Satya Bhabha

Spanning decades and generations, celebrated Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta's highly anticipated adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize®-winning novel is an engrossing allegorical fantasy in which children born on the cusp of India's independence from Britain are endowed with strange, magical abilities. (tiff.net)

Lily Prasad is a winner, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Fresh off her valedictorian speech, Lily intends to continue living her storybook life according to "The Plan," her meticulously-crafted scrapbook that ropes in her less-than-willing high school boyfriend Karim. But when Karim is caught flirting with the reigning Miss India National, Lily is livid and takes aim at the crown to win Karim back, restore "The Plan" forever, and reaffirm her endless magnificence. (festival.sdaff.org)

A re-telling of the pre-telling of a story of the end. (imdb)

When a beguiling young woman moves in next door, a quiet neighborhood is awakened, bringing people face to face with their secrets and, ultimately, themselves. (imdb)