Film FestivalTIFF 2022 will run from September 8 to 18 without any of the restrictions of the last two years. Prior to the festival, notable works from Satyajit Ray and his contemporaries will be presented between August 4 and 27.Suresh NellikodeYouTube screenshotAfter a long patch of lockdowns and pandemic-inflicted restrictions, it’s time for Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) fans to get spoiled for choice. While the 47th edition of the film festival is two months away, the organisers have planned a wonderful line-up of events and TIFF looks poised for an opulent comeback this year. TIFF 2022 will run from September 8 to 18 without any of the restrictions that were in place in the previous two years. It’ll spring back to its previous normal with added surprises to make good for what was lost in the last couple of years. There were only 50 films in 2020 and 150 in 2021, with fewer in-person shows and more hybrid online shows.
- 7/3/2022
- by Vidya
- The News Minute
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSDesigned by Hartland Villa, the official poster for the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival features a still from Peter Weir and Andrew Niccol’s The Truman Show. The festival has also unveiled the lineup for its official selection, which features a hefty list of competitors for the Palme d'Or. Check out the full lineup here.Accompanying the official selection are the Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week lineups, which are not to be overlooked. Pietro Marcello's French-language debut Scarlet will be opening the Directors' Fortnight, while Yann Gonzalez and July Jung will be premiering new films at Critics' Week. Kelly Reichardt will be receiving an honorary Golden Leopard from this year's Locarno International Film Festival in celebration of her distinguished career, throughout which she's "[redesigned] the profile of genres, from western to thriller,...
- 4/20/2022
- MUBI
The cast and crew of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. (Photo by Kathrine Narducci.) Still on the search for holiday gifts? Our first-ever Notebook Gift Guide has got you covered with our pick of everything from coffee table books and career surveys to movie merch and prints. Books And Magazinesa number of books by filmmakers themselves, some new and some republished in beautiful new editions, offer an eye-opening perspective into the medium. This year marked the 50th anniversary of Jerry Lewis’ The Total Film-Maker, his classic 1971 book about the entire production process, from “script to post-production.” The book is based on over 480 hours of a lecture series delivered at USC Film School, and the newly released 50th anniversary edition also includes “all-new, never-before-seen photos of Jerry on set.” Marguerite Duras’ newly translated The Darkroom contains the script for her 1977 experimental film Le camion (The Truck), a dialogue between Duras and Michelle Porte,...
- 12/13/2021
- MUBI
The Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii) has given rise to a considerable number of terrific directors. Some of India’s greatest filmmakers such as Mani Kaul and Adoor Gopalakrishnan have come out of Ftii. The most credible representative of Indian arthouse cinema in the last decade, Amit Dutta, is also an Ftii product. Prantik Basu has had the same background, having studied film direction and screenplay writing at the institute. His short film “Sakhisona” (2016) won the Tiger Award for Short Film at the 2017 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Mogulmari is a typical village of Bengal. It has its own local folkloric stories, with belief in them fluctuating from person-to-person. A mound exists in the village and it is named after Sakhisona, a legendary figure of one of these folklores. However, the destiny of the village changes completely when archaeological experts dig through the mound to find...
Mogulmari is a typical village of Bengal. It has its own local folkloric stories, with belief in them fluctuating from person-to-person. A mound exists in the village and it is named after Sakhisona, a legendary figure of one of these folklores. However, the destiny of the village changes completely when archaeological experts dig through the mound to find...
- 3/30/2021
- by Raktim Nandi
- AsianMoviePulse
As we have seen repeatedly throughout the works of Indian director Amit Dutta, art can indeed come to life for the spectator. If you approach the creation with an open mind and the willingness to embrace the experience has to offer, there are simply no limits to the variety of connection it can offer. Considering the concept of the “museum of imagination”, a term which can be traced back to Indian art historian and critic B. N. Guswamy, who has been featured in Dutta’s work many times, a work of art can connect to our life, our experiences, knowledge and memories, paving the way to a rich tapestry of moments and images. In his 2005 short “Ka” Dutta explores ancient Indian paintings, showing folklorist depictions and themes of myths, and blends them together to tell the story of creation, of art and life in general.
Similar to his approach in...
Similar to his approach in...
- 2/17/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
When you look at a piece of art, it is a misconception when considering it an object which only tells the story of one particular moment. In fact, if you really delve deep into the image, the characters or the situation it shows, there is not telling of the kind of story (or stories it might tell you), especially when combined with other images or memories. In his short documentary “The Museum of Imagination” on the work of Indian art historian and critic B. N. Guswamy, director Amit Dutta already pointed out how far beyond the canvas the imagination can take you when you are truly invested in the art. Since the documentaries as well as the features he has made are in a way thematically and aesthetically interconnected, it was perhaps only a matter if time before Dutta would return to the concept of the “museum of imagination”, a...
- 2/16/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
An expedition – by definition – is linked to the idea of gaining knowledge or at least providing hints and clues to a field of study. Like with all these attempts to expand one’s view on the world, an expedition can also fail, lead nowhere and may result in a period in which you have to re-assess what you have already learned. At times, however, it can provide something different, a moment of clarity and richness, which comes unexpected and perhaps bears no connection to what you wanted to find out, but then again offers beauty instead. Given the nature of his body of work, Indian director Amit Dutta has been on many such journeys, if features like “The Museum of Imagination” or “Nainsukh” are an indication, and while finding an answer to a question may not have been in sight or required further study, the anthropological eye of Dutta’s...
- 2/7/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
When you begin the journey of making a feature, especially in documentary filmmaking, you may be, depending on the subject you are investigating, in for a surprise during the production, because often you may not arrive at the goal you wished for, but instead uncover something completely different. Perhaps the best documentary directors are those who embrace this quality about the process of researching and filming, who find the right balance between sticking to a schedule while also being open to whatever comes their way. Although there are many others who fulfill those criteria, Indian director Amit Dutta has repeatedly proven his awareness for these opportunities. At the same time, his body of work in essence demands this open mind from its viewer, which, in return, may open the door for quite an experience.
In 2008, Amit Dutta embarked on a journey to the native town of iconic Indian artist Jangarh Singh Shyam,...
In 2008, Amit Dutta embarked on a journey to the native town of iconic Indian artist Jangarh Singh Shyam,...
- 2/7/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Although it has been around for many centuries and was one of the highest arts of ancient Greek scholars, in recent years disciplines such as philosophy have come under attack due to their use for the modern man, or for that matter, the students of today. In his provoking essay “The Usefulness of the Useless” the author Nuccio Ordine, a professor for literature at the University of Calabria, states that especially today it has become increasingly challenging for some to understand the use of a poem, a piece of art, or for that matter, a philosophical argument when compared to the practicality of tools. However, while the point certainly has some value, the “usefulness” (for lack of a better word) in philosophy lies much deeper and cannot be defined directly, since most authors and scholars of the field go into much detail, analyzing hidden meanings and layers below the surface,...
- 2/5/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Perhaps it is the idea that taste and views are always subjective and can never be fully objective, not matter how hard we try, which makes the profession of the critic questionable in some people’s minds. In various media, from art to music to film, we often have cases when the opinions of the critics and the audience are very different, resulting in the question of what the actual task of a critic is, especially when he or she does not contribute or divert from what is considered mainstream or the view of the majority. While you might think the answer is obvious, it also leads to the concept of a critic as a whole, because being critical about a work of art is a skill everyone has, but when it comes to writing essays or reviews about it, we are talking about a profession with a certain academic background.
