The seventh edition of River to River wrapped in Florence

The seventh edition of River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival has had its last day on Thursday December 13th, with a great success among the press and the audience, confirming also the good idea of the 50 days of international cinema in Florence, at the historical and central cinema Gambrinus.

The selection of the films in competition and the retrospective devoted to Bimal Roy have had a big success and have been very well received, and the guests from India and delegates of culture in Italy have been numerous.


During the last evening the winners of the River to River Digichannel Audience Award have been announced:
- feature film section: the intense story of a mother in Maati Maay by Chitra Palekar
- short film section: the ironic and up-do-date Saving Mum and Dad by Kartik Singh
- documentary section: the kite festival in Sotto il cielo di Ahmedabad by Francesca Lignola and Stefano Rebechi

After the award ceremony, the Festival director has assigned to Médecins Sans Frontières a part of the ticket income for the victims of Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, at the presence of the President of Region Tuscany Claudio Martini.

The evening has gone on with the screening of the last film of the retrospective devoted to Bimal Roy, Bandini.


From January 2008 the Festival organizers will be at work for the film selection for the 8th edition, that will take place in December 2008.
All necessary information will be online at www.rivertoriver.it from February 2008.