Chalo Cinema : 21st Tasveer Film Festival & Market, Seattle
Date: Oct. 13th-18th, 2026
Mark your Calendars + Book Your Passes
Website: https://tasveer.org
Ticket link: https://tffm-2026.eventive.org/passes/buy
The 21st Tasveer Film Festival and Market is the world’s only Oscar qualifying South Asian film festival, hosted by Tasveer, a Seattle nonprofit that has spent over two decades amplifying South Asian voices through film, art, and storytelling. Since 2002, Tasveer has built a stage for stories on race, gender, caste, class, religion, and sexuality that do not always find a platform.
In 2025, Tasveer acquired Ark lodge Cinema in Columbia city which transitioned into Tasveer Film Center in Seattle screening global cinema seven days a week.
Tasveer Film Festival & market takes place for six days each October, the festival brings bold cinema from across South Asia and its diaspora to Seattle. Here is what that actually looks like inside the room.
- The full festival lineup (includes all pitches, networking lunches, film screenings, industry sessions)
- Opening Night and the red carpet Gala
- Closing Night and the awards ceremony
- Post-screening Q&As with filmmakers
- Three Networking Receptions & Lunches, October 13, 14, and 15
- Curated networking sessions with industry executives and fireside chats
- Tasveer Film Fund live pitch presentation
- Full FREE access to the Tasveer Film Market Portal for 1 Year for Free
- Special invitation to TFFM Launch Party on September 22
- Exclusive Filmmakers Brunch on Sunday, October 18th
Whether you come for the films, the filmmakers, or the conversations in between, you will leave with more than you arrived with. New stories. New perspectives. And very possibly, new collaborators.
Come be a part of our festival and market and connect with filmmakers from around the world!
Contact information:
4812 Rainier Ave S
Seattle, Washington 98119
United States
