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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Lakshmi and Gabriel Isaac have been happily married for almost 45 years. While out cake tasting, in preparations for their 45th anniversary party, Gabriel has an unexpected heart attack and dies forcing all the children to come home earlier than they planned. Three of their four children haven’t been home in 5 years. The only child they see is Janet Isaac (Leeanda Reddy), their 2nd born who lives with them. She finally found love again with Oliver (Jonathan Boynton-Lee) but somehow is struggling to move forward; and now she has to juggle her teenage daughter who’s acting out and her insane siblings coming home for the funeral.

Melissa Isaac their 1st born, married someone who she thought was the man of her dreams until it became miserable. Her only daughter, Candice grew up in this madness becoming a young single mother of 2 children and is now looking for love in the wrong places. Riki Isaac the 3rd child and only son, and like most sons – he is the apple of his mother’s eye. His financial success lead to excessive drinking, a divorce, gambling and debt and always hustling. And their last-born Amy ran off at a young age and married a man 10-years-older than her. Faced with losing everything in the divorce and potentially having to move back home, Amy wants to have a baby to secure her future.

While the parents are dealing with their own issues, Kiara – Janet’s daughter is left with her cousin Candice; together they find themselves in trouble.

This crazy family needs to survive each other under one roof for 3 days, before they spread their father’s ashes and part ways again. They learn how miserable they have become in their lives and how they can no longer blame each other or people for their choices and decisions.

Director Bianca Isaac
English, 96 minutes, South Africa, 2019