- 1/25/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe prolific Rhonda Fleming, a "movie star made for Technicolor" who shone in films like Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, and especially Allan Dwan's Slightly Scarlet and Tennessee's Partner, has died at 97. Recommended VIEWINGBarry Jenkins has released a "preamble" for his upcoming Amazon series The Underground Railroad, based on the novel by Colson Whitehead. The series follows two slaves who escape a Georgia plantation by following the Underground Railroad. The trailer for Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer's Apple TV+ documentary, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, which focuses on the impact of meteorites on our planet. Roni Moore and James Blagden's Midnight in Paris follows a group of teenagers in Flint, Michigan, during the lead-up to their senior prom. The film will have its online...
- 10/26/2020
- MUBI
2020 is the year of Indian filmmaker Amit Dutta, who is the subject of an on-going retrospective at Mubi and a new monograph written by Srikanth Srinivasan, Modernism By Other Means: The Films of Amit Dutta. Srinivasan and his publisher Lightcube have generously provided an excerpt of the chapter of the book devoted to the 2008 film Jangarh: Film One to supplement Mubi's series.On 6 July 2001, The Hindu carried a news story about the suicide of a resident Indian tribal artist, Jangarh Singh Shyam, in the Mithila Museum in Niigata, Japan. Born in the Gond village of Patangarh in Madhya Pradesh, Jangarh was part of the Pardhan subsect. Pardhans are traditionally minstrels and balladeers, but Jangarh could also dance, play instruments, and paint. "Discovered" at the age of 19, he migrated to the city of Bhopal to work at the Bharat Bhavan, a multi-disciplinary arts complex where he learned to handle synthetic paint.
- 10/15/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder. This year's Venice Film Festival has come to an end, and you can find the full list of award winners here. Following the success of Parasite, Neon will be bringing Bong Joon-ho's 2003 Memories of Murder to the big screen in the fall! Recommended VIEWINGThe official trailer for the 4K restoration of Wong Kar-wai's classic In the Mood For Love, which turns 20 this year. Ahmad Bahrani's The Wasteland, which won this year's Orizzonti Award for Best Film, follows a dozen workers in a brick factory amid its impending closing. Read Leonardo Goi's review of the film here. Another trailer from Venice: Lav Diaz's Genus Pan, which won the Orrizonti Award for Best Director. Read Michael Guarneri's review of the film here. A first look at Abel Ferrara's new documentary,...
- 9/16/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Al Pacino and Francis Ford Coppola on the set of The Godfather: Part III.A new edit and restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather: Part III will have a limited theatrical release in December. The film, entitled Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, includes a "a new beginning and ending."New inclusion requirements for the Oscars will take full effect in 2024, requiring films to meet standards for on-screen representation (in cast or theme) and creative leadership in order to be eligible for Best Picture. This year's lineup for the London Film Festival includes Ben Sharrock's Limbo (which will be distributed in the U.K. and Ireland by Mubi!). The Fondation Cartier will be presenting the world premiere of Artavazd Peleshian's first film in 27 years, La nature.
- 9/9/2020
- MUBI
Mubi's series The Inimitable Image: An Amit Dutta Retrospective is showing summer and autumn 2020 in India.Above: NainsukhBlinking is a matter of rhythm, and so is staring—rhythms perhaps more crucial to cinema than to any other medium. By withholding perspective, or by rendering it immobile, blinking and staring introduce duration to a cinematic frame, allowing the camera to grasp the very tactile rhythm of its own gaze and that of its object. Amit Dutta’s is a cinema that is built around such rhythms, around the purely ocular movement of the eye, where gazing is everything—it is the source of both meaning in the story and of truth, if there is one. The rhythm of his cinema alternates between rapid disturbances, like in the tilt of a head, and long stretches of stillness where a landscape, such as sloping mountain road, is introduced even before it is inhabited by characters.
- 8/11/2020
- MUBI
Nainsukh of Guler is now considered one of the most important miniature painters of 18th century India working in the Pahari school of painting. Born to a painter father and younger sibling to a painter brother, Nainsukh would leave his family workshop to go work at the court of Raja Balwant Singh of Jasrota, where he would make some of his best and most well-known works for his royal patron. Most of his surviving works are from his time at Jasrota and more often than not, feature Balwant Singh himself. It is therefore no wonder than Amit Dutta’s experimental biographical film, produced by German art historian Eberhard Fischer and the Museum Rietberg Zurich, where a number of Nainsukh paintings are housed, focuses on those years of Nainsukh’s life that he spent at Jasrota under the tutelage of its ruler.
A biography, by its very nature, reenacts scenes from...
A biography, by its very nature, reenacts scenes from...
- 7/28/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Nainsukh of Guler is now considered one of the most important miniature painters of 18th century India working in the Pahari school of painting. Born to a painter father and younger sibling to a painter brother, Nainsukh would leave his family workshop to go work at the court of Raja Balwant Singh of Jasrota, where he would make some of his best and most well-known works for his royal patron. Most of his surviving works are from his time at Jasrota and more often than not, feature Balwant Singh himself. It is therefore no wonder than Amit Dutta’s experimental biographical film, produced by German art historian Eberhard Fischer and the Museum Rietberg Zurich, where a number of Nainsukh paintings are housed, focuses on those years of Nainsukh’s life that he spent at Jasrota under the tutelage of its ruler.
A biography, by its very nature, reenacts scenes from...
A biography, by its very nature, reenacts scenes from...
- 7/28/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Leading Scandi outfit Nordisk Film has bought film rights to Matilda Voss Gustavsson’s acclaimed 2019 book The Club detailing sexual harassment and misconduct in a cultural institution with close ties to the renowned Swedish Academy. Maren Louise Käehne (Queen Of Hearts) will pen the script based on Gustavsson’s book. Matilda Appelin (Before The Frost) will produce. In 2017, Voss Gustavsson published an article in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyhete where 18 women detailed rape, threats and harassment centered around a prestigious club – the article brought down the Swedish Academy which had awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1901.
Mubi India has added more than 200 films to its library including titles in the Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali languages. The streamer has struck deals with local distributors including AP International, FilmKaravan, GoQuest, Matra Publications, Nfdc, Niv Arts, Shemaroo and Vista India for the movies. The additions include a collaboration with one of India’s most prolific directors,...
Mubi India has added more than 200 films to its library including titles in the Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali languages. The streamer has struck deals with local distributors including AP International, FilmKaravan, GoQuest, Matra Publications, Nfdc, Niv Arts, Shemaroo and Vista India for the movies. The additions include a collaboration with one of India’s most prolific directors,...
- 6/22/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
To attempt the simplest possible synopsis of Amit Dutta’s new film The Unknown Craftsman, let’s call it a rumination on first principles for spirit-attuned architecture. Fair enough, also, to say it enlarges the scope of Dutta’s work, if we allow the even more simplifying synopses of his previous features, 2010’s Nainsukh and 2013’s The Seventh Walk, as experimental biopics of Indian painters—famed practitioners, respectively, of 18th-century figuration and contemporary abstraction. Of course this all is grossly reductive, but it gets us closer to the big picture of Dutta’s specialty, the art of creative deliberation. Having surveyed the alluring series of Dutta films on view at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley last month, let’s also go ahead and describe the lot of them as dreamlike—not in the red-flag sense of willful inscrutability, but rather for their affinity with the concentrated ambiance of subconscious thought.
- 10/4/2017
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Recommended VIEWINGWes Anderson's latest experimentation in stop-motion, Isle of Dogs, gets its disturbing yet droll first trailer.Valentine, above, is a selection of intimate videos directed by Paul Thomas Anderson of Haim's live sessions of cuts from their latest album, Something to Tell You.We adore Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's most recent film, The Assassin, and highly anticipate this new restoration for his difficult to see 1987 film drama, Daughter of the Nile. Grasshopper Film has bravely made Jean-Marie Straub's 2-minute masterpiece The Algerian War! available for free on their website.Recommended Reading"I began thinking that Mothlight must begin with the unraveling of a cocoon and end with some simulation of candle flame or electric heat (as all moths whose wings were being used in the film had been collected from enclosed...
