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HANDBOOK<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
CINEMA<br />
<strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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48th International Film Festival of India, Goa<br />
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November 20―28, <strong>2017</strong><br />
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Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India<br />
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48th International Film Festival of India, Goa<br />
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November 20-28, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Festival Director Sunit Tandon<br />
Published by<br />
<strong>IFFI</strong> Secretariat<br />
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting<br />
Government of India<br />
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FESTIVAL DIRECTOR<br />
48 TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA<br />
MESSAGE<br />
Over the years, the International Film Festival of India (<strong>IFFI</strong>) has created a firm place for itself in the global<br />
Film Festival calendar. Organised under the aegis of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government<br />
of India, <strong>IFFI</strong> has become one of the most important Film Festivals in the Asian region. In this 48th edition of<br />
the Festival, we are delighted to be presenting a strong International and Indian film programme.<br />
The <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong> Film Programme is showcasing a total of 195 films from across 82 countries, thus, vouching<br />
for the diversity of cinematic endeavours from around the globe and their representation at the Festival.<br />
The Cinema of the World section showcases 82 films of several national, international and transnational<br />
productions and co-productions of exceptional mainstream, independent and art cinema.<br />
The Indian Panorama section – introduced in 1978 and devoted to showcasing the best new Indian films of<br />
the year – showcases about 26 feature and non-feature films in 24 languages selected by our eminent jury<br />
from a total of 178 features and 161 non-features entries. The features have films by accomplished directors,<br />
as well as those by young, debut filmmakers. The non-feature films selected represent the cultural and<br />
aesthetic flavors of different parts of the country, making every film special.<br />
The Festival is also delighted to open this year’s edition with renowned filmmaker Majid Majidi’s ‘Beyond The<br />
Clouds’ and close with the well-regarded filmmaker, Pablo Cesar’s ‘Thinking of Him’. Both the films reflect<br />
true Indo-International collaborations and the Make in India outlook.<br />
The Country Focus on Canada has been taken forward in association with Telefilm Canada and with<br />
collaboration from the TIFF. We also have a selection of films from the “Biennale College” of the Venice<br />
International Film Festival.<br />
We are confident that all of you will enjoy the carefully curated programme of the best of international and<br />
Indian films, many of which are being presented in the country for the first time, including some cinematic<br />
landmarks in the Restored Classics.<br />
We have curated a Bond Retrospective package that includes 9 impressionable films from the vastly<br />
popular cult of the British spy who has influenced local film icons and cultures across the world. Our Indian<br />
Retrospective this year focusses on the recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (2016), K. Viswanath, a<br />
man who turned from being an audiographer to becoming a director, screenwriter and character actor who<br />
has made invaluable contributions in Hindi, Tamil and Telegu Cinema. His films not only have strong content,<br />
endearing narratives, honest handling, but also cultural authenticity, which has great appeal for the masses.<br />
This year our film fraternity has lost some eminent personalities, and <strong>IFFI</strong> pays homage and tribute to them<br />
and to their work, which lives on. We pay tribute to Om Puri, Abdul Majid, Vinod Khanna, Tom Alter, Reema<br />
Lagoo, Kundan Shah, J. Jayalalithaa, Dasari Narayan Rao & Ramananda Sen Gupta for their contributions<br />
to the film industry.<br />
<strong>IFFI</strong> is also continuing with its effort to support the Accessible India Programme of the Government of India<br />
by making films accessible for the visually impaired and hearing impaired.<br />
Additionally, the Panel Discussions and Master Classes with industry and thought leaders form one of the<br />
core pillars of this year’s Festival.<br />
We also urge all of you to experience the Mixed Reality Sidebar which includes a special VR package put<br />
together for you, in addition to the various other new initiatives in this edition, aimed at “Celebrating the<br />
Future of Cinema”.<br />
I welcome you to the 48th International Film Festival of India and I hope that it proves to be an enjoyable and<br />
enriching experience for you.<br />
(Sunit Tandon)<br />
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Contents<br />
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA<br />
<strong>IFFI</strong> Awards 7<br />
Lifetime Achievements Award 9<br />
Atom Egoyan Retrosprective 13<br />
Exotica 14<br />
The Sweet Hereafter 15<br />
Remember 16<br />
Indian Film Personality Of The Year 17<br />
International Competition Jury 20<br />
Muzaffar Ali (Jury Chairman) 20<br />
Maxine Williamson 21<br />
Roger Christian 21<br />
Tzahi Grad 21<br />
Vladislav Opelyants 21<br />
ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal 22<br />
Opening Film 25<br />
Beyond The Clouds 26<br />
Closing Film 27<br />
Thinking Of Him 28<br />
International Competition 29<br />
Ana, Mon Amour 30<br />
Angels Wear White 30<br />
Beats Per Minute 30<br />
Blank 13 30<br />
Dark Skull 30<br />
Freedom 30<br />
The Great Buddha+ 31<br />
Kachcha Limbu 31<br />
A Man of Integrity 31<br />
Marionette 31<br />
Racer and the Jailbird 31<br />
Shuttle Life 31<br />
Still Night, Still Light 32<br />
Take Off 32<br />
Village Rockstars 32<br />
ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal Films 33<br />
Amok 34<br />
Khibula 34<br />
Kshitij – A Horizon 34<br />
The Last Painting 34<br />
Manusangada 34<br />
Poorna 34<br />
Railway Children 35<br />
Women of the Weeping River 35<br />
Cinema of the World 37<br />
3/4 (Three Quarters) 38<br />
9 Fingers 38<br />
Barrage 38<br />
Birds Without Names 38<br />
Black Level 38<br />
Bloody Milk 38<br />
The Boy with the Topknot 39<br />
The Breadwinner 39<br />
Breath 39<br />
The Cakemaker 39<br />
Candelaria 39<br />
Children Of The Night 39<br />
A Ciambra 40<br />
Close-Knit 40<br />
Closeness 40<br />
Daybreak 40<br />
Disappearance 40<br />
El Inca 40<br />
Elon Doesn’t Believe In Death 41<br />
Euthanizer 41<br />
A Fantastic Woman 41<br />
Father And Son 41<br />
Félicité 41<br />
Final Portrait 41<br />
Frost 42<br />
A Gentle Creature 42<br />
Her Love Boils Bathwater 42<br />
High Noon Story 42<br />
Hostages 42<br />
The House by the Sea 42<br />
I Dream in Another Language 43<br />
In Blue 43<br />
Insyriated 43<br />
The Journey 43<br />
Let the Sunshine In 43<br />
Life Beyond Me 43<br />
Light Up! 44<br />
Love Me Not 44<br />
Loveless 44<br />
M 44<br />
Mrs. Hyde 44<br />
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts 44<br />
Men Don’t Cry 45<br />
The Midwife 45<br />
Montparnasse Bienvenue 45<br />
Mother! 45<br />
Murder on the Orient Express 45<br />
The Nile Hilton Incident 45<br />
No Bed of Roses 46<br />
No Date No Sign 46<br />
On Body And Soul 46<br />
Once Upon A Time 46<br />
The Other Side of Hope 46<br />
Park 46<br />
The Party 47<br />
Pomegranate Orchard 47<br />
Pop Aye 47<br />
Radiance 47<br />
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Razzia 47<br />
The Reconciliation 47<br />
Redoubtable 48<br />
Requiem For Mrs. J 48<br />
Scaffolding 48<br />
Scary Mother 48<br />
The Secret Ingredient 48<br />
Shelter 48<br />
A Sort of Family 49<br />
Spoor 49<br />
The Square 49<br />
The Strange Ones 49<br />
Summer 1993 49<br />
Sweet Country 49<br />
Uma 50<br />
Union Leader 50<br />
Until the Birds Return 50<br />
Unwanted 50<br />
Wajib 50<br />
Western 50<br />
Wonderstruck 50<br />
The Wound 50<br />
The Young Karl Marx 50<br />
Zer 50<br />
Country Focus - Canada 53<br />
Allure 54<br />
Closet Monster 54<br />
Don’t Talk to Irene 54<br />
Eye on Juliet 54<br />
Meditation Park 54<br />
Old Stone 54<br />
Ravenous 55<br />
The Stairs 55<br />
BRICS Film Festival Award Winners 57<br />
Ayanda 58<br />
Nise: The Heart of Madness 58<br />
Panfilov’s 28 58<br />
The Second Mother 58<br />
Soulmate 58<br />
Turtle 58<br />
Where Has Time Gone? 59<br />
James Bond Retrospective 61<br />
Dr. No 62<br />
Golden Eye 62<br />
Goldfinger 62<br />
Licence to Kill 62<br />
Octopussy 62<br />
On her Majesty’s Secret Service 62<br />
Skyfall 63<br />
The Spy who Loved Me 63<br />
The World is not Enough 63<br />
Restored Classics 65<br />
Beauty of the Day 66<br />
Flavour of Green Tea over Rice 66<br />
The Ruins 66<br />
The Lodger 66<br />
Metropolis 66<br />
The Old Dark House 66<br />
The Sacrifice 67<br />
Two or Three Things I Know about Her 67<br />
New Initiative 69<br />
Ears 76<br />
Hotel Salvation 76<br />
The Solitude 76<br />
One Sister 76<br />
Master Class and Panel Discussion 77<br />
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INDIAN CINEMA<br />
Indian Panorama - Feature Jury 95<br />
Sujoy Ghosh (Jury Chairnan) 96<br />
Apurva Asrani 97<br />
Gopi Desai 97<br />
Gyan Correa 97<br />
Hari Viswanath 98<br />
Merlvin Mukhim 98<br />
Nikhil Advani 98<br />
Nishant Kamat 99<br />
Rahul Rawail 99<br />
Ruchi Narain 99<br />
Sachin Chatte 100<br />
Satarupa Sanyal 100<br />
Suresh Heblikar 100<br />
Indian Panorama - Feature Films 101<br />
Bahubaali 2 - The Conclusion 102<br />
Bisorjon 102<br />
Idak 102<br />
Jolly LLB 2 102<br />
Juze 102<br />
Kaasav 102<br />
Kachcha Limbu 103<br />
Kadvi Hawa 103<br />
Khynikaa 103<br />
Kshitij –A Horizon 103<br />
Maacher Jhol 103<br />
Manusangada 103<br />
Maza Bhirbhira 104<br />
Meghnadbod Rohosyo 104<br />
Muramba 104<br />
Newton 104<br />
Pihu 104<br />
Pimpal 104<br />
Poorna 105<br />
Railway Children 105<br />
Redu 105<br />
Rukh 105<br />
Take Off 105<br />
Ventilator 105<br />
Village Rockstars 106<br />
Xhoixobote Dhemalite 106<br />
Indian Panorama - Non Feature Jury 107<br />
Sudhir Mishra (Jury Chairman) 108<br />
K G Suresh 109<br />
Mithundhandra Chaudhari 109<br />
Shankhajeet De 109<br />
Shiny Jacob Benjamin 110<br />
Tinni Mitra 110<br />
Tuhinabha Majumdar 110<br />
Indian Panorama - Non Feature Films 111<br />
81/2 Intercuts- Life And Films of K G George 112<br />
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings 112<br />
Aaba 112<br />
Amma Meri 112<br />
Baluta 112<br />
Chutney 112<br />
Dugga 113<br />
Epil 113<br />
Fireflies in the Abyss 113<br />
Gi 113<br />
Khidkee 113<br />
Name|Place|Animal|Thing 113<br />
Our Grandparents’ Home 114<br />
Palash 114<br />
Pushkar Puran 114<br />
The Waterfall 114<br />
Dadasaheb Phalke Award <strong>2017</strong> 115<br />
Retrospective - Kasinathuni Vishwanath 116<br />
Sagara Sangamam 117<br />
Shankarabharanam 117<br />
Swathi Kiranam 117<br />
Homages 119<br />
Abdul Majid - Chameli Memsaab 120<br />
J. Jayalalithaa - Ayirathil Oruvan 121<br />
Kundan Shah - Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro 122<br />
Dasari Narayana Rao - Osey Ramulamma 123<br />
Om Puri - Ardh Satya 124<br />
Ramanand Sengupta - Nagarik 125<br />
Reema Lagoo - Savalee 126<br />
Tom Alter - Ocean of an Old Man 127<br />
Vinod Khanna - Achanak 128<br />
Accessible India, Accessible Films 129<br />
Hindi Medium 130<br />
Secret Superstar 130<br />
Acknowledgements 131<br />
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48th <strong>IFFI</strong> Awards<br />
Best Film<br />
The award carries a cash prize of `40,00,000/- to be shared equally between the<br />
Director and the Producer. The Director is to be given the Golden Peacock Award and a<br />
Certificate in addition to the cash component. The Producer is to be given a Certificate<br />
in addition to the cash component.<br />
Best Director<br />
The award carries a Silver Peacock, a Certificate and a cash prize of `15,00,000/-<br />
Best Actor (Male)<br />
The award carries a Silver Peacock, a Certificate and a cash prize of `10,00,000/-<br />
Best Actor (Female)<br />
The award carries a Silver Peacock, a Certificate and a cash prize of `10,00,000/-<br />
Special Jury Award<br />
The award carries a Silver Peacock, a Certificate and a cash prize of `15,00,000/- given<br />
to a film (for any aspect of the film which the jury wishes to award/acknowledge) or an<br />
individual (for his/her artistic contribution to a film). The award, if given, will be given to<br />
the Director.<br />
Lifetime Achievement Award<br />
The prestigious award consisting of a cash prize of `10,00,000/-, Certificate, shawl and<br />
a scroll is conferred upon a master filmmaker for his/her outstanding contribution to<br />
cinema.<br />
Indian Film Personality of the Year Award<br />
The prestigious award consisting of a cash prize of `10,00,000/-, Certificate, shawl<br />
and Medal (Silver Peacock) is conferred upon an Indian Film Personality for his/her<br />
outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.<br />
Award for the Best Debut Feature Film of a Director<br />
Silver Peacock, a Certificate and a cash prize of `10,00,000/-, (To be given to a director<br />
for his/her feature film to recognize and encourage the most promising new directorial<br />
talent in world cinema.)<br />
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Atom Egoyan<br />
Lifetime Achievement Award
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Lifetime Achievement Award<br />
Atom Egoyan<br />
Atom Egoyan is one of Canada’s most celebrated arthouse directors. Exotica, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes’94, was his<br />
international breakthrough film. The Sweet Hereafter, his most critically acclaimed film, received two Academy Award nominations.<br />
Ararat, about the Armenian genocide in the Turkish Ottoman Empire, centred on child survivor Arshile Gorky, who went on to become<br />
the pioneer of American abstract expressionism. Where the Truth Lies, Adoration and The Captive have all competed for the Palme<br />
d’Or in Cannes. Egoyan has also directed theatre and opera, including an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Eh Joe, winner of The Irish<br />
Times/ESB Award for Best Direction. He has directed award-winning opera productions for the Canadian Opera Company and the<br />
Lincoln Center Festival, New York. Egoyan’s art installations have been presented at the Venice Biennale. His work, Steenbeckett,<br />
commissioned by the UK’s Artangel, is part of the permanent collection of the Tate. His films have been presented in several<br />
retrospectives across the globe, with complete career overviews in Paris, Madrid, New York and Brussels. Egoyan was knighted by<br />
the French government and is a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest honour.<br />
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Atom Egoyan<br />
Retrospective<br />
A presentation of some of<br />
Atom Egoyan’s<br />
most iconic works
Exotica<br />
1994 | Canada | English | Colour | 103 minutes<br />
Director Atom Egoyan<br />
Producer Atom Egoyan,<br />
Camelia Frieberg<br />
Screenplay Atom Egoyan<br />
Cinematographer Paul Sarossy<br />
Editor Susan Shipton<br />
Cast Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian,<br />
Elias Koteas<br />
In the upscale Canadian strip club Exotica, Christina (Mia<br />
Kirshner) is the most popular dancer, and she’s visited nightly<br />
by the obsessive Francis (Bruce Greenwood), a depressed tax<br />
auditor. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend, the club’s MC, Eric (Elias<br />
Koreas), still jealously pines for her, even as he introduces her<br />
onstage. Eric is having his own relationship problems with<br />
the club’s owner, Zoe (Arsinée Khanjian), who is intent on<br />
becoming pregnant with his child.<br />
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The Sweet Hereafter<br />
1997 | Canada | English | Colour | 112 minutes<br />
Director Atom Egoyan<br />
Producer Atom Egoyan, Camelia Frieberg<br />
Screenplay Atom Egoyan<br />
Cinematographer Paul Sarossy<br />
Editor Susan Shipton<br />
Cast Maury Chaykin, Peter Donaldson, Bruce Greenwood, David<br />
Hemblem, Brooke Johnson, Arsinée Khanjian, Sarah Polley, Gabrielle<br />
Rose, Alberta Watson<br />
In The Sweet Hereafter, tragedy unites the residents of a<br />
small town. Soon after, a big-city lawyer, driven by his own<br />
demons, stirs up the anger of the townspeople. In the ensuing<br />
atmosphere of suspicion and doubt, a teenager manages to<br />
regain her dignity and re-unite the community. Because of her<br />
courage, the townspeople are led to the sweet hereafter, a realm<br />
reserved for those who are at peace with their fate.<br />
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Remember<br />
2015 | Canada | English, German | Colour | 94 minutes<br />
Director Atom Egoyan<br />
Producer Robert Lantos, Ari Lantos<br />
Screenplay Benjamin August<br />
Cinematographer Paul Sarossy<br />
Editor Christopher Donaldson<br />
Cast Christopher Plummer, Bruno Ganz, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Lieven,<br />
Henry Czerny, Dean Norris, Martin Landau<br />
Remember is the contemporary story of Zev, who discovers<br />
that the Nazi guard who murdered his family some 70 years<br />
ago is living in America under an assumed identity. Despite the<br />
obvious challenges, Zev sets out on a mission to find the guilty<br />
man and deliver long-delayed justice with his own trembling<br />
hand. What follows is a remarkable cross-continent road-trip<br />
with surprising consequences.<br />
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indian film personality of the year<br />
Amitabh Bachchan<br />
Indian Film Personality<br />
of the Year Award<br />
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Indian Film Personality of the Year<br />
Amitabh Bachchan<br />
Amitabh Bachchan is one of India’s most luminous movie stars. In a career that is now well into its fifth decade, he has achieved<br />
numerous milestones. For his early roles in Mumbai films, in which he assumed the brooding persona of a rebel at odds with the<br />
system, he earned the sobriquet ‘angry young man’. He was the pivot around whom the Mumbai moviedom orbited all through the<br />
1970s and 1980s. It wasn’t without reason that Bachchan was referred to as a one-man industry. He began his film career in 1969<br />
with Saat Hindustani. In 1973, Zanjeer, in which he played a revenge-seeking policeman, catapulted him to the big league. He went<br />
on to deliver hits such as Anand and Namak Haram. He top-lined several major hits, including Deewaar, Trishul, Don, Mr. Natwarlal,<br />
Suhaag, The Great Gambler, Kaalia, Silsila and Shakti. In 1984, he joined politics and was elected to Parliament from Allahabad. He<br />
did not complete his tenure and resigned from his seat. Bachchan won the National Award for his role in Agneepath. After a brief<br />
hiatus in the 1990s, he bounced back into the limelight when he hosted the popular quiz programme Kaun Banega Crorepati. He also<br />
acted in the Hollywood movie The Great Gatsby. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2015.<br />
Cheeni Kum, Bunty Aur Babli, Sarkar Raj and Piku are among a long list of his more recent hits.<br />
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International Competition Jury<br />
MUZAFFAR ALI (JURY CHAIRMAN)<br />
Filmmaker, India<br />
Muzaffar Ali is an Indian filmmaker, fashion designer, poet, artist, music lover and social worker. He belongs to the royal house of<br />
Kotwara in India. He has had a successful career as a film producer and director. He made his debut in 1978 with Gaman. It was<br />
followed by his most successful film to date, Umrao Jaan, which fetched Rekha the National Award for best actress. Ali’s other<br />
directorial credits are Aagaman and Jaanisaar, in which he also acted. Ali spearheads the international couture brand Kotwara, which<br />
he set up with his architect wife Meera Ali in 1990 to revive the traditional craft of the region of Awadh.<br />
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Festival Director, Australia<br />
MAXINE WILLIAMSON<br />
Maxine has done significant work with APSA-Asia Pacific Screen Awards, where<br />
she established the rules and regulations, governance of the film competition and<br />
filmmaker network in 2007 and ran the competition for its 10 editions. Maxine<br />
became Artistic Director in 2011 and then Film Director after delivering its 10th<br />
anniversary edition in November 2016. During her time at APSA, Maxine worked<br />
with such luminary Jury Presidents as Lord David Puttnam, Asghar Fahardi, Shyam<br />
Benegal, Kim Dong-ho, Shabana Azmi and Nansun Shi. She was creative content<br />
producer on the documentary series Scene by Scene broadcast from 2007-2009 on<br />
CNN International and on ABC network during showcasing films and filmmakers<br />
of Asia Pacific to a global audience. She now consults to the APSA Academy and<br />
is Director of the Brisbane International Film Festival, the city’s premiere festival,<br />
delivering its 23rd edition this year. Maxine had previously directed the Brisbane<br />
Asia Pacific Film Festival. Maxine is Asia Pacific Consultant for the Antalya Film<br />
Forum, Turkey - a position she has held for four years.<br />
Director and Production Designer, UK<br />
Roger Christian has had an extensive career as a production designer and film<br />
director. He won an Academy Award for set decoration on the original Star Wars,<br />
which began a long working collaboration with filmmaker George Lucas. Lucas<br />
subsequently tapped Christian to direct the second unit on Return of the Jedi and<br />
chose him to helm alongside him on Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace.<br />
It was through Lucas that Christian got his first opportunity to direct a short film<br />
that he wrote, Black Angel, which accompanied the release of The Empire Strikes<br />
Back. Christian won an Oscar nomination for art direction in Ridley Scott’s Alien.<br />
ROGER CHRISTIAN<br />
His directing credits include The Sender, nominated for Best Film by the Academy<br />
of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films; Nostradamus starring Julia Ormond,<br />
Tcheky Karyo, F Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer and Amanda Plummer; Final Cut,<br />
The HBO premier movie, starring Sam Elliot, and more.<br />
Actor, Director and Writer, Israel<br />
A well regarded Actor, Director and Writer, Tzahi Grad was born in Jerusalem.<br />
A graduate from the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio, he has participated in many plays,<br />
films and television series since 1991, gaining popularity as a widely popular actor<br />
in Israel. In addition to acting in numerous feature films, he has also directed a few<br />
theatre productions.<br />
Grad’s film The Cousin premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and<br />
bagged nominations from the Israeli Academy, and also won him the Best actor<br />
award at the Haifa international Film Festival.<br />
TZAHI GRAD<br />
His film Foul Gesture also won major nominations from the Israeli Academy and<br />
top honors at the Haifa International Film Festival. His film Giraffes also garnered<br />
14 nominations from the Israeli Academy.<br />
Director of Photography, Russia<br />
VLADISLAV OPELYANTS<br />
Vladislav Opelyants is one of Russia’s most celebrated Directors of Photography.<br />
Born in January 1968 in Moscow, he graduated from the Department of<br />
Cinematography at the Russian State University of Cinematography (workshop of<br />
Vladimir Yusov) in 1992. He has shot over 100 commercial videos, with Coca-<br />
Cola, Pepsi and Nescafé, among others, as well as music videos for top Russian<br />
pop and rock singers like Alla Pugacheva, Zemphira and Mumy Troll. He made his<br />
wide screen debut with Garik Sukachev’s Middle Life Crisis. He worked as Director<br />
of Photography on the Nikita Mikhalkov films Burnt by the Sun, Exodus, Burnt<br />
by the Sun-2: Citadel and Sunstroke. Most recently, he shot Rezo Gigieneshvili’s<br />
Hostages, which premiered at the <strong>2017</strong> Berlin Film Festival and is also being<br />
screened in <strong>IFFI</strong> as part of the Cinema of the World section. Opelyants also shot<br />
Kirill Serebrennikov’s The Student, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival<br />
in 2016.<br />
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ICFT-UNESCO<br />
Gandhi Medal<br />
The International Film Festival of India (<strong>IFFI</strong>) <strong>2017</strong> in collaboration with the International<br />
Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication (ICFT), Paris, will<br />
present a special ICFT prize consisting of the UNESCO Gandhi Medal awarded to a<br />
film which reflects the ideals promoted by UNESCO.<br />
Broad guidelines for the selection of the films are -<br />
• Have a strong ethical component<br />
• High aesthetic value<br />
• Exhibit artistic excellence in screenplay, in film technique and music<br />
• Attract a wide audience, especially among youth, whose view of media is<br />
distorted by violent imagery and showy techniques which are devoid of<br />
intelligent and critical discernment<br />
• Additionally include an educational component to cope with the flood of<br />
inappropriate imagery commonly marketed<br />
• Awareness of the role of the filmmaker confronting a declining society; because<br />
it is recognized that cinematographic and video images are much more powerful<br />
than any other means of communication<br />
About the UNESCO Gandhi Medal<br />
In 1994, UNESCO issued a commemorative medal marking the 125th anniversary<br />
of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, India’s “Father of the Nation” and the world’s<br />
advocate of non-violence, peace and tolerance. The General Conference of one<br />
of the previous years had adopted a resolution calling for a series of activities<br />
around the “great world personality whose thought and creative modes of<br />
non-violent action have shaped socio-economic and political currents in the 20th<br />
century”.<br />
The medal bears a portrait of Gandhi engraved by the French artist Pierre-Yves Tremois.<br />
Etched underneath is the Mahatma’s message of hope: “In the midst of darkness light<br />
prevails”. The reverse side carries the UNESCO Logo.<br />
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Films competing for this prestigious award<br />
S. N. Film Country Director<br />
1 Amok Poland Kasia Adamik<br />
2 Khibula Georgia, Germany, France George Ovashvili<br />
3 Kshitij - A Horizon India Manoj Kadam<br />
4 The Last Painting Taiwan Hung-i Chen<br />
5 Manusangada India Amshan Kumar<br />
6 Poorna India Rahul Bose<br />
7 Railway Children India Prithvi Konanur<br />
8 Take-Off India Mahesh Narayanan<br />
9 Women of the Weeping River UK, USA Sheron Dayoc<br />
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The ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal Jury<br />
Ambassador, Inoussa<br />
OUSSEINI and<br />
President of ICFT<br />
A film director and scenarist<br />
At present he is an Ambassador, Permanent<br />
Delegate of the Republic of Niger to UNESCO and<br />
President of the International Council for Film,<br />
Television and Audiovisual Communication (ICFT),<br />
official partner of UNESCO.<br />
A film director, producer and scenarist.<br />
Costa GAVRAS,<br />
President of the<br />
French Cinémathèque<br />
President of the French National Cinematheque<br />
Awards: Oscars, Golden Bear (Berlin), Cesar<br />
(France), and Palme D’or (Cannes)<br />
Founder of film clubs, journalist and film critic.<br />
Jean ROY, former<br />
President of FIPRESCI<br />
Former President of FIPRESCI (International<br />
Federation of the Film Press).<br />
Founder of film clubs, filmmaker.<br />
Serge MICHEL,<br />
Vice-President of ICFT<br />
Vice-President of ICFT representing Unica - Union<br />
Internationale Du Cinema - (International Cinema<br />
Union)<br />
Lola POGGI GOUJON,<br />
Secretary-General of<br />
ICFT<br />
Engineer by training<br />
Former international Civil Servant at UNESCO,<br />
teacher.<br />
Secretary-General of ICFT<br />
Georges DUPONT,<br />
Luxembourg National<br />
Commission for<br />
UNESCO<br />
Former research engineer (audiovisual) at the<br />
French Public Broadcasting Service, International<br />
civil servant at UNESCO, and a teacher<br />
Member of the Luxembourg National Commission<br />
for UNESCO, representing the International<br />
Telecommunication Union (ITU) at UNESCO and<br />
Director General of ICFT<br />
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Opening<br />
