Patna: Come September, and the  fifth annual Washington DC South Asian Film Festival will kick off. Indo-Canadian director-scriptwriter Deepa Mehta is expected to inaugurate the event.

Other eminent film personalities expected to attend are director Jeffrey Brown, actress Seema Biswas, actor Rajit Kapur, Rati Agnihotri, Palomi Ghosh, and Pakistani actress Amna Ilyas and Pakistani director Harune Massey.

The film festival, held every year, which will kick-off with a ‘red carpet reception and gala’ on September 9. Movies and documentaries from South Asian countries are screened at this festival.

Bengali filmmaker Suman Ghosh’s romantic movie Mi Amor, starring Parambrata Chatterjee and Raima Sen, is the opening feature film of the fest.

Mi Amor is the story of two Indians, who are in their 30s and live in Miami. The staleness and loneliness of their diaspora life in the US makes them embark on an unusual romantic journey in an effort to spice up their life together.

As a tribute late ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh, the festival would also screen documentary Kaagaz ki Kashti, which is also the closing film.

Kalki Koechlin-Naseeruddin Shah starrer Waiting, Juhi Chawla’s, Chalk N Duster are among the other films to be screened at the event.

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