Sri Lanka's 'Withered Leaf' short film in the running at the Singapore South Asian International Film Festival

The annual Singapore South Asian International Film Festival has scheduled  35 feature films, shorts and documentaries from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

The 10-day event, kicks off on Sept 1, the Straits Times reported.

The film festival is organised by Muvizz, a streaming service for world independent films, and supported by the High Commission of India in Singapore, Institute of South Asian Studies and National University of Singapore.

Twenty-six films will be competing for Best Feature Film, Best Documentary Film and Best Short Film.

The jury deciding the winners of these awards comprise four film-makers: Mostofa Sarwar Farooki from Bangladesh, Siddiq Barmak from Afghanistan, K. Rajagopal from Singapore and Prasanna Vithanage from Sri Lanka.

A scene from the film Withered Leaf

The films screening in competition include Sri Lanka's Withered Leaf (2016), about a poor village woman's struggles after the sudden death of her husband, and Marathi-language Indian film Lathe Joshi (2016), about a factory worker who is rendered jobless due to advances in technology.