The annual Singapore South Asian International Film Festival has scheduled 35 feature films, shorts and documentaries from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
The 10-day event, kicks off on Sept 1, the Straits Times reported.
The film festival is organised by Muvizz, a streaming service for world independent films, and supported by the High Commission of India in Singapore, Institute of South Asian Studies and National University of Singapore.
Twenty-six films will be competing for Best Feature Film, Best Documentary Film and Best Short Film.
The jury deciding the winners of these awards comprise four film-makers: Mostofa Sarwar Farooki from Bangladesh, Siddiq Barmak from Afghanistan, K. Rajagopal from Singapore and Prasanna Vithanage from Sri Lanka.
A scene from the film Withered Leaf
The films screening in competition include Sri Lanka's Withered Leaf (2016), about a poor village woman's struggles after the sudden death of her husband, and Marathi-language Indian film Lathe Joshi (2016), about a factory worker who is rendered jobless due to advances in technology.
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