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

 
 

What signifies this home coming affair ?
Is it after a long journey coming back home, forgetting all bitter enmities, embracing dear ones or finding ourselves amidst the crowd of the world. What signifies this home coming affair ?

Nirmal Pathak was only three years old when his father left this village and brought Nirmal along with him to the city of Delhi.

Twenty four years have elapsed since then. Now a grown up adult, Nirmal is coming back to the village.
Nirmal falls in love with this beautiful village at the very start. Alas, within a few days he comes face to face with the stark realities of village life.

The village people, their way of thinking, the problems they face and their family relations baffle him. He finds himself surrounded by their problems. He realises that the reasons that expelled his father to leave the village twenty four years ago still remains the same way. During these twenty four years the world has progressed a lot but there is no significant change noticeable in the villages.

Will Nirmal too follow in his father’s footsteps and distant his place of birth or will he remain here to make a change.

Nirmal is taking notes to present the facts in the form of a book to make us aware of the beauty, merits and demerits of village life along thriving human relations in today's Bharat.

Directed by Rahul Pandey
Hindi, 150 minutes (5 episodes x 30 minutes), 2022, India

*Note: This is a series of 5 episodes at 30 minutes each. We will show 3 episodes at 6pm on 5/21 followed by a Q&A. The remaining two episodes will screen at 11am on 5/22.