The Witch wins best debut; Sherpa wins best documentary.
Greek film-maker Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier took the Best Film Award in the BFI London Film Festival’s official competition at the award ceremony at Banqueting House on Saturday night.
The Sutherland Award for most original and innovative directorial debut went to Robert Eggers’ The Witch, while the Grierson Award for Best Documentary was presented to Jennifer Peedom’s gripping and tragic Sherpa.
Chevalier, which debuted at Locarno, screened at Toronto and won prizes at Sarajevo, is a Greek comedy about a contest of machismo among six men on board a yacht.
It took the Lff’s top prize over much fancied competition, including Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Son Of Saul, Tangerine and Beasts Of No Nation.
Tangerine and Son Of Saul were given special mentions by jury president Pawel Pawlikowski when he presented the award to Chevalier, which he described as “both a hilarious comedy and a deeply...
Greek film-maker Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier took the Best Film Award in the BFI London Film Festival’s official competition at the award ceremony at Banqueting House on Saturday night.
The Sutherland Award for most original and innovative directorial debut went to Robert Eggers’ The Witch, while the Grierson Award for Best Documentary was presented to Jennifer Peedom’s gripping and tragic Sherpa.
Chevalier, which debuted at Locarno, screened at Toronto and won prizes at Sarajevo, is a Greek comedy about a contest of machismo among six men on board a yacht.
It took the Lff’s top prize over much fancied competition, including Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Son Of Saul, Tangerine and Beasts Of No Nation.
Tangerine and Son Of Saul were given special mentions by jury president Pawel Pawlikowski when he presented the award to Chevalier, which he described as “both a hilarious comedy and a deeply...
- 10/18/2015
- by matt.mueller@screendaily.com (Matt Mueller)
- ScreenDaily
Ghostly echoes fill An Old Dog’s Diary (2015), a highlight of the Wavelengths experimental short programs at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. This impressionistic, documentary portrait takes as its subject F. N. Souza (1924-2002), a man anointed by The Guardian “India’s most important and most famous modern artist.” Made by Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia, each an accomplished artist in her own right (Heredia is also the founder of Experimenta, a leading Indian experimental film society), the evocative 11-minute film takes a sidelong approach to cinematic portraiture. Textural glimpses of Goa, Souza’s birthplace, are casually depicted on black-and-white Super 8 and 16mm film: the shimmer of the...
- 9/29/2015
- by Livia Bloom
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Ghostly echoes fill An Old Dog’s Diary (2015), a highlight of the Wavelengths experimental short programs at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. This impressionistic, documentary portrait takes as its subject F. N. Souza (1924-2002), a man anointed by The Guardian “India’s most important and most famous modern artist.” Made by Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia, each an accomplished artist in her own right (Heredia is also the founder of Experimenta, a leading Indian experimental film society), the evocative 11-minute film takes a sidelong approach to cinematic portraiture. Textural glimpses of Goa, Souza’s birthplace, are casually depicted on black-and-white Super 8 and 16mm film: the shimmer of the water in a verdant bayou; […]...
- 9/29/2015
- by Livia Bloom
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Youth On The MARCHThere are 48 individual films screening in the Wavelengths section of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The relative importance of this section, amidst the vast array of offerings in this relatively huge festival, depends on your taste in movies, of course, to say nothing of your specific objectives. If you’re coming to Toronto to try to score a hot tip in this year’s Oscar race, well . . . I feel sorry for you on a number of levels. But Wavelengths is unlikely to be your jam. Originally conceived exclusively as a showcase for experimental and non-narrative films (hence the section’s title, a direct tribute to avant-garde master and Toronto native son Michael Snow), Wavelengths now encompasses the edgier, less commercial side of art cinema. This is the first of two preview essays, and my aim is to cover everything in the section. These are the...
- 9/12/2015
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
The 59Th BFI London Film Festival Announces Full 2015 Programme
You can peruse the programme at your leisure here.
The programme for the 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. BFI London Film Festival is Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience. The Festival provides an essential platform for films seeking global success; and promotes the careers of British and international filmmakers through its industry and awards programmes. With this year’s industry programme stronger than ever, offering international filmmakers and leaders a programme of insightful events covering every area of the film industry Lff positions London as the world’s leading creative city.
The Festival will screen a...
You can peruse the programme at your leisure here.
