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 Shot...
Anhad celebrates the spirit of free expression with films for freedomA month long film festivalLADEN IS NOT MY FRIEND(28.5MIN.)BY BIKRAMJIT GUPTAOn 11 September 2001 America lost the most prominent landmark of the Manhattan skyline. The fear of terrorism engulfed America. The war began between the US and Osama Bin Laden, and a religion received a brand name of barbarism. A boy, far away from New York, his mind and state of identity---- NAATA(45MIN) BY KP JAYASANKAR & ANJALI MO...
Held for the second time at New York’s prestigious Asia Society from February 26 – 28, the SOUTH ASIA HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL reflects the trend towards specialized subject oriented festivals with limited programs and small audiences. Most of the recently produced nine features and documentaries screened originated in India with Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan contributing one film each. Organized by the Asia Society, the non-profit “Breakthrough’ group’, and Syracuse Un...
The 2004 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Wednesday April 14-April 18 SundayCHOKHER BALI (premieres in Toronto)will open the festiival on April 14. Next day IFFLA will feature a Gala Film Tribute to Celebrate Career of Indian Actress Kirron Kher on April 15 Rituparno Ghosh's CHOKHER BALI (A Passion Play) as the opening night film of the 2004 festival. The film, based on Rabidranath Tagore's novel CHOKHER BALI, is a period drama featuring superstar actress Aishwarya Rai as a young widow in Bri...
River to River. Florence Indian Film FestivalFrom December 10-14, 2003 the third edition of the River to River Florence Indian Film Festival, the only European film festival entirely dedicated to cinema both from and about India, will arrive in Florence. The festival is organized by Luca Marziali and Selvaggia Velo of bdjMEDIA.Screenings will take place at the Spazio Uno Cinema in Via del Sole, 10, Florence - Italy. PRESS RELEASE N.3River to River. Florence Indian Film FestivalFrom December 10-1...
At the International Film Festival Mumbai(India, November 20-27, 2003)"Shadow Kill" (Nizhalkkuthu) by Adoor Gopalakrishnan (India, 2002)won the Prize of the International Critics"For its powerful cinematic exploration of the agony and helplessness of a hangman which dig as deep in the universal psyche as it does in Indian culture." A Special Mention went to: "Freaky Chakra" by V.K.Prakash (India, 2002), "For the extraordinarily light treatment of very serious emotions, inhibitions and aspiration...
BOLLYWOOD AND BEFOREIndia has an extremely prolific film industry turning out anything between 700 and 800 films a year, with peaks sometimes reaching more than 900! (905 in 1985, for example.) Most of these films are produced in regional centres in languages such as Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam... Indeed India is made up of 22 States and has 17 main languages. The Bollywood term covers films produced in Hindi in the Bombay studios. Although such films only account for a quarter of the total Indian...
