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Ziksa Film Festival We are offering an online platform featuring selected films, events, artist talks, and cutting-edge virtual gallery exhibitions.

We will also be partnering with independent cinema communities across the U.S. and beyond to host virtual events.

Featuring our Diversity&Inclusion Manager.
22/09/2022

Featuring our Diversity&Inclusion Manager.

Mother keeps a look out for her son to return home from war. She knits him a pair of gloves remembering how her son rubb...
28/06/2022

Mother keeps a look out for her son to return home from war. She knits him a pair of gloves remembering how her son rubbed his cold hands together on the wintry morning he left. The war goes on. Mother waits. She unravels the gloves and knits them over and over again. When their small home is bombed, the gloves burn into ashes. Mother sits atop the rubble, plucks her white hair one by one and knits the gloves with her hair. Finally spring arrives and the war ends. Mother hears the sound of military boots nearing. She gathers all the strength left in her and walks down the stairs with anticipation.
-Ali Zare Ghanatnowi

Zoteno, a peasant, has lost everything in the Mexican revolution. The lands on which he works are dying and despair is t...
27/06/2022

Zoteno, a peasant, has lost everything in the Mexican revolution. The lands on which he works are dying and despair is taking hold of him. Seeking to change his fortune, he will be tempted by the devil in exchange for his soul.

Team of kids want to prepere a surprise for their best friend. Before they find the perfect gift they have many adventur...
25/06/2022

Team of kids want to prepere a surprise for their best friend. Before they find the perfect gift they have many adventures, during which they sing and enjoy the time spend with each other.

A story of a young lady, Mary, trying to break her daily cycle of struggle and oppression and doesn't compromise to make...
22/06/2022

A story of a young lady, Mary, trying to break her daily cycle of struggle and oppression and doesn't compromise to make ends meet. She finds hope in the most unlikely places.
-Director - ISAYA EVANS

It's hard enough to find a place to sneak a socially unacceptable smoke, during times of pandemic makes it even worse. W...
21/06/2022

It's hard enough to find a place to sneak a socially unacceptable smoke, during times of pandemic makes it even worse. Walking down the street, keeping aware of six feet distance, a man finds a secluded spot in a back alley. Alone and safe he is suddenly confronted by someone who tries to take advantage of the situation. An altercation occurs while maintaining the recommended six feet distance. Proving that everyday occurrences will continue on, come what may.
-Director - Dave McGrath

Thank you all for the overwhelming response. 1300+ submissions. Looking forward to the 2022 Festival!
03/05/2022

Thank you all for the overwhelming response. 1300+ submissions. Looking forward to the 2022 Festival!

Featuring Bhushan Mundae!Ziksa Annual Film Festival
24/02/2022

Featuring Bhushan Mundae!
Ziksa Annual Film Festival

Featuring one of our festival curators Nia Muhammad.
18/02/2022

Featuring one of our festival curators Nia Muhammad.

Thanks to all our supporters and patrons .Stay Tuned for our Annual Film Festival exploring World Cinema.
16/02/2022

Thanks to all our supporters and patrons .Stay Tuned for our Annual Film Festival exploring World Cinema.

03/11/2021

We at Ziksa Inc. firmly believe in supporting independent art and artists. We proudly present to you our fellow artist community and their upcoming project - Navatman's Mahabharata, Part 1: Of Vengeance & Promises.
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The Mahabharata is the largest epic in the world that covers concepts of caste, gender, humanity, in ways we could not fathom. Navatman's dance-theater film tells the story using art forms like Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Carnatic and Hindustani music with dialogues in English.

Navatman's Mahabharata, Part 1: Of Vengeance & Promises. Releases online on November 20, 2021. Get your tickets at www.navatman.org/mahabharata

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Follow for more details and show them some love!

