ALL THAT BREATHES

Tasveer Emerald Showcase | Shaunak Sen | Documentary Feature | 94 mins

Friday, November 4, 2022 7:30 PM PDT

AMC PAC PLACE

Join us for the in-person film screening of All That Breathes with an exclusive Q&A Session with Tasveer Alum Filmmaker Shaunak Sen! All That Breathes is the winner of Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema Documentary at Sundance Festival 2022 and L'Oeil D'or Prize for Best Documentary at Cannes Festival 2022.

In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital. Director Shaunak Sen (Cities of Sleep) explores the connection between the kites and the Muslim brothers who help them return to the skies, offering a mesmerizing chronicle of inter-species coexistence.

"Quietly provocative and dreamily beautiful." - Daniel Fienberg, Hollywood Reporter

GOLDFISH

Centerpiece | Pushan Kripalani | Narrative Feature | 101 mins

In-person film screening and Q&A

Kalki Koechlin and Deepti Naval attending in person

Thur, Nov 10th, 6:00 PM

Join us for the North American premiere of the Goldfish at the the 17th Tasveer South Asian Film Festival! The film screening will be followed by an exclusive in-person Q&A with actors Deepti Naval and Kalki Koechlin.

British-Indian woman, Anamika (played by Kalki Koechlin), returns home to find her mother suffering from the onset of dementia. Mother and daughter, strangers for over a decade, find themselves thrown together once again and Ana is forced to become daughter and mother, care-giver and secretary and detective, shield and scalpel. Around her, in the neighborhood she escaped, Anamika begins to discover a woman she never knew at home, alive in memory, in anecdote, in music she doesn’t understand.

FREE EVENT: KICKING BALLS + WOMEN BEYOND BOLLYWOOD

In-person film screening and Q&A with Vijayeta Kumar and Rahila Bootwaala

Tuesday, Nov. 8th, 5:30 PM Seattle Public Library

In partnership with Seattle Public Library, Tasveer presents the screening of Kicking Balls and Women Beyond Bollywood with an exclusive in-person Q&A and discussion with filmmakers Vijayeta Kumar and Rahila Bootwaala.

Kicking Balls: Each year, 12 Million girls are married before the age of 18. That is 23 girls every minute. In 3 small villages in Rajasthan, an NGO is trying to change this. Through football. 200 teenage girls playing and training regularly. The film explores their sisterhood and journey. What the future holds for them, nobody knows. But for now, they are in charge, they are confident, and they love kicking balls!

Women Beyond Bollywood: India’s cinema industry is the largest in the world, and Bollywood is its flagship: stars, music, drama, not to mention rampant sexism, are its defining features. Today, a new generation of filmmakers is finally showing women as more than eye candy or appendages to larger than life male heroes. Montreal filmmaker Rahila Bootwala left India as a young woman, wanting to work in film but feeling disconnected from an industry dominated by men and beholden to their fantasies. In this empowering documentary, she goes back to India to meet with the women who are reshaping the industry.