- 9/27/2017
- MUBI
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) kicks off its 16th annual Doc Fortnight on Thursday, a 10-day festival that includes 20 feature-length non-fiction films and 10 documentary shorts. This year’s lineup includes four world premieres and a number of North American and U.S. premieres.
Read More: 2017 New Directors/New Films Announces Full Lineup, Including ‘Patti Cake$,’ ‘Beach Rats,’ ‘Menashe’ and More
The festival is far from the only major North American showcase for non-fiction cinema. Festivals ranging from Hot Docs to True/False have played key roles in the expanding documentary festival circuit. However, Doc Fortnight has maintained its own niche on the scene, by aiming to expose undiscovered stories and filmmakers, screening a range of documentaries from around the world and capturing the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking.
“It’s not an industry festival, there aren’t awards, and distributors aren’t all coming looking to buy,...
Read More: 2017 New Directors/New Films Announces Full Lineup, Including ‘Patti Cake$,’ ‘Beach Rats,’ ‘Menashe’ and More
The festival is far from the only major North American showcase for non-fiction cinema. Festivals ranging from Hot Docs to True/False have played key roles in the expanding documentary festival circuit. However, Doc Fortnight has maintained its own niche on the scene, by aiming to expose undiscovered stories and filmmakers, screening a range of documentaries from around the world and capturing the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking.
“It’s not an industry festival, there aren’t awards, and distributors aren’t all coming looking to buy,...
- 2/15/2017
- by Chris O'Falt and Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The 2015 Berlin International Film Festival has announced the short films that will be screening at this year's festival, which runs from February 5-15. A notable inclusion in the lineup is the introduction of the U.S. genre "Mumblecore" to German audiences with Matt Porterfield's "Take What You Can Carry," which tells of a young woman who is a foreigner in Berlin and portrays Generation Y. This year's members of the International Short Film Jury are documentary filmmaker and curator Madhusree Dutta from India, Turkish artist Halil Altındere, and producer and festival director Wahyuni A. Hadi from Singapore. Screening in competition are the latest works of Nadav Lapid, Amit Dutta, Matt Porterfield, artist duos Daniel Schmidt & Alexander Carver, Mischa Leinkauf & Matthias Wermke in collaboration with Lutz Henke, Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovačič, among many others. The entire short film list is below: Berlinale Shorts 2015:"Architektura," Ulu...
- 1/13/2015
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
Includes short films from Nadav Lapid, Amit Dutta and Jennifer Reeder.Scroll down for full line-up
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) has unveiled its line-up of shorts, comprising 27 films from 18 countries.
The titles will compete for a Golden and a Silver Bear, as well as the nomination for best short film at the European Film Awards and the first-ever €20,000 Audio Short Film Award.
This year’s members of the International Short Film Jury are documentary filmmaker and curator Madhusree Dutta from India, Turkish artist Halil Altındere, and producer and festival director Wahyuni A. Hadi from Singapore.
Screening in competition are the latest works of Nadav Lapid, Amit Dutta, Jennifer Reeder, Matt Porterfield, artist duos Daniel Schmidt & Alexander Carver, Mischa Leinkauf & Matthias Wermke in collaboration with Lutz Henke, Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovačič, among others.
A special programme, titled The Golden Night of the Short Bears, with a selection of films from 60 years of shorts at the...
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) has unveiled its line-up of shorts, comprising 27 films from 18 countries.
The titles will compete for a Golden and a Silver Bear, as well as the nomination for best short film at the European Film Awards and the first-ever €20,000 Audio Short Film Award.
This year’s members of the International Short Film Jury are documentary filmmaker and curator Madhusree Dutta from India, Turkish artist Halil Altındere, and producer and festival director Wahyuni A. Hadi from Singapore.
Screening in competition are the latest works of Nadav Lapid, Amit Dutta, Jennifer Reeder, Matt Porterfield, artist duos Daniel Schmidt & Alexander Carver, Mischa Leinkauf & Matthias Wermke in collaboration with Lutz Henke, Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovačič, among others.
A special programme, titled The Golden Night of the Short Bears, with a selection of films from 60 years of shorts at the...
- 1/13/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paris-based producer Alexa Rivero will co-produce Amit Dutta’s The Invisible One through her newly-established production company Altamar Films.
Rivero worked as a line producer on Asghar Farhadi’s The Past and was also production manager on films such as Javier Fuentes-León’s Undertow (2009) and Mehdi Ben Attia’s The String (2009).
She will produce The Invisible One with Mumbai-based Anjali Panjabi, who executive produced Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar’s Good Morning Karachi and line produced Mira Nair’s segment in omnibus film Words With Gods.
The Invisible One received Hubert Bals funding for script and project development in 2012 and has been selected for this year’s Co-production Market at Film Bazaar. It tells the story of a young man who moves to the big city and is forced to rent a room built on top of a tree.
Rivero worked as a line producer on Asghar Farhadi’s The Past and was also production manager on films such as Javier Fuentes-León’s Undertow (2009) and Mehdi Ben Attia’s The String (2009).
She will produce The Invisible One with Mumbai-based Anjali Panjabi, who executive produced Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar’s Good Morning Karachi and line produced Mira Nair’s segment in omnibus film Words With Gods.
The Invisible One received Hubert Bals funding for script and project development in 2012 and has been selected for this year’s Co-production Market at Film Bazaar. It tells the story of a young man who moves to the big city and is forced to rent a room built on top of a tree.
- 11/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
Mumbai-based filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane’s debut feature film Court recently had a world premiere at the coveted Venice Film Festival. The film, that follows a court case in which a folk singer is tried for abetting the suicide of a manhole worker with his inflammatory song, has been acquired by Artscope, the art film label of Paris-based Memento Films.
Tamhane earlier made a short film Six Strands which screened at several film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, Slamdance, Edinburgh and Rotterdam.
Bikas Mishra talks to Chaitanya Tamhane about the journey of Court.
How did the journey of Court begin?
I had just finished my short film Six Strands and it was doing the festival rounds. That’s when the idea of Court came to me, in 2011. I’m not a big fan of genre films. But it struck me that I have seen these courtroom dramas which are so articulate and smooth.
Tamhane earlier made a short film Six Strands which screened at several film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, Slamdance, Edinburgh and Rotterdam.
Bikas Mishra talks to Chaitanya Tamhane about the journey of Court.
How did the journey of Court begin?
I had just finished my short film Six Strands and it was doing the festival rounds. That’s when the idea of Court came to me, in 2011. I’m not a big fan of genre films. But it struck me that I have seen these courtroom dramas which are so articulate and smooth.
- 9/6/2014
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
What:
Fd Zone Mumbai screening of Amit Dutta’s Nainsukh
When:
19th July 2014, 4 pm
Where:
Rr II Theater
6th floor
Phase II Building
Films Division
Pedder Road
Mumbai
Entry:
Free. Seating on first-come, first-served basis
About the event:
Curator’s note: Amit Dutta’s film, Nainsukh, seeks the continuity between film and painting. He states in one interview that film cannot be merely the tool to document painting and other arts. His attempt has always been to engage with an artist’s work through the language of cinema.
In Nainsukh, the director tries to imagine the paintings as the location for the unfolding of the painter’s life. Shot in the sites where the painter lived and worked, Amit Dutta masterfully recreates the painter’s compositions using the tools of cinema- light, sound, actors, space moving through time. There is a meditative quality to the manner in which the filmmaker...
Fd Zone Mumbai screening of Amit Dutta’s Nainsukh
When:
19th July 2014, 4 pm
Where:
Rr II Theater
6th floor
Phase II Building
Films Division
Pedder Road
Mumbai
Entry:
Free. Seating on first-come, first-served basis
About the event:
Curator’s note: Amit Dutta’s film, Nainsukh, seeks the continuity between film and painting. He states in one interview that film cannot be merely the tool to document painting and other arts. His attempt has always been to engage with an artist’s work through the language of cinema.
In Nainsukh, the director tries to imagine the paintings as the location for the unfolding of the painter’s life. Shot in the sites where the painter lived and worked, Amit Dutta masterfully recreates the painter’s compositions using the tools of cinema- light, sound, actors, space moving through time. There is a meditative quality to the manner in which the filmmaker...
- 7/15/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 9th Rome Film Festival, to be held from October 16-25, is calling for entries.
The festival will only consider feature length films as submissions. All submitted films must be recent productions completed not prior to 1st December 2013. They must not have been presented in any other format or length, not even as works-in-progress, for submission to previous editions of the Festival. With the exception of Out of Competition films, films that have had prior public screenings, have participated in other international festivals or are available on the Internet, cannnot be presented at the Rome Film Festival.
Entries are open in the following categories: New International Cinema (A selection of a maximum of 14 feature films of young or already successful directors, priority to world premieres); Gala (A selection of some of the year’s most important films, for a maximum of 11 titles. Only feature films that are world premieres, international...
The festival will only consider feature length films as submissions. All submitted films must be recent productions completed not prior to 1st December 2013. They must not have been presented in any other format or length, not even as works-in-progress, for submission to previous editions of the Festival. With the exception of Out of Competition films, films that have had prior public screenings, have participated in other international festivals or are available on the Internet, cannnot be presented at the Rome Film Festival.
Entries are open in the following categories: New International Cinema (A selection of a maximum of 14 feature films of young or already successful directors, priority to world premieres); Gala (A selection of some of the year’s most important films, for a maximum of 11 titles. Only feature films that are world premieres, international...
- 7/2/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from The Seventh Walk
Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk has been selected for a screening at the 57th edition of San Francisco International Film Festival to be held from April 24-May 8, 2014.
Dutta’s 70 minute long feature documentary is about an Indian abstract painter Paramjit Singh’s landscape paintings of the Kangra Valley that ‘open a free play of imagination, evoking diverse Eastern and Western, classical and folk associations, from Sanskrit poet Kalidasa and local myths and legends to haiku and Alice in Wonderland’.
The film was recently screened at the Documentary Fortnight 2014: International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media organized by MoMA. The Seventh Walk was also screened as the closing film of the CinemaXXI section at Rome Film Festival last year.
Another Amit Dutta film, Nainsukh, had been screened at San Francisco International Film Festival in 2011. The festival will play 168 films and shorts from 56 countries in its 2014 edition.
Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk has been selected for a screening at the 57th edition of San Francisco International Film Festival to be held from April 24-May 8, 2014.
Dutta’s 70 minute long feature documentary is about an Indian abstract painter Paramjit Singh’s landscape paintings of the Kangra Valley that ‘open a free play of imagination, evoking diverse Eastern and Western, classical and folk associations, from Sanskrit poet Kalidasa and local myths and legends to haiku and Alice in Wonderland’.
The film was recently screened at the Documentary Fortnight 2014: International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media organized by MoMA. The Seventh Walk was also screened as the closing film of the CinemaXXI section at Rome Film Festival last year.
Another Amit Dutta film, Nainsukh, had been screened at San Francisco International Film Festival in 2011. The festival will play 168 films and shorts from 56 countries in its 2014 edition.
- 4/4/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Two Indian films have been selected in the International Competition section of the 60th Short Film Festival Oberhausen, to be held from May 1-6, 2014.
Veteran filmmaker Amit Dutta returns to Oberhausen (his film Museum of Imagination was presented last year) with a 22-minute film Field trip. The film, about an art historian who revisits the sources of historical and cultural information after a long lapse of time, had its world premiere at the Documentary Fortnight 2014: International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media organized by MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art) on February 19.
A summer Flu by Priyanka Chhabra will also be screened at the festival. The 17-minute experimental film has been screened at Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films (Miff) and International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (Idsffk) earlier.
The International Competition of Oberhausen will feature 61 films from 35 countries, selected from 3,567 submissions. International...
Veteran filmmaker Amit Dutta returns to Oberhausen (his film Museum of Imagination was presented last year) with a 22-minute film Field trip. The film, about an art historian who revisits the sources of historical and cultural information after a long lapse of time, had its world premiere at the Documentary Fortnight 2014: International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media organized by MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art) on February 19.
A summer Flu by Priyanka Chhabra will also be screened at the festival. The 17-minute experimental film has been screened at Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films (Miff) and International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (Idsffk) earlier.
The International Competition of Oberhausen will feature 61 films from 35 countries, selected from 3,567 submissions. International...
- 3/20/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from The Seventh Walk
Two films directed by Amit Dutta, Field-trip (22 min.) and The Seventh Walk (70 min.), will be screened at the Documentary Fortnight 2014: International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media organized by MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art).
Documentary Fortnight, that will go on till February 28 in New York, will screen 20 feature films, 10 shorts, two classics, and one installation, from more than 20 countries.
A 22 minute film about an art historian who revisits the sources of historical and cultural information after a long lapse of time, Field-trip will have its world premiere at the festival on February 19.
The Seventh Walk, a 70 minute feature, about an Indian abstract painter Paramjit Singh’s landscape paintings of the Kangra Valley that open a free play of imagination, evoking diverse Eastern and Western, classical and folk associations, from Sanskrit poet Kalidasa and local myths and legends to haiku and Alice in Wonderland,...
Two films directed by Amit Dutta, Field-trip (22 min.) and The Seventh Walk (70 min.), will be screened at the Documentary Fortnight 2014: International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media organized by MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art).
Documentary Fortnight, that will go on till February 28 in New York, will screen 20 feature films, 10 shorts, two classics, and one installation, from more than 20 countries.
A 22 minute film about an art historian who revisits the sources of historical and cultural information after a long lapse of time, Field-trip will have its world premiere at the festival on February 19.
The Seventh Walk, a 70 minute feature, about an Indian abstract painter Paramjit Singh’s landscape paintings of the Kangra Valley that open a free play of imagination, evoking diverse Eastern and Western, classical and folk associations, from Sanskrit poet Kalidasa and local myths and legends to haiku and Alice in Wonderland,...
- 2/17/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Pushpendra Singh’s debut feature Lajwanti (The Honour Keeper), based on the story by late Rajasthani author Vijaydan Detha, will have its world premiere in the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival on February 10. The actor-turned-director talks to DearCinema about the journey of Lajwanti:
Lajwanti premieres at Berlinale Forum
You are an Ftii trained actor. You have worked as an actor for Amit Dutta (Aadmi Ki Aurat aur Anya Kahaniya) and later assisted him (Nainsukh) and Anup Singh (Qissa) in their films. What led to this transition?
I think it was natural. An actor is constantly directing himself by giving choices while preparing for a role. Acting in films never happens in isolation. An actor has to be aware about how the camera is relating to him, how the shot is going to be edited or whether his tone is on the right note or not. I...
Lajwanti premieres at Berlinale Forum
You are an Ftii trained actor. You have worked as an actor for Amit Dutta (Aadmi Ki Aurat aur Anya Kahaniya) and later assisted him (Nainsukh) and Anup Singh (Qissa) in their films. What led to this transition?
I think it was natural. An actor is constantly directing himself by giving choices while preparing for a role. Acting in films never happens in isolation. An actor has to be aware about how the camera is relating to him, how the shot is going to be edited or whether his tone is on the right note or not. I...