—✨ Filmmakers in focus ✨—Meet Maharshi Kashyap , a young independent filmmaker from Assam, North East India in our late...
07/08/2021

—✨ Filmmakers in focus ✨—

Meet Maharshi Kashyap , a young independent filmmaker from Assam, North East India in our latest series ‘FILMMAKERS IN FOCUS’ where we celebrate the visionary filmmakers who brought us the most amazing films through Ziksa Film Festival 2021!
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This year’s featured Maharshi’s short film titled Purple Water Water Everywhere which was selected as one of the winning films of the Ziksa Film Festival 2021!
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Join us on Saturday August 7th 2021 at 7:00pm CST to celebrate Maharshi’s work for the screening of his winning short film🎥🎬✨
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—✨ Filmmakers in focus ✨—Introducing a young independent filmmaker from Brazil, Matheus Moura in our latest series ‘FIL...
23/07/2021

—✨ Filmmakers in focus ✨—

Introducing a young independent filmmaker from Brazil, Matheus Moura in our latest series ‘FILMMAKERS IN FOCUS’ where we celebrate the visionary filmmakers who brought us the most amazing films through Ziksa Film Festival 2021!
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This year’s featured Matheus’s short film titled Purple Dictatorship (Ditadura Roxa) which was selected as one of the winning films of the Ziksa Film Festival 2021!
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Join us on Saturday July 24th 2021 at 7:00pm CST to celebrate Matheus’s work through Purple Dictatorship for the screening of his winning short film🎥🎬✨
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—✨ Filmmakers in focus ✨—Introducing independent filmmaker Aju Ajeesh in our brand new series ‘FILMMAKERS IN FOCUS’ whe...
16/07/2021

—✨ Filmmakers in focus ✨—

Introducing independent filmmaker Aju Ajeesh in our brand new series ‘FILMMAKERS IN FOCUS’ where we celebrate the visionary filmmakers who brought us the most amazing films through Ziksa Film Festival 2021!
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This year’s featured Aju’s short film titled KUNNIKURU (Rosary Pea) which was selected as one of the winning films of the Ziksa Film Festival 2021!
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Join us on Saturday July 17th 2021 at 7:00pm CST to celebrate Aju’s work through KUNNIKURU for the screening of his winning short film🎥🎬✨
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—✨ Filmmakers in focus ✨—In our brand new series ‘FILMMAKERS IN FOCUS’ we are featuring the visionary filmmakers who bro...
12/07/2021

—✨ Filmmakers in focus ✨—

In our brand new series ‘FILMMAKERS IN FOCUS’ we are featuring the visionary filmmakers who brought us the most amazing films through Ziksa Film Festival 2021!
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We are kicking off the series with our very own Ziksa board member who has been an integral part of organizing and bringing the Ziksa Film Festival to fruition - Chandrika Abhang
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This year’s featured two of her films as In-House Features - RIGOR MORTIS & THE GLIMPSE.
Check out Chandrika’s inspiring journey of following the path of passion from engineering to independent filmmaking 🎥🎬✨
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WINNER OF ZIKSA FILM FESTIVAL 2021!— WATER WATER EVERYWHERE —by Maharshi Kashyap •••This winning film will be screened ...
10/07/2021

WINNER OF ZIKSA FILM FESTIVAL 2021!

— WATER WATER EVERYWHERE —
by Maharshi Kashyap
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This winning film will be screened on our YouTube and pages today: Saturday, August 7th 2021 at 7:00pm Central Standard Time.
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WATER WATER EVERYWHERE is a documentary film captures the disastrous flash floods that occur every year in Guwahati, India and people still struggling for drinking water every day in this same city.
This film is directed by Maharshi Kashyap who is from Assam, North east region of India
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WINNER OF ZIKSA FILM FESTIVAL 2021!— A L M A R I Y A A N—(Closets)by Jiya Bharadwaj •••This winning film will be screen...
10/07/2021

WINNER OF ZIKSA FILM FESTIVAL 2021!

— A L M A R I Y A A N—
(Closets)
by Jiya Bharadwaj
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This winning film will be screened on our YouTube and pages today: Saturday, July 31st 2021 at 7:00pm Central Standard Time.
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CLOSETS ( Almariyaan) by Jiya Bharadwaj is a perfect satire to bring out the importance and acceptance of the LGBTQIA+ community in India in the current times, the film is a fun ride that leaves you with thinking about much more than it projects
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WINNER OF ZIKSA FILM FESTIVAL 2021!— P U R P L E D I C T A T O R S H I P—by Matheus Moura •••This winning film will be...
10/07/2021

WINNER OF ZIKSA FILM FESTIVAL 2021!