Film<br />
An Iranian master’s first Indian foray is an<br />
extension on his cinematic beliefs, the roots of<br />
which lie in human values, love, friendship and<br />
family bonding.<br />
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BEYOND THE CLOUDS<br />
India | <strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | 120 min | Colour<br />
Director Majid Majidi<br />
Producer Shareen Mantri Kedia,<br />
Kishor Arora, Zee Studios<br />
Screenplay Majid Majidi,<br />
Mehran Kashani<br />
Cinematographer Anil Mehta<br />
Editor Hassan Hassandoost<br />
Music AR Rahman<br />
Cast Ishaan Khattar, Malavika Mohanan, Goutam Ghose, GV Sharada,<br />
Dhwani Rajesh, Amruta Santosh Thakur, Shivam Pujari<br />
Beyond The Clouds is a story of a brother and sister like<br />
Children of Heaven, with the difference being that the siblings<br />
are grown-ups and tackle greater conflicts against the backdrop<br />
of the bustling city of Mumbai. The film is a vindication of<br />
Majid Majid’s firm view that human emotions have no barriers<br />
of language and geography.<br />
The paths of two siblings collide, when on the run from the<br />
cops after a drug bust, Amir a 19 year old peddler from Mumbai<br />
finds solitude in his past - his estranged sister Tara, who in a<br />
bid to protect her brother lands up in jail herself. However, this<br />
catastrophic incident turns into a serendipitous one for Tara and<br />
Aamir, whose entire lives have been clouded by despair and<br />
disappointment, as unexpectedly the light shines on them, from<br />
beyond the clouds. The film highlights beautifully the many<br />
facets of India intertwined with a heartfelt celebration of love<br />
and family !<br />
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Closing<br />
Film<br />
Argentinian director Pablo Cesar’s<br />
exploration of a chapter in the life of<br />
Rabindranath Tagore<br />
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Thinking Of Him<br />
Argentina, India | <strong>2017</strong> | Bengali, Spanish, English | 110 min | Colour, B & W<br />
Director Pablo César<br />
Producer Pablo Ballester, Debendra Jagadala, Suraj Kumar<br />
Screenplay Jernimo Toubes<br />
Cinematographer Carlos Essmann<br />
Editor Liliana Nadal<br />
Cast Victor Banerjee, Eleonora Wexler, Hector Bordoni, Raima Sen<br />
Two stories intertwine over time. In the present, Felix, who<br />
teaches Geography in a detention centre, stumbles upon<br />
a book that dazzles him. In the past, Rabindranath Tagore,<br />
Bengali poet and author of the book that has come to Felix,<br />
arrives in Argentina and is hosted by writer Victoria Ocampo. A<br />
deep, platonic bond develops between the two cultural figures<br />
and Victoria becomes Tagore’s distant muse. While Felix is<br />
increasingly obsessed with the story of the Indian poet and<br />
the Argentinian writer, he gains an insight into the intellectual<br />
and spiritual notions on which Tagore’s revolutionary school in<br />
India was founded. Felix decides to visit India and experience<br />
for himself the teaching methods that Tagore dreamed of for<br />
all mankind.<br />
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International<br />
Competition<br />
15 films from across the globe compete for the<br />
prestigious Golden and Silver Peacocks<br />
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Ana, Mon Amour<br />
Toma meets Ana while they<br />
are both studying literature<br />
at a university. Ana has a<br />
neurotic disorder Toma<br />
follows her to every dark<br />
corner she ends up in, he<br />
fights his parents when they<br />
reject her he accepts being a<br />
father and marries her. . When<br />
Ana overcomes her fears,<br />
Toma remains alone.<br />
Angels Wear White<br />
In a small seaside town, two<br />
schoolgirls are assaulted by a<br />
middle-aged man in a motel.<br />
Mia, a teenager is the only<br />
witness. For fear of losing<br />
her job, she says nothing.<br />
Trapped in a world that offers<br />
them no safety, Mia and Wen<br />
will have to find their own way<br />
out.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Romania, Germany, France | 2016 | Romanian | 130 min | Colour<br />
Director Cãlin Peter Netzer<br />
Producer Cãlin Peter Netzer, Oana Iancu<br />
Screenplay Cãlin Peter Netzer, Cezar Paul-Badescu, Iulia Lumânare<br />
Cinematographer Andrei Butica<br />
Editor Dana Bunescu<br />
Cast Mircea Postelnicu, Diana Cavallioti, Adrian Titieni<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
China | <strong>2017</strong> | Mandarin | 107 min | Colour<br />
Director Vivian Qu<br />
Producer Sean Chen<br />
Screenplay Vivian Qu<br />
Cinematographer Benoit Dervaux<br />
Editor Yang Hongyu<br />
Cast Wen Qi, Zhou Meijun, Shi Ke, Geng Le<br />
Beats Per Minute<br />
In Paris in the early 1990s,<br />
a group of activists goes to<br />
battle taking on sluggish<br />
government agencies and<br />
major pharmaceutical<br />
companies. Amid rallies,<br />
protests newcomer Nathan<br />
falls in love with Sean. Their<br />
passion sparks as the activists<br />
fight for a breakthrough.<br />
Blank 13<br />
Koji’s absent father of 13<br />
years is found with cancer and<br />
given three months to live.<br />
When the inevitable day of<br />
their father’s funeral arrives,<br />
the siblings must confront the<br />
void left by his abandonment<br />
as well as a collection of<br />
odd acquaintances who<br />
have come to pay their last<br />
respects.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
France | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 144 min | Colour<br />
Director Robin Campillo<br />
Producer Hugues Charbonneau, Marie-Ange Luciani<br />
Screenplay Philippe Mangeot, Robin Campillo<br />
Cinematographer Jeanne Lapoirie<br />
Editor Robin Campillo, Anita Roth, Stephanie Leger<br />
Cast Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Japan | <strong>2017</strong> | Japanese | 70 min | Colour<br />
Director Takumi Saitô<br />
Producer Yuiko Kobayashi<br />
Screenplay Mitsutoshi Saijô<br />
Cast Takahashi Issey, Lily Franky, Kanno Misuzu, Takumi Saitô<br />
Dark Skull<br />
Broken by the recent death<br />
of his father, a troubled<br />
young man tears through a<br />
small, indigenous town until<br />
his godfather gets him a<br />
job in the mines. With jawdropping,<br />
dreamlike visuals,<br />
Russo’s debut offers a darkly<br />
beautiful subterranean study<br />
in atmosphere and mourning.<br />
Freedom<br />
A woman leaves her husband<br />
and children without saying<br />
goodbye. The radical nature<br />
of her departure appears to<br />
be an opportunity as well as<br />
a trauma. Their days are still<br />
dominated by her mysterious<br />
leaving.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Bolivia, Qatar | 2016 | Spanish | 80 min | Colour<br />
Director Kiro Russo<br />
Producer Pablo Paniagua, Kiro Russo<br />
Screenplay Kiro Russo, Gilmar Gonzales<br />
Cinematographer Pablo Paniagua<br />
Editor Pablo Paniagua, Kiro Russo<br />
Cast Narciso Choquecallata, Anastasia Daza López, Felix Espejo<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Germany, Slovakia | <strong>2017</strong> | German, Slovak | 100 min | Colour<br />
Director Jan Speckenbach<br />
Producer Sol Bondy, Jamila Wenske<br />
Screenplay Andreas Deinert, Jan Speckenbach<br />
Cinematographer Tilo Hauke<br />
Editor Matthias Albrecht, Henning Stöve<br />
Cast Johanna Wokalek, Georg Arms, Hans-Jochen Wagner<br />
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The Great Buddha+<br />
Pickle is a night security<br />
guard at a bronze statue<br />
factory. His colleague, Belly<br />
Bottom, works as a recycling<br />
collector, Pickle’s biggest<br />
pleasure in life is flicking<br />
through porn magazines,<br />
Television is an integral part<br />
of their lives. One day when<br />
the television is broken, their<br />
lives are changed forever.<br />
Kachcha Limbu<br />
Kachcha Limbu, slang for<br />
underdog, is the poignant<br />
tale of a couple and their<br />
everyday trials in nurturing<br />
their mentally challenged<br />
child, Bachchu. The story<br />
takes us through Mr. and<br />
Mrs. Katdare’s dilemmas and<br />
their attempt at sanity and<br />
togetherness despite teeming<br />
odds.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Taiwan | <strong>2017</strong> | Minnan | 102 min | Colour<br />
Director Hsin-yao Huang<br />
Producer Mong-Hong Chung, Ju Feng Yeh<br />
Screenplay Hsin-yao Huang<br />
Cinematographer Mong-Hong Chung<br />
Editor Hsiu-hsiung Lai<br />
Cast Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chen, Leon Dai, Na-Dou Lin<br />
India | <strong>2017</strong> | Marathi | 116 min | Colour and B/W<br />
Director Prasad Oak<br />
Producer Mandar Bhaskar Devasthali<br />
Screenplay Chinmay Mandlekar<br />
Cinematographer Amalendu Choudhary<br />
Editor Jayant Jathar<br />
Cast Sachin Khedekar, Sonali Kulkarni, Ravi Jadhav, Manmeet Pem,<br />
Ananth Mahadevan, Uday Sabnis, Ajit Kelkar<br />
A Man of Integrity<br />
Reza leads a simple life along<br />
with his wife and child in a<br />
remote village in Northern<br />
Iran. A private company<br />
controls nearly every aspect<br />
of regional life. Under their<br />
pressure many villagers have<br />
themselves become part of<br />
the exisitng corruption. Reza<br />
strives to resist coercion and<br />
preserve his farm.<br />
Marionette<br />
A high school teacher<br />
named Seo-Rin encounters<br />
a mysterious person called<br />
Master through instant<br />
messaging. This figure<br />
reminds her of the past<br />
that she has always wanted<br />
to forget. As her students,<br />
boyfriend and acquaintances<br />
get involved in this incident,<br />
the situation turns grave<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Iran | <strong>2017</strong> | Farsi | 117 min | Colour<br />
Director Mohammad Rasoulof<br />
Producer Mohammad Rasoulof, Kaveh Farnam, Rozita Hendijanian,<br />
Michal Krecek<br />
Screenplay Mohammad Rasoulof<br />
Cinematographer Ashkan Ashkani<br />
Editor Meysam Muini, Mohammedreza Muini<br />
Cast Reza Akhlaghirad, Soudabeh Beizaee, Nasim Adabi, Missagh Zareh,<br />
Zeinab Shabani, Zhila Shahi<br />
South Korea | <strong>2017</strong> | Korean | 116 min | Colour<br />
Director Lee Hanuk<br />
Producer Lee Gun Woo<br />
Screenplay Lee Hanuk<br />
Cinematographer Park Kyung Kun<br />
Editor Won Chang Jae<br />
Cast Kim Hie Won, Lee You-young<br />
✪ WORLD PREMIERE<br />
Racer and the<br />
Jailbird<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
France, Belgium | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 130 min | Colour<br />
When Gino meets Bénédicte,<br />
it is love at first sight,<br />
passionate, unconditional<br />
and fiery.Gino hides a secret<br />
that can endanger his and the<br />
lives of those around him.<br />
Gino and Bénédicte will have<br />
to fight against fate, reason<br />
and their own weaknesses to<br />
save their love.<br />
Director Michaël R. Roskam<br />
Producer Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Bart Van Langendonck<br />
Screenplay Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré, Michaël R. Roskam<br />
Cinematographer Nicolas Karakatsanis<br />
Editor Alain Desssauvage<br />
Cast Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos<br />
Shuttle Life<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Malaysia | <strong>2017</strong> | Mandarin | 91 min | Colour<br />
Director Tan Seng Kiat<br />
Producer Roland Lee, Jin Ong<br />
Screenplay Tan Seng Kiat, Chris Leong Siew Hong<br />
Cinematographer Chen Ko Chin<br />
Editor Chen Hsiao Tung, Yue Ba Ren Zi<br />
Cast Sylvia Chang, Jack Tan, Angel Chan<br />
Qiang struggles to take care of<br />
his mentally unstable mother<br />
and a five-year-old sister,<br />
Hui Shan. When a speeding<br />
car kills Hui Shan, Qiang is<br />
desperate to claim his sister’s<br />
body. Qiang’s mother is of no<br />
help given her condition, so<br />
Qiang is forced to face this<br />
predicament on his own.<br />
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Still Night, Still<br />
Light<br />
Eliane, Romes and his<br />
father Pablo decide to take<br />
action whatever the risks, for<br />
their dreams to take flight.<br />
Implicitly trusting that inner<br />
voice dwelling inside us all,<br />
the film beckons us on a<br />
sensory journey where travel,<br />
art, dream, and memory serve<br />
as mileposts.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Canada, China, Mexico | 2016 | Spanish, French, English, Mandarin<br />
| 98 min | Colour<br />
Director Sophie Goyette<br />
Producer Sophie Goyette<br />
Screenplay Sophie Goyette<br />
Cinematographer Léna Mill-Reuillard<br />
Editor Sophie Goyette<br />
Cast Éliane Prèfontaine, Gerardo Trejoluna<br />
Take Off<br />
India | <strong>2017</strong> | Malayalam | 139 min | Colour<br />
Sameera, a nurse and mother<br />
to 8 year old Ibru.,Recently<br />
takes up a job in war-torn<br />
Iraq to overcome financial<br />
liabilities. Appallingly the<br />
hospital she works at is<br />
captured soon after.<br />
Director Mahesh Narayanan<br />
Producer Shebin Backer, Anto Joseph<br />
Screenplay Mahesh Narayanan, P V Shaji Kumar<br />
Cinematographer Sanu Jose Varghese<br />
Editor Abhilash Balachandran<br />
Cast Parvathy, Fahad Faasil, Kunchacko Boban, Asif Ali,<br />
Prakash Belawadi<br />
Village Rockstars<br />
Dhunu (10) lives in remote<br />
Assam amidst crushing<br />
deprivation. A free spirit, she<br />
firmly believes in the power<br />
of her grand dreams. Dhunu<br />
is determined to form a rock<br />
band with the boys in her<br />
village and wants to be the<br />
proud owner of a guitar. She<br />
remains undeterred in the<br />
face of gender discrimination.<br />
India | <strong>2017</strong> | Assamese | 87 min | Colour<br />
Director Rima Das<br />
Producer Rima Das<br />
Story Rima Das<br />
Screenplay Rima Das<br />
Cinematographer Rima Das<br />
Editor Rima Das<br />
Cast Banita Das, Basanti Das<br />
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ICFT UNESCO<br />
Gandhi Medal<br />
A competitive section for films that explore the<br />
themes of peace, harmony and unity<br />
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Amok<br />
A man is murdered, but the<br />
person responsible avoids<br />
being discovered and<br />
arrested. A few years later,<br />
a police inspector suspects<br />
he has found evidence in<br />
a newly-published book<br />
entitled Amok.<br />
Khibula<br />
A man, elected by his people<br />
to become the head of a<br />
newly independent country,<br />
gets ousted by a coup d´état<br />
shortly after. He flees into<br />
the mountains, where loyal<br />
troops are rumoured to be<br />
waiting for him. He plans<br />
to come back from exile to<br />
regain his power.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Poland | <strong>2017</strong> | Polish | 108 min | Colour<br />
Director Kasia Adamik<br />
Producer Beata Pisula<br />
Screenplay Richard Karpala<br />
Cinematographer Tomasz Naumiuk<br />
Editor Michal Czarnecki<br />
Cast Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Lukasz Simlat, Zofia Wichlacz,<br />
Zbigniew Stryj, Miroslaw Haniszewski, Jan Peszek<br />
✪ ASIA PREMIERE<br />
Georgia, Germany, France | <strong>2017</strong> | Georgian | 98 min | Colour<br />
Director George Ovashvili<br />
Producer George Ovashvili, Eike Goreczka, Christoph Kukula,<br />
Guillaume de Seille<br />
Screenplay Roelof-Jan Minneboo<br />
Cinematographer Enrico Lucidi<br />
Editor Sun-Min Kim<br />
Cast Hossein Mahjoob, Kishvard Manvelishvili, Nodar Dzidziguri,<br />
Zurab Antelava<br />
Kshitij – A Horizon<br />
Vacchi is 12 and wants to<br />
study Poverty-ridden, her<br />
family leaves their village to<br />
find livelihood as labourers<br />
in sugarcane fields. Her<br />
unwavering determination<br />
however, helps her combat<br />
problems and brings her<br />
closer to the inevitable<br />
showdown with her father.<br />
The Last Painting<br />
A student and political activist<br />
becomes the new housemate<br />
of a solitary painter. He is<br />
brusque and disillusioned,<br />
she is filled with hope.<br />
Outside, Taiwan is heading<br />
towards new presidential<br />
elections. A thriller about<br />
politics, art and murder.<br />
✪ WORLD PREMIERE<br />
India | <strong>2017</strong> | Marathi | 95 min | Colour<br />
Director Manouj Kadaamh<br />
Producer Navroz Prasla, Karishma Mhadolkar<br />
Screenplay Manouj Kadaamh<br />
Cinematographer Yogesh Rajguru<br />
Editor Neeraj Voraliya<br />
Cast Upendra Limaye, Kanchan Jadhav, Vaishnavi Tangde,<br />
Arnav Mandrubkar, Rajkumar Tangde, Manoj Joshi, Vidyadhar Joshi,<br />
Sanjay Mone, Prakash Dhotre, Akansha Pingale,<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Taiwan | <strong>2017</strong> | Mandarin | 108 min | Colour<br />
Director Hung-i Chen<br />
Producer Ying-chuan Wei, Gene Yao<br />
Screenplay Hung-i Chen, Ying-chuan Wei<br />
Cinematographer Jing-Pin Yu<br />
Editor Hung-i Chen<br />
Cast J.C. Lin, Ning Chang, Wei-Yi Lin<br />
Manusangada<br />
Beyond the grief that his<br />
father’s demise causes,<br />
Kolappan dreads the<br />
prospect of the burial that<br />
requires a low caste Dalit,<br />
to carry the body through<br />
a thorny, unformed route<br />
to an uncertain graveyard.<br />
Deeply disturbed with the<br />
inequalities, Kolappan begins<br />
a protest.<br />
Poorna<br />
A 13-year-old Adivasi girl<br />
from Telangana becomes the<br />
youngest girl in history to<br />
climb Mount Everest. The film<br />
follows her incredible journey<br />
to the pinnacle.<br />
India | 2016 | Tamil | 93 min | Colour<br />
Director Amshan Kumar<br />
Producer Ganan Natkunan, Thara<br />
Screenplay Amshan Kumar<br />
Cinematographer P.S. Dharan<br />
Editor Dhanasekar<br />
Cast Rajeev Anand, A.S. Sasi Kumar, Sheela Rajkumar, Manimegalai<br />
India | <strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | 100 min | Colour<br />
Director Rahul Bose<br />
Producer Rahul Bose<br />
Screenplay Prashant Pandey, Shreya Dev Verma<br />
Cinematographer Subhransu<br />
Editor Manan Mehta<br />
Cast Aditi Inamdar, Rahul Bose, S. Mariya<br />
Sales agent Rahul Bose Productions<br />
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Railway Children<br />
India | <strong>2017</strong> | Kannada | 155 min | Colour<br />
Raju, a 12-year-old runaway<br />
kid, discovers the sordid<br />
aspects of living life on<br />
a railway platform. Soon,<br />
falling prey to a gang dealing<br />
in illegal platform businesses,<br />
he finds a friend in Jollu who<br />
helps him learn the ropes of<br />
the job at hand. Unable to see<br />
the dangers, they attempt to<br />
start a venture on their own.<br />
Director Prithvi Konanur<br />
Producer Tin Drum Beats<br />
Screenplay Prithvi Konanur<br />
Cinematographer Eswaran Thangavel<br />
Editor Shivkumar Swamy<br />
Cast Manohara, Yash Shetty, Srikanth, Hanumant Raju, Narasappa<br />
Women of the<br />
Weeping River<br />
Farida and Satra, both bound<br />
by a tragedy and the turmoil<br />
of a bloody feud, cross paths<br />
amidst escalating violence<br />
rooted in a land of disputes.<br />
They get involved in hopes<br />
to undo a conflict stretching<br />
back to past generations.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
UK, USA | 2016 | English, Spanish | 133 min | Colour<br />
Director Sheron Dayoc<br />
Producer Sheron Dayoc<br />
Screenplay Sheron Dayoc<br />
Cinematographer Rommel Sales<br />
Editor Carlo Francisco Manatad<br />
Cast Laila Ulao, Sharifa Pearlsia Ali-Dans, Taha G. Daranda Tan,<br />
Miriam Zimadar-Raper<br />
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Cinema of the<br />
World<br />
A section that celebrates the<br />
notable films of the past year from<br />
across the world<br />
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3/4 (Three Quarters)<br />
Young pianist Mila prepares<br />
for an audition abroad. Her<br />
brother Niki distracts her with<br />
his unwanted talent for the<br />
absurd. Their astrophysicist<br />
father Todor seems incapable<br />
of dealing with his children’s<br />
anxieties. A portrait of a<br />
family during their last<br />
summer together.<br />
9 Fingers<br />
In the middle of the night,<br />
Magloire smokes a cigarette<br />
in an abandoned train station<br />
when the police show up for<br />
an identity check. He starts<br />
running with no luggage<br />
and no future until he meets<br />
a dying man from whom he<br />
inherits a fortune.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Bulgaria, Germany | <strong>2017</strong> | Bulgarian | 82 min | Colour<br />
Director Ilian Metev<br />
Producer Ingmar Trost, Ilian Metev<br />
Screenplay Betina Ip, Ilian Metev<br />
Cinematographer Julian Atanassov<br />
Editor Ilian Metev<br />
Cast Mila Mikhova, Niki Mashalov, Todor Veltchev<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
France, Portugal | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 99 min | B&W, Colour<br />
Director F.J. Ossang<br />
Producer Sbastien Haguenauer, Bruce Satarenko, Lus Urbano<br />
Screenplay F.J. Ossang<br />
Cinematographer Simon Roca<br />
Editor Walter Mauriot<br />
Cast Damien Bonnard, Diogo Dria<br />
Barrage<br />
Catherine returns to<br />
Luxembourg to catch up<br />
with her daughter Alba, who<br />
has been looked after by<br />
Catherine's mother all these<br />
years. Elisabeth, however<br />
doesn't want to let go of her<br />
protigé. Frustrated Catherine<br />
kidnaps Alba and leaves.<br />
Luxembourg, Belgium, France | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 112 min | Colour<br />
Director Laura Schroeder<br />
Producer Pol Cruchten, Sébastien Delloye, Jeanne Geiben,<br />
Sebastian Schelenz<br />
Screenplay Marie Nimier, Laura Schroeder<br />
Cinematographer Hélène Louvart<br />
Editor Damien Keyeux<br />
Cast Lolita Chammah, Themis Pauwels, Isabelle Huppert<br />
Birds Without<br />
Names<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Japan | <strong>2017</strong> | Japanese | 123 min | Colour<br />
Towako switches between two<br />
modes – having sex with her<br />
new beau, and craving it from<br />
her missing ex-lover. Jinji her<br />
unlikely roommate begins to<br />
lurk in everywhere she goes.<br />
Her ex-lover's mysterious<br />
disappearance, has her<br />
reconsidering whether his<br />
disappearance is really such<br />
a mystery after all.<br />
Director Kazuya Shiraishi<br />
Producer Kazumi Fukase<br />
Screenplay Taeko Asano<br />
Cinematographer Takahiro Haibara<br />
Editor Hitomi Kato<br />
Cast Yu Aoi, Sadawo Abe, Tori Matsuzaka, Yutaka Takenouchi<br />
Black Level<br />
Loneliness dwells in a big<br />
city; Kostya, the wedding<br />
photographer, dwells there<br />
too. He is surrounded by<br />
happy people celebrating<br />
special moments in their<br />
lives. Kostya is turning 50,<br />
and is drastically losing<br />
everything he used to cherish.<br />
Will he cope with his despair<br />
and regain the joy of life?<br />
Bloody Milk<br />
Pierre is a 30-year-old dairy<br />
farmer. His life revolves<br />
around the family farm he<br />
took over, when the first cases<br />
of an epidemic disease break<br />
out in France, Pierre finds<br />
out that one of his animals is<br />
infected. He will do whatever<br />
it takes to save them.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Ukraine | <strong>2017</strong> | No Dialogues | 91 min | Colour<br />
Director Valentyn Vasyanovych<br />
Producer Valentyn Vasyanovych, Iya Myslytska, Dennis Ivanov<br />
Screenplay Valentyn Vasyanovych<br />
Cinematographer Valentyn Vasyanovych<br />
Cast Kostyantyn Mokhnach, Kateryna Molchanova<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
France | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 90 min | Colour<br />
Director Hubert Charuel<br />
Producer Stéphanie Bermann, Alexis Dulguerian<br />
Screenplay Claude le Pape, Hubert Charuel<br />
Cinematographer Sebastien Goepfert<br />
Editor Julie Lena, Lilian Corbeille, Grégoire Pontécaille<br />
Cast Swann Arlaud, Sara Giraudeau, Bouli Lanners, Isabelle Candelier,<br />
Jean-Paul Charuel, Marc Barb<br />
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The Boy with the<br />
Topknot<br />
✪ WORLD PREMIERE<br />
UK | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 90 min | Colour<br />
For Sathnam Sanghera,<br />
growing up in Wolverhampton<br />
in the 1980s was a confusing<br />
business. And then there was<br />
his family, whose strange and<br />
often difficult behaviour he<br />
took for granted until, at the<br />
age of twenty-four, Sathnam<br />
made a discovery that<br />
changed everything he ever<br />
thought he knew about them.<br />
Director Lynsey Miller<br />
Producer Nisha Parti<br />
Screenplay Mick Ford, Sathnam Sanghera<br />
Cinematographer Adam Etherington<br />
Editor Sarah Brewerton<br />
Cast Sacha Dhawan, Anupam Kher, Deepti Naval, Joanna Vanderham,<br />
Kiran Sonia Sawar and Sam Otto.<br />
The Breadwinner<br />
Eleven-year-old Parvana<br />
lives in war-torn Kabul,<br />
Afghanistan. One day,<br />
her father is arrested, and<br />
Parvana’s life is changed<br />
forever. Parvana decides to<br />
disguise herself as a boy,<br />
Although in danger of being<br />
discovered, she resolves to<br />
find a way to rescue her father.<br />
✪ ASIA PREMIERE<br />
Canada, Ireland, Luxembourg | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 93 min | Colour<br />
Director Nora Twomey<br />
Producer Anthony Leo, Paul Young, Angelina Jolie, Andrew Rosen,<br />
Tomm Moore, Stephan Roelants<br />
Screenplay Anita Doron, Deborah Ellis<br />
Editor Darragh Byrne<br />
Cast Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif,<br />
Ali Badshah, Kawa Ada, Noorin Gulamgaus<br />
Breath<br />
A little Iranian girl named<br />
Bahar lives a life spun from<br />
folklore and stories, always<br />
with her head in a book. She<br />
is at the centre of a country in<br />
turmoil. Over the years, Bahar<br />
finds that daydreaming is the<br />
only way that she can cope<br />
with the pain and suffering<br />
that warring humans inflict on<br />
one another.<br />
The Cakemaker<br />
Tomas, a Berlin pastry chef,<br />
who learns that Oren, his<br />
Israeli lover, has died in a<br />
car accident in Jerusalem.<br />
Unmoored by his loss,<br />
Thomas journeys to Israel to<br />
begin the process of healing.<br />
Desiring to better know his<br />
lost love, he inserts himself<br />
into the life of Oren’s wife and<br />
young son.<br />
Iran | <strong>2017</strong> | Persian | 112 min | Colour<br />
Director Narges Abyar<br />
Producer Mohammad Hossein Ghasemi, Abouzar Pour Mohammadi<br />
Screenplay Narges Abyar<br />
Cinematographer Saed Nikzat<br />
Editor Sajjad Pahlavanzadeh<br />
Cast Gelare Abasi, Mehran Ahmadi, Jamshid Hashempur<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Germany, Israel | <strong>2017</strong> | English, German, Hebrew | 104 min | Colour<br />
Director Ofir Raul Graizer<br />
Producer Itai Tamir, Mathias Schwerbrock<br />
Screenplay Ofir Raul Graizer<br />
Cinematographer Omri Aloni<br />
Editor Michal Oppenheim<br />
Cast Tim Kalkhof, Sarah Adler, Zohar Shtrauss<br />
Candelaria<br />
With embargo at its peak,<br />
the Cold War comes to an<br />
end and the Soviet Union<br />
disintegrates. But for<br />
Candelaria and Victor Hugo<br />
life continues at a slow pace.<br />
One day, the monotony is<br />
broken when Candelaria finds<br />
a video camera hidden in the<br />
dirty sheets of the hotel where<br />
she works.<br />
✪ ASIA PREMIERE<br />
Colombia, Germany, Norway, Argentina, Cuba | <strong>2017</strong> | Spanish | 88<br />
min | Colour<br />
Director Jhonny Hendrix<br />
Producer Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza, Juan Diego Villegas,<br />
Federico Eibuszyc, Barbara Sarasola-Day, Claudia Calviño<br />
Screenplay Mara Camila Arias, Jhonny Hendrix, Abel Arcosoto,<br />
Carlos Quintela<br />
Cinematographer Soledad Rodrguez<br />
Editor Anita Remn, Mauricio Leiva, Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza<br />
Cast Manuel Viveros, Alden Knigth<br />
Children Of The<br />
Night<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Italy, Belgium | 2016 | Italian | 85 min | Colour<br />
Giulio, a 17-year old, is sent<br />
to a boarding school in an<br />
isolated place in the Alps.<br />
Where iron-clad rules limit all<br />
contact with the outside. He<br />
makes friends with Edoardo<br />
and begin to frequent a<br />
nightclub. Suddenly, they<br />
discover that the escapades<br />
are part of the school’s<br />
educational programme.<br />
Director Andrea De Sica<br />
Producer Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, Joseph Rouschop<br />
Screenplay Andrea De Sica, Mariano Di Nardo, Gloria Malatesta<br />
Cinematographer Stefano Falivene<br />
Editor Alberto Masi<br />
Cast Vicenzo Crea, Ludovico Succio, Fabrizio Rongione, Yuliia Sobol,<br />
Luigi Bignone, Petro Monfreda<br />
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A Ciambra<br />
Pio Amato at 14, drinks,<br />
smokes and is one of the few<br />
to easily slide between the<br />
region’s factions. Pio follows<br />
his older brother Cosimo<br />
everywhere. When Cosimo<br />
disappears, Pio sets out to<br />
