No Indian Film at Berlin'09! news
Berlin International Film festival announced its complete program today. No Indian film has made it to the selection this year. However, Indian sub continent will mark its presence through three films: “Kashmir: Road to Freedom“, an US-Israeli co production on the non violent freedom movement in Kashmir made by Udi Aloni, a Pakistani film in Punjabi “Chand Di Chummi” and an Israeli documentary on the search of incarnation of a Tibetan monk, “The Unmistaken Child”.
Pakistani director Khalid Gill’s debut film Chand Di Chummi (Kiss the moon, Punjabi) is the lone representative of the sub continent.
Unmistaken Child, a film in Nepalese, Hindi and Tibetan is a film made by an Israeli director which will be screened at the festival. The film that is shot over a period of four years that documents the search of reincarnation of Tibetan monk Lama Konchog, who passed away in 2001.
Indian director-choreographer Farah Khan will participate in a forum on the theme of luck and cinema, while Indian film critic Latika Padgaonkar (read her column at DearCinema) is a part of Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) jury.
The 59th edition of the festival will begin on February 5 and go on till 15th.
French filmmaker one of the founders of French New Wave Claude Chadbrol will be honored with Berlinale Camera 2009 at the festival.