- 2/8/2014
- by Sagorika Singha
- DearCinema.com
Below you will find our total coverage of the 2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam by our two attending critics, including reports on films by Tiger competitors, Aleksei German, Takashi Miike, the best of the festival's experimental short films, and retrospectives on German director Heinz Emigholz and Danish director Nils Malmros.
By Daniel Kasman
Festival Hold 'Em
On Charlotte Pryce's A Study in Natural Magic, Shiloh Cinquemani's Blue, Esther Urlus's Konrad & Kurfurst, Tomonari Nishikawa's 45 7 Broadway, Takashi Miike's The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Projectile Bombardment
On Aleksei German's Hard to Be a God, Heinz Emigholz's D'Annunzio's Cave (2005), Richard Touhy's Dot Matrix, Esther Urlus's Chrome, Makino Takashi and Telcosystems' Deorbit, Tine Frank's Colterrain, Jodie Back's Let Your Light Shine
Deep Breaths
On the retrospective on German documentarian Heinz Emigholz, including films Sullivan's Banks (2000), Maillart's Bridges (2001), Goff in the Desert (2003), Parabeton - Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete (2012), Two Museums,...
By Daniel Kasman
Festival Hold 'Em
On Charlotte Pryce's A Study in Natural Magic, Shiloh Cinquemani's Blue, Esther Urlus's Konrad & Kurfurst, Tomonari Nishikawa's 45 7 Broadway, Takashi Miike's The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Projectile Bombardment
On Aleksei German's Hard to Be a God, Heinz Emigholz's D'Annunzio's Cave (2005), Richard Touhy's Dot Matrix, Esther Urlus's Chrome, Makino Takashi and Telcosystems' Deorbit, Tine Frank's Colterrain, Jodie Back's Let Your Light Shine
Deep Breaths
On the retrospective on German documentarian Heinz Emigholz, including films Sullivan's Banks (2000), Maillart's Bridges (2001), Goff in the Desert (2003), Parabeton - Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete (2012), Two Museums,...
- 2/4/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Above: Nils Malmros
I find myself feeling with great and greater certainty that being a cinephile, or living a cinephiliac life, necessitates a far greater life lesson than one restricted to the movies: Your journey will never be complete. A step taken towards more knowledge, more experience, only and always leads to the awareness of further, farther steps that multiply exponentially from those ones you choose. If on the most simple level, I attend an event like the International Film Festival Rotterdam in order to discover more, to encompass and comprehend a greater amount of cinema, what such a trip does instead of “closing the books”—this film seen, that filmography completed, this trend identified, that era or genre or whathaveyou familiarized—in fact is to open up the vast world even more. What one thought of as a narrowing tunnel turns out to be a fractal-branching tree, or, even worse,...
I find myself feeling with great and greater certainty that being a cinephile, or living a cinephiliac life, necessitates a far greater life lesson than one restricted to the movies: Your journey will never be complete. A step taken towards more knowledge, more experience, only and always leads to the awareness of further, farther steps that multiply exponentially from those ones you choose. If on the most simple level, I attend an event like the International Film Festival Rotterdam in order to discover more, to encompass and comprehend a greater amount of cinema, what such a trip does instead of “closing the books”—this film seen, that filmography completed, this trend identified, that era or genre or whathaveyou familiarized—in fact is to open up the vast world even more. What one thought of as a narrowing tunnel turns out to be a fractal-branching tree, or, even worse,...
- 2/3/2014
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Above: Two Museums
After war comes peace. It isn't all cinematic onslaught found in the festival's shelter from constantly surprising drizzle. There is a sweet serenity to be found at Rotterdam, if you know where to go looking, or if you are lucky enough to stumble into the darkness and discover it.
Certainly the retrospective on Heinz Emigholz is a continued source of tranquil power—excepting for the moment the horrors of D'Annunzio's Cave and the abbrasive modernist of his lone fiction film here, The Holy Bunch (1991). His curious gaze, absolutely synonymous with that of the camera and thus while cooly analytic, also absolutely personal, investigates modern architecture with a fleet-footed patience that is remarkable to behold.
In such films as Sullivan's Banks (2000), on American architect Louis H. Sullivan's stalwartly solid, guardedly precious Midwestern, early 20th century banks, and Two Museums, a new premiere discovering, among many other things, the...
After war comes peace. It isn't all cinematic onslaught found in the festival's shelter from constantly surprising drizzle. There is a sweet serenity to be found at Rotterdam, if you know where to go looking, or if you are lucky enough to stumble into the darkness and discover it.
Certainly the retrospective on Heinz Emigholz is a continued source of tranquil power—excepting for the moment the horrors of D'Annunzio's Cave and the abbrasive modernist of his lone fiction film here, The Holy Bunch (1991). His curious gaze, absolutely synonymous with that of the camera and thus while cooly analytic, also absolutely personal, investigates modern architecture with a fleet-footed patience that is remarkable to behold.
In such films as Sullivan's Banks (2000), on American architect Louis H. Sullivan's stalwartly solid, guardedly precious Midwestern, early 20th century banks, and Two Museums, a new premiere discovering, among many other things, the...
- 1/31/2014
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Lajwanti (The Honour Keeper) directed by Pushpendra Singh has been selected for the 44th edition of the Berlinale Forum, a section of the Berlin International Film Festival that showcases independent, artistic filmmaking with a disregard for convention. Berlinale Forum will screen twenty-eight world and eight international premieres this year.
Lajwanti was part of Market Recommendations at Nfdc Film Bazaar last year. Based on a folk tale set in the Thar desert by Rajasthani writer Vijaydan Detha, the film explores the inner struggles of a married woman to honour a dream and in that search find the higher meaning of love and freedom.
A trained actor from the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii), Pushpendra Singh has acted in films like Amit Dutta’s Aadmi ki aurat aur anya kahaniya and Nainsukh. He has also assisted Dutta in Nainsukh and The Seventh Walk. Lajwanti marks his feature debut after recently assisting Anup Singh on Qissa.
Lajwanti was part of Market Recommendations at Nfdc Film Bazaar last year. Based on a folk tale set in the Thar desert by Rajasthani writer Vijaydan Detha, the film explores the inner struggles of a married woman to honour a dream and in that search find the higher meaning of love and freedom.
A trained actor from the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii), Pushpendra Singh has acted in films like Amit Dutta’s Aadmi ki aurat aur anya kahaniya and Nainsukh. He has also assisted Dutta in Nainsukh and The Seventh Walk. Lajwanti marks his feature debut after recently assisting Anup Singh on Qissa.
- 1/16/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
F inally, rounding up the year that has gone by, here goes our list of Top 10 Short Films of 2013 based on festival selections and popularity:
A still from Kush
Kush by Shubhashish Bhutiani
One of the long-listed live action shorts at the 86th Academy Awards, Shubhashish Bhutiani’s Kush, set during the 1984 riots post the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, is a tale of a class of ten year olds and a teacher who takes up the task of protecting the only Sikh boy on the school bus. Bhutiani’s diploma film at the School of Visual Arts, New York, won the Orizzonti award for Best Short Film at the prestigious Venice Film Festival as well as the Grand Jury prize at the South Asian International Film Festival (Saiff).
Read Shubhashish Bhutiani’s interview
Love.Love.Love by Sandhya Daisy Sundaram
Ftii student Sandhya Daisy Sundaram, under the Cinetrain project,...
A still from Kush
Kush by Shubhashish Bhutiani
One of the long-listed live action shorts at the 86th Academy Awards, Shubhashish Bhutiani’s Kush, set during the 1984 riots post the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, is a tale of a class of ten year olds and a teacher who takes up the task of protecting the only Sikh boy on the school bus. Bhutiani’s diploma film at the School of Visual Arts, New York, won the Orizzonti award for Best Short Film at the prestigious Venice Film Festival as well as the Grand Jury prize at the South Asian International Film Festival (Saiff).