prove he’s ready to step into<br />
his big brother’s shoes but<br />
finds himself faced with an<br />
impossible decision.<br />
Close-Knit<br />
One spring, Hiromi, mother<br />
of an 11-year-old girl<br />
Tomo, leaves home for the<br />
umpteenth time. Tomo goes<br />
to Makio’s place, who lives<br />
with a transwoman Rinko.<br />
They start to live a life<br />
together. One day, Rinko<br />
teaches Tomo to knit in order<br />
to control her temper, just like<br />
her mother did.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Italy, Germany, France, USA | <strong>2017</strong> | Italian | 120 min | Colour<br />
Director Jonas Carpignano<br />
Producer Paolo Carpignano, Jon Coplon, Christoph Daniel, Rodrigo<br />
Teixeira, Ryan Zacarias, Gwyn Sannia<br />
Screenplay Jonas Carpignano<br />
Cinematographer Tim Curtin<br />
Editor Affonso Gonçalves<br />
Cast Pio Amato, Koudous Seihon, Damiano Amato<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Japan | <strong>2017</strong> | Japanese | 127 min | Colour<br />
Director Naoko Ogigami<br />
Producer Kenzô Ishiguro, Noriaki Takagi, Masashi Igarashi<br />
Screenplay Naoko Ogigami<br />
Cinematographer Kozo Shibasaki<br />
Editor Shinichi Fujima<br />
Cast Tôma Ikuta, Kenta Kiritani, Eiko Koike<br />
Closeness<br />
24-year-old Ilana works<br />
in her father’s garage to<br />
help him make ends meet.<br />
One evening, her extended<br />
family and friends gather to<br />
celebrate the engagement of<br />
her younger brother David.<br />
Later that night, the young<br />
couple is kidnapped, and a<br />
ransom demand delivered.<br />
Daybreak<br />
Leta has not been able to pay<br />
her rent for several months.<br />
When she and her one-yearold<br />
son are thrown out of<br />
their apartment, they move in<br />
with Sophie, an old woman<br />
confined to bed. In order to<br />
keep her job and a roof over<br />
their head, Leta has to keep<br />
Sophie alive at any cost.<br />
Russia | <strong>2017</strong> | Russian | 118 min | Colour<br />
Director Kantemir Balagov<br />
Producer Eduard Pichugin, Aleksandr Sokurov, Nikolay Yankin<br />
Screenplay Kantemir Balagov, Anton Yarush<br />
Cinematographer Artem Emelianov<br />
Editor Kantemir Balagov<br />
Cast Atrem Cipin, Olga Dragunova, Veniamin Kac<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Albania | <strong>2017</strong> | Albanian | 85 min | Colour<br />
Director Gentian Koçi<br />
Producer Gentian Koçi<br />
Screenplay Gentian Koçi<br />
Cinematographer Ilias Adamis<br />
Editor Christos Giannakopoulos, Bonita Papastathi<br />
Cast Ornela Kapetani, Suzana Prifti, Kasem Hoxha<br />
Disappearance<br />
On a cold winter night in<br />
modern Tehran, a young<br />
couple run into a serious<br />
problem, they have just a<br />
few hours to come up with<br />
a solution. They go from<br />
hospital to hospital in search<br />
of help, but none of the<br />
hospitals will admit the young<br />
woman.<br />
El Inca<br />
The story of undefeated twotime<br />
World Boxing Champion<br />
Edwin Valero. It's a biography<br />
about talent and charisma,<br />
love and ambition, He set<br />
a world record by winning<br />
his first 18 fights with a<br />
first-round knockout. El Inca<br />
tells of an exhilarating rise,<br />
a tragic fall, and the riveting<br />
displays of athletic mastery.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Iran, Oatar | <strong>2017</strong> | Persian | 89 min | Colour<br />
Director Ali Asgari<br />
Producer Pouria Heidary Oureh, Ali Sadraie<br />
Screenplay Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari<br />
Cinematographer Ashkan Ashkani<br />
Editor Ehsan Vaseghi<br />
Cast Sadaf Asgari, Amirreza Ranjbaran<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Venezuela | 2016 | Spanish | 128 ßmin | Colour<br />
Director Ignacio Castillo Cottin<br />
Producer Nathalie Sar - Shalom<br />
Screenplay Ignacio Castillo Cottin, Ada Hernández<br />
Cinematographer Alexandra Henao<br />
Editor Maikel Jimenez<br />
Cast Alexander Leterni, Scarlett Jaimes, Miguel Ferrari<br />
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After the mysterious<br />
disappearance of his wife<br />
Madalena, Elon emerges in<br />
a sleepless journey through<br />
the darkest places of the city<br />
trying to figure out what may<br />
have happened to her, without<br />
losing his sanity on the way.<br />
Euthanizer is a violent<br />
summer noir. It tells the story<br />
of Veijo Haukka, a 50-yearold<br />
mechanic, whose second<br />
job is to put sick pets to<br />
sleep. But what happens when<br />
he decides to save the wrong<br />
person’s dog?<br />
Elon Doesn’t<br />
Believe; in Death<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Brazil | <strong>2017</strong> | Portuguese | 75 min | Colour<br />
Director Ricardo Alves Jr.<br />
Producer Ricardo Alves Jr.<br />
Screenplay Ricardo Alves Jr., Diego Hoefel, Germano Melo,<br />
João Salaviza<br />
Cinematographer Matheus Rocha<br />
Editor Frederico Benevides, Michael Wahrmann<br />
Cast Rômulo Braga, Clara Choveaux, Lourenço Mutarelli<br />
Euthanizer<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Finland | <strong>2017</strong> | Finnish | 85 min | Colour<br />
Director Teemu Nikki<br />
Producer Jani Pösö, Marja Pihlaja<br />
Screenplay Teemu Nikki<br />
Cinematographer Sari Aaltonen<br />
Editor Teemu Nikki<br />
Cast Hannamaija Nikander, Jari Virman, Heikki Nousiainen<br />
A Fantastic Woman<br />
After her middle-aged<br />
boyfriend passes away,<br />
Marina, a young transgender<br />
woman, is treated with<br />
suspicion. A woman detective<br />
investigates Marina to see if<br />
she was involved in his death.<br />
Father And Son<br />
Moc is a rural river fisherman<br />
in Vietnam, raising his son Ca<br />
in harmony with the land. Ca<br />
has a little yellow chick for a<br />
friend and enjoys running<br />
after airplanes, calling them<br />
birds from the city. When Ca<br />
falls ill, Moc must make the<br />
harrowing journey to the city<br />
with his son in order to seek<br />
treatment.<br />
Chile | <strong>2017</strong> | Spanish | 103 min | Colour<br />
Director Sebastin Lelio<br />
Producer Juan de Dios Larran, Pablo Larran, Sebastin Lelio,<br />
Gonzalo Maza<br />
Screenplay Sebastin Lelio, Gonzalo Maza<br />
Cinematographer Benjamn Echazarreta<br />
Editor Soledad Salfate<br />
Cast Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Kuppenheim,<br />
Nicolas Saavedra, Amparo Noguera<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Vietnam | 2016 | Vietnamese | 90 min | Colour<br />
Director Luong Dinh Dung<br />
Producer Nguyen Chi Dung, Nguyen Thi Huong<br />
Screenplay Bui Kim Quy, Luong Dinh Dung<br />
Cinematographer Ly Thai Dung<br />
Editor Pham Thi Hao, Julie Beziau<br />
Cast Ngo The Quan, Do Trong Tan<br />
Félicité<br />
Félicité is a Congolese<br />
singer who desperately needs<br />
money after her 14-year-old<br />
son Samo suffers a serious<br />
accident. She soon finds<br />
financial and emotional<br />
support from Tabu, one of the<br />
regulars in the bar where she<br />
performs.<br />
Final Portrait<br />
Alberto Giacometti, the<br />
famous artist, bumps into his<br />
old friend, the American critic<br />
James Lord, and begs that<br />
he sits for a portrait. Lord is<br />
flattered by the request and as<br />
the days go by and turn into<br />
weeks seemingly with no end<br />
in sight he realises his entire<br />
life has been hijacked by this<br />
erratic genius.<br />
France, Senegal | <strong>2017</strong> | Lingala, French | 123 min | Colour<br />
Director Alain Gomis<br />
Producer Arnaud Dommerc<br />
Screenplay Alain Gomis<br />
Cinematographer Céline Bozon<br />
Editor Alain Gomis, Fabrice Rouaud<br />
Cast Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka,<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
UK, US | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 90 min | Colour<br />
Director Stanley Tucci<br />
Producer Nik Bower, Gail Egan, Ilann Girard<br />
Screenplay Stanley Tucci<br />
Cinematographer Danny Cohen<br />
Editor Camilla Toniolo<br />
Cast Armie Hammer, Geoffrey Rush, Clmence Posy, Tony Shalhoub,<br />
James Faulkner<br />
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Frost<br />
Frost tells the story of Rokas,<br />
a young Lithuanian man<br />
who wants to understand<br />
war in order to understand<br />
his people. On a convoy<br />
transporting humanitarian<br />
aid from Lithuania to the<br />
Ukraine, he meets a couple<br />
of reporters. The trio will<br />
be forced to overcome their<br />
psychological limits.<br />
A Gentle Creature<br />
A woman lives alone on<br />
the outskirts of a village<br />
in Russia. One day she<br />
receives a parcel she sent to<br />
her incarcerated husband,<br />
marked ‘return to sender’.<br />
Shocked and confused, the<br />
woman has no choice but<br />
to travel to the prison in a<br />
remote region of the country<br />
in search of an explanation.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Lithuania, France, Ukraine, Poland | <strong>2017</strong> | Lithuanian | 90 min |<br />
Colour<br />
Director Sarunas Bartas<br />
Producer Valery Kalmykov, Maria Blicharska, Rémi Burah<br />
Screenplay Sarunas Bartas, Anna Cohen-Yanay<br />
Cinematographer Eitvydas Doskus<br />
Editor Dounia Sichov<br />
Cast Vanessa Paradis, Weronika Rosati, Andrzej Chyra<br />
France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands | <strong>2017</strong> | Russian | 143 min<br />
| Colour<br />
Director Sergei Loznitsa<br />
Producer Marianne Slot<br />
Screenplay Sergei Loznitsa<br />
Cinematographer Oleg Mutu<br />
Editor Danielius Kokanauskis<br />
Cast Vasilina Makovtseva, Marina Kleshcheva, Lia Akhedzhakova,<br />
Valeriu Andriuta, Boris Kamorzin, Sergei Kolesov<br />
Her Love Boils<br />
Bathwater<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Japan | 2016 | Japanese | 125 min | Colour<br />
The Sachino family used to<br />
run the Sachi no Yu bathhouse<br />
but it has been dormant since<br />
the sudden disappearance of<br />
the father a year ago. Futaba,.<br />
The cheerful and determined<br />
mother works part-time and<br />
brings up her daughter on her<br />
own, until one day she is told<br />
she has only a little time left<br />
to live.<br />
Director Ryôta Nakano<br />
Producer Kazumi Fukase, Yusuke Wakabayashi<br />
Screenplay Ryôta Nakano<br />
Cinematographer Yoshihiro Ikeuchi<br />
Sound Design Masahide Koura<br />
Cast Rie Miyazawa, Hana Sugisaki, Tori Matsuzaka, Joe Odagiri<br />
High Noon Story<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Iran | <strong>2017</strong> | Farsi | 110 min | Colour<br />
After the dismissal of<br />
president, Bani-Sadr, by<br />
the Iranian parliament,<br />
terrorist groups begin to<br />
assassinate Iranian officials.<br />
The government and the<br />
revolutionary guards are after<br />
the terrorists. A member of<br />
the guard and a woman from<br />
the terrorist groups know<br />
each other.<br />
Director Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian<br />
Producer Seyed Mahmoud Razavi<br />
Screenplay Ebrahim Amini and Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian<br />
Cinematographer Hadi Behrouz<br />
Editor Sajad Pahlavan Zadeh<br />
Cast Mehrdad Sedighian, Ahmad Mehranfar, Javad Ezati, Mehdi<br />
Hostages<br />
The Georgian Soviet Socialist<br />
Republic in 1983. Border<br />
guards are keeping an<br />
eye on a group of young<br />
Georgians who are enjoying<br />
a boisterous dip in the Black<br />
Sea. The group includes Anna<br />
and Nika, who are about to<br />
marry. Post the wedding they<br />
plan to hijack the aircraft at<br />
gunpoint..<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Georgia, Russia, Poland | <strong>2017</strong> | Georgian, Russian | 103 min |<br />
Colour<br />
Director Rezo Gigineishvili<br />
Producer Mikhail Finogenov, Tamara Tatishvili, Vladimer Katcharava,<br />
Rezo Gigineishvili<br />
Screenplay Lasha Bughadze, Rezo Gigineishvili<br />
Cinematographer Vladislav Opelyants<br />
Editor Jaroslav Kaminski, Andrey Gamov<br />
Cast Irakli Kvirikadze, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Avtandil Makharadze<br />
The House by the<br />
Sea<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
France | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 107 min | Colour<br />
By a little bay near Marseille<br />
lies a picturesque villa owned<br />
by an old man. His three<br />
children have gathered by his<br />
side for his last days: Angela,<br />
an actress living in Paris;<br />
Joseph, who has just fallen in<br />
love with a girl half his age;<br />
and Armand, the only one<br />
who stayed behind to run the<br />
family’s small restaurant.<br />
Director Robert Guédiguian<br />
Producer Robert Guédiguian, Marc Bordure<br />
Screenplay Robert Guédiguian, Serge Valletti<br />
Cinematographer Pierre Milon<br />
Editor Bernard Sasia<br />
Cast Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan,<br />
Anaïs Demoustier, Robinson Stévenin, Jacques Boudet<br />
42 INTERNATIONAL CINEMA <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong>
I Dream in Another<br />
Language<br />
Martin arrives in a remote<br />
Mexican village to record a<br />
dying, ancient indigenous<br />
language. He finds the last<br />
two speakers of the language,<br />
but they refuse to speak to<br />
each other because of a 50-<br />
year grudge.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Mexico, Netherlands | <strong>2017</strong> | Spanish, English | 103 min | Colour<br />
Director Ernesto Contreras<br />
Producer Mónica Lozano, Luis Albores, Erika vila, Eamon O’ Farrill,<br />
Dijana Olcay-Hot, Raymond Van Der Kaaij<br />
Screenplay Carlos Contreras<br />
Cinematographer Tonatiuh Martinez<br />
Editor Jorge Macaya<br />
Cast Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, José Manuel Poncelis, Eligio Melndez<br />
In Blue<br />
✪ ASIA PREMIERE<br />
A sturdy flight attendant has to<br />
deliver a child in mid-air and<br />
gets involved in a confusing<br />
mother/lover relationship<br />
with a boy who’s living under<br />
the streets of Bucharest.<br />
Netherlands, Romania | <strong>2017</strong> | Dutch, English, Romanian | 102 min<br />
| Colour<br />
Director Jaap van Heusden<br />
Producer Marc Bary<br />
Screenplay Jan-Willem den Bok, Jaap van Heusden<br />
Cinematographer Melle van Essen<br />
Editor Jasper Quispel<br />
Cast Maria Kraakman, Bogdan Iancu, Ellis van den Brink<br />
Insyriated<br />
Trapped inside her house in a<br />
city under siege, Oum Yazan,<br />
mother of three, turns her flat<br />
into a safe harbour for her<br />
family and neighbours, trying<br />
to protect them from the war<br />
outside. Maintaining the thin<br />
balance of routine inside the<br />
walls becomes a matter of life<br />
and death.<br />
The Journey<br />
Sara enters Baghdad station<br />
with sinister intentions for<br />
its reopening ceremony. As<br />
she braces to commit an<br />
unthinkable act, her plans<br />
are drastically altered by an<br />
unwanted encounter with<br />
Salam. Now hostage to Sara’s<br />
confused and deluded plan,<br />
he battles desperately to<br />
appeal to her humanity.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Belgium, France | <strong>2017</strong> | Arabic | 85 min | Colour<br />
Director Philippe Van Leeuw<br />
Producer Guillaume Malandrin, Serge Zeitoun, Pierre Sarraf<br />
Screenplay Philippe Van Leeuw<br />
Cinematographer Virginie Surdej<br />
Editor Gladys Joujou<br />
Cast Hiam Abbass, Diamand Abou Abboud<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Iraq, UK, Qatar, France, Netherlands | <strong>2017</strong> | Arabic, English | 82 min<br />
| Colour<br />
Director Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji<br />
Producer Isabelle Stead, Mohamed Jabarah Al-daradji, Hélène Cases<br />
Screenplay Isabelle Stead, Mohamed Jabarah Al-daradji<br />
Cinematographer Duraid Munajim<br />
Editor Mohamed Jabarah Al-daradji, Pascale Chavance, Herve De Luz<br />
Cast Zahraa Gandour, Ameer Ali Jabarah<br />
Let the Sunshine In<br />
Inspired by, but not adapted<br />
from Roland Barthes’s<br />
A Lover’s Discourse:<br />
Fragments, Claire Denis’<br />
new film is about a single<br />
woman, Isabelle, an artist and<br />
divorced mother living alone<br />
in Paris and looking for true<br />
love.<br />
Life Beyond Me<br />
The story hinges on Sylvie’s<br />
son Felipe, who was abducted<br />
at the age of five by his<br />
father, Pablo. Four years<br />
and a few hiccups by social<br />
services later, thanks to<br />
Pablo’s death and the work<br />
of a private detective, Sylvie<br />
picks up Felipe’s trace in the<br />
countryside in Uruguay,<br />
France | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 95 min | Colour<br />
Director Claire Denis<br />
Producer Olivier Delbosc<br />
Screenplay Claire Denis, Christine Angot<br />
Cinematographer Agnès Godard<br />
Editor Guy Lecorne<br />
Cast Juliette Binoche, Gérard Depardieu, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi<br />
✪ ASIA PREMIERE<br />
France, Uruguay | <strong>2017</strong> | Spanish, French | 96 min | Colour<br />
Director Olivier Peyon<br />
Producer Bertrand Faivre<br />
Screenplay Olivier Peyon, Cécilia Rouaud<br />
Cinematographer Alexis Kavyrchine<br />
Editor Tina Baz<br />
Cast Isabelle Carré, María Dupláa, Ramzy Bedia<br />
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
43
Light Up!<br />
Alevtina Romanova is a penal<br />
officer in a women’s prison<br />
colony. Her image of a stern<br />
officer is betrayed only by<br />
her voice – one that is envied<br />
by opera stars. She has<br />
been embarrassed of her gift<br />
since childhood. Her secret<br />
is revealed when an inmate<br />
records a video and uploads<br />
it on the internet.<br />
Love Me Not<br />
A couple hires a young<br />
migrant to be their surrogate<br />
mother and moves her to their<br />
beautiful villa. While the man<br />
is away for work,she is and<br />
the girl start to bond and<br />
enjoy the couple’s wealthy<br />
way of life.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Russia | <strong>2017</strong> | Russian | 104 min | Colour<br />
Director Kirill Pletnev<br />
Producer Ruben Dishdishyan<br />
Screenplay Kirill Pletnev<br />
Cinematographer Sergey Mihalchuk<br />
Editor Vasiliy Klepatskiy<br />
Cast Inga Oboldina, Viktoria Isakova, Vladinir Ilyin, Anna Ukolova<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Greece, France | <strong>2017</strong> | Greek | 99 min | Colour<br />
Director Alexandros Avranas<br />
Producer Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Kristina Larsen<br />
Screenplay Alexandros Avranas, Kostas Peroulis<br />
Cinematographer David Pimm<br />
Editor Christos Giannakopoulos<br />
Cast Eleni Roussinou, Christos Loulis<br />
Loveless<br />
Zhenya and Boris are going<br />
through a vicious divorce.<br />
Already embarking on new<br />
lives, each with a new partner,<br />
they are impatient to start<br />
again, to turn the page –<br />
even if it means threatening<br />
to abandon their 12-yearold<br />
son Alyosha. Until, after<br />
witnessing one of their fights,<br />
Alyosha disappears.<br />
M<br />
Lila and Mo meet at a bus<br />
stop. Lila has a paralysing<br />
speech impediment. Mo is<br />
chatty and exuberant. Lila<br />
is preparing for her exams.<br />
Mo illegally races cars for<br />
a living. Opposites attract,<br />
and they fall in love. But Mo<br />
carries a secret burden.<br />
Russia, France, Belgium, Germany | <strong>2017</strong> | Russian | 127 min |<br />
Colour<br />
Director Andrey Zvyagintsev<br />
Producer Alexandre Rodnyansky, Serguey Melkumov<br />
Screenplay Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Gleb Fetisov<br />
Cinematographer Mikhail Krichman<br />
Editor Anna Mass<br />
Production Designer Andrey Ponkratov<br />
Cast Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Varvara Shmykova<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
France | 2016 | French | 110 min | Colour<br />
Director Sara Forestier<br />
Producer Denis Freyd, Hugo Selignac, Seg Selignal, Vincent Mazel<br />
Screenplay Sara Forestier<br />
Cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman<br />
Editor Eric Armbruster<br />
Cast Redouanne Harjane, Sara Forestier, Jean-Pierre Léaud<br />
Mrs. Hyde<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
France | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 95 min | Colour<br />
Mrs. Géquil is a shy teacher<br />
despised by her colleagues<br />
and students. On a stormy<br />
night, while conducting an<br />
experiment in her lab, she is<br />
struck by lightning and faints.<br />
When she wakes up, she feels<br />
different and the appearance<br />
of the dangerous Mrs.<br />
Hyde soon impacts on Mrs.<br />
Géquil’s teaching methods.<br />
Director Serge Bozon<br />
Producer David Thion, Philippe Martin<br />
Screenplay Axelle Ropert, Serge Bozon<br />
Cinematographer Céline Bozon<br />
Editor Franois Quiqueré<br />
Cast Romain Duris, Isabelle Huppert, Jose Garcia, Adda Senani,<br />
Guillaume Verdier<br />
Marlina the Murderer<br />
in Four Acts<br />
Marlina lives quietly in<br />
Sumba until one day a man<br />
named Markus and his gang<br />
try to rob her house. She<br />
kills him. Eventually, she is<br />
haunted by Markus, and her<br />
life turns 180 degrees.<br />
Indonesia, France, Malaysia, Thailand | <strong>2017</strong> | Indonesian | 90 min<br />
| Colour<br />
Director Mouly Surya<br />
Producer Rama Adi, Fauzan Zidni<br />
Screenplay Rama Adi, Garin Nugroho, Mouly Surya<br />
Cinematographer Yunus Pasolang<br />
Editor Kelvin Nugroho<br />
Cast Egy Fedly, Dea Panendra, Yoga Pratama<br />
44 INTERNATIONAL CINEMA <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong>
Men Don’t Cry<br />
Less than two decades since<br />
the war ended in Yugoslavia,<br />
a diverse group of veterans<br />
gathers at a remote mountain<br />
hotel to undergo days of<br />
therapy. This is about the<br />
ability to forgive others<br />
only after we have forgiven<br />
ourselves.<br />
The Midwife<br />
The unlikely friendship that<br />
develops between Claire, a<br />
talented but tightly wound<br />
midwife, and Batrice, the<br />
estranged, free-spirited<br />
mistress of Claire’s late father.<br />
Though polar opposites in<br />
almost every way, the two<br />
come to rely on each other<br />
as they cope with the unusual<br />
circumstances.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovania, Croatia, Germany | <strong>2017</strong> | Bosnian<br />
| 98 min | Colour<br />
Director Alen Drljevic<br />
Producer Damir Ibrahimovich, Jasmila Žbanic<br />
Screenplay Alen Drljevi, Zoran Solomun<br />
Cinematographer Erol Zubevic<br />
Editor Vladimir Gojun<br />
Cast Boris Isakovi, Leon Luev, Emir Hadihafizbegovi, Sebastian<br />
Cavazza,Ermin Bravo, Boris Ler<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
France | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 117 min | Colour<br />
Director Martin Provost<br />
Producer Olivier Delbosc<br />
Screenplay Martin Provost<br />
Cinematographer Yves Cape<br />
Editor Albertine Lastera<br />
Cast Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve, Olivier Gourmet,<br />
Quentin Dolmaire, Mylène Demongeot<br />
Montparnasse<br />
Bienvenue<br />
Broke, with nothing but her<br />
cat to her name and doors<br />
closing in her face, Paula<br />
is back in Paris after a long<br />
absence. As she meets<br />
different people along the<br />
way, there is one thing<br />
she knows for sure: she’s<br />
determined to make a new<br />
start and she’ll do it with style<br />
and panache!<br />
Mother!<br />
A couple’s relationship<br />
is tested when uninvited<br />
guests arrive at their home,<br />
disrupting their tranquil<br />
existence.<br />
France | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 97 min | Colour<br />
Director Léonor Serraille<br />
Producer Sandra da Fonseca<br />
Screenplay Léonor Serraille<br />
Cinematographer Émilie Noblet<br />
Editor Clémence Carré<br />
Cast Laetitia Dosch, Grégoire Monsaingeon, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye,<br />
Léonie Simaga, Nathalie Richard, Érika Sainte, Lila-Rose Gilberti-Poisot,<br />
Audrey Bonnet<br />
USA | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 121 min | Colour<br />
Director Darren Aronofsky<br />
Producer Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel<br />
Screenplay Darren Aronofsky<br />
Cinematographer Matthew Libatique<br />
Editor Andrew Weisblum<br />
Cast Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Pfeiffer Javier Bardem, Ed Harris<br />
Murder on the Orient<br />
Express<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Malta, USA | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 114 min | Colour<br />
A lavish train ride unfolds<br />
into a stylish and suspenseful<br />
mystery. From the novel by<br />
Agatha Christie, Murder on<br />
the Orient Express is about<br />
thirteen stranded strangers<br />
and one man’s race to solve<br />
the puzzle before the murderer<br />
strikes again.<br />
Director Kenneth Branagh<br />
Producer Kenneth Branagh, Mark Gordon, Judy Hofflund,<br />
Simon Kinberg, Michael Schaefer, Ridley Scott<br />
Screenplay Michael Green, Agatha Christie<br />
Cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos<br />
Editor Mick Audsley<br />
Cast Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer,<br />
Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Josh Gad<br />
The Nile Hilton<br />
Incident<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Sweden, Denmark, Germany | <strong>2017</strong> | Arabic, Dinka | 110 min | Colour<br />
Director Tarik Saleh<br />
Producer Kristina Åberg<br />
Screenplay Tarik Saleh<br />
Cinematographer Pierre Aïm<br />
Editor Theis Schmidt<br />
Cast Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yasser Ali Maher<br />
Set against the backdrop<br />
of the Egyptian Revolution,<br />
the thriller features a police<br />
officer who investigates the<br />
murder of a woman. What<br />
initially seems to be a killing<br />
of a prostitute turns into<br />
a more complicated case<br />
involving the very elite of<br />
Egypt.<br />
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
45
No Bed of Roses<br />
Successful movie director,<br />
Javed Hasan finds himself in<br />
a midlife crisis, questioning<br />
whether marriage and career<br />
have demanded too much. A<br />
tryst with Nitu, his daughter’s<br />
childhood friend, turns into<br />
a national scandal. Javed’s<br />
loving family is torn apart.<br />
He eventually divorces wife,<br />
Maya and is estranged.<br />
No Date No Sign<br />
The forensic pathologist,<br />
Nariman has a car accident<br />
with a motorcyclist and<br />
injures his 8-year-old son.<br />
He offers to take the child to<br />
a clinic nearby, but the father<br />
refuses his help and money.<br />
In the hospital, Nariman finds<br />
out that the little boy has been<br />
brought for an autopsy after a<br />
suspicious death.<br />
Bangladesh-India | <strong>2017</strong> | Bengali, English | 86 min | Colour<br />
Director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki<br />
Producer Himanshu Dhanuka, Abdul Aziz, Ashok Kumar Dhanuka<br />
Cinematographer Sheikh Rajibul Islam<br />
Editor Momin Biswas<br />
Cast Irrfan Khan, Nusrat Imrose Tisha<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Iran | <strong>2017</strong> | Persian | 103 min | Colour<br />
Director Vahid Jalilvand<br />
Producer Ali Jalilvand, Ehsan Alikhani<br />
Screenplay Ali Zarnegar, Vahid Jalilvand<br />
Cinematographer Payman Shadmanfar<br />
Editor Vahid Jalilvand, Sepehr Vakili<br />
Cast Navid Mohammadzadeh, Amir Agha’ee, Hediyeh Tehrani,<br />
Zakieh Behbahani, Sa’eed Dakh, Alireza Ostadi.<br />
On Body and Soul<br />
Two introverted people<br />
who work in a Budapest<br />
slaughterhouse find out<br />
by pure chance that they<br />
share the same dream every<br />
night. They are puzzled,<br />
incredulous, a bit frightened.<br />
As they hesitantly accept this<br />
strange coincidence, they try<br />
to recreate in broad daylight<br />
what happens in their dream.<br />
Once Upon a Time<br />
In an abandoned little town in<br />
Russia - two lonely old men<br />
and a recently widowed lady<br />
are the only ones living there.<br />
One of the men decides to put<br />
an end to his loneliness and<br />
offer his hand to the widow.<br />
However, the other man is<br />
not satisfied with the twist<br />
and also offers himself as her<br />
companion.<br />
Hungary | <strong>2017</strong> | Hungarian | 116 min | Colour<br />
Director Ildikó Enyedi<br />
Producer Mónika Mécs, András Muhi, Erno Mesterházy<br />
Screenplay Ildikó Enyedi<br />
Cinematographer Mt Herbai<br />
Editor Kroly Szalai<br />
Cast Alexandra Borbély, Géza Morcsányi, Réka Tenki, Zoltán Schneider,<br />
Ervin Nagy<br />
✪ WORLD PREMIERE<br />
Russia | <strong>2017</strong> | Russian | 90 min | Colour<br />
Director Eduard Parri<br />
Producer Ekaterina Sarycheva, Maria Mamulina, Fyodor Dobranov<br />
Screenplay Aleksey Borodachyov<br />
Cinematographer Masha Slovyova<br />
Cast Roman Madyanov, Fyodor Dobronravov, Irina Rozanova<br />
The Other Side of<br />
Hope<br />
Khaled, a Syrian refugee,<br />
stows away on a freighter<br />
