MUMBAI: Director Onir‘s I Am will be the opening attraction of the third edition of I-View Film Festival to be held from 18 to 26 September in Manhattan.
The festival that will screen over 25 features, documentaries and shorts will close with Vinay Shukla‘s Mirch. The film festival organised by Engendered will get underway at the Asia Society, Tribeca Cinemas and Big Cinemas.

Other films to be screened at the festival will be Rituparno Ghosh‘s Antarmahal, Kaushik Ganguly‘s Just Another Love Story, Sanjay Sharma‘s Dunno Why!!!... Naa Jane Kyun by, Dibakar Banerjee‘s Love Sex aur Dhoka and Saeed Mirza‘s Ek Tho Chance among others.

I AM, a series of four short stories about issues and dilemmas facing modern Indian society, ranging from policing of homosexual men to adult survivors of childhood sex-abuse and unmarried motherhood, stars Sanjay Suri, Shernaz Patel, Anurag Kashyap, Radhika Apte and Rahul Bose among others.

Mirch directed by Vinay Shukla and starring Konkona Sen Sharma, Raima Sen, Shahana Goswami, Shreyas Talpade, Prem Chopra and Boman Irani amongst others is a series of four short stories about infidelity woven together by a common story.

Engendered is a trans-national arts and human rights organisation based in New York that focuses on exploring issues concerning gender and sexuality in the South Asian Diaspora.