The awards for the 2011 Open
Doors co-production lab, that is organised with the support of the Swiss Agency
for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign
Affairs (DFA) and the support of the City of Bellinzona, were announced on
Tuesday August 9.
Open Doors Awards cerermony, from left: Alka Raghuram, Shanker Raman, Signe Byrge Sorensen, Sourav Sarangi, Anup Singh, Johannes Rexin
The 2011 session was devoted to cinema from India. 12 projects...
From over 200 projects submitted, in 18 different languages, from 30 regions in India, these are the 12 finalists which will participate in Open Doors, the Festival del film Locarno's co-production lab.
The selected projects are:
- Aharbal Falls by Ajay Raina
- Ajeeb Aashiq / Strange Love by Natasha Mendonca
- Arunoday / Sunriseby Partho Sen-Gupta
- Burqa Boxers by Alka Raghuram
- Char, The Island Within by Sourav Sarangi
- Jat Panchayat / The Judgement by Satish ...
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