to Helsinki. Wikstrm is a<br />
traveling salesman, wins big<br />
at poker and buys a restaurant.<br />
When the authorities turn<br />
down his application for<br />
asylum, Khaled is forced<br />
underground and Wikstrm<br />
finds him sleeping behind his<br />
restaurant.<br />
Finland, Germany | <strong>2017</strong> | Finnish, English, Arabic, Swedish | 100<br />
min | Colour<br />
Director Aki Kaurismäki<br />
Producer Aki Kaurismäki<br />
Screenplay Aki Kaurismäki<br />
Cinematographer Timo Salminen<br />
Editor Samu Heikkilä<br />
Cast Ville Virtanen, Sherwan Haji, Dome Karukoski, Kati Outinen<br />
Park<br />
Gathering in the parched<br />
concrete wasteland of Athens’<br />
crumbling Olympic village, a<br />
group of teenagers engages<br />
daily in boisterous horseplay.<br />
The eldest of them, doe-eyed<br />
Anna and the timid Dimitri<br />
begin courting and soon<br />
become a couple, coming<br />
alive in each other’s company,<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Greece, Poland | <strong>2017</strong> | Greek, English | 100 min | Colour<br />
Director Sofia Exarchou<br />
Producer Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Amanda Livanou<br />
Screenplay Sofia Exarchou<br />
Cinematographer Monika Lenczewska<br />
Editor Sofia Exarchou, Yorgos Mavropsaridis<br />
Cast Dimitris Kitsos, Dimitra Vlagopoulou, Thomas Bo Larsen<br />
46 INTERNATIONAL CINEMA <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong>
The Party<br />
UK | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 71 min | Black and White<br />
Janet is hosting an intimate<br />
gathering of friends to<br />
celebrate her promotion to<br />
Minister of Health in the party<br />
of opposition. Her husband,<br />
Bill, seems preoccupied.<br />
An announcement by<br />
Bill provokes a series of<br />
revelations that rapidly<br />
escalate into all-out<br />
confrontation,<br />
Director Sally Potter<br />
Producer Kurban Kassam, Christopher Sheppard<br />
Screenplay Sally Potter<br />
Cinematographer Alexey Rodionov<br />
Editor Emilie Orsini, Anders Refn<br />
Cast Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas<br />
Pomegranate<br />
Orchard<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Azerbaijan | <strong>2017</strong> | Azerbaijani | 90 min | Colour<br />
Gabil returns home to the<br />
humble family farmstead,<br />
surrounded by an orchard of<br />
venerable pomegranate trees.<br />
Since his sudden departure<br />
12 years ago, he was never<br />
once in contact. However, the<br />
deep emotional scars he left<br />
behind cannot be erased from<br />
one day to the next.<br />
Director Ilgar Najaf<br />
Producer Mushfug Hatamov, Ilgar Najaf<br />
Screenplay Asif Rustamov, Ilgar Najaf, Roelof Yan Minneboo inspirovno<br />
divadeln hrou Viov sad<br />
Cinematographer Ayhan Salar<br />
Editor Elmir Hasanov<br />
Cast Hasan Agayev, Samimi Farhad, Ilaha Hasanova , Gurban Ismailov<br />
Pop Aye<br />
On a chance encounter, a<br />
disenchanted architect bumps<br />
into his long-lost elephant<br />
on the streets of Bangkok.<br />
Excited, he takes his elephant<br />
on a journey across Thailand,<br />
in search of the farm where<br />
they grew up together.<br />
Radiance<br />
Misako is a passionate writer<br />
of film versions for the visually<br />
impaired. At a screening, she<br />
meets Nakamori, an older<br />
photographer who is slowly<br />
losing his eyesight. Misako<br />
soon discovers Nakamori’s<br />
photographs, which will<br />
strangely bring her back to<br />
her past.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Thailand, Singapore | <strong>2017</strong> | Thai | 104 min | Colour<br />
Director Kirsten Tan<br />
Producer Wenhong Huang, Zhang Jianbin, Weijie Lai<br />
Screenplay Kirsten Tan<br />
Cinematographer Chananun Chotrungroj<br />
Editor Lee Chatametikool<br />
Cast Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Penpak Sirikul, Bong<br />
France, Japan | <strong>2017</strong> | Japanese | 101 min | Colour<br />
Director Naomi Kawase<br />
Producer Naoya Kinoshita, Masa Sawada, Yumiko Takebe<br />
Screenplay Naomi Kawase<br />
Cinematographer Arata Dodo<br />
Editor Tina Baz<br />
Cast Masatoshi Nagase, Ayame Misaki, Tatsuya Fuji<br />
Razzia<br />
Five people, Abdallah,<br />
Salima, Joe, Hakim and Ina,<br />
are connected to each other<br />
without realising it. Different<br />
faces, different struggles, but<br />
one same breath.<br />
The Reconciliation<br />
End of WW2 -The Communist<br />
Security Service eliminates<br />
its enemies under the pretext<br />
of punishing national traitors.<br />
It organises a labour camp for<br />
Germans. Franek, is in love<br />
with a Polish prisoner Anna,<br />
he joins the camp to rescue<br />
her. Franek is unaware that<br />
his German inmate is also in<br />
love with Anna since long.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
France, Morocco, Belgium | <strong>2017</strong> | French, Arabic | 120 min | Colour<br />
Director Nabil Ayouch<br />
Producer Bruno Nahon, Patrick Quinet, Nabil Ayouch<br />
Screenplay Maryam Touzani, Nabil Ayouch<br />
Cinematographer Virginie Surdej<br />
Editor Sophie Reine, Marie-Helene Dozo<br />
Cast Maryam Touzani, Arieh Worthalter, Amine Ennaji, Abdelilah Rachid,<br />
Dounia Binebane, Abdellah Didane<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Poland | <strong>2017</strong> | Polish | 87 min | Colour<br />
Director Maciej Sobieszczanski<br />
Producer Zbigniew Domagalski<br />
Screenplay Malgorzata Sobieszczanska<br />
Cinematographer Valentyn Vasyanovych<br />
Editor Rafal Listopad<br />
Cast Jakub Gierszal, Julian Swiezewski, Zofia Wichlacz<br />
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
47
Redoubtable<br />
Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard,<br />
the most renowned filmmaker<br />
of his generation, is shooting<br />
La Chinoise with the woman<br />
he loves, Anne Wiazemsky,<br />
20 years his junior. Happy,<br />
in love, magnetic, they marry.<br />
But the film’s reception<br />
unleashes a profound selfexamination<br />
in Jean-Luc.<br />
Requiem for Mrs. J<br />
Mrs. J is depressed by the<br />
death of her husband, a topranking<br />
military official, who<br />
passed away one year ago.<br />
She is planning to commit<br />
suicide as she can’t deal with<br />
the problems of her family.<br />
France | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 107 min | Colour<br />
Director Michel Hazanavicius<br />
Producer Michel Hazanavicius, Florence Gastaud, Riad Sattouf<br />
Screenplay Michel Hazanavicius<br />
Cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman<br />
Editor Anne-Sophie Bion nMarti<br />
Cast Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Micha Lescot,<br />
Grégory Gadebois, Felix Kysyl<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Russia, France | <strong>2017</strong> | Serbian | 93<br />
min | Colour<br />
Director Bojan Vuletic<br />
Producer Nenad Dukic<br />
Screenplay Bojan Vuletic<br />
Cinematographer Jelena Stankovic<br />
Editor Vladimir Pavlovski<br />
Cast Mirjana Karanovic, Danica Nedeljkovic, Jovana Gavrilovic<br />
Scaffolding<br />
17-year-old, Asher has<br />
always been the impulsive<br />
troublemaker, while his strict<br />
father sees him as a natural<br />
successor to the family’s<br />
scaffolding business, Asher<br />
finds a different masculine<br />
role model in his gentle<br />
literature teacher, Rami and<br />
forges a special connection<br />
with him.<br />
Scary Mother<br />
A 50-year-old housewife,<br />
Manana, struggles with a<br />
dilemma: she has to choose<br />
between her family life and<br />
a love for writing she has<br />
repressed for years. When<br />
she finally decides to follow<br />
her passion, she is ready to<br />
sacrifice everything for it,<br />
mentally and physically.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Israel, Poland | <strong>2017</strong> | Hebrew | 95 min | Colour<br />
Director Matan Yair<br />
Producer Gal Greenspan, Roi Kurland, Stanislaw Dziedzic, Moshe Edery,<br />
Leon Edery<br />
Screenplay Matan Yair<br />
Cinematographer Bartosz Bieniek<br />
Editor Dov Steuer<br />
Cast Asher Lax, Ami Smolarchik, Yaacov Cohen, Keren Berger<br />
Georgia, Estonia | <strong>2017</strong> | Georgian | 107 min | Colour<br />
Director Ana Urushadz<br />
Producer Tinatin Kajrishvili, Lasha Khalvashi<br />
Screenplay Ana Urushadze<br />
Cinematographer Konstantin Esadze<br />
Editor Alexander Kuranov<br />
Cast Nata Murvanidze, Ramaz Ioseliani, Dimitri Tatishvili, Avtandil<br />
Makhradze<br />
The Secret<br />
Ingredient<br />
Vele can’t afford to buy<br />
the expensive medications<br />
for his father who has<br />
cancer. Desperate, he<br />
steals marijuana from some<br />
criminals, makes a cake with<br />
it and gives it to him, hoping<br />
it will reduce his pain. His<br />
father’s health miraculously<br />
improves.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Macedonia, Greece | <strong>2017</strong> | Macedonian | 104 min | Colour<br />
Director Gjorce Stavreski<br />
Producer Gjorce Stavreski<br />
Screenplay Gjorce Stavreski<br />
Cinematographer Dejan Dimeski<br />
Editor Martin Ivanov<br />
Cast Blagoj Veselinov, Anastas Tanovski, Aksel Mehmet,<br />
Aleksandar Mikic<br />
Shelter<br />
Lemon Tree meets John le<br />
Carré in a subtle thriller set in<br />
Germany involving Mona, a<br />
Lebanese woman, and Naomi,<br />
an Israeli Mossad agent sent<br />
to protect their informant<br />
while recovering from plastic<br />
surgery for her new identity.<br />
✪ ASIA PREMIERE<br />
Germany, Israel, France | <strong>2017</strong> | English, Hebrew, Arabic | 93 min |<br />
Colour<br />
Director Eran Riklis<br />
Producer Bettina Brokemper<br />
Screenplay Eran Riklis<br />
Cinematographer Sebastian Edschmid<br />
Editor Richard Marizy<br />
Cast Golshifteh Farahani, Neta Riskin, Lior Ashkenazi, Haluk Bilginer,<br />
Yehuda Almagor, Mark Waschke<br />
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A Sort of Family<br />
Malena a successful doctor<br />
is informed that the baby she<br />
adopted is about to be born.<br />
She goes to retrieve him from<br />
his surrogate mother only<br />
to find herself blackmailed<br />
by the newborn’s biological<br />
parents. Malena takes up the<br />
challenge to see how far she<br />
is willing to go to get what<br />
she wants most.<br />
Spoor<br />
Duszejko, an eccentric retired<br />
construction engineer, an<br />
astrologist and a vegetarian,<br />
lives in a small mountain<br />
village on the Czech-<br />
Polish border. One day her<br />
beloved dogs disappear. As<br />
time goes by, more grisly<br />
killings are discovered. The<br />
police investigation proves<br />
ineffective.<br />
Argentina, Brazil, France, Poland | <strong>2017</strong> | Spanish | 95 min | Colour<br />
Director Diego Lerman<br />
Producer Nicolás Avruj, Diego Lerman<br />
Screenplay Diego Lerman, María Meira<br />
Cinematographer Wojciech Staron<br />
Editor Alejandro Brodersohn<br />
Cast Bárbara Lennie, Daniel Aráoz, Claudio Tolcachir<br />
Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovak Republic | <strong>2017</strong> |<br />
Polish | 128 min | Colour<br />
Director Agnieszka Holland<br />
Producer Krzysztof Zanussi, Janusz Waçhala<br />
Screenplay Olga Tokarczuk, Agnieszka Holland<br />
Cinematographer Jolanta Dylewska, Rafa Paradowski<br />
Editor Pavel Hrdlicka<br />
Cast Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Miroslav Krobot, Jakub<br />
Giersza, Patricia Volny, Tomasz Kot<br />
The Square<br />
Christian is the respected<br />
curator of a contemporary<br />
art museum. His foolish<br />
response to the theft of<br />
his phone drags him into<br />
a shameful situation. The<br />
response is overblown and<br />
sends him and the museum<br />
into an existential crisis.<br />
The Strange Ones<br />
Mysterious events surround<br />
two travellers as they make<br />
their way across a remote<br />
American landscape. On the<br />
surface all seems normal, but<br />
what appears to be a simple<br />
vacation soon gives way to<br />
a dark and complex web of<br />
secrets.<br />
Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark | <strong>2017</strong> | English, Swedish,<br />
Danish | 142 min | Colour<br />
Director Ruben Östlund<br />
Producer Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober<br />
Screenplay Ruben Östlund<br />
Cinematographer Fredrik Wenzel<br />
Editor Jacob Secher Schulsinger, Ruben Östlund<br />
Cast Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
USA | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 81 min | Colour<br />
Director Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein<br />
Producer Sébastien Aubert, Shani Geva, Michael Prall, Eric Schultz,<br />
Daniela Taplin Lundberg<br />
Screenplay Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein<br />
Cinematographer Todd Banhazl<br />
Editor Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein<br />
Cast Alex Pettyfer, James Freedson-Jackson, Emily Althaus<br />
Summer 1993<br />
Following the death of her<br />
parents, six-year-old Frida<br />
moves to live with her aunt<br />
and uncle. Country life is a<br />
challenge for Frida – time<br />
passes differently here and<br />
the nature that surrounds her<br />
is mysterious and estranging.<br />
Frida contemplates running<br />
away as the best solution to<br />
her problems.<br />
Sweet Country<br />
An Australian western set on<br />
the Northern Territory frontier<br />
in the 1920s, where justice<br />
itself is put on trial when an<br />
aged Aboriginal farmhand<br />
shoots a white man in self<br />
defence and goes on the run<br />
as a posse gathers to hunt<br />
him down.<br />
Spain | <strong>2017</strong> | Spanish | 97 min | Colour<br />
Director Carla Simón<br />
Producer Valrie Delpierre<br />
Screenplay Carla Simón<br />
Cinematographer Santiago Racaj<br />
Editor Didac Palou, Ana Pfaff<br />
Cast David Verdaguer, Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cus<br />
Australia | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 110 min | Colour<br />
Director Warwick Thornton<br />
Producer David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin<br />
Screenplay Steven McGregor, David Tranter<br />
Cinematographer Dylan River, Warwick Thornton<br />
Editor Nick Meyers<br />
Cast Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Tremayne Doolan<br />
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Uma<br />
Love, drama and suspense is<br />
the main vertex of a beautiful<br />
story that enhances the<br />
intensity and honesty of true<br />
love between Uma and Leo<br />
from the moment they meet in<br />
the coast of Gaeta. An instant<br />
chemistry between them<br />
will confront struggles and<br />
challenges to stay together.<br />
Union Leader<br />
Jay Gohil, 36, works for<br />
Apollo Chemicals, a chemical<br />
plant that is causing cancer<br />
and other ailments in its<br />
workers. When his good<br />
friend and colleague, Digant,<br />
is found dead, Jay takes action<br />
and uncovers a dark history<br />
of cover-ups and deceit that<br />
results in an overhaul of the<br />
plant’s management.<br />
✪ WORLD PREMIERE<br />
Venezuela, USA, Italy | <strong>2017</strong> | Spanish, Italian | 96 min | Colour<br />
Director Alain Maiki<br />
Producer Alain Maiki, Liz Maiki<br />
Screenplay Rosa Clemente, Raul Pietro, Liz Maiki, Alain Maiki,<br />
William Goite<br />
Cinematographer Alain Maiki<br />
Editor Alain Maiki<br />
Cast Alexandra Braun, Orlando Delgado, Pedro Medina, Henry Zakka<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Canada, India | <strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | 105 min | Colour<br />
Director Sanjay Patel<br />
Producer Sanjay Patel, Haresh Patel<br />
Screenplay Sanjay Patel, Winston Rainey<br />
Cinematographer Nilip Deb<br />
Editor Aurelian Brentraus, Brock Roberts<br />
Cast Rahul Bhat, Tillotama Shome, Vivek Ghamande<br />
Until the Birds<br />
Return<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Algeria today. Past and<br />
present collide in the lives<br />
of a newly wealthy property<br />
developer, a young woman<br />
torn between the path of<br />
reason and sentiment and<br />
an ambitious neurologist<br />
impeded by wartime<br />
wrongdoings.<br />
Algeria, France, Germany | <strong>2017</strong> | Arabic | 115 min | Colour<br />
Director Karim Moussaoui<br />
Producer David Thion, Philippe Martin<br />
Screenplay Karim Moussaoui, Maud Ameline<br />
Cinematographer David Chambille<br />
Editor Thomas Marchand<br />
Cast Mohamed Djouhri, Sonia Mekkiou, Mehdi Ramdani, Hassan<br />
Kachach, Nadia Kaci, Samir El Hakim, Aure Atika<br />
Unwanted<br />
✪ ASIA PREMIERE<br />
Kosovo | <strong>2017</strong> | Dutch, Albanian | 85 min | Colour<br />
Alban, a lonely boy, who<br />
lives in Amsterdam with<br />
his refugee mother from<br />
Kosovo, keeps getting into<br />
trouble while yearning for her<br />
acceptance. But the traumas<br />
caused by the war, which his<br />
mother hides away from him,<br />
turn his world upside down.<br />
Director Edon Rizvanolli<br />
Producer Edon Rizvanolli<br />
Screenplay Edon Rizvanolli<br />
Cinematographer Danny Noordanus<br />
Editor Edon Rizvanolli<br />
Cast Adriana Matoshi, Jason de Ridder, Niki Verkaar, Hugo Koolschijn,<br />
Celia Nufaar, Besnik Krapi<br />
Wajib<br />
Abu Shadi is a divorced father<br />
and a school teacher in his<br />
mid-60s living in Nazareth.<br />
After his daughter’s wedding<br />
he will live alone. Shadi, his<br />
son, arrives from Rome after<br />
years. As the estranged pair<br />
spend time together, the tense<br />
details of their relationship<br />
emerge.<br />
Western<br />
A group of German workers<br />
sets off to a construction site<br />
in the border region between<br />
Bulgaria and Greece. The<br />
foreign land awaken the men’s<br />
sense of adventure. The stage<br />
is quickly set for a showdown<br />
when the men begin to<br />
compete for recognition<br />
and favour from the local<br />
villagers.<br />
Palestine, France, Germany, Colombia, Norway, Qatar, United Arab<br />
Emirates | <strong>2017</strong> | Arabic | 96 min | Colour<br />
Director Annemarie Jacir<br />
Producer Ossama Bawardi<br />
Screenplay Annemarie Jacir<br />
Cinematographer Antoine Héberié<br />
Editor Jacques Comets<br />
Cast Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri, Maria Zreik, Rana Alamuddin<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Germany, Bulgaria, Austria | <strong>2017</strong> | German, English, Bulgarian | 119<br />
min | Colour<br />
Director Valeska Grisebach<br />
Producer Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Michel Merkt<br />
Screenplay Valeska Grisebach<br />
Cinematographer Bernhard Keller<br />
Editor Bettina Böhler<br />
Cast Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Waldemar Zang, Detlef<br />
Schaich, Syuleyman Alilov Letifo, Veneta Fragnova, Viara Borisova<br />
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Wonderstruck<br />
Ben and Rose are children<br />
from two different eras who<br />
secretly wish that their lives<br />
were different. Ben longs for<br />
the father he’s never known,<br />
while Rose dreams of a<br />
mysterious actress whose<br />
life she chronicles in a<br />
scrapbook. They both set out<br />
on epic quests to find what<br />
they’re missing.<br />
The Wound<br />
Xolani, a lonely factory<br />
worker, joins the men of his<br />
community in the mountains<br />
of the Eastern Cape to initiate<br />
a group of teenage boys into<br />
manhood. When a defiant<br />
initiate from the city discovers<br />
his best kept secret, Xolani’s<br />
entire existence begins to<br />
unravel.<br />
USA | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 117 min | Colour, Black and White<br />
Director Todd Haynes<br />
Producer Pamela Koffler, John Sloss, Christine Vachon<br />
Screenplay Brian Selznick<br />
Cinematographer Edward Lachman<br />
Editor Affonso Gonçalves<br />
Cast Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams,<br />
Millicent Simmonds<br />
South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France | <strong>2017</strong> | Xhosa | 88 min<br />
| Colour<br />
Director John Trengove<br />
Producer Elias Ribeiro, Cait Pansegrouw<br />
Screenplay John Trengove, Malusi Bengu, Thando Mqgolozona<br />
Cinematographer Paul Ozgur<br />
Editor Matthew Swanepoel<br />
Cast Nakhane Touré, Niza Jay Ncoyini, Bongile Mantsai, Thobani Mseleni<br />
The Young Karl Marx<br />
Karl Marx, aged 26, embarks<br />
with his wife Jenny on the<br />
road to exile. In 1844 Paris,<br />
he meets Friedrich Engels,<br />
an industrialist’s son, who<br />
investigated the birth of<br />
the British working-class.<br />
Engels, the dandy, provides<br />
the last piece of the puzzle<br />
to the young Karl Marx’s new<br />
vision of the world.<br />
Zer<br />
Zer is the story of a song,<br />
whispered to Jan’s ear on his<br />
grandmother’s deathbed. A<br />
survivor of Dersim Massacre,<br />
Zarife hid her identity, her<br />
past in her memory of this<br />
song. Raised in NYC, Jan<br />
begins a journey through<br />
Kurdistan, searching for his<br />
grandma’s past and his own<br />
self.<br />
Germany, France, Belgium | <strong>2017</strong> | German, French, English | 112<br />
min | Colour<br />
Director Raoul Peck<br />
Producer Nicolas Blanc, Rémi Grellety, Robert Guédiguian, Raoul Peck<br />
Screenplay Pascal Bonitzer, Raoul Peck<br />
Cinematographer Kolja Brandt<br />
Editor Frédérique Broos<br />
Cast August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps<br />
✪ ASIA PREMIERE<br />
Germany, Turkey, USA | <strong>2017</strong> | Turkish, Kurdish, English | 113 min<br />
| Colour<br />
Director Kazim Öz<br />
Producer Turan Tokel, Kazim Öz<br />
Screenplay Kazim Öz<br />
Cinematographer Eyüp Boz, Feza Çaldiran, Orçun Özkilinç<br />
Editor Thomas Balkenhol, Kazim Öz<br />
Cast Ahmet Aslan, Haleigh Ciel, Fsun Demirel, Nik Xhelilaj<br />
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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Country Focus<br />
Canada<br />
A showcase of recent films from<br />
Canada. In collaboration with Telefilm<br />
Canada; curated by the Toronto<br />
International Film Festival<br />
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Allure<br />
Plagued by the abuse of her<br />
past and the turmoil of failed<br />
intimate encounters, Laura<br />
struggles to find a lover and<br />
a sense of normalcy. Her<br />
beacon of hope comes in<br />
16-year-old Eva, a talented<br />
pianist disillusioned by the<br />
life her mother imposes upon<br />
her. An unlikely relationship<br />
is formed between them.<br />
Closet Monster<br />
Oscar Madly, an imaginative<br />
child finds himself caught<br />
in the middle of his parent's<br />
turbulent divorce. When his<br />
father teaches him about a<br />
hate-crime involving a young<br />
gay man. Oscar supresses<br />
his sexuality. His new friend,<br />
opens his eyes to a new world<br />
of possibiities.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Canada | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 105 min | Colour<br />
Director Carlos Sanchez, Jason Sanchez<br />
Producer Luc Déry, Kim McCraw<br />
Screenplay Carlos Sanchez, Jason Sanchez<br />
Cinematographer Sara Mishara<br />
Editor Jesse Rivere, Elisabeth Olga Tremblay<br />
Cast Evan Rachel Wood, Julia Sarah Stone, Denis O’Hare<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Canada | 2016 | English | 90 min | Colour<br />
Director Stephen Dunn<br />
Producer Kevin Krikst, Fraer Ash, Edward J. Martin<br />
Screenplay Stephen Dunn<br />
Cinematographer Bobby Shore CSC<br />
Editor Bryan Atkinson<br />
Cast Connor Jessup, Aaron Abrams, Joanne Kelly, Aliocha Schneider,<br />
Sofia Banzhaf<br />
Don’t Talk to Irene<br />
When Irene - the fattest girl in<br />
high school - gets suspended,<br />
she must endure two weeks<br />
of community service at a<br />
retirement home. Following<br />
her passion for cheerleading,<br />
she secretly signs up the<br />
senior residents to audition<br />
for a dance-themed reality<br />
show to prove perfection is<br />
not physical.<br />
Eye on Juliet<br />
A love story through the eye<br />
of a spider drone across the<br />
landscape of a North African<br />
desert and an oil pipeline,<br />
Gordon, a drone operator,<br />
becomes fascinated by<br />
Ayusha, a young woman<br />
promised to an older man<br />
she doesn’t love. Gordon will<br />
do everything in his power to<br />
help Ayusha escape her fate.<br />
✪ WORLD PREMIERE<br />
Canada | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 82 min | Colour<br />
Director Pat Mills<br />
Producer Alyson Richards, Mike MacMillan<br />
Screenplay Pat Mills<br />
Cinematographer Paul Sarossy<br />
Editor Tiffany Beaudin<br />
Cast Michelle McLeod, Bruce Gray, Anastasia Phillips, Scott Thompson,<br />
Geena Davis, Deborah Grover<br />
✪ ASIA PREMIERE<br />
Canada | 2016 | English | 90 min | Colour<br />
Director Kim Nguyen<br />
Producer Pierre Even<br />
Screenplay Kim Nguyen<br />
Cinematographer Christophe Collette<br />
Editor Richard Comeau<br />
Cast Lina El Arabi, Joe Cole, Brent Skagford, Faycal Zeglat<br />
Meditation Park<br />
A devoted wife, mother and<br />
grandmother has her world<br />
rocked when she finds<br />
another woman’s underwear<br />
in her husband’s laundry pile,<br />
forcing her to confront how<br />
powerless she truly is. Her<br />
efforts to find out the truth<br />
send her on an unexpected<br />
journey of liberation.<br />
Old Stone<br />
After a car accident that he<br />
caused, Mr Old Stone, a<br />
small-town taxi driver, has<br />
to face the rules of today’s<br />
Kafkaesque China. Now that<br />
his family, friends and his<br />
work are endangered, isn’t<br />
murder a way out?<br />
✪ Canada Focus - Gala Screening<br />
Canada | <strong>2017</strong> | English | 94 min | Colour<br />
Director Mina Shum<br />
Producer Stephen Hegyes, Mina Shum, Raymond Massey<br />
Screenplay Mina Shum<br />
Cinematographer Peter Wunstorf<br />
Editor Daria Ellerman<br />
Cast Cheng Pei Pei, Tzi Ma, Sandra Oh, Don McKellar<br />
✪ Canada Focus - Opening Film<br />
Canada, China | | 2016 | Mandarin | 86 min | Colour<br />
Director Johnny Ma<br />
Producer Wu Xian Jian, Chi-an Lin, Jing Wang, Sarah Stallard<br />
Screenplay Johnny Ma<br />
Cinematographer Ming Kai Leung<br />
Editor Mike Long<br />
Cast Gang Chen, An Nai, Hongwei Wang, Zebin Zhang, Xue’er Luo<br />
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Ravenous<br />
In a small, remote village in<br />
upstate Quebec, things have<br />
changed. Locals are not the<br />
same anymore - their bodies<br />
are breaking down and they<br />
have turned against their<br />
loved ones. A handful of<br />
survivors goes hiding into<br />
the woods, looking for others<br />
like them.<br />
The Stairs<br />
The Stairs tells the<br />
story of Marty, Greg and<br />
Roxanne, each of whom<br />
survived decades of streetinvolvement.<br />
Using their<br />
experiences to ease the<br />
paths of others, each<br />
performs social work in their<br />
old neighbourhood, while<br />
struggling to maintain their<br />
newly-found stability.<br />
✪ ASIA PREMIERE<br />
Canada | <strong>2017</strong> | French | 100 min | Colour<br />
Director Robin Aubert<br />
Producer Stéphanie Morisette<br />
Screenplay Robin Aubert<br />
Cinematographer Steeve Desrosiers<br />
Editor Francis Cloutier<br />
Cast Marc- André Grondin, Monia Chokri, Micheline Lanctôt,<br />
Brigette Pouparte<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Canada | 2016 | English | 95 min | Colour<br />
Director Hugh Gibson<br />
Producer Hugh Gibson<br />
Cinematographer Hugh Gibson, Cam Woykin<br />
Editor Ryan J. Noth, Andres Landau<br />
Cast Martin Thompson, Greg Bell, Roxanne Smith<br />
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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BRICS Films Festival<br />
Award Winners<br />
Award winning films from this year’s<br />
BRICS Film Festival<br />
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Ayanda<br />
Ayanda ia 21-year-old Afro<br />
hipster who embarks on a<br />
journey of self-discovery<br />
trying to keep the memory of<br />
her father alive, when she is<br />
thrown into a world of greasy<br />
overalls and abandoned<br />
vintage cars in need of a<br />
young woman’s re-inventive<br />
touch.<br />
Nise: The Heart of<br />
Madness<br />
Dr. Nise da Silveira is back<br />
at work in a psychiatric<br />
hospital on the outskirts of<br />
Rio de Janeiro. He refuses to<br />
employ the new and violent<br />
electroshock for the treating<br />
schizophrenics. She starts<br />
a revolution through paints,<br />
dogs and love.<br />
South Africa | 2015 | English | 105 min | Colour<br />
Director Sara Blecher<br />
Producer Robbie Thorpe, Terry Pheto, Busi Sizani, Sara Blecher<br />
Screenplay Trish Malone<br />
Cinematographer Jonathan Kovel<br />
Editor Nicholas Costaras<br />
Cast Fulu Moguvhani, Oc Ukeje, Nthati Moshesh, Kenneth Nkosi<br />
Brazil | Portuguese | 2015 | Portuguese | 109 min | Colour<br />
Director Roberto Berliner<br />
Producer Rodrigo Letier<br />
Screenplay Patrícia Andrade, Leonardo Rocha, Roberto Berliner,<br />
