25 anniversary edition of New York Indian Film Festival – One of the country’s leading exhibitions of independent Indian film – Unspools in New York Angelika until Sunday June 22.
Officially opens on Friday, June 20 with Raam Reddy’s 2024 Berlinale-Surval “The Fable”, the festival includes Anurag Kashyap’s intense Hindi-language thriller “Kennedy” as the center on June 21. Kashyap will also host a master class on the challenges that Bollywood faces and the future of independent cinema in India.
There is also a tribute to late, great Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal, with a 4K restoration of his landmark 1976 “Manthan”, about India’s white revolution and revived by Film Heritage Foundation.
As part of a program of films that honor master narrator, New York Indian Film Festival Will Screen Dev Benegal’s 2024 card for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “An arrested moment.” The film explores Oscar-winning director James Ivory’s fascination for Indian art and culture. Ivory established Merchant-IVory with his creative and personal partner Ismail-buyer, the Indian film producer who died in 2005. Early Indie films made by India from the director/producer couple include “The Houseler”, “Shakespeare Wallah,” and “Bombay Talkie” before they abandoned they abandoned.
“An arrested moment” plays on June 22 with Taira Malaney’s documentary “Turtle Walker”, which explores the population of enigmatic sea turtles living along the coast of Andaman and the Nicobar Islands.
This year’s Indian Film Festival in New York actually started on Thursday, June 19 with the North American premiere of “Tanvi The Great”, which marks Anupam Kher’s first direction in two decades; The political and personal epic, about a young woman who confronted her father’s military heritage, premiered in the Cannes market earlier this year. Kher has worked as a promised actor at Indian productions since the beginning of the 1980s, best known for his performances and actress school on the screen (he previously directed 2002’s “about Jai Jagadish”). Robert De Niro surprised Kher with a performance at the Angelika show.
Kaushal Oza’s director’s debut, the upcoming age film “Little Thomas”, closes the festival, and it follows a single child in the 1990s trying to help his parents give him a baby brother.
Other highlights include Aditya Kriplanis Fiction-and-Reality-ORUBBY Fame Criticism “I’m Not A Actor” with “Sacred Games” star Nawazuddin Siddiqui; An LGBTQ double function for Pride Month “with the gay romance” Riptide “followed by the short” Iykyk “; Nikhil Mahajan’s climate change story” The Tiger “, about the struggle between human and tigers in a distant village; and much more.
See the entire schedule and buy tickets via New York Indian Film Festival’s official website here.
