“B.A. Pass” wins audience award at South Asian Alternative Film Festival

Ajay Bahl’s B.A. Pass won the Audience Award at the maiden edition of the South Asian Alternative Film Festival (SAAFF) in France.

Ajay Bahl’s B.A. Pass won the Audience Award at the maiden edition of the South Asian Alternative Film Festival (SAAFF) in France.

Paris will host a new festival for South Asian films that will screen films from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Bikas Ranjan Mishra’s feature film project Wild Fire is one among the 32 selected projects at CineMart, International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) co-production market.

Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction will take part in Rotterdam Lab 2013, held alongside the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. Rotterdam Lab, in partnership with NFDC, selects one South Asian project presented at Film Bazaar so that it can follow up on previously made connections. The Fourth Direction (Hauthi Koot) will be Gurvinder Singh’s second [...]

Gurvinder Singh’s Punjabi film ‘Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan’ bagged Golden Peacock for the best film and a cash prize of Rs. 4 million (USD 73600) at the 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2012. The festival came to a close today with the screening of Mira Nair’s ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’. The IFFI this year [...]

Two of Mani Kaul’s films: Dhrupad and Siddheshwari will be presented at the Museum of the Modern Art (MoMA) in New York from August 24-26, 2012. “Kaul made about a dozen films, each one of them distinctive, original, and beautiful, and each touching upon an aspect of Indian daily life or culture,” as stated on MoMA’s website. [...]

National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) will release Anhey Ghorey Da Daan (Alms for the Blind Horse) directed by Gurvinder Singh on 10th August, 2012 in association with PVR Director’s Rare. Gurvinder Singh’s first feature film based on Punjabi novelist Gurdial Singh’s novel tries to bring to screen the effect that years of subordination can bring [...]

The Freer Gallery of The Smithsonian’s Museum of Asian Art in Washington DC will screen a new film series celebrating the diversity and artistic achievement of contemporary and classic Indian cinema. Films will be shown monthly through September. The first film in this series Anhey Ghorey Da Daan (Alms of the Blind Horse) will be [...]

Alms for a Blind Horse (Anhey Ghorey Da Daan) directed by Gurvinder Singh will be screened at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The film will be presented from August 22-28, 2012 as part of monthly exhibition ‘ContemporAsian’. “Based on a Punjabi novel, Singh’s debut feature follows a small-town family that gets [...]

French producer Catherine Dussart has come on board for Gurvinder Singh’s second project The Fourth Direction at the ongoing Paris Project at the Paris International Film Festival. Catherine Dussart Productions is known for films like September 11 (2002), A Matter of Taste (2000), Tycoon: A new Russian (2002) and The Wedding (2000). The project recently [...]
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