Flávia Castro, Maurício Lissovski, Chris Alcazar, Maria Camargo<br />
Cinematographer André Horta<br />
Editor Pedro Bronz, Leonardo, Domingues<br />
Cast Glória Pires, Simone Mazzer, Julio Adrião, Cláudio Jaborandy<br />
Panfilov’s 28<br />
Based on the account by<br />
reporter Vasiliy Koroteev.<br />
Shortly after the battle, this<br />
is the story of Panifilov’s 28,<br />
soldiers of the Red Army’s<br />
316th Rifle Division, under<br />
the command of General<br />
Ivan Panfilov, that shielded<br />
Moscow from a column of 54<br />
Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer<br />
Division for several days.<br />
The Second Mother<br />
Val, a hard-working live-in<br />
housekeeper is content to take<br />
care her wealthy employers’<br />
needs, from cooking and<br />
cleaning to being a surrogate<br />
mother to their teenage son.<br />
But when her estranged<br />
daughter Jessica suddenly<br />
shows up, the unspoken but<br />
intrinsic class barriers are<br />
thrown into disarray.<br />
Russia | 2016 | Russian | 105 min | Colour<br />
Director Kim Druzhinin, Andrey Shalopa<br />
Producer Andrey Shalopa, Anton Yudintsev<br />
Screenplay Andrey Shalopa<br />
Cinematographer Nikita Rozhdestvenskiy<br />
Editor Vitaliy Vinogradov<br />
Cast Maksim Abrosimov, Sergey Agafonov, Pavel Aseev, Ivan Batarev,<br />
Maksim Belborodov<br />
Brazil | 2015 | Portuguese | 112 min | Colour<br />
Director Anna Muylaert<br />
Producer Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane, Débora Ivanov &<br />
Anna Muylaert<br />
Screenplay Anna Muylaert<br />
Cinematographer Barbara Alvarez<br />
Editor Karen Harley<br />
Cast Regina Casé, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles<br />
Soulmate<br />
The film centers around a<br />
love-triangle between two<br />
women and one man. Due to a<br />
twist of fate, two high school<br />
best friends fall in love with<br />
the same man, planting the<br />
seeds of tragedy. The story<br />
chronicles the coming of age<br />
journey of two very different<br />
young women.<br />
Kaasav<br />
Janaki is a divorcee trying<br />
to find meaning in her life<br />
in a sea-turtle conservation<br />
project run in a coastal<br />
village. She meets a young<br />
man Manav who has escaped<br />
from the hospital where he<br />
was in for attempting suicide.<br />
Janaki tries to create a nonjudgmental,<br />
non-intrusive,<br />
atmosphere to help him.<br />
China | 2016 | Mandarin | 110 min | Colour<br />
Director Derek Tsang<br />
Producer Le Che<br />
Screenplay Peter Ho-sun Chan<br />
Cinematographer Jake Pollock<br />
Editor Derek Hui, Dranshi Li, Xiang-Yuan Tan, Xiadin Zhou<br />
Cast Zhou Dongyu, Ma Sichun, Toby Lee<br />
India | 2016 | Marathi | 105 min | Colour<br />
Director Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar<br />
Producer Dr. Mohan Agashe, Sunil Sukhtankar, Sumitra Bhave<br />
Screenplay Sumitra Bhave<br />
Cinematographer Dhananjay Kulkarni<br />
Editor Mohit Takalkar<br />
Cast Irawati Harshe,Alok Rajwade,Kishor Kadam,Dr.Mohan Agashe,Devika<br />
Daftardar,Santosh Redkar,Omkar Ghadi<br />
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Where Has Time<br />
Gone?<br />
When The Earth<br />
Trembles (Brazil)<br />
On November 5, 2015, the<br />
greatest socio-environmental<br />
disaster in Brazil’s history<br />
befell the region of Minas<br />
Gerais. A private mining<br />
company’s dam burst,<br />
leaving thousands of people<br />
displaced, dead or wounded.<br />
Where Has Time<br />
Gone?<br />
Breathing (Russia)<br />
Zina and Nazar live in a<br />
remote snow-covered town,<br />
Nazar accuses Zina of having<br />
an affair. They get into a bitter<br />
fight that leads to unimagined<br />
consequences.<br />
Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, China | <strong>2017</strong> | Portuguese,<br />
Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa, Sesotho, Chinese | 111 min | Colour<br />
Director Walter Salles, Alexey Fedorchenko, Madhur Bhandarkar,<br />
Jahmil X.T. Quebeka, Jia Zhangke<br />
Producer Jia Zhangke, Dong Ping<br />
Screenplay<br />
Cinematographer<br />
Editor<br />
Cast Maeve Jinkings, Alisa Kravtsova, Konstantin Itunin, Annu Kapoor,<br />
Mandisa Nduna, Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong<br />
Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, China | <strong>2017</strong> | Portuguese,<br />
Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa, Sesotho, Chinese | 111 min | Colour<br />
Director Walter Salles, Alexey Fedorchenko, Madhur Bhandarkar,<br />
Jahmil X.T. Quebeka, Jia Zhangke<br />
Producer Jia Zhangke, Dong Ping<br />
Screenplay<br />
Cinematographer<br />
Editor<br />
Cast Maeve Jinkings, Alisa Kravtsova, Konstantin Itunin, Annu Kapoor,<br />
Mandisa Nduna, Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong<br />
Where Has Time<br />
Gone?<br />
Mumbai Mist (India)<br />
Chandrakant spends his<br />
retirement time in Mumbai,<br />
the busiest city in India. In<br />
this ever-changing landscape<br />
of life, he feels abandoned<br />
until he meets a ten-year-old<br />
orphan, Charlie.<br />
Where Has Time<br />
Gone?<br />
Still Born (South<br />
Africa)<br />
Nobomi SX1, a programmed<br />
janitor, is somehow inspired<br />
to change her destiny even if<br />
it means risking her life. She<br />
uses all her effort to create a<br />
path where she could feel life<br />
itself.<br />
Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, China | <strong>2017</strong> | Portuguese,<br />
Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa, Sesotho, Chinese | 111 min | Colour<br />
Director Walter Salles, Alexey Fedorchenko, Madhur Bhandarkar,<br />
Jahmil X.T. Quebeka, Jia Zhangke<br />
Producer Jia Zhangke, Dong Ping<br />
Screenplay<br />
Cinematographer<br />
Editor<br />
Cast Maeve Jinkings, Alisa Kravtsova, Konstantin Itunin, Annu Kapoor,<br />
Mandisa Nduna, Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong<br />
Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, China | <strong>2017</strong> | Portuguese,<br />
Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa, Sesotho, Chinese | 111 min | Colour<br />
Director Walter Salles, Alexey Fedorchenko, Madhur Bhandarkar,<br />
Jahmil X.T. Quebeka, Jia Zhangke<br />
Producer Jia Zhangke, Dong Ping<br />
Screenplay<br />
Cinematographer<br />
Editor<br />
Cast Maeve Jinkings, Alisa Kravtsova, Konstantin Itunin, Annu Kapoor,<br />
Mandisa Nduna, Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong<br />
Revive (China)<br />
Where Has Time<br />
Gone?<br />
Tao and Liangzi are a couple<br />
with a teenage daughter,<br />
working as performers at<br />
a tourist attraction. When<br />
the two-child policy is<br />
introduced, the couple<br />
decides to have another baby.<br />
Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, China | <strong>2017</strong> | Portuguese,<br />
Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa, Sesotho, Chinese | 111 min | Colour<br />
Director Walter Salles, Alexey Fedorchenko, Madhur Bhandarkar,<br />
Jahmil X.T. Quebeka, Jia Zhangke<br />
Producer Jia Zhangke, Dong Ping<br />
Screenplay<br />
Cinematographer<br />
Editor<br />
Cast Maeve Jinkings, Alisa Kravtsova, Konstantin Itunin, Annu Kapoor,<br />
Mandisa Nduna, Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong<br />
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James Bond<br />
Retrospective<br />
A selection from the James Bond<br />
franchise - featuring the most<br />
celebrated spy in films<br />
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Dr. No<br />
In the film that launched the<br />
James Bond saga, Agent<br />
007 battles the mysterious<br />
Dr. No, a scientific genius<br />
bent on destroying the U.S.<br />
space programme. As the<br />
countdown to disaster begins,<br />
Bond must go to Jamaica,<br />
where he encounters beautiful<br />
Honey Ryder to confront a<br />
megalomaniacal villain.<br />
Golden Eye<br />
James Bond teams up<br />
with the lone survivor of a<br />
destroyed Russian research<br />
centre to stop the hijacking of<br />
a nuclear space weapon by a<br />
fellow agent formerly believed<br />
to be dead.<br />
UK, Jamaica | 1962 | English, French | 110 min | Colour<br />
Director Terence Young<br />
Producer Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman<br />
Screenplay Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather<br />
Cinematographer Ted Moore<br />
Editor Peter R. Hunt<br />
Cast Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord,<br />
Bernard Lee, Anthony Dawson<br />
UK,USA | 1995 | English, Russian, Spanish | 130 min | Colour<br />
Director Martin Campbell<br />
Producer Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson<br />
Screenplay Jeffrey Caine, Bruce Feirstein, Michael France<br />
Cinematographer Phil Meheux<br />
Editor Terry Rawlings<br />
Cast Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Judi Dench<br />
Goldfinger<br />
Investigating a gold<br />
magnate’s smuggling, James<br />
Bond uncovers a plot to<br />
contaminate the Fort Knox<br />
gold reserve.<br />
Licence to Kill<br />
Following an important<br />
drug bust, CIA agent Felix<br />
Leiter gets married, but the<br />
drug lord he helped arrest,<br />
escapes, murders his wife and<br />
mutilates Leiter. Leiter’s loyal<br />
friend, British agent James<br />
Bond, deserts Her Majesty’s<br />
Secret Service and makes it<br />
his personal vendetta to kill<br />
those responsible.<br />
UK | 1964 | English, Chinese, Spanish | 110 min | Colour<br />
Director Guy Hamilton<br />
Producer Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman<br />
Screenplay Richard Maibaum, Paul Denn<br />
Cinematographer Ted Moore<br />
Editor Peter R. Hunt<br />
Cast Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Bernard Lee<br />
UK,USA | 1989 | English, Spanish | 133 min | Colour<br />
Director John Glen<br />
Producer Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson<br />
Screenplay Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum<br />
Cinematographer Alec Mills<br />
Editor John Grover<br />
Cast Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi<br />
Octopussy<br />
A fake Fabergé egg, and a<br />
fellow agent’s death, lead<br />
James Bond to uncover<br />
an international jewelsmuggling<br />
operation, headed<br />
by the mysterious Octopussy,<br />
being used to disguise a<br />
nuclear attack on NATO<br />
forces.<br />
On her Majesty’s<br />
Secret Service<br />
James Bond woos a mob<br />
boss’s daughter and goes<br />
undercover to uncover the<br />
true reason for Blofeld’s<br />
allergy research in the Swiss<br />
Alps that involves beautiful<br />
women from around the<br />
world.<br />
UK,USA | 1983 | English, Russian, German, Spanish | 131 min |<br />
Colour<br />
Director John Glen<br />
Producer Albert R. Broccoli<br />
Screenplay George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum,<br />
Michael G. Wilson<br />
Cinematographer Alan Hume<br />
Editor Peter Davis, Henry Richardson<br />
Cast Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir<br />
Bedi, Vijay Amritraj<br />
UK | 1969 | English, German, French | 142 min | Colour<br />
Director Peter R. Hunt<br />
Producer Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman<br />
Screenplay Richard Maibaum<br />
Cinematographer Michael Reed<br />
Editor John Glen<br />
Cast George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas<br />
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Bond’s loyalty to M is tested<br />
when her past comes back to<br />
haunt her. When MI6 comes<br />
under attack, 007 must track<br />
down and destroy the threat,<br />
no matter how personal the<br />
cost.<br />
James Bond investigates<br />
the hijacking of British and<br />
Russian submarines carrying<br />
nuclear warheads, with the<br />
help of a KGB agent, whose<br />
lover he killed.<br />
Skyfall<br />
UK, USA | 2012 | English | 143 min | Colour<br />
Director Sam Mendes<br />
Producer Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Andrew Noakes,<br />
David Pope<br />
Screenplay Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan<br />
Cinematographer Roger Deakins<br />
Editor Stuart Baird<br />
Cast Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes,<br />
Naomi Harris<br />
The Spy who Loved<br />
Me<br />
UK | 1977 | English, Italian, Arabic | 125 min | Colour<br />
Director Lewis Gilbert<br />
Producer Albert R. Broccoli, William P. Cartlidge<br />
Screenplay Christopher Wood, Richard Maibaum<br />
Cinematographer Claude Renoir<br />
Editor John Glen<br />
Cast Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens<br />
James Bond uncovers a<br />
nuclear plot when he protects<br />
an oil heiress from her former<br />
kidnapper, an international<br />
terrorist who can’t feel pain.<br />
The World is not<br />
Enough<br />
UK,USA | 1999 | English, Russian, Spanish | 128 min | Colour<br />
Director Michael Apted<br />
Producer Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson<br />
Screenplay Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Bruce Feirstein<br />
Cinematographer Adrian Biddle<br />
Editor Jim Clark<br />
Cast Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Judi Dench<br />
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Restored<br />
Classics<br />
Motion pictures from cinema’s masters<br />
in pristine restorations<br />
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Beauty of the Day<br />
Severine is a beautiful young<br />
woman married to a doctor.<br />
She loves him dearly, but<br />
cannot be physically intimate<br />
with him. She indulges<br />
instead in vivid,erotic<br />
fantasies. Eventually she<br />
becomes a prostitute, working<br />
in a brothel in the afternoons<br />
while remaining chaste in her<br />
marriage.<br />
Flavour of Green Tea<br />
over Rice<br />
Takeo, a capricious wife<br />
from Tokyo high-society, is<br />
bored by her dull husband,<br />
a quiet and reliable company<br />
executive, raised in the<br />
country. After a crisis, she<br />
understands his true value.<br />
A parallel sub-plot shows<br />
her niece rebelling against<br />
the tradition of arranged<br />
marriages.<br />
France, Italy | 1967 | French, Spanish, Mongolian | 100 min | Colour<br />
Japan | 1952 | Japanese | 115 min | Black and White<br />
Director Luis Buñuel<br />
Producer Raymond Hakim,Robert Hakim<br />
Screenplay Joseph Kessel, Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière<br />
Cinematographer Sacha Vierny<br />
Editor Louisette, Hautecoeur<br />
Cast Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli<br />
Director Yasujirõ Ozu<br />
Producer Takeshi Yamamoto<br />
Screenplay Kôgo Noda, Yasujirõ Ozu<br />
Cinematographer Yûharu Atsuta<br />
Editor Yoshiyasu ,Hamamura<br />
Cast Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kôji Tsuruta<br />
The Ruins<br />
Subhash is a photographer<br />
from the city, who has come<br />
to take pictures of some old<br />
temples and ruins in a village.<br />
While in the village, he gets<br />
acquainted with a young<br />
woman, Jamini, who has had<br />
her heart broken in the past,<br />
by another visitor from the<br />
big city.<br />
The Lodger<br />
A landlady suspects her new<br />
lodger is the madman killing<br />
women in London.<br />
India | 1984 | Hindi | 106 min | Colour<br />
UK | 1927 | English | 68 min | Black and White<br />
Director Mrinal Sen<br />
Producer Jagdish Choukhani<br />
Screenplay Mrinal Sen, Premendra Mitra<br />
Cinematographer K. K. Mahajan<br />
Editor Mrinmoy Chakraborty<br />
Cast Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Gita Sen, Annu Kapoor<br />
Director Alfred Hitchcock<br />
Producer Michael Balcon, Carlyle Blackwell<br />
Screenplay Eliot Stannard<br />
Cinematographer Gaetano Di Ventimiglia, Hal Young<br />
Editor Ivor Montagu<br />
Cast Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Ivor Novello<br />
Metropolis<br />
In a futuristic city sharply<br />
divided between the<br />
working class and the city<br />
planners, the son of the city’s<br />
mastermind falls in love<br />
with a working class prophet<br />
who predicts the coming of<br />
a saviour to mediate their<br />
differences.<br />
The Old Dark House<br />
Seeking shelter from a<br />
pounding rainstorm in a<br />
remote region of Wales,<br />
several travellers are admitted<br />
to a gloomy, foreboding<br />
mansion belonging to the<br />
extremely strange Femm<br />
family. Trying to make the<br />
best of it, the guests must<br />
deal with their sepulchral<br />
host.<br />
German | 1927 | Germany | 153 min | Black and White<br />
USA | 1932 | English | 72 min | Black and White<br />
Director Fritz Lang<br />
Producer Erich Pommer<br />
Screenplay Thea von Harbou , Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang<br />
Cinematographer Karl Freund, Günther Rittau, Walter Ruttmann<br />
Editor Blake Jones<br />
Cast Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich<br />
Director James Whale<br />
Producer Carl Laemmle Jr.<br />
Screenplay Benn Levy<br />
Cinematographer Arthur Edeson<br />
Editor Clarence Kolster<br />
Cast Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton<br />
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The Sacrifice<br />
Alexander, a journalist, former<br />
actor and philosopher, tells<br />
his little son how worried he<br />
is about the lack of spirituality<br />
in modern mankind. On the<br />
night of his birthday, the<br />
third world war breaks out. In<br />
his despair Alexander turns<br />
himself in a prayer to God,<br />
offering him everything, to<br />
have the war not happen at all.<br />
Two or Three Things<br />
I Know about Her<br />
In this film, ‘Her’ refers to both<br />
Paris, the character of Juliette<br />
Janson and the actress<br />
playing her, Marina Vlady.<br />
The film is a dramatised<br />
documentary, illustrating and<br />
exaggerating the emotionless<br />
lives of characters in the new<br />
Paris of the 1960s.<br />
Sweden, UK, France | 1986 | Swedish, French, English | 149 min |<br />
Colour<br />
Director Andrei Tarkovsky<br />
Producer Anna-Lena Wibom<br />
Screenplay Andrei Tarkovsky<br />
Cinematographer Sven Nykvist<br />
Editor Michal Leszczylowski, Andrei Tarkovsky<br />
Cast Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall<br />
France | 1967 | French, Italian | 87 min | Colour<br />
Director Jean-Luc Godard<br />
Producer Anatole Dauman, Raoul Lévy<br />
Screenplay Catherine Vimenet, Jean-Luc Godard<br />
Cinematographer Raoul Coutard<br />
Editor Françoise Collin, Chantal Delattre<br />
Cast Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Jean-Luc Godard<br />
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New<br />
Initiatives<br />
Experiencing the universe of ‘new’ -<br />
idea, movies, technology<br />
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Mixed Reality Sidebar<br />
<strong>IFFI</strong> presents in collaboration with BECIL<br />
Mixed Reality Sidebar Powered by<br />
Vision Statement - Anand Gandhi<br />
The ability and the desire to transmit knowhow, intention, and insight to others around us have<br />
co-evolved with humanity itself. Mixed reality is a huge milestone in that human project of record<br />
keeping, perspective sharing, and empathizing that began with the first cave painting, or even earlier.<br />
Mixed reality experiences (VR, AR, haptics) collapse the barrier of ‘otherness’ between the viewer and<br />
the subject. After all, in a deeply interconnected world, there is no ‘other’.<br />
India is on the cusp of an immersive storytelling revolution, both in terms of Virtual Reality (VR)<br />
where the viewer is totally transported to another place and Augmented Reality (AR) which ports 3D<br />
objects into the real world around the viewer.<br />
In celebrating the future of cinema, <strong>IFFI</strong> commits to facilitating the creation and dissemination of<br />
narrative experiences that will inform our reality and inspire our dreams.<br />
Curators’ Statement - Tom & Mark<br />
We have been lucky enough to be invited to India twice in order to develop home grown Indian VR<br />
talent. What has been very clear to us from the start is that the combination of astonishingly high<br />
skill levels across disciplines, a rich cultural heritage of storytelling and the sheer passion fuelled<br />
energy of storytellers, artists and developers means that something truly magical is taking place for<br />
creative VR and AR content creation in India.<br />
It is an honour to have been asked to programme the first Mixed Reality Sidebar at <strong>IFFI</strong> and<br />
very exciting that VR and AR are finding a home at this festival. With that in mind we wanted to<br />
bring together a showcase of some of the best examples of immersive storytelling which we have<br />
encountered since the VR renaissance began in 2013. We hope that this wide range of brilliant<br />
examples will entertain you, intrigue you, shock you. But really we hope that it inspires you to strike<br />
while the iron is hot and bring your own stories to life in immersive worlds.<br />
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Mixed Reality Sidebar<br />
Brave New Worlds: VR Meets Fiction<br />
Jerome Blanquet’s explorations of the image and spontaneous writing lead him to the representation<br />
of what escapes our consciousness. Inspired by technology, he continually interrogates the limits<br />
of his tools and his knowledge. It diverts from the established forms, in search of interstices, to the<br />
kinds of open areas where can find meaning.<br />
Masterclass on Web VR<br />
Brian Chirls is the Chief Technology Officer at Datavized, an immersive data visualization platform<br />
using WebVR. A recognized innovator in the independent film world, he was previously the Digital<br />
Technology Fellow at POV, a position funded by the Knight Foundation. He has developed innovative<br />
models for interaction, data visualization and content-authoring in Virtual Reality. Brian has helped<br />
to create a new genre of interactive video pieces and software libraries that demonstrate ways to<br />
combine the interactivity and connectivity of the web with the aesthetic power of cinema. His work<br />
has been presented at CPH:DOX, MIT, IDFA DocLab, SXSW and Tribeca Film Institute.<br />
Arnav Ghosh - Augmenting Reality (Panel)<br />
Arnav is a thought leader, educator and apprentice investor. He brings to the track a deep<br />
understanding of marketing and immersive technology products and services with his 20 years of<br />
multi-platform, vertical leadership roles with global Brands and services across India, S.E Asia and<br />
Europe. Currently, he is Managing Director of Blippar (a global AR / AI platform) in India. He loves<br />
to triangulate content, commerce and technology with the creative process to build a contextually<br />
relevant idea. He has a keen interest in cross cultural collaboration & astronomy. He has also cofounded<br />
a start up in the area of predictive analytics.<br />
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Mixed Reality Sidebar<br />
Indian VR: Where are we now? Where are we<br />
headed?<br />
Anand is pioneer of VR and AR content in India. His company Memesys Culture Lab has created<br />
India’s first VR documentary platform called ElseVR. He has been invited to share his expertise at<br />
prominent platforms such as MIPCOM at Cannes. VR documentaries produced by Anand have been<br />
featured at prestigious film festivals such as TIFF, Shefeild and Dubai International Film Festival. The<br />
brand content produced by Memesys Labs is the most viewed VR content created in India.<br />
Avinash Kumar - Virtual India (Panel)<br />
Avinash is a design strategist, media artist and digital curator. He is the Creative Director of the<br />
upcoming Indian Centre for Immersive Media (ICIM) - set up in partnership with the Indian School<br />
of Design & Innovation (ISDI) MumbaI - which has an agenda for the disruptive research and<br />
incubation of Indian Immersive content in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. He is also the<br />
director of an Indian cultural video game platform called Antariksha Sanchar, produced by his studio<br />
Quicksand - one of India’s leading innovation consultancies. www.quicksand.co.in<br />
Jayisha Patel<br />
An award winning documentary-maker based in London. Her short films have shown at festivals<br />
such as Berlin, Cannes, AFI Silverdocs and the New York Film Festival amongst others. Jayisha<br />
launched her new VR project Notes To My Father at the Oculus House at the <strong>2017</strong> Sundance Film<br />
Festival, and also presented the work at the SXSW Film Festival in March. She is currently an artist<br />
in residence at Somerset House where she is developing her second immersive project, Fire.<br />
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Features<br />
A<br />
Priya’s Shakti is India’s first augmented reality(AR) comic book and was launched in 2014. The graphic novel or comic book tells the<br />
story of Priya, a villager from India who is gang raped by men in her village. After facing fierce shaming by the villagers, Priya flees<br />
to the forest to end her life. But the Goddess Parvati sees her plight and seeks to help her. She enters Priya’s body and confronts<br />
the men who raped Priya. How Priya champions the cause of women’s rights and transforms at least her own village - is the story<br />
of Priya’s Shakti (Shakti=power).<br />
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Features<br />
Le Musk<br />
India’s Music Maestro A R Rahman makes his directorial debut with Le Musk, a Virtual Reality (VR) multi-sensory episodic film<br />
which has been shot across various locations in Rome. Le Musk features Nora Arnezeder, Guy Burnett and Marian Zohrabyan and<br />
follows the journey of an orphaned heiress and part time musician, Juliet, who grows up to be a diva on a mission. Mr. Rahman will<br />
also be joining the Mixed Reality Sidebar for a session on this cutting-edge medium of storytelling.<br />
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Biennale College <strong>2017</strong> Venezia<br />
This year, for the very first time the International Film Festival of India (<strong>IFFI</strong>) brings<br />
to you films of the oldest film festival of the World, Venice International Film<br />
Festival.<br />
The films of ”BIENNALE COLLEGE <strong>2017</strong> VENEZIA” segment of the Venice<br />
International Film Festival will be screened in this 48th edition of International<br />
Film Festival of India, <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
Biennale College is the project of La Biennale di Venezia which is dedicated<br />
to the formation of young people in the artistic field and in the activities of the<br />
organizational structure of the Biennale. Thus, Biennale College of Cinema was<br />
formed to inspire and promote the young budding filmmaker.<br />
This year, four films from La Biennale di Venezia would be screened, namely,<br />
Beautiful Things directed by Giorgio Ferroro (Italy), where the director gives us a<br />
sneak peak of the men who are monks in temples of steel and concrete carrying out<br />
their mechanical rituals in silence and solitude, Martyr directed by Mazen Khaled<br />
(Lebanon) gives us the exploration of the journey of life and death of a man who<br />
drowns and becomes a Martyr in Islamic religion and Strange Colours directed<br />
by Alina Lodkina (Australia), a story about a father and a daughter mending a<br />
fractured bond. The fourth film from this package is an Indian film Mukti Bhawan<br />
directed by Shubhashish Bhutiani, showcasing another father-son relationship<br />
where the father has a desire to go and die in the holy city of Varanasi in India and<br />
the son is left with no choice.<br />
The young aspiring filmmakers of India would be both inspired and motivated<br />
by seeing films of BIENNALE COLLEGE <strong>2017</strong> VENEZIA 74 in International Film<br />
Festival of India this year.<br />
It is only when film festivals collaborate, cinema as an art form is celebrated in the<br />
world.<br />
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Ears<br />
A man wakes up one morning<br />
with an irritating ringing in<br />
his ear. A note on the fridge<br />
says: “Your friend Luigi is<br />
dead. P.S. I took the car”.<br />
The problem is that he does<br />
not know who this Luigi is.<br />
And so begins a tragicomic<br />
day in search of the world’s<br />
madness, one of those days<br />
that change you forever.<br />
Hotel Salvation<br />
An ominous dream convinces<br />
77-year-old Dayanand Kumar<br />
that his end could be near.<br />
He takes the news to his son<br />
Rajiv, knowing he wants to<br />
breathe his last in Varanasi<br />
and end the cycle of rebirth,<br />
by attaining salvation. Being<br />
the dutiful son that he is,<br />
Rajiv is left with no choice but<br />
to make the journey.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Italy | 2016 | Italian | 90 min | Black and White<br />
Director Alessandro Aronadio<br />
Producer Costanza Coldagelli<br />
Screenplay Alessandro Aronadio, Valerio Cilio<br />
Cinematographer Francesco Di Giacomo<br />
Editor Roberto Di Tanna<br />
Cast Daniele Parisi, Silvia D’Amico, Pamela Villoresi, Ivan Franek,<br />
