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Indie Meme Film Festival

IMFF 2025 is here! Join Indie Meme in celebrating 10 years of South Asian cinema at the 10th Annual Indie Meme Film Festival!

In-Person: April 9-13, 2025 | AFS Cinema, Austin, TX
Virtual: May 2-4, 2025 | Eventive

Buy your badge & check out the lineup at indiememe.org!

Since 2013, IMFF has been your passport to South Asia, bringing bold, thought-provoking, and award-winning films to Texas. This milestone year will feature a diverse lineup from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Bhutan & beyond

• Filmmaker Q&As & panels with industry creatives

• Rarely screened visionary works

• Be part of this incredible cinematic journey! 

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agent of happiness

Directed by Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó | Bhutan, Hungary, USA, Czech Republic Documentary | 2024 | 94 mins | Dzongkha, Nepali, English

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Sundance Film Festival 2024
71st Sydney Film Festival 2024
MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024

How can you measure happiness? The country of Bhutan invented Gross National Happiness to do just that, and Amber is one of the agents who travels door to door to meet people and measure how happy they really are. He is still living with his elderly mother at the age of 40, but is nevertheless a hopeless romantic who dreams of finding love: a happiness agent who is in search of his own happiness. We embark with Amber on a cross-country road trip meeting citizens from all walks of life, reminding us of the fragility and beauty of our own happiness. No matter where we live.

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no other land

Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor | Palestine/Norway

2025, 1h 35 min, DCP, In Arabic, Hebrew, and English with English subtitles

“As an act of citizen journalism, it’s a document as damning as they come, and it lands in this endless, bitterly complex struggle like an argument that refuses to be rationalized away.”
—Ty Burr, Washington Post

“Inherently hopeful. Even as the bulldozers rumble, and soldiers take the safety off around kids, and goons point cameras in Abraham’s face and threaten Facebook-fueled revenge, there’s hope that the juggernaut of oppression can be stopped.”
—Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle

Mar. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 28, 29 | For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight. No Other Land is an unflinching account of a community’s mass expulsion and acts as a creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.

Mermaid Legend

Directed by Toshiharu Ikeda | Japan

1984, 1h 50 min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles

“Probably my number one discovery of the year.”
—Sean Baker 

Mar. 28, 29 | Notes of terror hit higher than a siren’s song when a pearl diver goes on a killing spree to avenge the death of her fisherman husband at the hands of ruthless businessmen hellbent on redeveloping the couple’s oceanfront sanctuary. From Toshiharu Ikeda (EVIL DEAD TRAP) and featuring a haunting score from Honda Toshiyuki (known for the anime METROPOLIS), it’s an eco-revenge thriller unlike anything before or since. Newly restored.

ghost in the shell

Directed by Mamoru Oshii | Japan

1995, 1h 23 min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles

“Though much pilfered by THE MATRIX — and just about every other Hollywood science-fiction blockbuster in which minds and bodies roam free from each other in spaces both actual and virtual — Oshii’s film retains its power to startle and seduce.” —Artforum

Apr. 3, 4, 6 | Cyborg agent Major Kusanagi is hot on the trail of a hacker known as “The Puppet Master.” The closer she gets, the more questions she has about the case and her existence. Director Mamoru Oshii (DALLOS, PATLABOR) questions what it means to be human in his critically acclaimed adaptation of the hit manga series.

The crazy family

Directed by Gakuryū “Sogo” Ishii | Japan

1984, 3h 26 min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles

Apr. 18, 19, 23 | From the original Japanese punk auteur, Gakuryu “Sogo” Ishii comes the wild story of the Kobayashi family, a suburban dream turned domestic nightmare. Much like a termite infestation, this “savage slapstick satire” (MUBI) steadily gnaws away at the idea of the “perfect family” until the foundation falls through, giving new meaning to the idea of nuclear destruction. Newly Restored.