Berlinale 2012 announces Panorama section, gives Indian films a miss
The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival to be held from February 9-19, 2012 announced the list of films to be screened in Panorama section. The lineup includes renowned names such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Volker Schlöndorff, Cao Hamburger, Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Teona Strugar Mitevska.
No Indian film has yet found a place in Berlinale Panorama 2012. Last year Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective were presented in this section.
Feature films to date:
10+10 by Hou Hsiao-hsien,Taiwan
Death For Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi, France
Die Wand (The Wall) by Julian Roman Pölsler, Austria/Germany
Dollhouse by Kirsten Sheridan, Ireland
Elles by Malgoska Szumowska, France/Poland/Germany
Fon Tok Kuen Fah (Headshot) by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/France
From Seoul To Varanasi by Kyuhwan Jeon, Republic of Korea
Hot boy noi loan – cau chuyen ve thang cuoi, co gai diem va con vit (Lost In Paradise) by Vu Ngoc Dang, Vietnam
Indignados by Tony Gatlif, France
Keep The Lights On by Ira Sachs, USA
Kuma by Umut Dag, Austria
La mer à l’aube (Calm At Sea) by Volker Schlöndorff, France/Germany
L’âge atomique by Héléna Klotz, France
Leave It On The Floor by Sheldon Larry, USA/Canada
Mei-wei (My Way) by Kang Je-kyu, Republic of Korea
Mommy Is Coming by Cheryl Dunye, Germany
Parada (The Parade) by Srdjan Dragojevic, Serbia/Republic of Croatia/ Macedonia/Slovenia
The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears by Teona Strugar Mitevska, Macedonia/Germany/Slovenia/Belgium
Wilaya by Pedro Pérez Rosado, Spain
Xingu by Cao Hamburger, Brazil
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“gives Indian films a miss”. What is this for a title ? Do all major film festivals need to include films from India ? A film is selected on the basic of its quality.It does not matter whether it is from India or Zimbabwe.What should matter is the quality.Creating a ghetto for Indian films on international film festival circuit would do more harm to Indian cinema.
Wishful thinking Lalit- “A film is selected on the basic of its quality.It does not matter whether it is from India or Zimbabwe”? Why Berlinale 2012 is screening Don 2, three months after its theatrical release?
Bikas,Don 2 is a very peculiar case as no A grade film festival can take the liberty of not having big stars.As SRK is a big draw in Germany,Berlinale folks must have thought of having him and his film.Now,it is a different tale that SRK is going to be at Berlinale for only a day.By the way,these days most film festivals follow the policy of having two kinds of India films for their festivals: some with serious content and some with star quotient.For example : What’s Your Raashee ? which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival.
Don 2 will do better things for Berlin than any film Bikas…Dont you know the stories of what kind of rebate was given to making of this film by the city council and the german government – so whats wrong in screening Don 2 ?
Hi Lalit, my comment was on your statement “A film is selected on the basic of its quality.It does not matter whether it is from India or Zimbabwe”?”, so now you do agree that it’s not purely not the quality.
Hardik, the irony is Don 2 has already theatrically released in Berlin. So I suspect if that will do a great thing for Berlin.
You are mistaken. The film has not been screened in Germany before. The Berlinale marks the German premiere of the film which afterwards releases in cinemas in a dubbed version.