Rocco Papaleo, Piera Degli Esposti, Milena Vukotic<br />
India | 2016 | Hindi | 102 min | Colour<br />
Director Shubhashish Bhutiani<br />
Producer Sanjay Bhutiani, Sajida Sharma<br />
Screenplay Shubhashish Bhutiani<br />
Cinematographer Michael McSweeney, David Huwiler<br />
Editor Manas Mittal<br />
Cast Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulakrni<br />
The Solitude<br />
José, a young father who<br />
discovers that the dilapidated<br />
mansion he occupies<br />
will soon be demolished.<br />
Desperate to save his family<br />
from homelessness, José<br />
begins a search for a cursed<br />
treasure that has long been<br />
said to be buried in the house.<br />
One Sister<br />
In a small Argentinian<br />
backwater town, a young<br />
woman sets out on a solitary<br />
search for her sister who has<br />
disappeared without a trace.<br />
When the family’s car appears<br />
in flames on the bank of a<br />
nearby river, Alba falls deeper<br />
into a world of bureaucratic<br />
frustrations, bringing her to<br />
the edge of despair.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE<br />
Venezuela, Canada, Italy | 2016 | Spanish | 89 min | Colour<br />
Director Jorge Thielen Armand<br />
Producer Adriana Herrera, Rodrigo Michelangeli, Jorge Thielen Armand<br />
Screenplay Rodrigo Michelangeli, Jeorge Thielen Armand<br />
Cinematographer Rodrigo Michelangeli<br />
Editor Felipe Guerrero<br />
Cast José Dolores López, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ López, María<br />
✪ ASIA PREMIERE<br />
Argentina | 2016 | Spanish | 69 min | Colour<br />
Director Sofia Brockenshire, Verena Kuri<br />
Producer Sofia Brockenshire, Verena Kuri<br />
Cinematographer Andrés Hilarión, Roman Kasseroller<br />
Editor Laura Bierbrauer, Sofia Brockenshire, Verena Kuri<br />
Cast Sofia Palomino, Eugenia Alonso, Adriana Ferrer, Lorena Stadelmann<br />
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Master Classes and<br />
Panel Discussions<br />
Learning from industry masters,<br />
experts and leaders - journeying<br />
through invaluable experiences<br />
and insights<br />
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MASTER CLASS<br />
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality<br />
Anand Gandhi<br />
Anand Gandhi is a filmmaker and entrepreneur deeply interested in philosophy, evolutionary psychology, innovation and the future.<br />
Ship of Theseus, his first feature, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012 and has since been recognized as<br />
“the most significant film to come out of India in decades” by critics and audiences alike. It has won prizes at the international film<br />
festivals of London, Dubai, Mumbai, Transilvannia, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, and played at Rotterdam, Munich and Sydney, among<br />
others. It was presented the National Award in 2014. In November 2015, Anand founded Memesys Culture Lab. It is a cinema and<br />
new media studio at the intersection of science, philosophy and culture, and home to ElseVR, the first Virtual Reality studio in India.<br />
Gandhi’s writing career began in 2000. He wrote the dialogue for the first 82 episodes of a popular show called Kyunki Saas Bhi<br />
Kabhi Bahu Thi and Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, for which he wrote the screenplay, are the longest running TV shows in the history of<br />
Indian television.<br />
He moved away from his television career to write and direct critically acclaimed plays like Sugandhi, Pratyancha, Kshanotsav, Na<br />
and Janashtaru. Almost all his work has been produced for the alternative one-act theatre. He has written only one mainstream play,<br />
Chal Reverse Ma Jaiye, in Gujarati. It achieved moderate commercial success and won the Transmedia Best Play award for 2005.<br />
His film directorial debut, Right Here, Right Now (2003), a 30-minute film that deals with the idea of cyclic causality, achieved<br />
substantial critical acclaim. His second film Continuum (2006) was co-directed with Khushboo Ranka.<br />
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MASTER CLASS<br />
Filmmaker on Making Drama<br />
Atom Egoyan<br />
Atom Egoyan is one of Canada’s most celebrated arthouse directors. Exotica which won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes’94, was his<br />
international breakthrough film. The Sweet Hereafter, his most critically acclaimed film, received two Academy Award nominations.<br />
Ararat, about the Armenian genocide in the Turkish Ottoman Empire, centred on child survivor Arshile Gorky, went on to become<br />
the pioneer of American abstract expressionism. Where the Truth Lies, Adoration and The Captive, have all competed for the Palme<br />
d’Or in Cannes. Egoyan has also directed theatre and opera, including an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Eh Joe, winner of The Irish<br />
Times/ESB Award for Best Direction. He has directed award-winning opera productions for the Canadian Opera Company and the<br />
Lincoln Center Festival, New York. Egoyan’s art installations have been presented at the Venice Biennale, his work, Steenbeckett,<br />
commissioned by the UK’s Artangel, is part of the permanent collection of the Tate. His films have been presented in several<br />
retrospectives across the globe, with complete career overviews in Paris, Madrid, New York and Brussels. Egoyan was knighted by<br />
the French government and is a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest honour.<br />
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MASTER CLASS<br />
Sound Mixing<br />
Craig Mann<br />
Craig Mann is a re-recording Mixer in Los Angeles, California. With over 15 years of sound industry experience under his belt,<br />
Craig’s work can be heard on a number of blockbusters, including Insidious, Eye In The Sky, Marshall, Annabelle: Creation, Dope<br />
and Gold starring Matthew McConaughey. He was recently awarded an AMPS award for Best Sound in a Feature Film, a Satellite<br />
Award for Best Sound, a BAFTA for Best Sound and an Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for the film Whiplash.<br />
After completing the Music Engineering program on Music Industry Arts from Fanshawe College in London Ontario, Craig was hired<br />
at Sound Ideas, where he began recording and editing sound effects. While working there, sound for film aroused his interest, and he<br />
joined Casablanca Sound in Toronto. There, he worked as an assistant to several of the top re-recording mixers in Canada. After five<br />
years there, an opportunity arose to tour several sound facilities in Los Angeles. Craig realized that moving to the next level would<br />
involve a change of venue. He relocated to Santa Monica and was hired at Todd-AO. Over the next eight years, Craig served as an<br />
apprentice for several world-renowned re-recording mixers, soon taking the leap into mixing himself in 2009.<br />
Discovering new ways to utilize sound to help bring filmmakers’ vision to the screen is what Craig loves most about his job.<br />
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MASTER CLASS<br />
Characterization and Casting for Cinema<br />
Mukesh Chhabra<br />
Mukesh Chhabra is at the forefront of a new breed of casting directors in India. After training for two years to understand the craft of<br />
acting from Sriram Center (receiving a diploma in Acting), and seven plus years in Delhi teaching for NGOs and children with Theater<br />
In Education (TIE) in tandem with the National School of Drama, he joined the film industry in Mumbai in 2007.<br />
After assisting several film crews with the job of casting, Mukesh made a name for himself as a casting director with films like Chillar<br />
Party, Kai Po Che and so on. Today, the biggest names in the industry like Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, Aamir Khan, and A<br />
R Rahman all choose MCCC for their casting needs. Smaller-budget filmmakers whose films target the festival circuit also rely on<br />
his unique talent to find them the correct ensemble cast. Mukesh and his team pride themselves in bringing the same attention to<br />
detail to all projects in their care.<br />
In recognition of his outstanding work he has been made a member of the Casting Association of America (CSA). Some of his<br />
feature film casting credits include Dangal, Tamasha, Te3n, Kaabil, Rangoon, Haider, Fitoor, PK, Madaari, Masaan, Trishna, Highway,<br />
Judwaa 2, Aligarh to name a few.<br />
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MASTER CLASS<br />
With Dangal Team<br />
Nitesh Tiwari<br />
Nitesh Tiwari spent his childhood in various towns of Madhya Pradesh. While pursuing B-Tech in IIT Bombay, he represented<br />
the team in cricket and his contribution to dramatics in the institute got him the Dramatics Roll Of Honour. He spent 17 years in<br />
advertising and he was the Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett India before becoming a full time director. During these years he<br />
and his team did many memorable campaigns and won numerous advertising awards, domestic as well as international. Tiwari<br />
started his journey in Bollywood with Chillar Party which went on to win three National Awards. His other films oinclude Dangal<br />
and Bhootnath Returns.<br />
Piyush Gupta<br />
Piyush Gupta is a screenwriter. The films he has written include Dangal, Bhoothnath Returns and an untitled film for SKF. With over<br />
ten years’ experience in advertising, he believes in adding human insights and observations to his work. He believes that drama is<br />
part of life, one only needs to find it. Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Majid Majidi are some of the screenwriters who inspire him.<br />
Nikhil Mehrotra<br />
Having lived most of his life in Mumbai and Bihar, Nikhil spends his time observing people, their behaviour, and quirks. He imitates<br />
how an uncle talks, what a neighbour is interested in. What looks like a way of having fun is also the greatest tool to his craft.The<br />
tool of human insights. For a decade, Nikhil has used insights to write advertising campaigns. And now he is using them to write<br />
feature films. Some of the films Nikhil has penned include Dangal, Bhootnath Returns, Kill Dil and Ittefaq.<br />
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MASTER CLASS<br />
Shekhar Kapur<br />
Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director,producer and storyteller. His directorial debut with cult Bollywood film Masoom won the<br />
Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie of the year while Mr. India was declared one of the “100 Greatest Indian Films of All Time” on<br />
the centenary of Indian cinema. He has also made several documentaries and short films.<br />
Shekhar gained global recognition with the film Bandit Queen, a biopic of Indian bandit and politician Phoolan Devi, which won<br />
the National Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie and Best Direction for that year.<br />
Premiering in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, the film caused a furore, catapulting Kapur into<br />
international success. Kapur introduced Cate Blanchett to the world in his two historical biopics of Queen Elizabeth, which were<br />
nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Film, and won 2; also winning 5 BAFTA Awards, including Best Film.<br />
Kapur co-created the hit West-end show Bombay Dreams with Andrew Lloyd Webber and has been the recipient of the Indian<br />
National Film Award, the BAFTA Award, the National Board of Review Award, and three Filmfare Awards. In 2010, he served as one<br />
of the Jury Members (International Competition) at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. He has also been on the jury of the London Film<br />
Festival, the Tokyo Film Festival, and was one of the sponsors of the International Indian Film Festival in Goa.<br />
Aside from his professional work in film, Kapur is one of India’s foremost activists on environmental and water sustainability issues.<br />
He is also a digital media entrepreneur, founding ‘Qyuki’, one of India’s most successful online platforms for young Indian creators.<br />
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PANEL DISCUSSION<br />
Young Filmmakers of India- Emerging Voices and New Narratives<br />
Moderator Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Filmmaker<br />
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari is a gold medalist in Applied Arts from Sophia Polytechnic. While working for<br />
advertising agency Leo Burnett (India), she won several awards, including Cannes Lions. She quit<br />
advertising to follow her passion in filmmaking. Her first short film was What’s for Breakfast?. After<br />
working for over 100 commercials and delivering creative solutions to national/international clients,<br />
she made her narrative feature debut with the highly acclaimed Nil Battey Sannata. She remade the<br />
film in Tamil as Amma Kanakku. Her second feature, Bareilly Ki Barfi, was a sleeper hit.<br />
R.S. Prasanna, Filmmaker<br />
R.S. Prasanna, 33, is a director who debuted in Bollywood this year with the romantic comedy Shubh<br />
Mangal Saavdhaan. The movie, adapted from his own Tamil debut Kalyana Samayal Saadham (2013),<br />
was hailed for the sensitive and hilarious treatment of an unusual theme: male impotence. A gold<br />
medal-winner from L.V. Prasad Film School, Chennai, he participated as a young filmmaking talent<br />
at the festivals in Berlin and Busan. Prasanna is a sought after speaker in universities, corporate<br />
outfits. He is currently writing his next Bollywood film to be produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur.<br />
Bhaskar Hazarika, Filmmaker<br />
Bhaskar Hazarika is a writer and filmmaker based in New Delhi. His debut film Kothanodi (2015)<br />
received the Post Production Grant from Asian Cinema Fund and had its World Premiere at the Busan<br />
Film Festival. Kothanodi has since travelled to festivals around the world and received the National<br />
Film Award in 2016. Hazarika’s second feature - Aamis (Voracious) - is under production at present<br />
and is expected to release in 2018.<br />
Karthik Subbaraj, Filmmaker<br />
Karthik Subbaraj is a director-producer in the Tamil Film industry. Hailing from Madurai, he made<br />
short films before directing four features. In 2012, Karthik’s first feature Pizza was the biggest hit<br />
of the year. He followed this up in 2014 with Jigarthanda, a musical gangster movie that won two<br />
National Awards. In 2016, Iraivi dealt with issues faced by women in a male-dominated society. The<br />
movie received enormous critical appreciation and was a box office success. He is currently giving<br />
finishing touches to his fourth film, Mercury, a silent thriller.<br />
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PANEL DISCUSSION<br />
The Power of Story Telling - Creating New Groups for Communities Online and Offline<br />
Creating new Groups for Communities On and Offline presented by Observer Research Foundation (ORF) which is a not-for- profit,<br />
multidisciplinary public policy think tank engaged in developing and discussing policy alternatives on a wide-range of issues of<br />
national and international significance. Some of their key areas of research include international relations, defence, security, politics<br />
and governance, resources management and economy and development. Its mandate is to conduct in-depth research, provide<br />
inclusive platforms and invest in tomorrow’s thought leaders today. The panel will be moderated by Mr Samir Saran, Vice President,<br />
Observer Research Foundation.<br />
Moderator Samir Saran, VP, ORF<br />
Samir Saran is the Vice President of Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. He spearheads<br />
ORF’s outreach and business development activities. He curates Raisina Dialogue, India’s annual<br />
flagship platform on geopolitics and geo-economics, and chairs CyFy, India’s annual conference on<br />
cyber security and internet governance.<br />
Samir is a frequent commentator on issues of global governance (climate change and energy policy,<br />
global development architecture, cyber security and internet governance) and on India’s foreign<br />
policy. Samir is Commissioner, The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, and member<br />
of the South Asia advisory board of the World Economic Forum as well as part of its Global Future<br />
Council on Cybersecurity. He is Director of the Centre for Peace and Security at the Sardar Patel<br />
Police University, Jodhpur, India.<br />
Nishikant Kamat<br />
Nishikant Kamat, born and raised in Mumbai, started his career as an actor and director in theatre. He<br />
then worked in television for a decade. He made his debut as a big screen director with the Marathi<br />
film Dombivali Fast, which he later adapted for the Tamil film Evano Oruvan. In 2008, he made his<br />
Hindi debut with Mumbai Meri Jaan. The film had an ensemble cast of R. Madhavan, Soha Ali Khan,<br />
Irrfan Khan, Paresh Rawal and Kay Kay Menon. His next release was Force in 2011. Kamat returned<br />
to Marathi cinema in 2014 with Lai Bhaari, starring Riteish Deshmukh. In July 2015, he collaborated<br />
with Ajay Devgn for the film Drishyam. He has made two other films – Rocky Handsome, his second<br />
collaboration with actor John Abraham, and Madaari, starring Irrfan Khan.<br />
Raja Krishna Menon<br />
Raja Krishna Menon is an Indian film writer, director and producer. He was born in Thrissur, Kerala,<br />
where he spent a major part of his childhood. He is the son of Malayalam actor T.P. Madhavan. He<br />
started as an advertisement director and later moved to feature films. He has directed Bollywood<br />
films like Chef and Airlift. His first film, Bas Yun Hi was among the first of wave of independent films<br />
made in Mumbai. His second film Barah Aana was received with rave reviews, travelled to many<br />
international film festivals and won many nominations and awards.<br />
Anna Louie Sussman<br />
Anna Louie Sussman is the art market editor at Artsy, where she covers the intersection of cultural<br />
production economics. She was previously a correspondent at The Wall Street Journal and Reuters,<br />
the editor and senior writer at WomenintheWorld.org, and the arts editor at The Daily Star in Beirut,<br />
Lebanon. In 2015, she was the lead researcher and writer for Melanne Verveer and Kim Azzarelli’s<br />
Fast Forward, a book that makes the moral and business case for why we must advance women<br />
across the global economy. She has over a decade of experience writing on gender, social issues,<br />
and the arts.<br />
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PANEL DISCUSSION<br />
Children’s Cinema in India<br />
“Children’s films in Indian Cinema - Is there enough content which connects to Children” this session will be moderated by Prasoon<br />
Joshi, Chairperson, Central Board of Film Certification.<br />
Moderator Prasoon Joshi, CBFC, CEO<br />
One of the most respected names in the Indian film industry, Prasoon Joshi is more than just<br />
a talented lyricist. He is the chief of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Born in<br />
Uttarakhand’s Almora, the 45-year-old poet and screenwriter is a successful ad man. A science<br />
graduate, Joshi started his career with Ogilvy and Mather and went on to become the executive vicepresident<br />
of McCann-Erickson. He began writing lyrics in 1999 with Bhopal Express, but his big<br />
break in films came with the song Kaun dagar, kaun shehar in Rajkumar Santoshi’s 2001 film Lajja.<br />
He became more prominent after penning songs for films like Fanaa, Rang De Basanti, Black, Delhi<br />
6 and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. In 2007, Joshi won the National Award for Best Lyrics for Taare Zameen<br />
Par and a second one for Chittagong in 2013. Recently, his lyrics for Neerja songs were also well<br />
received. Joshi was awarded the Padma Shri in 2015.<br />
Anurag Basu<br />
Anurag Basu is a Bollywood director and writer. He directed several television serials, including Tara,<br />
one of India’s first soap operas. He also directed Balaji Telefilms’ Koshish Ek Aasha and Miit, which<br />
was based on Rabindranath Tagore’s Noukadubi. He made his debut in movies with Kucch Toh Hai.<br />
His next film Saaya belonged to the supernatural genre. Murder was based on the Hollywood hit<br />
Unfaithful. During the filming of his next film Tumsa Nahin Dekha (2004), Basu was diagnosed with<br />
blood cancer. The movie was later completed by Mohit Suri and Mahesh Bhatt. In 2006, Anurag Basu<br />
came back to make Gangster. It was followed by the critically acclaimed Life in a Metro. Basu wrote<br />
the screenplays for Gangster, Life in a Metro and Kites.<br />
Nitesh Tiwari<br />
Nitesh Tiwari spent his childhood in various towns of Madhya Pradesh. In 1992, he came to Mumbai<br />
to pursue his B. Tech at the prestigious IIT Bombay. At IIT-B he was very active on the sports as<br />
well as dramatic fronts. He represented IIT-B in cricket and his contribution to dramatics in the<br />
institute got him the Dramatics Roll Of Honour. He spent 17 years in advertising and he was the<br />
Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett India before becoming a full time director. During these years<br />
he and his team did many memorable campaigns and won numerous advertising awards, domestic<br />
as well as international. Tiwari started his journey in Bollywood with Chillar Party which he co-wrote<br />
and co-directed. Chillar Party went on to win three National Awards. He then co-wrote and directed<br />
Bhoothnath Returns. His latest venture, Dangal, which he co-wrote and directed, is one of the most<br />
successful Bollywood movies ever.<br />
Rajiv Chilaka<br />
Rajiv is the Founder and CEO of Green Gold Animation. He has created and built India’s biggest<br />
animation brand Chhota Bheem, which currently has a viewership of over 40 million children, and<br />
is the first ever Indian animation character to have its own line of branded merchandise. Under<br />
him, over the past 14 years, Green Gold has produced over 550+ episodes of animation content,<br />
75+ television movies and four theatrical movies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and<br />
Telecommunications Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad. Chilaka holds a Master’s<br />
degree in Computer Science from University of Missouri Kansas City. He also studied animation at<br />
the Academy of Art, San Franscisco.<br />
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PANEL DISCUSSION<br />
Literary Inspirations Cinema and the Written Word<br />
“Is contemporary cinema reflecting the literature of our times” this session will be moderated by Ms Vani Tripathi Tikoo, Producer<br />
& Actress.<br />
Moderator - Vani Tripathi Tikoo, Producer & Actress<br />
Vani Tripathi Tikoo is one of the youngest ever members of the Central Board of Film Certification.<br />
Her campaigns and outreach programmes as an artist and activist have focused on encouraging<br />
women’s participation in politics and bringing the youth to a universal platform that addresses issues<br />
like education, empowerment and employment. As a producer, she has been deeply involved in<br />
programmes related to environment and global sustainability. She has also been closely involved<br />
in theatre, films and television, having worked in India as well as abroad. As an actor, she has<br />
about 50 plays, 40-odd TV serials and six films to her credit. After graduating in political science<br />
from Delhi University, she went to the Living Theatre Academy of Drama and learnt acting under<br />
the guidance of the legendary theatre guru Ebrahim Alkazi. The noted theatre personalities Vani<br />
has worked with include B.V. Karanth, Maya Rao, Barry John and Tripurari Sharma. Later, she<br />
worked as an actor-teacher at the National School of Drama’s Theatre in Education Company.<br />
She founded the country’s first state government-run drama school in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh<br />
Natya Vidyalaya, in 2011. Vani was also attached to journalism and broadcasting in India.<br />
She continues to contribute to Indian newspapers from time to time. She is currently on the Core<br />
Committee for the International Film Festival of India.<br />
Amish Tripathi<br />
Described as ‘India’s first literary popstar’ by world-renowned film director Shekhar Kapur, Amish’s<br />
unique combination of crackling story-telling, religious symbolism and profound philosophies has<br />
made him an overnight publishing phenomenon, with spiritual guru Deepak Chopra hailing Amish’s<br />
books as ‘archetypal and stirring’.<br />
Six of his books – The Immortals of Meluha (2010), The Secret of the Nagas (2011) and The Oath of<br />
the Vayuputras (2013), which collectively comprise the Shiva Trilogy, and Scion of Ikshvaku (2015),<br />
Sita – Warrior of Mithila (<strong>2017</strong>), Immortal India – Young Country, Timeless Civilisation have 4 million<br />
copies in print. His books have been translated into 19 Indian and foreign languages. The Shiva<br />
Trilogy is the fastest selling book series in Indian publishing history. Amish is a graduate of IIM-<br />
Calcutta and worked for 14 years in the financial services industry before turning to full-time writing.<br />
Yatindra Mishra<br />
Poet, editor, music and cinema scholar, Yatindra Mishra has four collections of Hindi poetry to<br />
his credit. He has written about the life and work of various artists Girija Devi, Sonal Mansingh<br />
and Ustad Bismillah Khan. His latest book Lata: Sur-Gatha’ on legendary playback singer Lata<br />
Mangeshkar won the National Film Award for Best Writing on Cinema and an award for Best Writing<br />
at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. Recipient of Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy Award and<br />
Jnanpith Fellowship, Mishra has been an advisor to the DD Bharati Channel, Doordarshan, Prasar<br />
Bharati (2014-2016). He lives in Ayodhya.<br />
Prasoon Joshi, CBFC, CEO<br />
One of the most respected names in the Indian film industry, Prasoon Joshi is more than just<br />
a talented lyricist. He is the chief of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Born in<br />
Uttarakhand’s Almora, the 45-year-old poet and screenwriter is a successful ad man. A science<br />
graduate, Joshi started his career with Ogilvy and Mather and went on to become the executive vicepresident<br />
of McCann-Erickson. He began writing lyrics in 1999 with Bhopal Express, but his big<br />
break in films came with the song Kaun dagar, kaun shehar in Rajkumar Santoshi’s 2001 film Lajja.<br />
He became more prominent after penning songs for films like Fanaa, Rang De Basanti, Black, Delhi<br />
6 and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. In 2007, Joshi won the National Award for Best Lyrics for Taare Zameen<br />
Par and a second one for Chittagong in 2013. Recently, his lyrics for Neerja songs were also well<br />
received. Joshi was awarded the Padma Shri in 2015.<br />
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PANEL DISCUSSION<br />
Tagore On Celluloid<br />
“Tagore on Celluloid” presented by ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival.<br />
Moderator - Vani Tripathi Tikoo, Producer & Actress<br />
Vani Tripathi Tikoo is one of the youngest ever members of the Central Board of Film Certification.<br />
Her campaigns and outreach programmes as an artist and activist have focused on encouraging<br />
women’s participation in politics and bringing the youth to a universal platform that addresses issues<br />
like education, empowerment and employment. As a producer, she has been deeply involved in<br />
programmes related to environment and global sustainability. She has also been closely involved in<br />
theatre, films and television, having worked in India as well as abroad. As an actor, she has about 50<br />
plays, 40-odd TV serials and six films to her credit. The noted theatre personalities Vani has worked<br />
with include B.V. Karanth, Maya Rao, Barry John and Tripurari Sharma. Later, she worked as an actorteacher<br />
at the National School of Drama’s Theatre in Education Company. She founded the country’s<br />
first state government-run drama school in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Natya Vidyalaya, in 2011.<br />
Shoma A. Chatterji<br />
Shoma A. Chatterji is a Kolkata-based freelance journalist, film scholar and author. She contributes<br />
to around a dozen print media and online publications. She has won two National Awards for Best<br />
Writing on Cinema - for Best Film Critic in 1991 and for Best Book on cinema in 2002 along with<br />
several other awards and fellowships. She has authored 24 books of which most are on Indian<br />
cinema. Her latest, Woman at the Window (Harper-Collins India), deals with the material universe in<br />
Ray’s films adapted from Tagore’s stories.<br />
Pablo Cesar<br />
At the age of six he began to project comics, at 10 he wrote and printed his first bulletin that he<br />
sold at the Champagnat School where he was studying and in nearby kiosks. In 1975, his older<br />
