In partnership with Deering Estate, the MIAMI short FILM FESTIVAL (MIAMIsFF) presents: Focus On: Indian Films - March 9, 2025, 7 PM at Deering Estate, 16701 SW 72nd Ave., Miami, FL 33157. • Welcome Cocktail Reception at 7:00 PM • Screening - 7:30 PM Focus on Indian Films ________________________________________________________________________________ ⦿ MAST QALANDAR – Dir: Divij Roopchand – Narrative – 15:00 – India Montek wants to do something for his thirteenth birthday. If he tells his mother what, she won't let him. ________________________________________________________________________________ ⦿ ARRANGED MARRIAGE, Directed by Narasimhan Krishnamachari, 12:00 minutes, Narrative, India Can love be arranged? English. ________________________________________________________________________________ ⦿ Aashpordha – Dir: Anirban Roy – NARRATIVE - 0:13:36 – INDIA Revenge, as sweet as a little child. A dark comedy about rebellious 13-year-old and her orthodox dad. Set in a nosy neighborhood of Calcutta, India, this film will make your squirm and laugh at the same time. ________________________________________________________________________________ ⦿ DURGA – Dir: Vivek Kajaria – Narrative – 13:45 – INDIA It is a story of a poor village artist, his love for his granddaughter and ultimately the faith of a worshiper of goddess Durga with the final task to do justice to his very existence & purpose in life. ________________________________________________________________________________ ⦿ SISAK – Dir. Faraz Ansari – Narrative – 15:00 – INDIA  A romance that buds between two men in the Mumbai local trains over a period of many nights. A return to the unspoken, unsaid and universal expressions of love, on the path of subtlety and humanity, ________________________________________________________________________________ ⦿ Dry Leaves, Dir. Ali Sohail Jaura, 10:00 min, Narrative, India Zahida arrives at a home for the old, believing her son will take her back after a week. Hesitant and apprehensive, she meets Farhat, who is full of hope but as the story unfolds she realizes that the future might be different from her expectations. ________________________________________________________________________________ ⦿ This event will be held indoors in the Visitor Center Theater. * There is FREE PARKING in the Visitor Center parking lot, which is located on SW 168 Street, just west of 72nd Avenue. ________________________________________________________________________________ ⦿ Sponsored in part by the County of Miami-Dade County, Miami Beach Arts & Culture and the Funding Arts Network. ________________________________________________________________________________ ⦿ 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏.