PRESENT

Anuranan: The Resonance

Directed by: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
India / 113 mins / 35 mm / Bengali with English subtitle

US PREMIERE, Co-Presented with the Indo-American Arts Council

The story of two couples each with their own struggles to balance their relationships and their individualities. After living in London for a few years, Rahul and Nandita have recently moved back to Kolkata and become friends with Amit and Preeti. It is the lives of these four friends that create a resonance, a chord, that echoes through their present and future. Starring Rahul Bose and Rituparna Sengupta.

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All screenings of Anuranan: The Resonance:

• New Features » Sat, Mar 3, 2007 5:30 pm » Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick St @ Canal St, NYC.
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Festival Calendar

The Indo-American Arts Council(IAAC) is a not-for-profit arts organization passionately dedicated to promoting and showcasing artists of Indian origin in the performing, visual, literary and folk arts.  For more information please visit .  IAAC, 146West 29th St, Suite 7R3, NYC 10001. . Email: Web:

2007 New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival
23 February - 4 March, 2007 http://www.alwanforthearts.org/filmfestival

Over 70 recent features, documentaries and shorts showcase the creative vitality of North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and their diasporas. Several directors will be in attendance and panel discussions held. Check the website for updates and ticketing information: http://www.alwanforthearts.org/filmfestival

Organized by 3rd i NY, South Asian Women's Creative Collective, Alwan for the Arts, Downtown Community TV, Columbia University, Rotterdam Arab Film Festival and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Special Programs -

• Artists in Exile
• New Documentaries from Afghanistan
• Next Generation Filmmakers from the UK
• Palestinian Revolution Cinema
• Transfixed: South Asian & Arab Experimental Shorts
• War Diaries: video projections documenting the daily experiences of people under siege in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine
• Retrospective on and Master Class by Tunisian director Nacer Khemir
  

Venues -

• Tribeca Cinemas
  54 Varick St. @ Canal St.
    
• DCTV
  87 Lafayette St. (two blocks south of Canal St.)
    
• Alwan for the Arts
  16 Beaver St. between Broad & Broadway
    
• Pioneer Theater
  155 East 3rd St. & Avenue A
    
• Columbia University
  Lerner Hall, Schermerhorn Auditorium and Dodge Hall
  116th & Broadway

The New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival is made possible in part through the generous support of the Fund for Creative Communities/New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council & The Collaborative Marketing Grant from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with the generous support of The September 11th Fund. Additional support from Springer Associates PR, Deep Dish TV and Columbia University Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, the Middle East Institute, and the Film Division of the School of the Arts.