Aseem Chambra, Festival Director of the New York Indian Film Festival, and
Board Member for the South Asian Journalists Association, will moderate a
Q&A with filmmaker Tariq Tapa following the 6pm showing on February 19 .

Tickets available online starting Feb. 9 at www.filmforum.org/films/zerobridge

Film Forum is located at 209 West Houston Street, between 6th Ave and Varick St.

In the tradition of hard-hitting neo-realist filmmaking comes the debut feature of Tariq Tapa, a US-born filmmaker of Kashmiri/Jewish-American descent. Having spent his childhood summers in India-controlled Kashmir with his father’s family, he was committed to making a film of quotidian life, far from Bollywood fantasies and Western
news reports of terrorism: Dilawar is a teenage pickpocket whose escape plans are complicated when he develops an uneasy alliance with a woman (herself fleeing an arranged marriage) whose passport he has stolen. ZERO BRIDGE is a story of two young people's struggle to retain their humanity, despite poverty, the traditional culture into which they’ve been born, and the fatalism, sexism and casual cruelty of their families.