The programme for the 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. BFI London Film Festival is Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience. The Festival provides an essential platform for films seeking global success; and promotes the careers of British and international filmmakers through its industry and awards programmes. With this year’s industry programme stronger than ever, offering international filmmakers and leaders a programme of insightful events covering every area of the film industry Lff positions London as the world’s leading creative city.
The Festival will screen a...
- 9/1/2015
- by John
- SoundOnSight
What:
A day-long event (10 am to 8 pm)
Screening of films by women filmmakers which were in competition at Miff ’14.
At the fd Zone.
When:
8 March.
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Rr Theatre
10th floor
Films Division
24, Pedder Road
Mumbai-400026
About the event:
List of films
A Summer Flu by Priyanka Chhabra (17 min)
Devil in the Black Stone by Ananya Kasaravalli (21 min)
House with Colors by Manaswini L.R., (4 min)
In between by Sharofat Arabova (24 min)
The Breadfruit Tree by Priyamvada Narayanan (22 min)
Breakin’ Mumbai by Tiss Team (33 min)
Cassandra’s Gift by Payal Kapadia (22 min)
“O Friend, This Waiting!” by Sandhya Kumar (34 min)
… and the unclaimed by Debalina Majumder (65 min)
Decision by Pushpa Rawat (57 min)
Womb for rent by Ishani K. Dutta (51 min)
Keli by Ranjitha Rajeevan (7 min)
Shri Hanuman Chalisa by Charuvi Agrawal (12 min)
The Vicious Circle by Dhvani Desai (4 min)
Unfold by Neha Kulkarni (4 min...
A day-long event (10 am to 8 pm)
Screening of films by women filmmakers which were in competition at Miff ’14.
At the fd Zone.
When:
8 March.
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Rr Theatre
10th floor
Films Division
24, Pedder Road
Mumbai-400026
About the event:
List of films
A Summer Flu by Priyanka Chhabra (17 min)
Devil in the Black Stone by Ananya Kasaravalli (21 min)
House with Colors by Manaswini L.R., (4 min)
In between by Sharofat Arabova (24 min)
The Breadfruit Tree by Priyamvada Narayanan (22 min)
Breakin’ Mumbai by Tiss Team (33 min)
Cassandra’s Gift by Payal Kapadia (22 min)
“O Friend, This Waiting!” by Sandhya Kumar (34 min)
… and the unclaimed by Debalina Majumder (65 min)
Decision by Pushpa Rawat (57 min)
Womb for rent by Ishani K. Dutta (51 min)
Keli by Ranjitha Rajeevan (7 min)
Shri Hanuman Chalisa by Charuvi Agrawal (12 min)
The Vicious Circle by Dhvani Desai (4 min)
Unfold by Neha Kulkarni (4 min...
- 3/4/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 13th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films (Miff) has unveiled its lineup for International and Indian competition sections.
The biennial festival will be held from February 3-9, 2014 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa) in Mumbai. The festival received 600 entries from India and 205 international entries out of which films from 34 countries have been selected.
Ian McDonald’s Algorithms, Kim Longinotto’s Salma, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, Dylan Mohan Gray’s Fire in the Blood, Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang and Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia’s I Am Micro are some of the prominent documentaries that will compete in International Competition.
For complete lineup of International Competition, click here
Tamaash (The Puppet) by Satyanshu Singh and Devanshu Singh, Golden Mango by Govinda Raju, Have You Seen the Arana? by Sunanda Bhat, Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur and Shepherds of Paradise...
The biennial festival will be held from February 3-9, 2014 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa) in Mumbai. The festival received 600 entries from India and 205 international entries out of which films from 34 countries have been selected.
Ian McDonald’s Algorithms, Kim Longinotto’s Salma, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, Dylan Mohan Gray’s Fire in the Blood, Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang and Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia’s I Am Micro are some of the prominent documentaries that will compete in International Competition.
For complete lineup of International Competition, click here
Tamaash (The Puppet) by Satyanshu Singh and Devanshu Singh, Golden Mango by Govinda Raju, Have You Seen the Arana? by Sunanda Bhat, Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur and Shepherds of Paradise...
- 1/1/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
This year, Chicago’s durable Onion City Experimental Film And Video Festival is celebrating its devotion to challenging, exciting and entertaining experimental and avant-garde films for a quarter of a century. Hosted, as always, by Chicago Filmmakers, the 25th annual edition of the fest runs at several locations around the Windy City — the Gene Siskel Film Center, Columbia College and the Music Box Theater — on September 5-8.
