Indo-American Arts Council Presents Two Films
at the
2008 NEW YORK ARAB & SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
MARCH 5 - 16
www.nyasaff.org
Friday, March 14, 6:30 pm
SankaraSankara
(Prasanna Jayakody / Sri Lanka / 2007 / 87 mins / 35 mm / Sinhalese with English ST) NY PREMIERE
In this meditative and painterly film, a young Buddhist monk arrives at a village to restore the temple's paintings - five moral tales that embody the trap of the five senses. Later when he encounters the village belle, he realizes that he, himself, is not immune to worldly desires.


  
Friday, March 14, 8:30 pm
7 Islands and a Metro7 Islands and a Metro
(Madhusree Dutta / India / 2006 / 110 mins / Digibeta / English, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi & Bombayia with English ST) NY PREMIERE
A tale of Bombay through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. The narrative is structured around imaginary debates between famed writers Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities.



Tribeca Film Center Screening Room
375 Greenwich Street (b/w North Moore Street and Franklin Street)
1 Train to Franklin Street, A/C/E to Canal
  
$4 Discount for IAAC Members for both screenings:
Enter IAAC08 in the discount code when you buy advance tickets though www.nyasaff.org
Regular Prices: $12 Adult, $8 Student/Senior, $60 Festival Pass

About the Festival
Alwan for the Arts, with partners 3rd i NY and the South Asian Women's Creative Collective, have partnered to include over 65 feature premieres, documentaries and short films from 25 countries in North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and their diasporas.

The 2008 New York Arab & South Asian Film Fsetival is made possible in part by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with the generous support of The September 11th Fund, as well as Columbia, The Arab Film Festival Rotterdam, The Tunisian Cultural & Information Center, Egypt Air, and the Arab American Family Support Center.

      
The Indo-American Arts Council is a 501 ©3 not-for-profit arts organization passionately dedicated to promoting, showcasing and building an awareness of South Asian artists in the performing arts, visual arts, literary arts and folk arts. For information please visit
  
  

  
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