The 2016 opening film includes the screening of the feature film Badman, and short films Our Victory and La Lune Folle. The night will include a reception with Bollywood Actor Gulshan Grover, delicious drinks, and delectable eats.
The festival will host the Canadian Premiere, of acclaimed movie, Mah-e-Mir, a coming-of-age poetic journey of a young anarchist whose denouncement of tradition creates the sufferings of love, separation, and poverty, driving him to madness and the discovery of 18th century ‘god of poetry’ Meer Taqi Meer.
Other films include Moor is a story discovering the meaning of loyalty – to one’s land, one’s family and one’s principles and Indian Gujarati thriller drama film, Wrong Side Raju inspired by a real-life hit and run case which happened in Ahmedabad in 2013.
The festival closes with biopic documentary of famed ghazal maestro, Jagjit Sing in Kagaaz Ki Kasti. With 50 years of singing, 500 plus ghazals, and over 5,000 concerts, this film will resound loud and clear.
VISAFF 2016 includes more than eight feature films and close to 20 shorts and documentaries, an opening gala, a festival workshop on film distribution. For more information, visit www.visaff.ca.