— P U R P L E D I C T A T O R S H I P—
by Matheus Moura
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This winning film will be screened on our YouTube and pages today: Saturday, July 24th 2021 at 7:00pm Central Standard Time.
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PURPLE DICTATORSHIP is a brilliant dystopian take on society directed by talented filmmaker, Matheus Moura, from Brazil
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WINNER OF ZIKSA FILM FESTIVAL 2021!—— K U N N I K U R U ——(Rosary Pea)by Aju Ajeesh Aju Ajeesh] •••This winning film wil...
10/07/2021

WINNER OF ZIKSA FILM FESTIVAL 2021!

—— K U N N I K U R U ——
(Rosary Pea)
by Aju Ajeesh Aju Ajeesh]
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This winning film will be screened on our YouTube and pages on Saturday, July 17th 2021 at 7:00pm Central Standard Time.
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KUNNIKKURU (Rosary Pea) by Aju Ajeesh Aju Ajeesh] is a A shortfilm supporting the frontliners especially health workers who fight COVID-19.Pictured through the mindset of kid who worries over his mother who is a nurse now attending a covid ward.
Aju Ajeesh is a creative writer and filmmaker from Kerala, India.
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WINNER OF ZIKSA FILM FESTIVAL 2021!—— B E L O V E D ——by Yaser Talebi •••We are kicking off the screenings of the...
10/07/2021

WINNER OF ZIKSA FILM FESTIVAL 2021!

—— B E L O V E D ——
by Yaser Talebi
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We are kicking off the screenings of the winning films with BELOVED.
It will be screened on our YouTube and pages today: Saturday, July 10th 2021 at 7:00pm Central Standard Time.
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BELOVED intimately captures the life experience of Firouzeh, an 82-year-old cow herder living in Northern Iran. One of the last generation of traditional herders, Firouzeh is fiercely committed to her cows and living independently. This documentary is directed by an award winning documentary film director Yaser Talebi, from Iran.
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With our very first film festival coming to a conclusion, we will be announcing the top 5 winning films of Ziksa Film Fe...
06/07/2021

With our very first film festival coming to a conclusion, we will be announcing the top 5 winning films of Ziksa Film Festival 2021 which will be streaming on our Facebook and YouTube pages on Saturday, July 10th 2021!!
We at Ziksa inc. cannot be more grateful for the overwhelming response we have received as we took the baby steps into organizing our very first Film Festival! With the theme of WORLD CINEMA we aimed to provide a platform to filmmakers and artists from all walks of life and help them share diverse stories with the world. All the selected films for this year’s film festival captured and conveyed equally important issues from all parts of the world. As an organization, we will keep promoting these filmmakers and artists on all our platforms.

All the official selections from each day of Ziksa Film Festival ‘21 will be streaming on our Facebook and YouTube pages till Saturday, July 10th 2021.
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Please watch and support the films and the filmmakers and help them share important stories from around the world 🌍
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TANKO’S DIARY is a gut wrenching tale about two village women from Nigeria who would do anything to salvage their helple...
03/07/2021

TANKO’S DIARY is a gut wrenching tale about two village women from Nigeria who would do anything to salvage their helpless and sick son. This film is directed by Matthew Prince Michael from Nigeria.
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Tune in to Day 5 of the Ziksa Film Festival to catch this short film
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VARVANTA (GRINDER) is a short film that conveys the need for protect the self esteem of women for ensuring their empower...
03/07/2021

VARVANTA (GRINDER) is a short film that conveys the need for protect the self esteem of women for ensuring their empowerment and is directed by a film and documentary director Sayli Mathadhikari from Maharashtra, India.
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Tune in to Day 5 of the Ziksa Film Festival to catch this short film
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ROJONJONAI is a Musical Film that beautifully describes the whole Assam, India. It captures the scenic beauty , Nature ,...
03/07/2021