The opening night program is a terrific lineup of eclectic short works from some of the giants of the experimental film world, such as animators Jodie Mack and Lawrence Jordan, documentarian Deborah Stratman, British filmmaker Ben Rivers, Indian filmmakers Shai Heredia and Shumona Goel, classic experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon and several more.
The rest of the fest is also jam-packed with other terrific short films and videos, from filmmakers such as Jennifer Reeder, Stephanie Barber, Mike Hoolboom, Lewis Klahr, Scott Fitzpatrick and tons more; plus,...
The opening night program is a terrific lineup of eclectic short works from some of the giants of the experimental film world, such as animators Jodie Mack and Lawrence Jordan, documentarian Deborah Stratman, British filmmaker Ben Rivers, Indian filmmakers Shai Heredia and Shumona Goel, classic experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon and several more.
The rest of the fest is also jam-packed with other terrific short films and videos, from filmmakers such as Jennifer Reeder, Stephanie Barber, Mike Hoolboom, Lewis Klahr, Scott Fitzpatrick and tons more; plus,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Yesterday we gave you an overview about the exciting London Indian Film Festival that is running from July 18th to the 24th. Today we thought we would give you the full list of films and events that will be featured at the Beyond Bollywood film festival!
Films
B.A. Pass | Dir. Ajay Bahl | Hindi, Punjabi, with English subtitles
The Graduate meets film noir in this sizzling tale of seduction and betrayal where a young man is seduced by a gorgeous cougar who leaves him entranced, that is until she farms him out to entertain her lady friends with dangerous consequences. The film’s steamy trailer drew millions of hits on YouTube and the eroticism of the film has drawn the ire of India’s moral police.
Bombay Talkies | Dirs. Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Bannerjee, Anurag Kashyap | Hindi, Marathi with English subtitles | Closing Film.
Mumbai’s spectacular homage to 100 years of...
Films
B.A. Pass | Dir. Ajay Bahl | Hindi, Punjabi, with English subtitles
The Graduate meets film noir in this sizzling tale of seduction and betrayal where a young man is seduced by a gorgeous cougar who leaves him entranced, that is until she farms him out to entertain her lady friends with dangerous consequences. The film’s steamy trailer drew millions of hits on YouTube and the eroticism of the film has drawn the ire of India’s moral police.
Bombay Talkies | Dirs. Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Bannerjee, Anurag Kashyap | Hindi, Marathi with English subtitles | Closing Film.
Mumbai’s spectacular homage to 100 years of...
- 6/28/2013
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
A still from Phalke’s “Kaliya Mardan”
Films Division is hosting a Retrospective of Experimental Indian cinema and video titled “Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913- 2013)” from June 28-30, 2013.
The Retrospective has been curated by Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar.
Screening Schedule
Venue:
Rr Theatre, 10th floor, Films Division
24, Pedder Road, Mumbai – 400026
Day One
28 June, 2013, Friday
28 June, 2013, Friday: 10.00-12.30 pm
Session 1: Experiments with Gods
A collection of early films made by D.B. Phalke between 1913 and 1935.
1. Raja Harishchandra (20 mins, 35mm, 1913)
2. Lanka Dahan (9 mins, 35mm, 1917)
3. Shree Krishna Janma (6 mins, 35mm, 1918)
4. Kaliya Mardan (50 mins, 35mm, 1919)
28 June, 2013, Friday: 1.15- 3.45 pm
Session 2: Experiment in the State
The earliest robust experimentation in India begins under the imaginative tutelage of Jean Bhownagary while he headed the Films Division in 1965.
1. Explorer – Pramod Pati (7 mins, 35mm, 1968)
2. Claxplosion – Pramod Pati (2 mins, 35mm, 1968)
3. Trip – Pramod Pati (4 mins, 35mm, 1970)
4. Koodal – Tyeb Mehta (16 mins, 35mm, 1970)
5. Abid – Pramod Pati (5 mins, 35mm,...
Films Division is hosting a Retrospective of Experimental Indian cinema and video titled “Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913- 2013)” from June 28-30, 2013.
The Retrospective has been curated by Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar.
