Director: Avinash Kumar Singh
Original story and screenplay: Geeta & Avinash Singh
Producer: Ashok Sawhny
Time:108 Mins
Followed by Q&A with Directors Avinash Kumar Singh and Geeta Singh

Listen Amaya is a modern, young, contemporary film about relationships, family dynamics,  about pre-conceptions and about priorities.

Directed by: Suzanne Bryant

60 Mins

Synopsis: This is the story of a woman who thought she had it all ...until she lost her beloved mother to cancer. Trying to process and understand her profound grief, Suzanne embarked on a journey and turned to a deeper practice of yoga.

Followed by Q&A with director Suzanne Bryant

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Indelible
Directed By: Pavitra Chalam
17 Mins

Synopsis: Indelible (The short) is an introduction to a feature length documentary created specifically for the World Down Syndrome Congress (2012), South Africa and is the official film for the Down Syndrome Federation of India(DSFI). The film is a collage that knits together the stories of 7 people with Down Syndrome in India. Dr. Surekha Ramachandran, Co-Founder and present Chairperson of the DSFI introduces us to the world of Down syndrome and these 7 remarkable stories by sharing her own association which began with the birth of her child, Babli. The film offer a peek into how the lives of people and communities can be enriched when they look beyond the complexities and open their arms to tolerance and inclusion.

Presented before the film: Yoga Is. No separate ticket necessary.

Director: Scott Sheppard
87 mins

Three American sisters, raised in India by missionary parents, return to the land of their childhood for the first time in fifty years. Their journey is entertaining and emotional, and proves that it's never too late to go home.

Director: Sangeeta Nambiar
105 Mins | English

Synopsis: What happens when a troubled young boy meets with an old lady who's living her own share of problems? A GRAN PLAN explores this sensitive relationship that develops over time. It intricately weaves a story that has the protagonists overcome boundaries of age, language and culture and reach out to each other to form a lasting friendship. Peppered with moments of fun, A GRAN PLAN is a drama set in Singapore, starring the very talented Farida Jalal and an upcoming actor, ten year old Oliver Kennett.

Cultural entertainment will be at the Cenro Ybor Courtyard and open to all.

Schedule of performances coming soon.

Director: Rajan Khosa
90 Mins | Hindi with English Subtitles

An illiterate street boy has only one ambition - to fly kites and reign supreme in the blue skies. And he will turn around everything in his small world to string his dream together.

In this town, the sky is full of kites, and all the kids are obsessed with kite-flying. The kite, Kali, rules the skies. No one knows who flies Kali. No one can defeat Kali. An illiterate street urchin takes up the challenge. With neither money nor education on his side, he sets out for his goal. Dreams aren’t impossible when the desire is strong

Telugu | 2 hrs 27 mins | NO subtitles

Vishwaroopam is a thriller about Vishwanath alias Wiz, a Kathak exponent, and Nirupama. Each have an agenda and seem to have achieved their wishes in three years of matrimony.

Nirupama gets her Ph.D and Wiz runs his dance class in New Jersey unhindered by each other. All is fine till Dr. Nirupama aspires for more and wants to opt out of the arranged marriage. She cannot cite any specific reason to leave Wiz as there is nothing much to complain about him.

Every male according to Nirupama must have a flaw. So she decides to find out something about him to feel better about her decision to part. She hires a detective to rake up something on him. Wires get cross-connected and all hell breaks loose.

Director: Avinash Kumar Singh
Original story and screenplay: Geeta & Avinash Singh
Producer: Ashok Sawhny
108 Mins | Hindi/English. Subtitled as needed

Followed by Q&A with Directors Avinash Kumar Singh and Geeta Singh

Listen Amaya is a modern, young, contemporary film about relationships, family dynamics,  about pre-conceptions and about priorities.

11:oo pm - 3:00 am
Location: 601 South Harbour Island Blvd, Tampa.
View pictures from last year's party in our Gallery

Please note that this off-site party has a cover charge and is not part of the Festival Pass.

World famous DJs Chus and Ceballos from Spain will be spinning for our amazing after-party. This event is sure to pack in crowds, so get there early.

http://www.piedpiperproductions.com/events/item/chus-ceballos

The After-Party at Jackson's is a must do event this February as the filmmakers and VIP's get a chance to mingle with the best of the Bay area. For VIP tables - Please contact Scott at 813-310-3532.

Bottles start at $150. (Full menu and prices posted below) Let them know that you're with IIFF Tampa. $10 discounted cover if you tell them you're with IIFF. Everyone pays cover, even if you buy a table, due to special event.

Director: Avinash Kumar Singh
Original story and screenplay: Geeta & Avinash Singh
Producer: Ashok Sawhny
108 Mins | Hindi/English. Subtitled as needed

Followed by Q&A with Directors Avinash Kumar Singh and Geeta Singh

Listen Amaya is a modern, young, contemporary film about relationships, family dynamics,  about pre-conceptions and about priorities.