Read Shubhashish Bhutiani’s interview
Love.Love.Love by Sandhya Daisy Sundaram
Ftii student Sandhya Daisy Sundaram, under the Cinetrain project,...
- 1/6/2014
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Qissa, directed by Anup Singh, will open the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam on January 22, 2014. It has been chosen as the opening film to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) of the festival.
To date, the Fund has supported more than a thousand film projects worldwide, including Qissa which received the Hubert Bals Fund for Script & Project Development in 2004. The film was made with further support from the Netherlands Film Fund and was co-produced by Dutch company Augustus Film.
Mart Dominicus, artistic director of International Film Festival Rotterdam, said: ’Although the film is set in 1947, during a turbulent period in Indian history, the kernel of the story is extremely recognisable and contemporary. The father’s passionate desire for a male heir causes deep suffering within the community. Qissa is a poignant, universal story of ordinary people, more tragic than moralising. In spite of its rich – often exuberant – narrative style,...
To date, the Fund has supported more than a thousand film projects worldwide, including Qissa which received the Hubert Bals Fund for Script & Project Development in 2004. The film was made with further support from the Netherlands Film Fund and was co-produced by Dutch company Augustus Film.
Mart Dominicus, artistic director of International Film Festival Rotterdam, said: ’Although the film is set in 1947, during a turbulent period in Indian history, the kernel of the story is extremely recognisable and contemporary. The father’s passionate desire for a male heir causes deep suffering within the community. Qissa is a poignant, universal story of ordinary people, more tragic than moralising. In spite of its rich – often exuberant – narrative style,...
- 1/3/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Kamal Swaroop
A new project by Indian director Kamal Swaroop (Om-Dar-Ba-Dar) titled “Omniyam”, a mystical journey into contemporary hell, will be presented at the New Cinema Network (Ncn). Ncn is the International Project Workshop of the Rome Film Festival to be held from November 13-17, 2013.
“Ncn is proud to present the new project by the cult Indian director Kamal Swaroop, whose film Om-Dar-Ba-Dar is considered a milestone of the local Nouvelle Vague,” mentioned an official press release of the festival.
This year Ncn will present a roster of 24 projects selected from around the world.
Besides, Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi, produced by Films Division, is in competition in the CinemaXXI section of the festival. The film is based on the autobiographical play written by Dadasaheb Phalke, considered as the father of Indian cinema, titled Rangbhoomi.
Also read: Ashim Ahluwalia on Rome CinemaXXI Jury
Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk to close...
A new project by Indian director Kamal Swaroop (Om-Dar-Ba-Dar) titled “Omniyam”, a mystical journey into contemporary hell, will be presented at the New Cinema Network (Ncn). Ncn is the International Project Workshop of the Rome Film Festival to be held from November 13-17, 2013.
“Ncn is proud to present the new project by the cult Indian director Kamal Swaroop, whose film Om-Dar-Ba-Dar is considered a milestone of the local Nouvelle Vague,” mentioned an official press release of the festival.
This year Ncn will present a roster of 24 projects selected from around the world.
Besides, Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi, produced by Films Division, is in competition in the CinemaXXI section of the festival. The film is based on the autobiographical play written by Dadasaheb Phalke, considered as the father of Indian cinema, titled Rangbhoomi.
Also read: Ashim Ahluwalia on Rome CinemaXXI Jury
Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk to close...
- 11/6/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Ashim Ahluwalia
Ashim Ahluwalia will sit on the Jury of the CinemaXXI section of the Rome Film Festival to be held from November 8 to 17, 2013.
The Jury, chaired by American director and artist Larry Clark, is composed of Ashim Ahluwalia (India), Yuri Ancarani (Italy), Laila Pakalnina (Latvia) and Michael Wahrmann (Uruguay).
On the occasion of the 100 Years of Indian Cinema, a restored version of Kamal Swaroop’s 1988 cult classic Om Dar Ba Dar will be screened out of competition in CinemaXXI.
Two Indian films are in competition in the CinemaXXI section: Prantik Basu’s Makara and Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi.
The Seventh Walk (Saatvin Sair) by Amit Dutta will be the closing film of CinemaXXI.
CinemaXXI is the Rome Film Festival competitive section devoted to new trends in world cinema and focuses on works that reflect the continuous reinvention of cinema in the contemporary audiovisual landscape. CinemaXXI hosts feature-length, medium-length, and short films.
Ashim Ahluwalia will sit on the Jury of the CinemaXXI section of the Rome Film Festival to be held from November 8 to 17, 2013.
The Jury, chaired by American director and artist Larry Clark, is composed of Ashim Ahluwalia (India), Yuri Ancarani (Italy), Laila Pakalnina (Latvia) and Michael Wahrmann (Uruguay).
On the occasion of the 100 Years of Indian Cinema, a restored version of Kamal Swaroop’s 1988 cult classic Om Dar Ba Dar will be screened out of competition in CinemaXXI.
Two Indian films are in competition in the CinemaXXI section: Prantik Basu’s Makara and Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi.
The Seventh Walk (Saatvin Sair) by Amit Dutta will be the closing film of CinemaXXI.
CinemaXXI is the Rome Film Festival competitive section devoted to new trends in world cinema and focuses on works that reflect the continuous reinvention of cinema in the contemporary audiovisual landscape. CinemaXXI hosts feature-length, medium-length, and short films.
- 10/24/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from The Seventh Walk
The Seventh Walk (Saatvin Sair) by Amit Dutta will be the closing film of CinemaXXI, the programme section of the Rome Film Festival dedicated to new trends in international cinema. The festival will be held from November 8-17, 2013.
The latest film by the Indian director, who has won many awards at major international film festivals and is considered one of the most innovative authors in experimental cinema, will be screened Out of Competition on November 16th at the Maxxi – National Museum of Xxi Century Arts.
In Saatvin Sair, Dutta continues to explore the relationship between film, painting and music.
The 70-minute film is set in Kangra valley and is inspired by the works of a contemporary Indian artist who paints abstract landscapes, giving free rein to the imagination, as is customary in the modern Western tradition (oil on canvas). In the film, wandering through...
The Seventh Walk (Saatvin Sair) by Amit Dutta will be the closing film of CinemaXXI, the programme section of the Rome Film Festival dedicated to new trends in international cinema. The festival will be held from November 8-17, 2013.
The latest film by the Indian director, who has won many awards at major international film festivals and is considered one of the most innovative authors in experimental cinema, will be screened Out of Competition on November 16th at the Maxxi – National Museum of Xxi Century Arts.
In Saatvin Sair, Dutta continues to explore the relationship between film, painting and music.
The 70-minute film is set in Kangra valley and is inspired by the works of a contemporary Indian artist who paints abstract landscapes, giving free rein to the imagination, as is customary in the modern Western tradition (oil on canvas). In the film, wandering through...
- 10/19/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Benny Chan’s The White Storm to close Rome Film Festival; Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk to close CinemaXXI strand.
The White Storm (Sou Duk /Saodu) by Benny Chan is to close the 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17).
The new film by the Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter will be presented Out of Competition in its world premiere screening.
The story revolves around an operation against a notorious druglord in Thailand and its impact on three members of a Hong Kong narcotic team. Several years later, a crime brings the trio back together for a final face-off.
It stars Sean Lau as an ambitious narcotics police chief inspector, Nick Cheung as his loyal subordinate and Louis Koo as an undercover cop.
The Seventh Walk (Saatvin Sair) by Amit Dutta will be the closing film of CinemaXXI, the strand dedicated to new trends in international cinema. The latest film by the Indian director will be screened...
