"Thus opening night's Little Jaffna is actually a French movie, albeit one set amidst the Sri Lankan emigre community of Paris. That demographic consists largely of refugees from the long-running civil war back home, but they haven't necessarily escaped the bitter ethnic, political and religious divisions that fueled it. Here, Michael (director/cowriter Lawrence Valin) insinuates his way into one of the rival gangs participating in turf wars, smuggling, protection rackets, and so forth-though unbeknownst to his new pals, he's also a trainee undercover cop."
"Other highlights in 3rd i's 23rd annual festival include Rohan Parashuram Kanawade's Cactus Pears, a Sundance prize winner that portrays a closeted gay son's awkward homecoming to his native Indian village, where improbably he just might find love. Uttera Singh's Pinch offers a more seriocomic take on the generational/cultural divide, centering on differences of values and priorities between a westernized young woman and her more traditional daughter in an Indian town, exacerbated by a sexual assault."
The 3rd i San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival runs Fri/10-Sun/12 at the Roxie and is subtitled 'Beyond Bollywood.' The program emphasizes independent cinema from South Asia and the immigrant diaspora, presenting films that probe refugee identity, intra-community conflict, generational and cultural divides, and the impact of technology and social norms. Screening highlights include Little Jaffna, set in Paris’s Sri Lankan émigré community and featuring undercover-crime tensions; Cactus Pears, about a closeted son returning to his Indian village; Pinch, a seriocomic look at mother-daughter value clashes after sexual assault; Humans in the Loop and Boong, exploring parental, technological, and coming-of-age struggles.
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