Italian film Salvo directed by Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza won both the major awards at 52nd Cannes Critics’ Week: the Grand Jury prize as well as the France 4 Visionary award. The Dismantlement (Le Démantèlement) by Sébastien Pilote (Canada) won the SACD award for Best Screenplay. German film Come and Play by Daria Belova [...]
Ritesh Batra’s Dabba (Lunchbox) won the Grand Rail d’Or award at the International Critics’ Week, a sidebar of the Cannes film festival. Since 1995, a group of rail worker film enthusiasts presents the Golden Rail awards to two films in Cannes Critics’ Week: Petit Rail d’Or for best short film and Grand Rail d’Or for [...]
Indian feature project “Wild Fire” by Bikas Ranjan Mishra* has been selected to receive the Hubert Bals Fund for script development from the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The fund selected 11 projects from nine countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Wild Fire was also selected for CINEMART, the international co production market of the [...]
Bombay Talkies, an omnibus film directed by Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap has received mixed reviews after its gala screening at Cannes. Screen International’s Tim Grierson writes, “A consistent charmer, the Indian omnibus Bombay Talkies is vibrant and colourful, that rare portmanteau film where the whole is more than the sum of [...]
Anurag Basu’s Barfi! is scheduled to release in Taiwan on May 24th and Hong Kong in September 2013. The film has also been invited for a special screening in the out of competition section of the upcoming Shanghai International Film Festival in June. Barfi! released in Turkey earlier this month. “I’m elated by the fantastic [...]
Producer-director Kiran Rao along with Disney UTV CEO Siddharth Roy Kapoor launched yesterday the new trailer of Anand Gandhi’s “Ship of Theseus”. The film is being released by UTV on July 19. “Ship of Theseus” had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival in 2012 under “City to City” program where Mumbai was in [...]
Actor Kabir Bedi and filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi inaugurated the fourth edition of KASHISH Mumbai international queer film festival. The festival will screen 132 films from 40 countries at Cinemax Versova in Andheri West between May 22-26, 2013 and at Alliance Française de Bombay from May 23-25, 2013. The members of the international jury panel for KASHISH [...]
India will be a partner country at the 36th Cairo International Film Festival. The festival will take place in November 2013 in the Egyptian capital. At the ongoing 66th Cannes Film Festival, the Vice President of Cairo International Film festival, Soheir Abd El Kader, called upon Indian Information and Broadcasting Secretary Uday Kumar Varma to [...]
Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise (Arunoday) starts principal photography on May 24, 2013 and will go on till July 10, 2013. The film will be shot in Mumbai and Goa. The film deals with the subject of child trafficking and abuse. The protagonist, Joshi, distressed by the disappearance of his little daughter, must chase an elusive figure [...]
Indo-Swiss director Kamal Musale has joined forces with Swiss production company Louise Productions for a new Black comedy set in India titled The Hermit. Mumbai and London based boutique studio, Flick the Switch is also associated with the project. Written and directed by Kumal Musale, The Hermit is a black comedy of human greed with [...]
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