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In our sixth and final episode, we talk about Divya Dutta, our Star in Focus and the films she is featured in which we are screening in this years festival. We talk about film Listen...Amaya, about a daughter struggling to deal with her mother's late relationship. We also talk about the special screenings that are taking place in DCU, DIT and the Chester Beatty Library.

For the 5th edition we focus on our Writer in Focus, Aatul Taweri and Director in Focus, Shyam Benegal who are coming to the 5th IFFI. We talk about an exclusive Irish premier at this years, Mardaani about a police going rogue and taking down the child trafficking mafia and look at Kya Dilli Kya Lahore, a film about the Indo-Pakistani border.

The fourth edition looks at our theme this year: Women empowerment in India. We discuss what its like to be a women in the Indian film industry along with two films that are apart of this theme. One being a father and daughter tale of escaping prostitution; Naa Bangaaru Talli. Another looking at infanticide in India called Kajarya.

In our second episode, we chat to Mary Chambers about SUAS, our charity partner this year helping to push people out of poverty through education in Ireland, Kenya and India. We talk about a film following the story of two outlaws that give back to there then war torn country they left and we discuss a film that uses filmmaking to bring peace to the indian/pakistan border.

For our third edition, we tell the story of our popular charity Gala Dinner. Then we look at Club 60, a film about finding something to live for at 60 when your child dies. Then, we talk about the film Glulab Gang, were a group of women stand up for themselves and take matters into their own hands.

For the first 2014 episode, we introduce the festival, our goals for the festival, this years programme theme about women in india, our festival travels around Ireland and the Indian film darings we have brought to Ireland. We review a few of our films screening at this years festival: one being TV Show Samvidhaan, starring our own festival director; another a spy thriller shot in Ireland featuring a fight scene on the Luas!