River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival
5-11 December 2008
Cinema Odeon - Piazza Strozzi, 1 - Florence, Italy

The 8th edition of River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival is finished on Thursday December 11th, with a big success among the audience and the press, for a total of 2000 people, reconfirming the good idea of the 50 giorni di cinema internazionali in Florence and the beautiful venue of Odean movie theatre.

The films in competition, the special sections and the retrospective devoted to Bollywood’s showman Raj Kapoor, have been appreciated by the audience.
Many guests this year, among the filmmakers, and also H.E. Ambassador of India in Italy Arif Shahid Khan and the Presidente della Regione Toscana Claudio Martini.


During the final evening, the River to River Digichannel Audience Awards have been announced:
- feature film section: the tender, moving metropolitan tale of Amal by Richie Mehta
- short film section: the suggestive Funerailles by Subarna Thapa
- documentary section: the interesting Super 30 by Christopher Mitchell

Furthermore, Digichannel has decided to give a special mention to Sarab S. Neelam for the feature film Ocean of Pearls “for the gentle manner in which the delicate issue of discrimination has been addressed and the support for the future development of a world that will never have to deal with any racial or religious difference among individuals".


After the award ceremony, the Festival has screened the three winners of the first edition of the Advantage India 3 minute film competition in collaboration with 1takemedia.
And finally Bobby by Raj Kapoor as the closing film.

The festival organisers will be working at the 2009 edition, that will take place in December 2009.
All the necessary information will be online from February 2009.