Today, December 13th, closes in Florence the 4th edition of River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival, with the screening of the outside programme Eyes on India, documentaries on India shot by Western directors, and the screening of the black comedy Shit Happens by Shashanka Ghosh, winner of the FIFF Digimovies Audience Award.
The festival closes the programme with a big success of the Calcutta Chromosome section, the crowded Q&A with the festival guests, the lively bunch of Indian Short Shots and the confirmation of an growing audience. Within the debut films, big enthousiasm for the features Let the Wind Blow by Partho Sen Gupta, White Noise by Vinta Nanda and the short film Holly Bolly by Dishad Husain; and big success also for Goutam Ghose’s Impermanence and Ray, documentary on Satyajit Ray that was screend before the Ray Trilogy.
Some films of FIFF will be screened on Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 December in Naples and Roma, in the framework of the collaborations with the Oriental Institute of Naples and the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the University of Rome.
14.12.2004 | Editor's blog
Cat. : Audience Award Calcutta CDATA Cinema of Italy Civil awards and decorations Florence Indian Film Gautam Ghose Holly Bolly Indian people Indian society Kolkata culture Naples Partho Sen-Gupta River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival Roma Satyajit Ray University of Rome