Mumbai International Film Fest to open with Wajda's Oscar nominated Katyn news
10th International Film Festival of Mumbai will open next month with Polish master Andrej Wajda's latest film Katyn, that has been nominated for the academy awards in the best foreign film category.
Katyn was premiered at the recently concluded 58th edition of Berlin International film festival, Mumbai will witness the Asian premier of the film by 82 years old master. According to a source from the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image, the organizer of the festival, Wajda might attend the opening gala night screening of his film, if his health permits.
Katyn, is based on a painful chapter of Polish history that took place in the spring of 1940 when 22,000 Polish officers and members of the intelligentsia were brutally killed by the Soviets.
Katyn happens to be a special film for Wajda as his father also fell victim to the soviet brutality in the forest of Katyn.
Wajda's film chronicles the individual stories of officers. In a recent interview he said "the film is made up of selected scenes and dialogues gleaned from diaries, memories and the correspondence exchanged between the murdered officers and their wives."
10 Edition of Mumbai International Film Festival is beginning on March 6 at Adlabs Imax, Metro Adlabs, Fun Republic and PVR Juhu theatres in Mumbai.
