World Cinema

It will open in Mumbai on October 29 with Academy award winning director Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant”. A movie that tries hard to be a comedy, it has been scripted by Scott Z. Burns and is based on a book also titled “Informant” by Kurt Eichenwald.

The 11th edition of Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival will open in New Delhi on October 24 with a Romanian entry, “Hooked”. Directed by Adrian Sitaru, the movie is his first feature that has also been scripted by him, and was screened at Toronto and Palm Springs. “Hooked” tells crisply in 84 minutes the terse story of a couple whose car runs over a prostitute on a forest highway near Bucharest. Narrated over a single day, the film examines the relationship of the two lovers as they grapple with the unexpected tragedy.

Sixty-five countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards

After his controversial horror film Antichrist, Danish auteur filmmaker Lars von Trier is going to explore a new genre, the disaster movie, with Melancholia, set to start shooting next summer.

7 days and 200 films from 56 countries! Come October 29th as the 11th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) gets underway Mumbai sure is going to be a melting pot of the very best of cinema from round the world. Organized by Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), the 11th edition of the festival is scheduled to take place from October 29 to November 5, 2009 in Mumbai, the film capital of India.

The inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF)announced today it will open with a special screening of director Mira Nair's“Amelia,”

South Korean cinema has attained some prominence in international film festivals largely though filmmakers like Kim Ki-duk and Lee Chang-dong (Oasis - 2002).

Greek film-maker Theo Angelopoulos will be presented the international lifetime achievement award in the closing ceremony of the 11th Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) on November 5, 2009. A retrospective of his films will be organized to salute the maestro. Considered one of the greatest living directors, Angelopoulos has won awards at all major International film festivals.