IFFLA Connect returns as a centerpiece of this year’s Industry Days program. Now in its second year, the initiative showcases a curated slate of South Asian and diasporic film and television projects, bringing together both emerging voices and established filmmakers. Designed as a platform for collaboration and discovery, IFFLA Connect pairs selected projects with key industry professionals, offering support across financing, production, casting, and distribution, while fostering meaningful partnerships to help bring these projects to life.

 

IFFLA Connect Project Line-Up:

The Lie
Team: Keshni Kashyap (writer and director)
Logline: When a floundering literary star returns to her family home in California for her sister’s wedding, she outs an agonizing secret to the entire wedding party, forcing friends and family to confront a deep trauma and find healing over the two day celebration.

Mayapuri
Team: Aranya Sahay (Director), Patrick Graham and Mathivanan Rajendran (Creative Producers)
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Nisa
Team: Ambarien Alqadar (Writer and director), Neeraj Churi (Producer)Country: India
Logline: As Fiza, a 28-year-old woman, navigates the collapse of her marriage, she returns to her mother’s home, confined to a hallway and forced to work at the family-run beauty salon. As she befriends a migrant beautician, a recurring dream of a free road begins to appear. Displaced within her own home, Fiza must outgrow the walls she grew up in.

The Reagan Doctrine
Team: Abhish Raghavan (Writer, Director), Steven Snyder (Producer)
Logline: Inspired by the 1981 attack on Ronald Reagan, a well-meaning college student secretly stages an ‘attempted assassination’ on his uncle to help him win a congressional election against a racist opponent. What could go wrong?

Remember Ivy Court
Team: Soham Mehta (Writer, Director and Producer), Jonathan John (Writer), Rajiv Maikhuri (Producer), Craig Stovel (Producer)
Logline: After a devastating loss, an Indian immigrant’s attempt to rebuild his life in the American suburbs is undone when the house he’s renovating awakens the past he refuses to face.

Saund vs. Cochran
Team: Mridu Chandra (Director and Producer)
Logline: Saund vs Cochran is a feature documentary about how Dalip Singh Saund, a California judge and farmer of Sikh Indian descent, ran for Congress in 1956 and won an upset victory to become the first Asian American elected to the U.S. Congress.
Genre: Documentary