ROJONJONAI is a Musical Film that beautifully describes the whole Assam, India. It captures the scenic beauty , Nature , culture and art of the Region.
The film is directed by Debashish Deka who is a young aspiring director from Assam, India.
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Tune in to Day 5 of the Ziksa Film Festival to catch this short film
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PROVERB POTLIDS: THE TOAD is an animated short film and presents the toad proverb's lid.Proverb lids were used by the Wo...
03/07/2021

PROVERB POTLIDS: THE TOAD is an animated short film and presents the toad proverb's lid.
Proverb lids were used by the Woyo (Africa). Laid out at the family table, they illustrated a proverb conveying feelings or thoughts to a spouse or a child.
This film created by Mabiala Nkouka, Menga Nkouka who are filmmakers and computer graphic designers from France.
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Tune in to Day 5 of the Ziksa Film Festival to catch this short film
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WATER WATER EVERYWHERE is a documentary film captures the disastrous flash floods that occur every year in Guwahati, Ind...
03/07/2021

WATER WATER EVERYWHERE is a documentary film captures the disastrous flash floods that occur every year in Guwahati, India and people still struggling for drinking water every day in this same city.
This film is directed by Maharshi Kashyap who is from Assam, North east region of India
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Tune in to Day 5 of the Ziksa Film Festival to catch this short film
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**Watch this space for links**

The schedule for Day 5 of the Ziksa Film Festival is out!—Saturday, July 3rd 2021—•6:00pm Central Standard Time•Facebook...
03/07/2021

The schedule for Day 5 of the Ziksa Film Festival is out!

—Saturday, July 3rd 2021—
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6:00pm Central Standard Time
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Facebook | YouTube
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Tune in to our page ‘Ziksa Film Festival’ or our YouTube page to watch some of the most enlightening world cinema!

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Have you had the chance to watch the films from Day 4 of the Ziksa Film Festival 2021 yet? If not, we got you! Catch som...
30/06/2021

Have you had the chance to watch the films from Day 4 of the Ziksa Film Festival 2021 yet? If not, we got you! Catch some of the finest films from WORLD CINEMA on our Facebook and YouTube pages.

Day 4 of Ziksa Film Festival
‘BE YOURSELF’ by Gül YILDIRIM (Turkey)
'THE MOTH’ by Jake Murray (United Kingdom)
*Content Warning: Spoken Descriptions of Racial Violence During Apartheid, Racist Slur*
‘WORTH OF A GIRL’ by Steven Ferri (United States)
*Content Warning: Child Marriage, Child Abuse, Misogyny*
‘HOMELAND’ by Nina Wendel (Netherlands)
*Content Warning: Descriptions of Displacement and Forced Migration*
‘BELOVED’ by Yaser Talebi (Iran)
*Content Warning: Brief Description of Child Marriage, Ageism*
‘KEEP RISING KOLKATA’ by Arjun Mukherjee (India)

The films will be premiering only till the 4th of July. So, go watch them now!
Here's the link to our YouTube channel 👇

https://youtu.be/L_VYwYH8-P8

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We at Ziksa Inc. firmly believe in supporting independent art and artists. We proudly present to you our fellow artist community @navatman and their upcoming project - Navatman's Mahabharata, Part 1: Of Vengeance & Promises. ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ The Mahabharata is the largest epic in the world that covers concepts of caste, gender, humanity, in ways we could not fathom. Navatman's dance-theater film tells the story using art forms like Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Carnatic and Hindustani music with dialogues in English. Navatman's Mahabharata, Part 1: Of Vengeance & Promises. Releases online on November 20, 2021. Get your tickets at www.navatman.org/mahabharata ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ Follow @navatman for more details and show them some love! #navatmanmahabharata #mahabharata #mahabharat #mahabharatham #mahabharatdiaries #mahabharath #comingsoon #fallrelease #indianarts #indianartists #southasianartists #southasianarts #artistssupportingartists #supportindiearts

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