Anand Gandhi’s “Ship of Theseus” wins Jury Special Mention at BFI London Film Festival 2012

Anand Gandhi’s debut film Ship of Theseus has won a Special Mention by the Sutherland Award Jury “for tickling our intellect and showing us rarely-seen facets of Indian life” at the  BFI London Film Festival 2012.

The film is scheduled to premiere at the 14^th Mumbai Film Festival on 24^th October, 2012 and is also screening at the on-going Tokyo Film Festival. It had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month.

Currently in its 56^th year, the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival is an annual film festival that hosts around 300 films from across 50 countries. This year the festival ran from 10^th – 21^st October, 2012.

The other winners at BFI London Film Festival this year are:

Best Film Award: Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard.

Sutherland Award for Best First Feature: Beasts of the Southern Wild by BenhZeitlin

Best Documentary Prize: Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of Godby Alex Gibney

Best British Newcomer: Sally EI Hosaini for My Brother The Devil

BFI Fellowship: Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton

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