DFW South Asian Film Festival

Our Mission:

The Dallas/Fort Worth area is now home to its very own South Asian film festival. DFW SAFF is a four day festival taking place from February 8 to 11, 2018. We will showcase World, U.S. and Texas premieres of features, shorts and documentaries, all chosen to engage, educate and inspire audiences. We have chosen a wide range of films exploring issues that affect South Asians living and working in America, as well as our brothers and sisters back home.

Our Vision:

DFW SAFF exists to promote the perspectives and voices of the South Asian community by serving, organizing and advocating South Asian culture in the Greater Dallas Metroplex area through cinema.

 

The fourth annual DFW South Asian Film Festival will take place from February 8 to 11, 2018.

Opening night film & after party (February 8): 
Film Screening: Highland Park Village Theatre
Afterparty: Bistro 31
February 9, 10, 11: AMC Village on the Parkway 9

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***WATCH A FILM, SAVE A LIFE: For every general admission ticket purchased ($6 to mark our 6th anniversary curating festivals), we will donate a microfiber, face mask to Texas and NYC hospitals in need. Our goal is deliver 25,000 masks at the end of the seven-week online series, so help us spread the word far & wide! 

  • Shorts, docs or feature films EVERY Saturday night from May 16th to June 27th (SEVEN weeks) beginning at 7 pm CST

  • Film(s) will be live streamed on the Falcon Events platform, followed by a Zoom interactive Q&A with actors/directors; audience members can participate and ask questions via live chat

  • Thematic programming will range in nature from women’s and men’s programming to LGBTQIA+ and senior adult programming

  • Issues explored will range from love & relationships to the environment to medicine to South Asian identity

  • All films will either be World, North American, Texas or NYC premieres and will not have had a theatrical release on any online presence in the U.S.

  • Only audiences in North America will be able to live stream the film series (certain films will be available to international audiences, as per the filmmakers’ discretion)

***Below are all the shorts, docs and features we will premiere at this year's DFW SAFF & NYC SAFF (combined) Online Film Festival. For each individual live event, you can purchase a $6 ticket and receive an email reminder 30 minutes before the screening starts. Remember, WATCH A FILM, SAVE A LIFE!

Saturday, May 16, 2020

7 pm CDT
TINA (Short)
Q&A with TINA Director Gayatri Patel Bahl
HELLARO (Feature)
Q&A with HELLARO Director Abhishek Shah

*Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Falu Shah will perform a Gujarati song, inspired by HELLARO, after the post-screening Q&A*

Saturday, May 23, 2020

7 pm CDT
THE SHOWER (Short)
Q&A with THE SHOWER Director Mahesh Pailoor and Actors Rupak Ginn and Pia Shah
3 DAYS TO GO (Feature)
Q&A with 3 DAYS TO GO Director Bianca Isaac and Actor Lillette Dubey

Saturday, May 30, 2020

7 pm CDT
LONG DISTANCE (Short)
LAST LETTER (Short)
U FOR USHA (Short)
Q&A with LAST LETTER and U FOR USHA producer Neeraj Churi
VENUS (Feature)
Q&A with VENUS writer Eisha Marjara and Lead Actor Debargo Sanyal

Saturday, June 6, 2020

7 pm CDT
PANDEMIC PROGRAMMING (3 shorts)
7 PM (Short)
LOVE CAN’T BE LOCKED DOWN (Short)
Festival Faves: Shorts Rewind
2015: BLOUSE
2016: VANVAAS
2017: MAST QALANDAR
2018: MAACHER JHOL
2019 (DFW): THE HOMESTAY
2019 (NYC): SUPER SONIC
Q&A to follow with Directors of all shorts

Saturday, June 13, 2020

7 pm CDT
FORBIDDEN TIKKA MASALA (Short)
AMERICAN HASI (Docu-Comedy)
Q&A with AMERICAN HASI Director Laura Asherman, Comedian Tushar Singh and his mother 

Saturday, June 20, 2020

7 pm CDT
THE CITY & A GIRL (Short)
THE BOY WITH THE TOPKNOT (Feature)
Q&A with THE BOY WITH THE TOPKNOT actors Anupam Kher & Sacha Dhawan, director Lynsey Miller moderated by Rajeev Masand

Saturday, June 27, 2020

7 pm CDT
MULK (Feature)
Q&A with MULK actors Taapsee Pannu & Neena Gupta, director Anubav Sinha moderated by Viveck Vaswani