Special yoga session instructed by Suzanne Bryant at the Centro Ybor courtyard. FREE and open to all. Bring your yoga mats.

Attend the Free yoga session and receive a 20% discount on the one day pass for the film festival.

Muvico Centro Ybor 1600 E 8th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605 

Director: Robert Richter
73 Mins
Director and Actor in Attendance 

Leaving home is different for Renu, a rural north India teenager. Can she fulfill her dreams and become a teacher and live in the big city?

India's 1.2 billion people mostly live in rural villages. 'Leaving Home' focuses on Renu and her coming of age in one village. The film is about women's rights, rural life, India, castes, untouchables, marriage, weddings, family, motherhood, fatherhood--tradition and change.

Michael Mahar, a colorful American anthropologist, has intermittently lived in Rankhandi over a half-century. Our guide and story teller, he has seen the village move from the 18th to the 20th century before his eyes.

Nishu Varma, journalist and our interpreter, talks with women with no men present, and has revealing conversations never before in a film.
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Director: Joseph Malone
Running Time: 20 mins
Hindi/English

Self shot documentary about the ongoing Bhopal Chemical Disaster in India. Focusing on the Sambhavna Clinic, a primary health care centre providing free medical care to victims.

Director: Maninder Chana
Runningt Time: 104 mins
Afghan Persian, Hindi, Urdu, English
Director and Producer in Attendance 

A 13-year-old American boy is recruited by terrorists to bomb a U.S. embassy in Delhi. After being brainwashed he is sent to live with a Muslim family prior to the attack. However, the man harboring him begins to play a dangerous game when he attempts to convince the boy not to go through with the bombing.

Cultural entertainment will be at the Cenro Ybor Courtyard and open to all.
Schedule of performances coming soon.

Directed by Deepak Rauniyar
Nepali with English subtitles

Premiere: Berlin International Film Festival 

All aboard the bus to Kathmandu! As if the mountain terrain weren’t challenging enough, our bus is repeatedly stopped by bandhs—spontaneous civil disobedience blockades—a frequent phenomenon since the end of the civil war. Meanwhile, a young woman can’t decide between her boyfriend and the fiancé arriving to marry her; a gay man hopes to reunite with his estranged lover; a soldier rushes to his wife in time to try out a fertility potion he’s swallowed (not knowing she’s kept some secrets from him); and the bus driver knows the woman he loves may be forced back into prostitution if he doesn’t show up with money for her sick child. Deepak Rauniyar’s debut feature has provoked a tumultuous response from Nepali audiences with its realistic characters and their taboo-shrouded issues. Rendered in an improvised cinematic style that heightens an already wild ride, Highway is being called the harbinger of a new era in Nepali filmmaking.

Official Selection: Montreal World Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival

Tamil | 2 hrs 27 mins | NO subtitles

Vishwaroopam is a thriller about Vishwanath alias Wiz, a Kathak exponent, and Nirupama. Each have an agenda and seem to have achieved their wishes in three years of matrimony.

Nirupama gets her Ph.D and Wiz runs his dance class in New Jersey unhindered by each other. All is fine till Dr. Nirupama aspires for more and wants to opt out of the arranged marriage. She cannot cite any specific reason to leave Wiz as there is nothing much to complain about him.

Every male according to Nirupama must have a flaw. So she decides to find out something about him to feel better about her decision to part. She hires a detective to rake up something on him. Wires get cross-connected and all hell breaks loose.

Director: Pratim Dasgupta
113 mins

Paanch Adhyay is the story of love found, love lost and love regained in the lives of a contemporary Indian couple, told in moments past and present, through the five chapters of a relationship. Plunged into the mighty depths of love from the moment they meet in Kolkata, Arindam and Ishita get married but their very different ideologies - towards life and art - push them apart. He becomes a filmmaker who gets naturally sucked into the pleasures that come with success in showbiz, a change that Ishita, the schoolteacher just cannot fathom. Their drifted worlds come with secrets that they have to share with each other one fateful night, the night that will change their lives forever.

Director: Musa Syeed
82 Mins | Kashmiri with English Subtitles

Lush cinematography heightens the region’s visual splendor in this enlightening feature debut from Musa Syeed. Intricately weaving contemporary issues with traditional culture and ancient myths, VALLEY OF SAINTS is a vibrant, lyrical film about finding one's path home in a changing world.

Screened at:
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL (WORLD CINEMA AUDIENCE AWARD, ALFRED P. SLOAN PRIZE), INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM, ASHLAND INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (GRAND JURY AWARD)

CLOSING NIGHT RECEPTION AND DINNER AFTER THE MOVIE. NO ADDITIONAL COST