brother gave him a video camera that he used intensively and two years later he scripted and made<br />
his first short film of 7 minutes, followed by others. In 1980, for his short film Del genesis, he was<br />
awarded the first prize in the “Experimental” category in the contest of the Ateneo Foto-Cine Rosario,<br />
in addition to earning a mention for Best Editing and Third Prize (without category) in the contest<br />
of the Circle of Filmmakers Marplatenses and a Special Mention of UNCIPAR. For his film De los<br />
caras de los espejos, Cesar won the First Prize of UNICA, the Amateur International Film Union in<br />
1983. He was a jury at the festivals of Amiens, Montreal Young Film Festiva, Kelibi, Huy, Hyderabad,<br />
Ouagadougou, Villa Carlos Paz and Buenos Aires. He was a pioneer in film co-productions between<br />
Argentina and Tunisia..<br />
Raima Sen<br />
Raima is an Indian film actress. Her breakthrough role came when she starred in Rituparno Ghosh's<br />
film Chokher Bali and the critically acclaimed hit in 2005 Parineeta. 2014 saw Sen as the leading<br />
lady in the critically acclaimed Hrid Majharey, the first Bengali movie based on the works of William<br />
Shakespeare, and presented as a tribute on the 450th year of birth of the Bard. Her other works<br />
include the action thriller Dus and the Bengali film Antar Mahal, The Bong Connection, Manorama<br />
Six Feet Under and the hit Bengali film Baishe Srabon.<br />
Moon Moon Sen<br />
Moon Moon Sen began her career as a journalist and film critic and later taught as a graphic designer<br />
before embarking on a successful cinematic journey. As an actress, she has worked in more than 60<br />
films in 22 languages and countless TV serials. For over 6 years, she has been an active part of the<br />
Bengali "jatra", an ancient form of folk theatre with its roots in religion and mythology.<br />
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Digital Space The Future Ahead<br />
“Digital space – What is the future and is it a threat to Cinema?<br />
Moderator Bharatbala, Filmmaker<br />
Simple emotions and big canvasses mark the working style of this Chennai-born man who has a<br />
fresh outlook to filmmaking. A person who breathes life into his visuals through real places and<br />
people, Bharatbala tells Indian stories with a universal sensibility to a world audience. Having grown<br />
up on a diet of international cinema, Bharatbala is deeply influenced by works of David Lean, David<br />
Lynch and Bimal Roy. Like Brazilian director Water Salles and Chinese director Zhang Yimou, who<br />
have brought stories from their countries into the world cinema space, Bharatbala too is passionate<br />
about showcasing stories from India to an international audience.<br />
Shekhar Kapur<br />
Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director, producer and storyteller. He made his directorial debut with<br />
the Hindi film Masoom. His film Mr. India was a huge commercial success and was declared one<br />
of the ‘100 Greatest Indian Films of All Time’. Kapur gained global recognition with Bandit Queen,<br />
which won the National Film Award. Kapur co-created the hit West End show Bombay Dreams with<br />
Andrew Lloyd Webber. He has served as a jury member at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. He is also<br />
a digital media entrepreneur, founding ‘Qyuki’, one of India’s most successful online platforms for<br />
young Indian creators.<br />
Vijay Subramaniam<br />
Vijay Subramaniam, director for content at Amazon Prime Video India, is a media and entertainment<br />
professional with over 20 years of experience in all mainstream forms of Media - TV, radio,<br />
publishing and digital Media. Subramaniam joined Walt Disney India in 2007 as executive director,<br />
media networks, before which he worked at MTV, ENIL- Radio Mirchi, Star India and Stardust.<br />
Subramaniam played a key role in the growth of Disney India’s youth channel Bindass; he steered the<br />
launches of successful shows like The Trip, Girl in the City and Emotional Atyachaar.<br />
Nachiket Pantvaidya<br />
CEO of ALT Digital Media Entertainment Ltd, Nachiket Pantvaidya has P&L responsibility of the<br />
company’s operations spanning content, marketing, distribution and revenues. In his earlier<br />
assignment, he was business head of Sony Entertainment Television. He was also the business<br />
head of Star Plus and held several roles in the Star TV network, including head of Star Pravah and<br />
Managing Director of Fox Television Studios. An IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus, he has also held key<br />
management roles in BBC and Disney.<br />
Sameer Nair<br />
A media and entertainment industry veteran, Sameer Nair’s illustrious career spans across three<br />
decades with him holding key positions at leading media houses. Among varied highlights in his<br />
career span was the network revamp at Star TV and the launch of Amitabh Bachchan’s KBC, and<br />
the Balaji soap operas on Star Plus. Sameer turned entrepreneur with NDTV Imagine Ltd. Later, he<br />
successfully concluded the sale of NDTV Imagine to the Turner Group, After this, Sameer went on to<br />
join Balaji Telefilms Ltd. as its Group CEO devising an expansive strategy. In August <strong>2017</strong>, Sameer<br />
began a new professional journey to helm Applause Entertainment - a media, content & IP creation.<br />
Karan Anshuman<br />
Karan Anshuman is a writer and director. His first short, Elevator Etiquette, was a pure digital format<br />
film – that premiered at the Digital Talkies festival. The next short – Bhaichara – was invited to the<br />
Berlinale Shorts Workshop. He also directed ads and corporate films for ICICI Prudential, Bombay<br />
Dyeing and many more. He worked with Saeed Mirza on multiple docu, feature, and book projects<br />
and also wrote for television. Karan is the co-founder of two digital initiatives: he is the creative<br />
director of Dreamscape Media, and co-creator of Upperstall.com, a film portal that takes a serious<br />
look at Indian cinema. Karan was the film critic for Mumbai Mirror for an eventful 3 years.<br />
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PANEL DISCUSSION<br />
How to make your next film?<br />
“How to make your next film? - For young Producers and writers” presented by The Producers Guild of India Ltd.<br />
This session will be moderated by Ms Anupama Chopra, Film critic, journalist and author.<br />
Moderator Anupama Chopra, Film Critic<br />
Anupama Chopra is a critic, author and director of the Mumbai Film Festival. She has been writing<br />
about Bollywood since 1993 for international publications like The New York Times, The Los Angeles<br />
Times and Sight & Sound. She is also the founder and editor of Film Companion. She has written<br />
several books on Indian cinema. She won the 2000 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema<br />
for her first book Sholay -The Making of a Classic.<br />
Siddharth Roy Kapur<br />
Siddharth Roy Kapur is an eminent film producer, founder of Roy Kapur Films and the President of<br />
the Producers Guild of India. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI)<br />
and on the Steering Committee of the International Film Festival of India (<strong>IFFI</strong>). With an exceptional<br />
filmography to his credit as a producer, he has established himself as one of India’s trailblazing<br />
creative powerhouses. He has been featured on The Economic Times Top 40 Indian Business Leaders<br />
under 40 and The Hollywood Reporter Next Generation Asia Inaugural Class of Young Leaders.<br />
Ekta Kapoor<br />
Ekta Kapoor is credited with revamping India’s television landscape. She pioneered an entire genre<br />
of television content, heralding India’s satellite television boom. As the creative force behind the<br />
Company’s success, she believes in a hands-on approach in day-to-day creative direction for all<br />
their content. Under her creative guidance, Balaji has won almost every major TV award. In 2016,<br />
she was placed at the No. 1 position among ’50 Most Influential Women’ in the Indian marketing,<br />
advertising and media ecosystems by IMPACT magazine.<br />
Vijay Singh<br />
Vijay Singh was appointed the CEO of Fox Star Studios India in 2008. Prior to this, he was President,<br />
Strategy and Corporate Development at Star India. Singh set up Sony Music Entertainment in India<br />
where he was responsible for setting up Sony’s Music. He has also worked with The Unilever Group,<br />
Walt Disney Consumer Products and the Tata Group.<br />
Sajid Nadiadwala<br />
Sajid Nadiadwala is the third generation filmmaker of the Nadiadwala family who have been in<br />
the filmmaking business for more than 60 years. His passion for entertaining the audience has<br />
yielded hit films like Jeet, Judwaa, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Heyy Babyy, Housefull, Highway, 2 States,<br />
Heropanti, Kick, Tamasha, Baaghi, Dishoom and Judwaa 2.<br />
Karan Johar<br />
Karan Johar made his directorial debut at age 25 with love story Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. The film<br />
remains a landmark in Indian cinema for the appreciation it received, both critically and commercially,<br />
in India as well as internationally. Over the last 15 years, he has directed, written critically and<br />
commercially acclaimed blockbusters like Kabhie Khushi Kabhi Gham, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna and<br />
My Name is Khan. Karan wears many caps with ease. Karan is also a television personality, talk show<br />
host, costume designer and the latest feather in his cap is that of being an actor. His talk show Koffee<br />
with Karan has the distinction of being the most watched English talk show on Indian television.<br />
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Mastering A New Reality<br />
The Panel Discussion is on Mastering a New Reality; technological innovations and new business models<br />
have the potential to make the Indian television and films more immersive, inclusive and interactive. Yet these<br />
changes will have an impact on policymaking, economics, business and society. As the industry stands at an<br />
inflection point, how can stakeholders better understand the disruptions and be prepared to positively shape it.<br />
Presented by World Economic Forum which will be moderated by Mr Ronojoy Banerjee, Anchor and Assistant<br />
Editor, CNBC TV18.<br />
Ekta Kapoor<br />
Ekta Kapoor is credited with revamping India’s television landscape. She pioneered an entire genre of<br />
television content, heralding India’s satellite television boom. Balaji’s shows have been and continue<br />
to be channel drivers for most general entertainment broadcasters. As the creative force behind<br />
the Company’s success, she believes in a hands-on approach in day-to-day creative direction for<br />
all their content; routinely putting in 16-18 hours each day, she moves ahead with India’s rapidly<br />
metamorphosing TV climate. Under her creative guidance, Balaji has won almost every major TV<br />
award. Her stellar work in creating a large content conglomerate at a young age garnered her several<br />
distinguished awards, including The Economic Times (Businesswoman of the Year 2002), Ernst &<br />
Young (Entrepreneur of the Year 2001) and the American Biographical Institute (Woman of the Year<br />
2001), among others. In 2016, she was placed at the No. 1 position among ’50 Most Influential<br />
Women’ in the Indian marketing, advertising and media ecosystems by IMPACT magazine.<br />
Karan Johar<br />
Karan Johar made his directorial debut at age 25 with a path-breaking love story Kuch Kuch Hota<br />
Hai. The film remains a landmark in Indian cinema for the appreciation it received, both critically and<br />
commercially, in India as well as the world. Following this, over the last 15 years, he has directed and<br />
written critically and commercially acclaimed blockbusters like Kabhie Khushi Kabhi Gham, Kabhi<br />
Alvida Na Kehna and My Name is Khan. The multi-faceted Karan wears many caps with ease. Besides<br />
being an acclaimed director and one of the most influential men in the industry today, Karan is also<br />
a television personality, talk show host, costume designer and the latest feather in his cap is that of<br />
being an actor. His talk show Koffee with Karan has the distinction of being the most watched English<br />
talk show on Indian television. Karan Johar has also been a mentor to many successful directors in<br />
India; releasing both commercial blockbusters like Agneepath, Dostana and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani,<br />
as well as critical indie successes like Wake Up Sid and s<br />
Sudhanshu Vats<br />
Sudhanshu Vats is Group CEO, Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd., and responsible for all its lines of<br />
business. In the last four years, he has successfully steered the group into a profitable growth<br />
phase while expanding the channel network, driving content-led cinema, entering experiential<br />
entertainment through live events across genres, opening up the Consumer Products business line<br />
and making the company future ready with Viacom18 Digital Ventures’ OTT platform VOOT. Under<br />
Sudhanshu’s leadership the group has grown from six to over 36 channels and opened up three<br />
more lines of business. He is Chairman of the National Media and Entertainment Committee of<br />
CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), Vice President of IBF (Indian Broadcasting Foundation) and<br />
Chairman of BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council).<br />
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Sujoy Ghosh (Jury Chairman)<br />
National Award-winning writer, director and screenwriter, Sujoy Ghosh made his directorial debut in 2003 with the small-budget<br />
Jhankaar Beats, a thematic tribute to R. D. Burman. The movie proved to be a surprise hit. Ghosh has directed Home Delivery:<br />
Aapko... Ghar Tak (2005), Aladin (2009), Kahaani (2012) and Kahaani 2 (2016). Kahaani, featuring Vidya Balan gained widespread<br />
commercial success and critical acclaim. He started his acting career portraying the role of Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi in a film<br />
directed by Rituparno Ghosh in 2012. The highly popular theme song for the IPL Team Kolkata Knight Riders Korbo Lorbo Jeetbo<br />
Re has been penned by Ghosh.<br />
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Apurva Asrani is a film editor & screenwriter. He received a Filmfare award for his<br />
editing work on crime drama Satya, followed with a National award for the bilingual<br />
comedy Snip!. He has since shaped the narrative of several films including Chhal, Om<br />
Jai Jagadish, Shahid, Jalpari, Children Of War, Citylights, Waiting & Aligarh. He has<br />
worked on the critically acclaimed Shahid as editor and co-screenplay writer for which<br />
he won Life Ok Screen Award for Best Screenplay. He worked as screenwriter on Aligarh,<br />
a human rights drama, starring Manoj Bajpayee & Rajkummar Rao, that released to<br />
worldwide critical acclaim. Apurva’s recent screenwriting work includes Hansal Mehta’s<br />
Simran starring Kangana Ranaut. Apurva is editing a new series for Zoya Akhtar & Excel<br />
entertainment. His directorial debut is scheduled in 2018.<br />
Apurva Asrani<br />
Gopi Desai has a diverse career in theatre, films, and television and is a filmmaker, writer<br />
and actor. She has worked on both fiction and non-fiction projects with human interest<br />
and social concerns as dominant themes. Her projects have traveled to prestigious<br />
festivals across the country and overseas. Her documentary film Manzar has won a<br />
FilmFare Award for Best Documentary film.<br />
Gopi Desai<br />
Gyan Correa is a writer, director and producer, having produced and directed over<br />
500 TVCs, Corporates, TV and feature films. His maiden feature film, The Good Road<br />
(Gujarati) won a National Award and was India’s Oscar submission in 2013. The film<br />
presents a fascinating and unexpected glimpse into the heart of an unseen India,<br />
where acts of great compassion are shown to utter strangers. Currently he is pursuing<br />
several,documentary projects and principal photography for his next feature film is<br />
scheduled to commence in 2018.<br />
Gyan Correa<br />
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Hari Viswanath is an Indian film director and producer. Inspired by real life incidents,<br />
his feature film debut Radiopetti (Radio Set), became the first Tamil film to win an<br />
Audience Award for Best Film in the Official Competition at the Busan International<br />
Film Festival (2015) and 46th edition of <strong>IFFI</strong>-Indian Panorama. It also won the<br />
2nd Best Film Award and a Special Jury Mention for Best Acting at the Chennai<br />
International Film Festival 2015 including another award for Best Music at Imagine<br />
India Film Festival (2016, Spain) and Best Film Award by Puducherry Govt. Ever<br />
since he has been actively directing shorts, films and writing stories close to his<br />
heart.<br />
Hari Viswanath<br />
Merlvin Mukhim is an actor, singer and noted member of the film fraternity in<br />
Meghalaya. His work on Khasi and Bengali language films Ri–homeland of<br />
uncertainty (Khasi), Sohra Bridge (Bengali) and Onaatah – of the earth (Khasi) has<br />
been much appreciated and selected in three consecutive <strong>IFFI</strong> - Indian Panorama<br />
editions. He was presented the Young Achievers Excellence Award in the field of<br />
performing arts and playback singing (Regional) in 2007. He has earned accolades<br />
for his work as an actor in two National award winning films from Meghalaya; he<br />
bagged the Best Actor in a Negative Role award at the Film, North East Festival<br />
Itanagar in 2016 and earned a nomination for Best Actor at the Prag Cine Awards.<br />
A founding member of the Shillong Chamber Choir, he consistently engages with<br />
film industry peers to promote Meghalaya and North East as a potential filming<br />
destination.<br />
Merlvin Mukhim<br />
Nikkhil Advani is an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter. He is one of<br />
the co-founders of Emmay Entertainment, a motion picture production company.<br />
He assisted filmmaker Sudhir Mishra on Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin (1996), for which<br />
he also co-wrote the screenplay. During Nikhil’s stint with Dharma Productions he<br />
directed Kal Ho Naa Ho starring Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Saif Ali Khan and<br />
Jaya Bachchan. The film was one of the biggest hits of 2003 and won six Filmfare<br />
awards besides firmly establishing him as a director. Nikhil has directed India’s first<br />
stereoscopic 3D animation film, Delhi Safari, for which he also wrote the original<br />
story. Emmay Entertainment recently produced Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur film<br />
based on the Gulf war crisis titled Airlift and Farhan Akhtar headlined edgy ensemble<br />
film Lucknow Central.<br />
Nikhil Advani<br />
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Nishikant Kamat’s directorial debut was the impactful Marathi language film Dombivali<br />
Fast. The film earned major critical acclaim in India and internationally. Nishikant then<br />
decided to push boundaries as he adapted Dombivali Fast in Tamil as Evano Oruvan<br />
starring R Madhavan. The film earned major acclaim in the Tamil film industry and<br />
marked his credential as a versatile filmmaker. In 2008, Nishikant Kamat made his<br />
debut in the Hindi film industry with Mumbai Meri Jaan, It earned him The Filmfare<br />
Critic’s Award for Best Film along with awards in various other technical departments<br />
including a National Award for Visual Effects. Nishikant returned to Marathi cinema<br />
with Lai Bhaari, starring Riteish Deshmukh. The film broke box office records at the<br />
time. With his penchant and hunger for varied genres of films, Nishikant is currently<br />
working on over half a dozen projects. Some in the scripting stage, while some already<br />
having been announced in the media.<br />
Nishikant Kamat<br />
Rahul Rawail worked as an Assistant Director, with filmmaker Raj Kapoor, at the<br />
R.K.Studios, assisting him on Mera Naam Joker and Bobby. At R.K.Studios, he also<br />
assisted Randhir Kapoor on Kal Aaj Aur Kal and Dharam Karam. After his stint as an<br />
assistant director, he established himself as one of the most prominent filmmakers<br />
in the Indian Film Industry. He produced some films, and was actively involved with<br />
Rishi Kapoor and Naresh Malhotra (of Prime Focus) in setting-up the first Digital<br />
Audio Studio in Mumbai. He has been the director who has launched Kumar Gaurav,<br />
Vijeta Pandit, Sunny Deol, Amrita Singh, Paresh Rawal, Annu Kapoor, Kajol, Kamal<br />
Sadanah, Aishwarya Rai and John Abraham, having directed all their debut films. He<br />
was a member of the Jury for Indian films for the Oscars in 2015.<br />
Rahul Rawail<br />
Ruchi Narain is a multi-award-winning filmmaker who revels in working across<br />
genres. She has won a FilmFare Award as writer for the political love story Hazaaron<br />
Khwahishein Aisi, Critics’ Award at the Osian Festival as director for her thriller,<br />
Kal (Yesterday & Tomorrow), and several awards producing wildlife documentaries.<br />
She has written and directed India’s biggest animation film Hanuman Da Damdaar<br />
voiced by Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Javed Akhtar, Kunal Kemmu, Chunky<br />
Pandey, Saurabh Shukla, Makrand Deshpande and produced by R.A.T Films<br />
with her partners Ashutosh Shah and Taher Shabbir. They have 3 features and a<br />
documentary in production.<br />
Ruchi Narain<br />
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Sachin Chatte is a film critic who has been writing about cinema for over 23 years. A<br />
graduate in Computer Technology, he started writing for The Hitavada in Nagpur in<br />
1994 and writes a weekly column for The Navhind Times, Goa since 1999 till date. He<br />
has also contributed to various magazines and national dailies and has covered <strong>IFFI</strong><br />
extensively since the festival moved to Goa in 2004. Apart from writing about cinema,<br />
he also teaches Film Appreciation at colleges in Goa. He also doubles as a radio<br />
jockey with All India Radio’s FM Rainbow since 1998.<br />
Sachin Chatte<br />
Satarupa Sanyal, a poet, social activist and Bengali film director started her career<br />
as an actor. She is a veterinarian and recipient of National award for Best Lyricist<br />
(1990). Her films Anu and Onyo Opalaa were Indian Panorama selections and are well<br />
acclaimed in India and abroad.<br />
Satarupa Sanyal<br />
Suresh Heblikar, director & screenplay writer of Mana Manthana is a renowned actor,<br />
director and environmentalist. His handling of a bold subject in the film Kaadina<br />
Benki (Forest Fire) based on a psycho-sexual theme not only won him National &<br />
State Awards but also critical acclaim from various quarters. This was followed by<br />
Prathama Ushakirana, which won the State and Filmfare Award for direction, the<br />
film has remained one of the most popular films among Kannada audience. Suresh<br />
Heblikar has also won an award instituted by the United Nations – F.A.O. Osiris Award<br />
for his short film Shepherds on the Move. His short film on Dharwad’s cultural ethos<br />
brought him a State Award for the Best Documentary. He has acted in notable films<br />
like Rushyashrunga, Tai Saheba, Kaadina Benki. His contribution to cinema and the<br />
environment has been recognized by various government and private institutions.<br />
Suresh Heblikar<br />
100 INDIAN CINEMA <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong>
Indian Panorama<br />
Feature Films<br />
A selection of 26 significant and outstanding<br />
new Feature Films from emerging and<br />
established filmmakers from across the length<br />
and breadth of the country.<br />
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Bahubaali 2 -<br />
The Conclusion<br />
Having uncovered the truth<br />
of his legacy, in Bahubali 2-<br />
The Conclusion, Mahendra<br />
Baahubali (Shivudu), avenges<br />
the murder of his father,<br />
vowing revenge against<br />
the tyrannical ruler of the<br />
Mahishmati Kingdom, his<br />
uncle, Bhallaladeva.<br />
Bisorjon<br />
When a man of Hindu Muslim<br />
identity is washed ashore<br />
during Durga immersion in<br />
Bangladesh, a young widow<br />
takes the life threatening risk<br />
of rescuing him and offering<br />
shelter. His identity cannot be<br />
compromised amidst ethnic<br />
tensions at any cost.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Telugu | 171 min | Colour<br />
Director S. S. Rajamouli<br />
Producer Arka Media Works<br />
Story V. Vijayendra Prasad<br />
Cinematographer K.K.Senthil Kumar<br />
Editor Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao<br />
Music M.M. Keeravaani<br />
Cast Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, Ramya Krishnan<br />
2016 | Bengali | 138 min | Colour<br />
Director Kaushik Ganguly<br />
Producer Opera<br />
Story Kaushik Ganguly<br />
Cinematographer Sauvik Basu<br />
Editor Subhajit Singha<br />
Music Indradip Dasgupta<br />
Cast Jaya Ahsan, Abir Chatterjee, Kaushik Ganguly<br />
Idak<br />
Namya is a gullible man<br />
whose pilgrim trip takes an<br />
unexpected turn when his<br />
mother claims the Goddess<br />
has appeared in her dreams<br />
and demanded an animal<br />
sacrifice. Namya finds himself<br />
conflicted between fulfilling<br />
the promise and sacrificing<br />
his animal-friend.<br />
Jolly LLB 2<br />
Jagdishwar Mishra, aka Jolly,<br />
is a small–time, struggling<br />
lawyer. Jolly is looking out for<br />
an opportunity that could turn<br />
the tide in his favour; when<br />
faced with an opportunity, he<br />
jumps at the chance, one that<br />
will cost him his reputation<br />
and compel him to question<br />
his own morals.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Marathi | 107 min | Colour<br />
Director Deepak Gawade<br />
Producer Kiah Films Pvt Ltd and Prime Focus Ltd.<br />
Story Deepak Gawade<br />
Cinematographer Archana Borhade<br />
Editor Pranav Mistry<br />
Music Pankajj Padghan<br />
Cast Usha Naik, Kishore Kadam, Suhas Palshikar, Devendra Gaikwad,<br />
Atharva Ghodke<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | 139 min | Colour<br />
Director Subhash Kapoor<br />
Producer Fox Star Studios India Pvt Ltd<br />
Story Subhash Kapoor<br />
Cinematographer Kamaljeet Negi<br />
Editor Chandrasekhar Prajapati<br />
Music Manj Musik/Chirrantan Bhatt/Vishal Khurana/Meet Bros.<br />
Cast Akshay Kumar, Huma Qureshi, Saurabh Shukla, Annu Kapoor<br />
Juze<br />
Boribmol, in Goa with a<br />
large immigrant population,<br />
is ruled by a thuggish<br />
bully, Juze. His appetite for<br />
violent intimidation keeps<br />
his workforce submissive,<br />
Santosh (16) remains<br />
determined despite regular<br />
abuse, eventually, his passive<br />
resistance evolves to achieve<br />
freedom from fear.<br />
Kaasav<br />
Janaki, a divorcee, attempts<br />
to find meaning in life through<br />
a sea-turtle conservation<br />
project; she accidentally<br />
meets an anonymous young<br />
man Manav, who has escaped<br />
from the hospital where he<br />
was admitted for attempting<br />
suicide. Janaki tries to create<br />
a non-judgemental, nonintrusive,<br />
warm atmosphere<br />
to help him bloom.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Konkani | 93 min | Colour<br />
Director Miransha Naik<br />
Producer Thin Air Productions<br />
Story Miransha Naik<br />
Cinematographer Abhiraj Rawale<br />
Editor Jacques Comets,<br />
Siddhesh Naik, Suzana Pedro<br />
Music Pierre Aviat<br />
Cast Rushikesh Naik, Sudesh Bhise, Prashanti Talpankar, Gauri Kamat<br />
2016 | Marathi | 105 min | Colour<br />
Director(s) Sumitra Bhave & Sunil Sukthankar<br />
Producer(s) Vichitra Nirmiti &<br />
Mohan Agashe<br />
Story Sumitra Bhave<br />
Cinematographer Dhananjay Kulkarni<br />
Editor Mohit Takalkar<br />
Music Saket Kanetkar<br />
Cast Irawati Harshe, Alok Rajwade, Kishor Kadam, Mohan Agashe<br />
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Kachcha Limbu<br />
Kachcha Limbu, slang for<br />
underdog, is the poignant<br />
tale of a couple and their<br />
everyday trials in nurturing<br />
their mentally challenged<br />
child Bachchu. The story<br />
takes us through Mr. and<br />
Mrs. Katdare’s dilemmas<br />
and attempt at sanity despite<br />
teeming odds.<br />
Kadvi Hawa<br />
Mahua, a farming village<br />
in remote Assam, is rain<br />
deprived, leading its farmers<br />
to inevitable suicide owing<br />
to crushing loans and<br />
repayments. A reputation<br />
of ruthlessness precedes<br />
the bank agent. A father,<br />
fearful that his son too may<br />
succumb, pleads with the<br />
man to defer the debt.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Marathi | 116 min | Colour<br />
Director Prasad Oak<br />