Screening Schedule
Venue:
Rr Theatre, 10th floor, Films Division
24, Pedder Road, Mumbai – 400026
Day One
28 June, 2013, Friday
28 June, 2013, Friday: 10.00-12.30 pm
Session 1: Experiments with Gods
A collection of early films made by D.B. Phalke between 1913 and 1935.
1. Raja Harishchandra (20 mins, 35mm, 1913)
2. Lanka Dahan (9 mins, 35mm, 1917)
3. Shree Krishna Janma (6 mins, 35mm, 1918)
4. Kaliya Mardan (50 mins, 35mm, 1919)
28 June, 2013, Friday: 1.15- 3.45 pm
Session 2: Experiment in the State
The earliest robust experimentation in India begins under the imaginative tutelage of Jean Bhownagary while he headed the Films Division in 1965.
1. Explorer – Pramod Pati (7 mins, 35mm, 1968)
2. Claxplosion – Pramod Pati (2 mins, 35mm, 1968)
3. Trip – Pramod Pati (4 mins, 35mm, 1970)
4. Koodal – Tyeb Mehta (16 mins, 35mm, 1970)
5. Abid – Pramod Pati (5 mins, 35mm,...
- 6/24/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival, held back on March 19-24, gave out 20 awards to 28 films, as selected by the three-panel jury of filmmakers Kevin Jerome Everson, Laida Lertxundi and Marcin Gizycki.
The big winner was Penny Lane’s documentary Our Nixon, which took home the Best of the Fest Award. The film, assembled from “home” movies taken by Richard Nixon’s staff has quickly become one of the most talked about indie films of the year so far.
Other winners include Michael Almereyda’s short profile of a Northern England fishing village, Skinningrove, won for Best Documentary Film; Yuri Ancarani’s surgical film Da Vinci won for the Most Technically Innovative Film; and Frédéric Moffet’s meditation on Montgomery Clift, Postface, won for Best Experimental Film.
The full list of winners is below and you can check out the entire lineup of 2013 Ann Arbor Film Festival here.
Ken Burns...
The big winner was Penny Lane’s documentary Our Nixon, which took home the Best of the Fest Award. The film, assembled from “home” movies taken by Richard Nixon’s staff has quickly become one of the most talked about indie films of the year so far.
Other winners include Michael Almereyda’s short profile of a Northern England fishing village, Skinningrove, won for Best Documentary Film; Yuri Ancarani’s surgical film Da Vinci won for the Most Technically Innovative Film; and Frédéric Moffet’s meditation on Montgomery Clift, Postface, won for Best Experimental Film.
The full list of winners is below and you can check out the entire lineup of 2013 Ann Arbor Film Festival here.
Ken Burns...
- 4/1/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Ann Arbor Film Festival, having survived their half-a-century blowout in 2012, is back with another rip-roarin’ 51st edition in 2013, which will run from March 19-24, screening a mind-boggling amount of experimental short films and a few features.
Highlights of the fest include:
Special presentations by this year’s jurors, including Marcin Gizycki round-up of Polish animation from the 1950s to the present; Laida Lertxundi’s selection of some of her films as well as her biggest influences; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s mini-retrospective of his own films.
There’s also special tributes to Pat O’Neill, including a retrospective of his short films from the ’70s to the present as well as a screening of his 1989 35mm experimental epic Water and Power; Suzan Pitt, with selections of short films from her career; and a screening of Ken Burns’ latest doc The Central Park Five, co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon,...
Highlights of the fest include:
Special presentations by this year’s jurors, including Marcin Gizycki round-up of Polish animation from the 1950s to the present; Laida Lertxundi’s selection of some of her films as well as her biggest influences; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s mini-retrospective of his own films.
There’s also special tributes to Pat O’Neill, including a retrospective of his short films from the ’70s to the present as well as a screening of his 1989 35mm experimental epic Water and Power; Suzan Pitt, with selections of short films from her career; and a screening of Ken Burns’ latest doc The Central Park Five, co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon,...
- 3/19/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Jahnu Barua’s Baandhon will open the Feature Film section of Indian Panorama 2012 at the International Film Festival of India. Celluloid Man will open the Non-Feature Film section.
The 43rd edition of the festival will be held from 20th – 30th November, 2012 in Goa.
The jury for the Feature Film section was headed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and comprised Pradip Biswas, Suresh Krissna Katte Ramachandra, Kireedam Unni, Munin Barua, Pawan Manavi, Ajay Sharma, Venita Coelho and Sibi Malayil. The jury selected 18 films from the 144 eligible entries.