The White Storm (Sou Duk /Saodu) by Benny Chan is to close the 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17).
The new film by the Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter will be presented Out of Competition in its world premiere screening.
The story revolves around an operation against a notorious druglord in Thailand and its impact on three members of a Hong Kong narcotic team. Several years later, a crime brings the trio back together for a final face-off.
It stars Sean Lau as an ambitious narcotics police chief inspector, Nick Cheung as his loyal subordinate and Louis Koo as an undercover cop.
The Seventh Walk (Saatvin Sair) by Amit Dutta will be the closing film of CinemaXXI, the strand dedicated to new trends in international cinema. The latest film by the Indian director will be screened...
- 10/18/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Rangbhoomi by Kamal Swaroop and The Seventh Walk (Saatvin Sair) by Amit Dutta have been selected in the CinemaXXI section of the Rome Film Festival 2013. The festival will take place from November 8 to 17, 2013.
The CinemaXXI section, dedicated to new trends in world cinema, will feature 16 Feature-length films, 6 Medium-length films and 13 Short films. The complete line-up of CinemaXXI will be announced on October 23, 2013. A preview of the section was announced on October 14.
Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi, produced by Films Division, is in competition in the CinemaXXI section of the festival. The film is based on the autobiographical play written by Dadasaheb Phalke, considered as the father of Indian cinema, titled Rangbhoomi.
Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk will play as the closing film of CinemaXXI Section, out of competition.
An International Jury, chaired by American director and artist Larry Clark, will give the following awards: – CinemaXXI Award (reserved for feature-length...
The CinemaXXI section, dedicated to new trends in world cinema, will feature 16 Feature-length films, 6 Medium-length films and 13 Short films. The complete line-up of CinemaXXI will be announced on October 23, 2013. A preview of the section was announced on October 14.
Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi, produced by Films Division, is in competition in the CinemaXXI section of the festival. The film is based on the autobiographical play written by Dadasaheb Phalke, considered as the father of Indian cinema, titled Rangbhoomi.
Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk will play as the closing film of CinemaXXI Section, out of competition.
An International Jury, chaired by American director and artist Larry Clark, will give the following awards: – CinemaXXI Award (reserved for feature-length...
- 10/15/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Shubhashish Bhutiani at Venice Film Festival
S hubhashish Bhutiani has every reason to celebrate. His diploma film at the School of Visual Arts in New York won the Orizzonti award for Best Short Film at the prestigious Venice Film Festival this year. It was the only film to represent India besides Venice veterans Amit Dutta and Shekhar Kapoor who were invited to make a 1-minute short film on the festival’s 70th anniversary.
Bhutiani talks to DearCinema about his film Kush.
What is Kush about?
Kush is inspired by a true story. In 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards, causing anti-Sikh riots to erupt throughout the country. A teacher travelling back from a field trip with her class of 10-year-old students struggles to protect Kush, the only Sikh student in the class, from the growing violence around him.
What inspired you to make a...
S hubhashish Bhutiani has every reason to celebrate. His diploma film at the School of Visual Arts in New York won the Orizzonti award for Best Short Film at the prestigious Venice Film Festival this year. It was the only film to represent India besides Venice veterans Amit Dutta and Shekhar Kapoor who were invited to make a 1-minute short film on the festival’s 70th anniversary.
Bhutiani talks to DearCinema about his film Kush.
What is Kush about?
Kush is inspired by a true story. In 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards, causing anti-Sikh riots to erupt throughout the country. A teacher travelling back from a field trip with her class of 10-year-old students struggles to protect Kush, the only Sikh student in the class, from the growing violence around him.
What inspired you to make a...
- 9/30/2013
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
The 8th Rome Film Festival is now calling for entries. The festival will be held from November 8 – 17, 2013. Only films that will be world premieres at the festival will be considered for selection.
The Official Selection will present two competitive sections for International films:
1) International Competition (16 films, presented as world premieres)
2) CinemaXXI (21st-century Cinema, a selection of films devoted to new trends in world cinema, which will welcome feature-length and short films presented as world premieres)
And a choice of Out of Competition screenings (a maximum of 12 titles, presented as world, international and European premieres).
The festival will give out more than 12 awards for World Cinema. Films will also be offered the possibility to participate in The Business Street (November 13-17), Rome Film Festival program dedicated to the circulation, acquisition and sale of audiovisual products.
Last year, Tasher Desh by Q and The Museum of Imagination by Amit Dutta were the...
The Official Selection will present two competitive sections for International films:
1) International Competition (16 films, presented as world premieres)
2) CinemaXXI (21st-century Cinema, a selection of films devoted to new trends in world cinema, which will welcome feature-length and short films presented as world premieres)
And a choice of Out of Competition screenings (a maximum of 12 titles, presented as world, international and European premieres).
The festival will give out more than 12 awards for World Cinema. Films will also be offered the possibility to participate in The Business Street (November 13-17), Rome Film Festival program dedicated to the circulation, acquisition and sale of audiovisual products.
Last year, Tasher Desh by Q and The Museum of Imagination by Amit Dutta were the...
- 7/3/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A Retrospective of Experimental Indian cinema and video titled “Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913- 2013)” will be held at Films Division from June 28-30, 2013. Curators Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar share with us the thought behind putting together the Retrospective:
Curatorial Concept
A still from “Raja Harishchandra”
T his retrospective is a celebration of the spirit of experimentation in Indian cinema; from the moment of its mythic birth in 1913, with Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, to the innovative and challenging moving images produced and exhibited today. The films brought together chart the transformation of experimentation, from early celluloid spectacle to contemporary digital adroitness. The curatorial impetus of this retrospective is marked by an emphasis on tracing the chronology of experimentation through the history of Indian cinema. It halts at pit stops of radical moments of experimentation and underscores it.
The idea of ‘experimentation’ rather than the experimental or avant-garde drives the...
Curatorial Concept
A still from “Raja Harishchandra”
T his retrospective is a celebration of the spirit of experimentation in Indian cinema; from the moment of its mythic birth in 1913, with Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, to the innovative and challenging moving images produced and exhibited today. The films brought together chart the transformation of experimentation, from early celluloid spectacle to contemporary digital adroitness. The curatorial impetus of this retrospective is marked by an emphasis on tracing the chronology of experimentation through the history of Indian cinema. It halts at pit stops of radical moments of experimentation and underscores it.
The idea of ‘experimentation’ rather than the experimental or avant-garde drives the...
- 6/26/2013
- by Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar
- DearCinema.com
A still from Phalke’s “Kaliya Mardan”
Films Division is hosting a Retrospective of Experimental Indian cinema and video titled “Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913- 2013)” from June 28-30, 2013.
The Retrospective has been curated by Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar.
Screening Schedule
Venue:
Rr Theatre, 10th floor, Films Division
24, Pedder Road, Mumbai – 400026
Day One
28 June, 2013, Friday
28 June, 2013, Friday: 10.00-12.30 pm
Session 1: Experiments with Gods
A collection of early films made by D.B. Phalke between 1913 and 1935.
1. Raja Harishchandra (20 mins, 35mm, 1913)
2. Lanka Dahan (9 mins, 35mm, 1917)
3. Shree Krishna Janma (6 mins, 35mm, 1918)
4. Kaliya Mardan (50 mins, 35mm, 1919)
28 June, 2013, Friday: 1.15- 3.45 pm
Session 2: Experiment in the State
The earliest robust experimentation in India begins under the imaginative tutelage of Jean Bhownagary while he headed the Films Division in 1965.
