, Zakhir
SINDHUSTAN
2019 | India | 61 mins | English
Directed: Sapna Bhavnani
Cast – Saaz Agarwal, Ehsan Ali, Lakshmandas Asrani, Laj Badlani, Sajni Bhatia, K.C. Bhavnani, Sapna Bhavnani, Logic The Cat, Frida The Cat, Future The Cat, Asha Chand, Mohan Gehani, Sunita Jagasia, Sundri Keswani, Sain Juman Latifi, Haji Muhammad, Jairam Rupani, Meghraj Talreja, Dada Vaswani, Yogesh Waghmare
THE SOUND MAN: MANGESH DESAI
2017 | India | 113 mins | English and Hindi
Directed by – Subash Sahoo
Cast – Uday Girkar – Younger Mangesh Desai
The festival will be held from 7 – 12 May at the Village East Cinemas, 181-189 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10003. Visit their website for the shorts lineup, schedule and to buy tickets, which are on sale now.