The 5th Independent South Asian Film Festival in Seattle will feature film screenings, including local premieres, and discussion forums. The festival theme -- Personal is Political: South Asian lens on vibrant love -- is touched in various new films including Santosh Sivan's Before the Rains, Faramarz K-Rahber's Donkey in Lahore, and the acclaimed documentary A Jihad for Love by Parvez Sharma. The festival will also present the discussion forum Queering Bollywood: Alternative Sexualities in Popular Indian Cinema. Both Gayatri Gopinath, PhD, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and Sandip Roy, on editorial board of India Currents, will lead the discussion presentation about how same-sex desire and visibility has recently emerged in South Asian cinema. Look forward to this event and additional film screenings at this year's Independent South Asian Film Festival. Check out their site for details.The 5th Independent South Asian Film Festival in Seattle will feature film screenings,... more
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