1. Explorer – Pramod Pati (7 mins, 35mm, 1968)
2. Claxplosion – Pramod Pati (2 mins, 35mm, 1968)
3. Trip – Pramod Pati (4 mins, 35mm, 1970)
4. Koodal – Tyeb Mehta (16 mins, 35mm, 1970)
5. Abid – Pramod Pati (5 mins, 35mm,...
Films Division is hosting a Retrospective of Experimental Indian cinema and video titled “Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913- 2013)” from June 28-30, 2013.
The Retrospective has been curated by Ashish Avikunthak and Pankaj Rishi Kumar.
Screening Schedule
Venue:
Rr Theatre, 10th floor, Films Division
24, Pedder Road, Mumbai – 400026
Day One
28 June, 2013, Friday
28 June, 2013, Friday: 10.00-12.30 pm
Session 1: Experiments with Gods
A collection of early films made by D.B. Phalke between 1913 and 1935.
1. Raja Harishchandra (20 mins, 35mm, 1913)
2. Lanka Dahan (9 mins, 35mm, 1917)
3. Shree Krishna Janma (6 mins, 35mm, 1918)
4. Kaliya Mardan (50 mins, 35mm, 1919)
28 June, 2013, Friday: 1.15- 3.45 pm
Session 2: Experiment in the State
The earliest robust experimentation in India begins under the imaginative tutelage of Jean Bhownagary while he headed the Films Division in 1965.
1. Explorer – Pramod Pati (7 mins, 35mm, 1968)
2. Claxplosion – Pramod Pati (2 mins, 35mm, 1968)
3. Trip – Pramod Pati (4 mins, 35mm, 1970)
4. Koodal – Tyeb Mehta (16 mins, 35mm, 1970)
5. Abid – Pramod Pati (5 mins, 35mm,...
- 6/24/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Kiran Rao
K iran Rao is presenting Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus that has garnered wide critical acclaim and recently the top prize at the Transilvania Film Festival. After travelling to major international film festivals since its world premiere in Toronto in September 2012, the film will release in India on July 19.
In an interview to DearCinema, Kiran Rao denies rumours of starting a production house for indie films. But she maintains that she is working to set up an alternative cinema theatre besides working on a new script.
When did you first see Ship of Theseus?
I saw it at a screening at the Russian Cultural Centre at the Naya Cinema Film Festival last year. I had actually missed it at the Mumbai Film Festival where it screened earlier. So I made sure that I was there at this screening.
How did you respond to the film?
I had...
K iran Rao is presenting Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus that has garnered wide critical acclaim and recently the top prize at the Transilvania Film Festival. After travelling to major international film festivals since its world premiere in Toronto in September 2012, the film will release in India on July 19.
In an interview to DearCinema, Kiran Rao denies rumours of starting a production house for indie films. But she maintains that she is working to set up an alternative cinema theatre besides working on a new script.
When did you first see Ship of Theseus?
I saw it at a screening at the Russian Cultural Centre at the Naya Cinema Film Festival last year. I had actually missed it at the Mumbai Film Festival where it screened earlier. So I made sure that I was there at this screening.
How did you respond to the film?
I had...
- 6/11/2013
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
The 26th annual Images Festival will be taking over Toronto on April 11-20 with an epic series of experimental film screenings, media installations, expanded cinema performances, workshops, artist talks and tons more. With so much going on, the Underground Film Journal is just listing all the screening events below. For everything Images has to offer, please visit their official website.
Before the screenings list, here are some of the highlights:
Opening Night: Accompanying the documentary imagery of prolific filmmaker Robert Todd will be live music performed by electronic music deconstructionist Tim Hecker. Plus, there will be a new audiovisual work by SlowPitch called Emoralis, which pairs images of snails with crackly and droning rhythms.
Closing Night: Corredor will be a live performance piece combining South American imagery by artist Alexandra Gelis, accompanied by live music by drummer Hamid Drake and saxophonist David Mott.
Live Performances: Jodie Mack will provide live...
Before the screenings list, here are some of the highlights:
Opening Night: Accompanying the documentary imagery of prolific filmmaker Robert Todd will be live music performed by electronic music deconstructionist Tim Hecker. Plus, there will be a new audiovisual work by SlowPitch called Emoralis, which pairs images of snails with crackly and droning rhythms.
Closing Night: Corredor will be a live performance piece combining South American imagery by artist Alexandra Gelis, accompanied by live music by drummer Hamid Drake and saxophonist David Mott.
Live Performances: Jodie Mack will provide live...
- 4/11/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Still from Amit Dutta’s The Museum of Imagination
Shambhavi Kaul’s 21 Chitrakoot, Amit Dutta’s Museum of Imagination and Vipin Vijay’s Vishaparvam will compete in the International Competition section of the 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Vaibhav Hiwase’s Bombay Kulfi will contend in the International Children’s and Youth Film Competition at the festival. The film received Special Mention in the Dimensions Mumbai category at the Mumbai Film Festival last year.
The films in the International Competition will all make their German premiere at the festival and vie for awards worth a total of 22,000 euros. The winners will be selected by the International Festival Jury; the Fipresci Jury; the Ecumenical Jury and the Jury of the North Rhine-Westphalia Government of Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport.
The International Children’s and Youth Film Competition presents cash awards totaling 3,000 euros. The winners in this section are selected...
Shambhavi Kaul’s 21 Chitrakoot, Amit Dutta’s Museum of Imagination and Vipin Vijay’s Vishaparvam will compete in the International Competition section of the 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Vaibhav Hiwase’s Bombay Kulfi will contend in the International Children’s and Youth Film Competition at the festival. The film received Special Mention in the Dimensions Mumbai category at the Mumbai Film Festival last year.
The films in the International Competition will all make their German premiere at the festival and vie for awards worth a total of 22,000 euros. The winners will be selected by the International Festival Jury; the Fipresci Jury; the Ecumenical Jury and the Jury of the North Rhine-Westphalia Government of Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport.
The International Children’s and Youth Film Competition presents cash awards totaling 3,000 euros. The winners in this section are selected...
- 3/13/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Still from Amit Dutta’s The Museum of Imagination
Sonapani (Spring) Film Festival (March 15-17, 2013), an event that takes place twice a year in a small eco-lodge in Kumaon, Uttarakhand, will host films by Amit Dutta, Surabhi Sharma and Susant Misra in its third edition. The filmmakers will be present at the festival.
A film direction graduate from Ftii, Amit Dutta’s films have traveled to Venice, Rotterdam, Rome, Berlin and Oberhausen among others. Some of his films are Ramkhind, The Man’s Woman and Other Stories, Nainsukh, Sonchidi, and The Museum of Imagination.
Surabhi Sharma too graduated in film direction from Ftii. She has made documentaries on music, labour, migration and reproductive labour. Her filmography includes Tracing Bylanes, Can we see the baby bump please?, and under-production Bidesia in Bambai.
Susant Misra studied screenplay writing and direction at Ftii. Nischal Badal, his diploma film made it to the competition...
Sonapani (Spring) Film Festival (March 15-17, 2013), an event that takes place twice a year in a small eco-lodge in Kumaon, Uttarakhand, will host films by Amit Dutta, Surabhi Sharma and Susant Misra in its third edition. The filmmakers will be present at the festival.
A film direction graduate from Ftii, Amit Dutta’s films have traveled to Venice, Rotterdam, Rome, Berlin and Oberhausen among others. Some of his films are Ramkhind, The Man’s Woman and Other Stories, Nainsukh, Sonchidi, and The Museum of Imagination.
Surabhi Sharma too graduated in film direction from Ftii. She has made documentaries on music, labour, migration and reproductive labour. Her filmography includes Tracing Bylanes, Can we see the baby bump please?, and under-production Bidesia in Bambai.
Susant Misra studied screenplay writing and direction at Ftii. Nischal Badal, his diploma film made it to the competition...
- 2/6/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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