CSAFF #10: Afsana, Passenger Seat, Out Beyond, Merchant of Vinashna

Film Name: Afsana

Director: Hakiem Waleed Ahmed, Freya Page

Language: English

Run Time: 10 minutes

Cast: Arya Kokate, Diya Shandilya

Country: England

Synopsis: Afsana silently battles the doubts and fears of a new life as she prepares for her wedding day.

Film Name: Passenger Seat

Director: Neha Gautam

Language: English, Urdu, Punjabi

Run Time: 18 minutes

Cast: Syna Bhuba, Kal Mansoor

Country: USA

Synopsis: A young Pakistani girl from Queens, New York finds herself growing distant to her father as his taxi business starts to decline with the rise of ride-share apps.

Film Name: Out Beyond

Director: Salman Alam Khan

Language: Urdu

Run Time: 6 minutes

Cast: Sanjay Chandani, Deepti Gupta, Rishi Mahesh, Armaan Pun Medatia

Country: Pakistan

Synopsis: A teenager boy who has a passion for drumming, but lives in a family that does not support his ambitions. He feels suppressed and afraid to express his true self because of the pressures of his family, leading him to mockingly play the drums in secret in the bathroom, which is his only safe space within the house.

Film Name: The Merchant of Vinashna

Director: Kunal Shrivastava

Language: Hindi

Run Time: 20 minutes

Cast:

Country: India

Synopsis: In a dark and lonely night, a tea seller is visited by a stranger who calls himself a trader of stories and claims to have come from an unknown city called Vinashna. He tells the tea seller a story about death. A poor man desperately wanders around the city in search of food to survive the night and fate and circumstances make him loot a temple. The stories intermingle and come together in the backdrop of a tragedy.

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