The jury for the Non-Feature Film section is chaired by M.R. Rajan picked up 18 films from the 147 eligible entries. Other jury members are Bachaspatimayum Sunzu, Mohammad Ali Baig, Jasmine K Roy and Rajesh S Jala.
The films selected under Feature Film section are:
Baandhon by Jahnu Barua
Shabdo by Kaushik Ganguly
Chitrangada by Rituparno Ghosh
Elar Char Adhyay by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Deswa by Nitin Chandra...
The 43rd edition of the festival will be held from 20th – 30th November, 2012 in Goa.
The jury for the Feature Film section was headed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and comprised Pradip Biswas, Suresh Krissna Katte Ramachandra, Kireedam Unni, Munin Barua, Pawan Manavi, Ajay Sharma, Venita Coelho and Sibi Malayil. The jury selected 18 films from the 144 eligible entries.
The jury for the Non-Feature Film section is chaired by M.R. Rajan picked up 18 films from the 147 eligible entries. Other jury members are Bachaspatimayum Sunzu, Mohammad Ali Baig, Jasmine K Roy and Rajesh S Jala.
The films selected under Feature Film section are:
Baandhon by Jahnu Barua
Shabdo by Kaushik Ganguly
Chitrangada by Rituparno Ghosh
Elar Char Adhyay by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Deswa by Nitin Chandra...
- 10/26/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Jahnu Barua’s Baandhon will open the Feature Film section of Indian Panorama 2012 at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi). Documentary Celluloid Man will open the Non-Feature Film section.
The 43rd edition of the festival will be held from 20th – 30th November, 2012 in Goa.
The jury for the Feature Film section was headed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and comprised Pradip Biswas, Suresh Krissna Katte Ramachandra, Kireedam Unni, Munin Barua, Pawan Manavi, Ajay Sharma, Venita Coelho and Sibi Malayil. The jury selected 18 films from the 144 eligible entries.
The jury for the Non-Feature Film section, chaired by M.R. Rajan, picked up 18 films from the 147 eligible entries. Other jury members were Bachaspatimayum Sunzu, Mohammad Ali Baig, Jasmine K Roy and Rajesh S Jala.
Feature Films:
Baandhon by Jahnu Barua
Shabdo by Kaushik Ganguly
Chitrangada by Rituparno Ghosh
Elar Char Adhyay by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Deswa by Nitin Chandra
Byari by Suveeran
Lessons In Forgetting...
The 43rd edition of the festival will be held from 20th – 30th November, 2012 in Goa.
The jury for the Feature Film section was headed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and comprised Pradip Biswas, Suresh Krissna Katte Ramachandra, Kireedam Unni, Munin Barua, Pawan Manavi, Ajay Sharma, Venita Coelho and Sibi Malayil. The jury selected 18 films from the 144 eligible entries.
The jury for the Non-Feature Film section, chaired by M.R. Rajan, picked up 18 films from the 147 eligible entries. Other jury members were Bachaspatimayum Sunzu, Mohammad Ali Baig, Jasmine K Roy and Rajesh S Jala.
Feature Films:
Baandhon by Jahnu Barua
Shabdo by Kaushik Ganguly
Chitrangada by Rituparno Ghosh
Elar Char Adhyay by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Deswa by Nitin Chandra
Byari by Suveeran
Lessons In Forgetting...
- 10/26/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
September is here again, and it's time to delve into the cinematic bounty of the Wavelengths section of the Toronto International Film Festival, that rambunctious and idiosyncratic corner of the Reitman Machine largely cordoned off from commercial concerns and set aside for lovely and sometimes difficult film art. Despite the ever-changing profile of Tiff, stalwart programmer Andréa Picard has [cue needle-scratching-record sound] What? Yes, last year at this time, the avant-garde community thought we were seeing Ms. Picard leaving this position behind. Fortunately for us all, Tiff won her back.
And this is where things get interesting. Starting with this 2012 edition of the festival, the Wavelengths section is a much more broadly based, festival-wide category. In essence, it now subsumes the old Visions designation, which was Tiff’s home for formally challenging, feature-length arthouse fare. This merger, which may seem like a bit of a shotgun wedding to some, does in fact make sense.
