Entertainment

Boot-y call

There’s more to In dian cinema than Bollywood kitsch. Examples are to be found in the South Asian International Film Festival, running in New York Oct. 27-Nov. 2.

It will feature films from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Some of the movies are by young directors who, the festival says, “are challenging India’s 90-year-old cinematic legacy as they venture into previously censored and taboo subject matter.”

The opening feature is “That Girl in Yellow Boots” (2010), a thriller by Indian helmer Anurag Kashyap. It’s the story of a British woman working as an unlicensed masseuse in Mumbai, formerly Bombay, as she searches for her Indian father. The director’s girlfriend, Kalki Koechlin, has some steamy scenes in the lead role.

Also screening will be India’s first mumblecore movie, “The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project” (2010), in which an office worker decides to make a short film; and “I Am 24” (2009), also from India, which explores the relationship between a 42-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman.

The festival will unreel at the SVA Theater, 333 W. 23rd St.; saiff.org

* Larry Fessenden, the East Village director, actor and producer, is being honored with a two-week retrospective at Brooklyn’s new reRun Gastropub Theater.

On tap are films that Fessenden directed and/or starred in, plus movies by other directors that he released through his company, Glass Eye Pix.

A highlight is “The Last Winter” (2006), an environmental horror film Fessenden directed about messing with Mother Nature.

Among other films in the series are “Habit” (1995), with Fessenden as star and director; Ti West’s “The House of the Devil” (2009); and James Felix McKenney’s “Satan Hates You” (2009), which explores the relationship between a reckless nymphomaniac and a homophobic killer.

The fest opens Friday. The theater is at 147 Front St., between Jay and Pearl streets in Dumbo, Brooklyn;

reruntheater.com

* Sikh and ye shall find. The seventh International Sikh Film Festival — Friday and Saturday at the Asia Society, Park Avenue at 70th Street — is, says the fest, “faithful to its mission of creating awareness and pride in the diversity, culture and history of the Sikhs.”

The closing awards ceremony will be at the New York Public Library at Bryant Park. Details:

sikharts,com

V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post; vam@nypost.com