For this first edition, the International Film Festival of South Asia transgressive features 6 films in competition: Udhao, Loot, Alms for a blind horse, BA Pass, Vazhakku Enn 18/9 and Pizza.
Each film will be screened twice so everyone can see them.
Three special sessions will be organized with the projections of My Brother... Nikhil, 7am Arivu - The 7th sense and Delhi Belly.
Competing films
Udhao, Amit Ashraf (2012) – Unreleased
Producers : Sumon Arefin
Actors : Monir Ahmed, Shahed Ali, Nawshaba Ahmed
Music : Robert Casal
Country : Bangladesh
Runtime : 107 min
Dhaka, the dark streets of the city. Babu, Rickshaw driver, earns an extra bit of money by finding and bringing back husbands who abandoned their families. He is offered a major contract which involves a corrupt politician named Akbar.
Loot, Nischal Basnet (2012) – First French screening
Producers : Princess Movies and Black Horse Pictures
Actors : Saugat Malla, Karma Shakya, Dayahang Rai, Reecha Sharma
Country : Népal
Runtime : 122 min
The story depicts the lives of five thugs in the vibrant city of Kathmandu, trying to find good and quick ways of getting rich. The band decides to rob a bank. Already a cult film in Nepal which has conquered urban youth.
Alms for a blind horse, Gurvinder Singh (2011) – First French screening
Producers : National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC)
Actors : Samuel John as Melu, Mal Singh, Sarbjeet Kaur, Emmanuel Singh
Music: Catherine Lamb
Country : Inde
Runtime : 112 min
A day in the life of a family in a village in Punjab. While the villagers are busy worrying about work related trials and injustices, the night of a lunar eclipse gradually falls on the village ...
BA Pass, Ajay Bahl, (2012) – First European screening
Starring : Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Shadab Kamal and Vijay Kaushik
Country : Inde
Runtime : 97 min
Delhi. After the death of his parents, a young man tries to support his two sisters at all costs, even if it means becoming a gigolo ...
Vazhakku Enn 18/9, Balaji Shaktivel (2012) – First French screening
Producters : N. Subash Chandrabose
Actors : Mithun Murali, Sri, Urmila Mahanta, Manisha Yadav
Music: R. Prasanna
Country : Inde
Runtime : 115 min
What was seemingly a banal love story between Velu and Jyothi, turns into a grim and tragic scenario, fed with social injustice and corruption.
Pizza, Karthik Subbaraj (2012) – First European screening
Producters : C. V. Kumar
Actors : Vijay Sethupathi, Remya Nambeesan
Music: Santhosh Narayanan
Country : Inde
Runtime : 127 min
Michael Karthikeyan, a pizza deliveryman with an ordinary life, finds himself witnessing a murder during one of his deliveries. To this misadventure, are added mysterious and fantastic circumstances...
Special screenings
Delhi Belly, Abhinay Deo (2011)
Producers : Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao, Dhillin Mehta
Actors : Imran Khan, Vir Das, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Poorna Jagannathan, Shenaz Treasurywala
Music : Ram Sampat
Country : Inde
Duration : 103 min
The adventures of three young Delhiites who have to face the city’s mafia. The freedom of tone, both in language and in the behavior of the protagonists make this film quite atypical for Bollywood.
My brother… Nikhil, Onir (2005)
Producters : Sanjay Suri, Vicky Tejwani, Onir, Raj Kaushal
Actors : Sanjay Suri, Juhi Chawla, Victor Banerjee
Music : Viveck Philip
Country : Inde
Runtime : 120 min
Nikhil Kapoor lives in the Indian state of Goa. Champion swimmer, he has a special relationship with his sister. But one day, he finds out he has AIDS and because Goa authorities require all people with HIV positive to be arrested, he must now live locked up and apart from others. All his relatives turn away from him, except his sister and his companion Nigel.
7am Arivu – The 7th sense, A.R. Murugadoss (2011)
Producers : Udhayanidhi Stalin
Actors : Suriya, Shruti Haasan, Johnny Tri Nguyen
Music : Harris Jayaraj
Country : Inde
Duration : 168 min
Tamil Nadu (India), genetic researchers are developing a technique to revive a Buddhist monk who lived in the 5th century AD! The situation is not totally under control. Forces are unleashed!
Program schedule
