kolkata the third edition of the next international film festival niff will begin in houston on october 25 and continue till october 28 following the catastrophic hurricane harvey the theme of this years festival is houston strongsaid san banarje who along with trisha ray is organising the festival one of our main goals is to encourage diversity and culture through art we are very keen to bring great films from two of the emerging power of the world india and china along with other great south asian filmthe festival will open with the 13minutelong documentary titled gold line from writerdirector lance childers and the 90minutelong comedy titled a curry on an american plate directed by banarje the comedy has been shot in houston with actors rick fox charlie oconnell and andrea guasch among otherson october 26 the short film titled dream girl produced by houston native alex cadena with her film production team at yale university will be screened a screening of the documentary rock bottom and back is also on the cards on the same day produced by a houston production company and based on the book by new york times bestseller susan d mustafa this documentary depicts the lives of 22 people who hit rock bottom and then came back from profound despair to help others in extraordinary ways on october 27 ryan phillippe and noah schnapp starring short titled the circle will be screened it has been directed by sheldon schwartz and shot by oscar winner claudio miranda this screening will be followed by 100 minutes of shorts from shanghai new york los angeles and other cities and q and a with their makers the chinese film is called killing game writerdirector andrej iliev will be personally coming from china to present his film banarje saidthe film from new york is titled dont think about it this is a fascinating thriller by writerdirector niv klainer it is about a couple who is expecting a child but things get out of hand when they try to protect each other from an inevitable breakupon october 28 there will be a screening of the documentary titled texas 72 houston spcaassisted rescue operation of 72 irish wolfhounds from galveston county is the theme of this documentary organisers claim furry stars of the show will also be in attendance