And this is where things get interesting. Starting with this 2012 edition of the festival, the Wavelengths section is a much more broadly based, festival-wide category. In essence, it now subsumes the old Visions designation, which was Tiff’s home for formally challenging, feature-length arthouse fare. This merger, which may seem like a bit of a shotgun wedding to some, does in fact make sense.
- 9/11/2012
- MUBI
The Tortoise, an Incarnation directed by Girish Kasaravalli will have its international premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the Toronto International Film Festival 2012.
“In Girish Kasaravalli’s gently philosophical character piece, a humble, low-level civil servant cast as the lead in a popular TV serial chronicling the life of Gandhi finds uncanny echoes between his own life and that of the legendary leader — and sets out to correct their mutual failings,” is the synopsis of the film in an official press release.
Shambhavi Kaul’s 21 Chitrakoot, and Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia’s I Am Micro will be screened as part of ‘Wavelengths’, the festival’s curated presentation of the best in international avant-garde film and video.
“..Equally uncanny and visually enthralling is Shambvani Kaul’s 21 Chitrakoot, which exhumes a mystical land composed of 1980s chroma-key backdrops from a famous Indian television series. With barely tempered chaos, melancholia replaces nostalgia,...
“In Girish Kasaravalli’s gently philosophical character piece, a humble, low-level civil servant cast as the lead in a popular TV serial chronicling the life of Gandhi finds uncanny echoes between his own life and that of the legendary leader — and sets out to correct their mutual failings,” is the synopsis of the film in an official press release.
Shambhavi Kaul’s 21 Chitrakoot, and Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia’s I Am Micro will be screened as part of ‘Wavelengths’, the festival’s curated presentation of the best in international avant-garde film and video.
“..Equally uncanny and visually enthralling is Shambvani Kaul’s 21 Chitrakoot, which exhumes a mystical land composed of 1980s chroma-key backdrops from a famous Indian television series. With barely tempered chaos, melancholia replaces nostalgia,...
- 8/16/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
By merging the former Visions into the Wavelengths section, Cameron Bailey has essentially made a new incontournable programme. Headed by Andréa Picard, the section which at a time was populated by medium to short run times now includes some of the bigger names in innovative feature film filmmaking who have no qualms about bending the medium. This year the sections includes long, medium and short length works from the likes of Ben Rivers, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Carlos Reygadas (pic of his controversial Post Tenebras Lux above), Wang Bing, Mati Diop (actress from Claire Denis and Antonio Campos films) and our very own writer Blake Williams who makes it two for two at Tiff with Many a Swan – he previously had Coorow-Latham Road programmed last year. Here’s the complete A to Z listing and well-worth reading descriptions.
Pairings
The Capsule Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece, 37’ A bevy of gorgeous Gothic...
Pairings
The Capsule Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece, 37’ A bevy of gorgeous Gothic...
- 8/14/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Bombay Snow directed by Chinmay Nagesh Dalvi was declared the Best Short Fiction while The Rat Race by Miriam Chandy Meenacherry was named the Best Long Documentary at the 5th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala.
In the short fiction category, Jury Special Mention went to Rizwan by Deepthi Kurana and Sattu´s Goggles by Shaheen Muhammed.
In the Long Documentary category, Jury Special Mention went to Earth Witness: Reflections on the Times and Timeless by Akansha Joshi.
Karim Barber by Tushar B.More was declared the Best Animation Film. Inspiration by Viveka Chauhan won the award for Best Music Video.
The prize for Best Campus Film went to One Rupee by Rojin Thomas.
I am Micro directed by Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia won the Best Short Documentary. Jury Special Mention went to The Five Elements by Mohan Kumar Valsala and Girl with the Kite by Walter D´Cruz.
In the short fiction category, Jury Special Mention went to Rizwan by Deepthi Kurana and Sattu´s Goggles by Shaheen Muhammed.
In the Long Documentary category, Jury Special Mention went to Earth Witness: Reflections on the Times and Timeless by Akansha Joshi.
Karim Barber by Tushar B.More was declared the Best Animation Film. Inspiration by Viveka Chauhan won the award for Best Music Video.
The prize for Best Campus Film went to One Rupee by Rojin Thomas.
I am Micro directed by Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia won the Best Short Documentary. Jury Special Mention went to The Five Elements by Mohan Kumar Valsala and Girl with the Kite by Walter D´Cruz.
- 6/13/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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