Producer Teamwork Ultra Creations<br />
Story Jaywant Dalvi<br />
Cinematographer Amalendu Choudhary<br />
Editor Jayant Jathar<br />
Music Rahul Ranade<br />
Cast Sachin Khedekar, Sonali Kulkarni, Ravi Jadhav, Manmeet Pem,<br />
Ananth Mahadevan, Uday Sabnis<br />
2016 | Hindi | 95 min | Colour<br />
Director Nila Madhab Panda<br />
Producer Drishyam Films Pvt Ltd<br />
Story Nila Madhav Panda<br />
Cinematographer Ramanuj Datta<br />
Editor Jabeen Merchant<br />
Music Mangesh Dhakde<br />
Cast Sanjay Mishra, Ranvir Shorey, Tilottama Shome and Bhupesh<br />
Khynikaa<br />
A tale of two men, a poet<br />
and a painter, claiming<br />
possession over the same<br />
idea, in a rural village<br />
portrayed as a wonderland.<br />
Idea is personified as a<br />
beautiful young lady, free<br />
of all bondage. They soon<br />
realize that an idea is no one’s<br />
possession and it isn’t wise to<br />
rely on fate for a judgement.<br />
Kshitij –A Horizon<br />
Vacchi is 12 and wants to<br />
study despite all the odds<br />
life throws at her. Her simple<br />
father has little patience for<br />
his daughter’s aspiration. Her<br />
unwavering determination<br />
however, helps her combat<br />
problems and brings her<br />
closer to the inevitable<br />
showdown with her father.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Oriya | Colour | 89 Min<br />
Director Amartyya Bhattacharyya<br />
Producer Swastik Arthouse<br />
Story Amartyya Bhattacharyya<br />
Cinematographer Amartya Bhattacharyya<br />
Editor Amartyya Bhattacharyya<br />
Music Kisaloy Roy<br />
Cast Amrita Chowdhury, Susant Misra, Swastik Choudhury,<br />
Hrushikesh Bhoi, Choudhury, Bikash Das<br />
✪ WORLD PREMIERE<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Marathi | 95 min | Colour<br />
Director Manouj Kadaamh<br />
Producer Media Films Craft<br />
Story Prof. Raybhan Davange<br />
Cinematographer Yogesh Rajguru<br />
Editor Neeraj Voraliya<br />
Music Shailendra Barve<br />
Cast Upendra Limaye, Kanchan Jadhav, Vaishnavi Tangde,<br />
Arnav Mandrubkar, Rajkumar Tangde, Manoj Joshi, Vidyadhar Joshi<br />
Maacher Jhol<br />
Dev D, a world renowned<br />
Paris based chef, returns to<br />
Kolkata (India) to visit his<br />
ailing mother. Grappling with<br />
an uncomfortable past, he<br />
is now faced with a culinary<br />
challenge. His mother insists<br />
he must cook the humble fish<br />
curry that had revealed his<br />
culinary skills as a child.<br />
Manusangada<br />
Beyond the grief of his father’s<br />
demise, Kolappan dreads the<br />
prospect of the burial that<br />
requires a low caste Dalit,<br />
to carry the body through<br />
a thorny, unformed route<br />
to an uncertain graveyard.<br />
Deeply disturbed with the<br />
inequalities, Kolappan begins<br />
a protest.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Bengali, | 108 min | Colour<br />
Director Pratim D. Gupta<br />
Producer(s) Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited &<br />
Mojo Productions Pvt Ltd<br />
Story Pratim D Gupta<br />
Cinematographer Subhankar Bhar<br />
Editor Subhajit Singha<br />
Music Anupam Roy<br />
Cast Ritwick Chakraborty, Paoli Dam, Mamata Shankar, Sumanta Mukherjee<br />
2016 | Tamil | 93 min | Colour<br />
Director Amshan Kumar<br />
Producera A K Films<br />
Story Amshan Kumar<br />
Cinematographer P S Dharan<br />
Editor Dhanasekar<br />
Music Aravind-Shankar<br />
Cast Rajeev Anand, A S Sasi Kumar, Sheela Rajkumar, Manimegalai<br />
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Maza Bhirbhira<br />
Chingi is mute. Her father,<br />
an Indian army officer, loses<br />
his life while on duty. Chingi<br />
nurtures vivid memories of<br />
her father's teachings and the<br />
gift of a tri-colored pinwheel.<br />
When the statue installed in<br />
his memory is demolished<br />
she takes it upon herself to<br />
restore her family’s pride.<br />
Meghnadbod<br />
Rohosyo<br />
Professor Asimava Bose,<br />
celebrity science fiction<br />
writer, receives the modern<br />
Bengali epic Meghnad Bodh<br />
Kabya with one particular<br />
line highlighted as a gift<br />
from an unknown sender. A<br />
few days later he is reported<br />
missing. A high-level police<br />
enquiry reveals an unlikely<br />
perpetrator.<br />
✪ WORLD PREMIERE<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Marathi | 105 min | Colour<br />
Director(s) Yogesh Soman & Vivek Wagh<br />
Producer Themez Unlimited<br />
Story Yogesh Soman<br />
Cinematographer Mayur Hardas<br />
Editor Mayur Hardas<br />
Music Rohit Nagbhide<br />
Cast Vikram Gokhale, Samidha Guru, Kshitish Date<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Bengali | 151 min | Colour<br />
Director Anik Dutta<br />
Producer Friends Communication<br />
Screenplay Anik Dutta & Utsav Mukherjee<br />
Cinematographer Avik Mukhopadhyay<br />
Editor Arghyakamal Mitra<br />
Music Debojyoti Mishra<br />
Cast Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Abir Chatterjee, Gargee Roy Chowdhury<br />
Muramba<br />
When a young Alok calls off his<br />
relationship with his<br />
childhood sweetheart who<br />
he is soon to be married to,<br />
his parents are stunned. They<br />
are left with tough choices<br />
that deeply challenge their<br />
emotional, ethical and social<br />
roles as parents.<br />
Newton<br />
A government clerk on<br />
election duty in a conflictridden<br />
jungle of Central India<br />
tries his best to conduct free<br />
and fair voting despite the<br />
apathy of security forces,<br />
poor planning, and the<br />
looming fear of a guerrilla<br />
attack by Communist rebels.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Marathi | 127.50 min | Colour<br />
Director Varun Narvekar<br />
Producer(s) Darshami Studioz LLP, Pratisad Productions<br />
& Huge Productions<br />
Story Varun Narvekar<br />
Cinematographer Milind Joag<br />
Editor Vishal Bate<br />
Cast Amey Wagh<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | 104 min | Colour<br />
Director Amit Masurkar<br />
Producer Drishyam Films Pvt Ltd<br />
Story Amit V Masurkar<br />
Cinematographer Swapnil S Sonawane<br />
Editor Shweta Venkat Matthew<br />
Music Naren Chandavarkar, Benedict Taylor<br />
Cast Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil, Raghubir Yadav<br />
Pihu<br />
Two year old Pihu, struggles<br />
to wake an unresponsive<br />
mother in an empty house that<br />
is scattered with the remains<br />
of last night’s birthday party.<br />
The film is an edge of the<br />
seat entertainer on how an<br />
empty house with everyday<br />
objects can be sinister for an<br />
unsupervised child.<br />
Pimpal<br />
Arvind, a retired widower,<br />
lives alone in his apartment<br />
in Pune. One day, Arvind has<br />
a nasty fall in the bathroom.<br />
Though he’s fine, his children<br />
insist that he move to the US.<br />
Just before leaving, he comes<br />
across an old letter reminding<br />
him of some unfinished<br />
business.<br />
✪ INDIA PREMIERE ✪ OPENING FILM<br />
2016 | Hindi | 92 min | Colour<br />
Director Vinod Kapri<br />
Producer(s) Krishnam Mediatech Pvt Ltd & Bhagirathi Films Pvt Ltd<br />
Story Vinod Kapari<br />
Cinematographer Yogesh Jani<br />
Editor Irene Dhar Malik, Sheeba Sehgal<br />
Cast Myra Pihu Vishwakarma, Prerna Sharma<br />
✪ WORLD PREMIERE<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Marathi | 92.15 min | Colour<br />
Director Gajendra Ahire<br />
Producer Blackberry Movies<br />
Story Chintamani Ahire<br />
Screenplay Gajendra Ahire<br />
Cinematographer Krishna Kumar Soren<br />
Editor Kutub Inamdar<br />
Music Narendra Bhide<br />
Cast Dilip Prabhavalkar, Priya Bapat, Kishore Kadam, Vrinda Gajendra<br />
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Poorna<br />
Poorna (13), from a poor<br />
tribal family, sweeps the<br />
school grounds as her<br />
parents are unable to afford<br />
the fees. In a rock climbing<br />
expedition, Poorna and<br />
Anand are sent for training<br />
for the Himalayan expedition.<br />
Overcoming all odds, she<br />
becomes the youngest girl to<br />
summit Everest.<br />
Railway Children<br />
Raju, a 12 year old runaway<br />
kid, discovers the sordid<br />
aspects to living life on a<br />
railway platform. Soon, he<br />
finds a friend in Jollu, their<br />
friendship gives them newfound<br />
confidence to start out<br />
on their own. Unable to see<br />
the danger they are subjecting<br />
themselves to, the duo start a<br />
venture on their own.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | 100 min | Colour<br />
Director Rahul Bose<br />
Producer Rahul Bose Productions and Raay Media Pvt. Ltd.<br />
Screenplay Prashant Pandey, Shreya Dev Verma<br />
Cinematographer Subhransu<br />
Editor Manan Mehta<br />
Cast Aditi Inamdar, Rahul Bose, S. Mariya<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Kannada | 155 min | Colour<br />
Director Prithvi Konanur<br />
Producer Tin Drum Beats<br />
Story Prithvi Konanur<br />
Cinematographer Eswaran Thangavel<br />
Editor Shivkumar Swamy<br />
Music None<br />
Cast Manohara, Yash Shetty, Srikanth<br />
Redu<br />
Redu is a simple story of a<br />
man’s values, and how the<br />
loss of his radio pushes<br />
him to reclaim what once<br />
belonged to him.<br />
Rukh<br />
Away from home in a<br />
boarding school, young<br />
Dhruv is oblivious to the<br />
ongoing crisis in his family<br />
until he learns of his father’s<br />
death. Unable to cope with<br />
the news, he is confronted<br />
with the unbearable question<br />
of his father’s death or the<br />
possibility of a pre meditated<br />
murder.<br />
✪ WORLD PREMIERE<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Marathi | 120 min | Colour<br />
Director Sagar Chhaya Vanjari<br />
Producer Naval Films<br />
Story Sanjay Navgire<br />
Cinematographer Mangesh Gadekar<br />
Editor Sagar Chhaya Vanjari<br />
Music Vijay Gavande<br />
Cast Shashank Shende, Chhaya Kadam, Gauri Konge, Vinamra Bhabal<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | 104 min | Colour<br />
Director Atanu Mukherjee<br />
Producer Drishyam Films Pvt Ltd<br />
Story Atanu Mukherjee<br />
Cinematographer Pooja S Gupte<br />
Editor Sanglap Bhowmick<br />
Music Amit Trivedi<br />
Cast Adarsh Gourav, Manoj Bajpayee, Smita Tambe, Kumud Mishra<br />
Take Off<br />
Sameera, a nurse and<br />
mother to 8 year old Ibru, is<br />
recently divorced, she takes<br />
up a job in war-torn Iraq to<br />
overcome financial liabilities.<br />
Appallingly, the hospital she<br />
works at is captured soon<br />
after.<br />
Ventilator<br />
This quirky dramedy captures<br />
candid moments of the rather<br />
large and peculiar Kamerkar<br />
clan. They’re assembled to<br />
visit a family member in<br />
critical health. Their true<br />
intentions are revealed as the<br />
ailing Kamerkar holds on to<br />
dear life.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Malayalam | 132 min | Colour<br />
Director Mahesh Narayanan<br />
Producer Anto Joseph Film Company<br />
Screenplay Mahesh Narayanan, P V Shaji Kumar<br />
Cinematographer Sanu Jose Varghese<br />
Editor Abhilash Balachandran<br />
Cast Parvathy, Fahad Faasil, Kunchacko Boban, Asif Ali,<br />
Prakash Belawadi<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Marathi | 110 min | Colour<br />
Director Rajesh Mapuskar<br />
Producer(s) Purple Pebble Pictures<br />
Story Rajesh Mapuskar<br />
Cinematographer Savita Singh<br />
Editor Rameshwar S Bhagat<br />
Music Rohan & Rohan<br />
Cast Jitendra Joshi, Raja Bapat, Sulbha Arya<br />
INDIAN CINEMA <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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Village Rockstars<br />
Dhunu (10) lives in remote<br />
Assam amidst raging<br />
deprivation. A free spirit,<br />
she firmly believes in the<br />
power of her grand dreams.<br />
Dhunu is determined to form<br />
a rock band with the boys<br />
in her village and wants to<br />
own a guitar. She remains<br />
undeterred in a society that<br />
threatens to pull her back.<br />
Xhoixobote<br />
Dhemalite<br />
Niyor and his sister, Kuwoli<br />
arrive with their parents in<br />
a remote town in Assam.<br />
Unaware of the biggest civil<br />
unrest the state has ever seen.<br />
Niyor promises Kuwoli that<br />
he and his friend Pulak would<br />
stage a play to cheer her up.<br />
He has no way of knowing<br />
that his play would have life<br />
altering consequences.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Assamese | 87 min | Colour <strong>2017</strong> | Assamese | Colour | 98 Min<br />
Director Rima Das<br />
Producer Flying River Films<br />
Story Rima Das<br />
Cinematographer Rima Das<br />
Editor Rima Das<br />
Music Nilotpal Borah<br />
Cast Banita Das, Basanti Das, Boloram Das, Rinku Das, Bishnu Kalita,<br />
Manabendra Das<br />
Director Bidyut Kotoky<br />
Producer India Stories Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.<br />
Story Bidyut Kotoky<br />
Cinematographer Satya Prakash Rath<br />
Editor Pallavi Kotoky<br />
Music Anurag Saikia<br />
Cast Victor Banerjee, Nakul Vaid, Dipannita Sharma, Naved Aslam,<br />
Nipon Goswami<br />
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Indian Panorama<br />
Non-Feature Jury<br />
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Sudhir Mishra (Jury Chairman)<br />
Filmmaker, India<br />
Sudhir Mishra is an internationally acclaimed film director and one of the pioneers of alternative independent cinema movement<br />
of India. He started as an assistant director and co-writer in Kundan Shah’s cult classic comedy Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro. He has won<br />
National Awards for his directorial debut, Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin and Dharavi. Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, his most talked<br />
about film has already achieved cult classic status. His illustrious career spanning 3 decades has not only been recognized by<br />
the Government of India but also by the French Government in the form of Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, the French equivalent of<br />
Knighthood.<br />
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K G Suresh is currently serving as Director General, Indian Institute of<br />
Mass Communication. He has served as Senior Consulting Editor with<br />
Doordarshan News; Editorial Consultant with Asianet News Network; Chief<br />
Political Correspondent with Press Trust of India and Group Media Advisor to<br />
Dalmia Bharat Enterprises Ltd. Mr Suresh played a pivotal role in introducing<br />
innovative programmes including Speed News, Vaartavali- The world’s first<br />
Sanskrit Television News Magazine, Good News India – positive news from<br />
across the country, India First – A strategy and defence based programme and<br />
Do Touk – a political debating platform, besides DD’s first android enabled<br />
App. He chaired the international jury of the 4th Woodpecker International<br />
Film Festival-2016, 13th edition of the We Care International Film Festival<br />
on disability issues. He was on the jury of the of the National Media Award,<br />
UNICEF Media Fellowship, the UNICEF Radio4child awards, National Awards<br />
& the prestigious Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity.<br />
K G Suresh<br />
Mithunchandra Chaudhari has written & directed 3 short films Compulsory<br />
Hellmate, Ghandaat & National Film Award winner Paywat. His films have<br />
been awarded and officially selected at prestigious international film festivals.<br />
He has assisted Nagraj Manjule on Fandry, Sairat & Kranti Kanade on Mahek,<br />
a children’s feature. His poems in Marathi have been published in various<br />
periodicals. He has a MA in English Literature, Masters in Communication<br />
Studies & Diploma in Journalism from Pune University. He has taught Video<br />
Production at various colleges of Pune, Mumbai & Goa University. Presently,<br />
he teaches at Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune.<br />
Mithunchandra Chaudhari<br />
Shankhajeet De is a researcher and documentary filmmaker. He makes<br />
documentaries with an ethnographic lens. His debut feature documentary<br />
In the Shadow of Time (Samayara Chaaire-Odiya) on Ravana Chhaya,<br />
the shadow puppetry tradition of Odisha has won the Rajat Kamal for the<br />
Best Film on art and culture at the 64th National Film Awards. He has also<br />
made an ethnographic audio-visual journal on Togalu Gombeyaatta, the<br />
shadow puppetry tradition of Karnataka for the library of the puppet school<br />
in UNIMA, France. He is currently filming a feature documentary on the<br />
Ramaleela tradition in Odisha through multi-sited ethnographic methods.<br />
He is responsible for setting up the filmmaking department at Sri Aurobindo<br />
Centre for Arts & Communication (SACAC-New Delhi). He has been teaching<br />
research, screenplay, scriptwriting and direction for over eight years.<br />
Shankhajeet De<br />
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Shiny Jacob Benjamin has been a documentary director since 1999.<br />
Earlier, she has worked with Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhumi,<br />
leading Newspapers in Malayalam as a features writer. Later, she<br />
joined Asianet, the first satellite Television channel in Malayalam. She<br />
has also worked with Indiavision, first news channel in Malayalam<br />
and has worked as chief producer with TV Channel Jaihind & Jaihind<br />
Middle East. She won 20 prestigious awards including 2 National<br />
Awards and 7 Kerala State Awards for her documentaries. She has<br />
been a jury member on FFK International Film Festival and the 28th<br />
Indian Panorama-<strong>IFFI</strong> jury. She has worked as Assistant Director for<br />
a Kamal Hassan film under the directorial guidance of T. K Rajeev<br />
Kumar and as the Associate Director for the 35th National Games<br />
2015 held in Kerala.<br />
Shiny Jacob Benjamin<br />
Tinni Mitra is an editor. During her Masters course on Film Studies in<br />
Jadavpur University in Kolkata her interest for filmmaking grew and<br />
later she joined Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute. She is a National<br />
Awardee for Best Editing for her work in her film-school diploma<br />
Germ. Tinni shifted to Mumbai in 2009. Her first feature film Mumbai<br />
Cha Raja went to Toronto International and Abu Dhabi Film Festival.<br />
Her film as editor The Seventh Walk directed by Amit Dutta was the<br />
Closing Film of Cinema XXI section, Rome Film Festival, 2013.<br />
Based on the works of Indian painter Mr. Paramjit Singh, this film<br />
was also selected in Documentary Fortnights by Museum of Modern<br />
Arts (MOMA) in 2014. Tinni has edited documentaries produced by<br />
PSBT and Films Division and ITVS. She has attended Berlinale Talent<br />
Campus in 2015 as part of the Editing Studio.<br />
Tinni Mitra<br />
Tuhinabha Majumdar<br />
Tuhinabha Majumdar has worked as a writer, editor and director<br />
in the films and television industry for the last nineteen years.<br />
His film Aamaar Katha: Story Of Binodini, based on the legendary<br />
Bengali actress Binodini has received two Rajat Kamal Awards<br />
for Best Biographical and Historical Reconstruction film and Best<br />
Cinematography (Non-fiction) at the 62nd National Film Awards,<br />
2014. He has also received the Golden Conch for the Best Fiction<br />
film and the Best Film of the Festival award in MIFF, for Midnight<br />
Bioscope and the Silver Award at the 11th Indian Documentary<br />
Producers’ Award for Excellence for City Within The City a PSBT<br />
documentary. Besides editing his own films he has edited Tamil<br />
feature film Sengadal (Black Sea), Kolkata, the City of Memories<br />
(a non-fiction television series on Kolkata in 21 episodes), Two Or<br />
Three Things I Know About Alleys, Neeldarpan and Sarat Chandra<br />
Chatterjee. He has served as a jury in the 3rd NSFFI, 2015.<br />
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Indian<br />
Panorama<br />
Non-Feature Films<br />
A selection of 16 new short and documentary films on a wide<br />
range of subjects and issues from emerging and established<br />
filmmakers from across the length and breadth of the country.<br />
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8 1/2 Intercuts- Life<br />
and Films of K G<br />
George<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Malayalam | Doc | 108 min | Colour<br />
Director Lijin Jose<br />
Producer Lijin Jose<br />
Story Shahina K Rafiq<br />
Cinematographer MJ Radhakrishnan, Neil D’ Cunha<br />
Editor B Ajithkumar<br />
Music M Bijibal<br />
The documentary is an<br />
attempt to understand the<br />
legend of revolutionary<br />
filmmaker KG George by<br />
examining his major films<br />
juxtaposed with his personal<br />
life. No other filmmaker has<br />
depicted the nuances of the<br />
contemporary Kerala society<br />
with such great detail and<br />
depth.<br />
A Very Old Man with<br />
Enormous Wings<br />
2016 | English | Doc | 72 min | Colour<br />
Director Prateek Vats<br />
Producer Films Division<br />
Cinematographer Mehul Bhanti<br />
Editor Tanushree Das Sahi, Paramita Ghosh<br />
Music Bigyna Bhushan Dahal<br />
Anchored in the twilight<br />
years of the legendary Indian<br />
bodybuilder and former Mr.<br />
Universe, Manohar Aich. As<br />
the body fades away, the film<br />
begins to take shape. The idea<br />
of the film is to consciously<br />
move away from the evidential<br />
burden of a biopic towards an<br />
intimate portrait.<br />
Aaba<br />
An orphaned girl learns that<br />
her grandfather is battling<br />
lung cancer with less than<br />
a few weeks to survive. In a<br />
remote village in Arunachal<br />
Pradesh, the man bides his<br />
time, by revisiting personal<br />
possessions and digging his<br />
grave well in time. But, then<br />
life has its own surprises.<br />
Amma Meri<br />
The film explores how trying<br />
circumstances often lead<br />
to great transformation.<br />
When the loss of his father,<br />
mounting financial troubles<br />
and the thought of arranging<br />
his daughter’s marriage wear<br />
him down, the last straw for<br />
him is losing his mother. In<br />
the face of adversity Balaram<br />
truly begins to think.<br />
2016 | Marathi | Short Film | 26 min | Colour<br />
Director Amar Kaushik<br />
Producer Raapchik Films Pvt Ltd<br />
Story Shashi Kaushik<br />
Cinematographer Soumik Mukherjee<br />
Editor Arindam S Ghatak<br />
Music Alokananda Dasgupta<br />
Cast DaniRanda, DaniChunya, DaniSunku, HageYami,<br />
Dr. JoramKhopey, SuritaRai<br />
2016 | Haryanvi | Short Film | 30 min | Colour<br />
Director Tarun Jain<br />
Producer Tarun Jain<br />
Cinematographer Karan Thapliyal<br />
Editor(s) Rajan Kumar Singh & Vishal Chauhan<br />
Music Vivek Sharma and Abhishek Sharma<br />
Cast Anurag Arora, Devki Rani, Diksha Lamba, Raghuvir Mann<br />
Baluta<br />
A young woman, mother<br />
to four daughters, loses<br />
her husband and is on her<br />
own without family support.<br />
Baluta is her tale of struggle,<br />
bravery, and most of all, the<br />
self-belief of a woman who<br />
defies all odds and proves to<br />
the world that stereotype is<br />
just another word.<br />
Chutney<br />
Everyone we meet has a public<br />
face, the one they allow us to<br />
see. What if there is another<br />
side? The film peeps into the<br />
seemingly moral world of the<br />
great indian middle class<br />
with its new aspirations of<br />
imported cars & organic food.<br />
Using satire as its narrative,<br />
we get a voyeuristic look into<br />
their relationships.<br />
India, Bangladesh, Pakistan |<strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | 120 minutes | Colour<br />
Director Ajay Kurane<br />
Producer Ajay Kurane<br />
Screenplay Swapnil Rajshekhar<br />
Cinematographer Ajay Kurane<br />
Editor Amit Patil<br />
Music Mandar Khare<br />
Cast Tanuja Kadam, Arya Kurane, Umesh Bolake, Pramod Phadtare,<br />
Narendra Desai, Girija Gode<br />
2016 | Hindi | Short Film | 17 min | Colour<br />
Director Jyoti Kapur Das<br />
Producer Cinemafia<br />
Story Tisca Chopra, Jyoti Kapur Das, Avneesh Mishra<br />
Cinematographer Jay Oza<br />
Editor Monisha R Baldawa<br />
Music Ashwin Srinivasan<br />
Cast Tisca Chopra, Adil Hussain, Rasika Duggal, Aakash Bharadwaj,<br />
Sumit Gulati<br />
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Dugga<br />
Set in the time of Durga<br />
Puja, Kolkata’s grand and<br />
beloved annual festival. A<br />
young boy Dugga, gets to<br />
spend some rare time with<br />
his mother, Madhabi in her<br />
brothel, between the frequent<br />
visits of her regular clients.<br />
Amidst celebration and light,<br />
a mother-son story unfolds at<br />
the darkest corner of the city.<br />
Epil<br />
A magician plans his farewell<br />
performance in the upcoming<br />
funfair to help gather funds<br />
for a morally destroyed<br />
plague affected village.<br />
Hadom is a single father to<br />
a young Epil, who is excited<br />
to bits about the funfair. The<br />
film explores the dynamism of<br />
new relationships through the<br />
atrocious events that unfold.<br />
2016 | Bengali | Short Film | 14.56 min | Colour<br />
Director Chandrasish Ray<br />
Producer Rahul Saha<br />
Story Rahul Saha<br />
Cinematographer Souvik Basu<br />
Editor Subhajit Singha<br />
Music Avijit Kundu<br />
Cast Sayam Mukherjee, Ankita Chakraborty, Prantik Banerjee<br />
2016 | Santali | Short Film | 30 min | Colour<br />
Director R K Soren<br />
Producer Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute<br />
Story R K Soren<br />
Cinematographer Amey D Mule<br />
Editor(s) Asim Mohd.<br />
Fireflies in the Abyss<br />
Suraj toils away in the coal<br />
mines in North East India.<br />
The fate of most Nepalese<br />
migrants is sealed with these<br />
rat holes, a sole source of<br />
income in this area. With<br />
no parental support, Suraj<br />
trudges on with a smile<br />
nurturing the hope that one<br />
day he will return to school.<br />
Gi<br />
Gi lives with Appachan, her<br />
grandfather. She and he<br />
are dealing with different<br />
realities. Appachan is losing<br />
some memories and delving<br />
into worlds Gi is unfamiliar<br />
with. She on the other hand<br />
is trying to come to terms<br />
with the world around her, her<br />
lover and her work which all<br />
seem hostile to her.<br />
2016 | Hindi, English, Nepali | Doc | 88 min | Colour<br />
Director Chandrasekhar Reddy<br />
Producer Chandrasekhar Reddy<br />
Cinematographer Chandrasekhar Reddy<br />
Editor Abhro Banerjee<br />
Music Cooper - Moore<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Malayalam | Short Film | 30 min | Colour<br />
Director Kunjila<br />
Producer Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute<br />
Story Kunjila<br />
Cinematographer Rakesh Dharan<br />
Editor Ritika Poddar<br />
Khidkee<br />
Madhu is a middle-aged<br />
homemaker whose life<br />
revolves around taking care<br />
of her paralytic bed-ridden<br />
husband. Her only distraction<br />
is Ashween, a youngster, who<br />
lives in the opposite building.<br />
Ashween is a writer who is<br />
frequently drawn to his livingroom<br />
window, through which<br />
he can observe Madhu.<br />
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Animal|Thing<br />
The film explores the life of<br />
a South India based tribe<br />
that follows a unique naming<br />
convention. The members of<br />
the tribe name their kids with<br />
the first thing that comes to<br />
their mind. The film explores<br />
their changing lifestyles and<br />
how they have evolved over<br />
time.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Marathi | Short Film | 39 min | Black & White<br />
Director Rohan Parshuram Kanawade<br />
Producer Dark Stories<br />
Story Rohan Parshuram Kanawade<br />
Cinematographer Aparna Dharmmadhikari<br />
Editor Rohan Parshuram Kanawade<br />
Music Kevin MacLeod<br />
Cast Veena Nair, Abhay Kulkarni, Lalit Prabhakar, Kalyanee Mulay<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | Doc | 23 min | Colour<br />
Director Nithin R<br />
Producer(s) Nithin R & Bhagyalakshmi K<br />
Story Nithin R<br />
Cinematographer Rakesh Ramakrishnan<br />
Editor(s) Nithin R, Appu N Bhattathiri<br />
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Our Grandparents’<br />
Home<br />
16 young scholars from<br />
India and Bangladesh<br />
record the memories of the<br />
third generation of 1947<br />
Partition refugees. Two<br />
women, Tunazina Sahrin of<br />
Bangladesh and Sanchita<br />
Bhattacharya of India embark<br />
on a journey to find their roots<br />
and lost homes.<br />
Palash<br />
Secluded from the rest of the<br />
world, Sree lives in the land<br />
of Palash. Here innocence is<br />
cruel and love is violent.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Bengali | Doc | 42 min | Colour<br />
Director Supriyo Sen<br />
Producer Supriyo Sen & Goethe - Institut<br />
Story Supriyo Sen<br />
Cinematographer Mrinmoy Mondal<br />
Editor Suvadipta Biswas<br />
Music Kanishka Sarkar<br />
2016 | Bengali | Short Film |21 min | Colour<br />
Director Vaibhav Hiwase<br />
Producer Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute<br />
Story Vaibhav Hiwase<br />
Cinematographer Vijigeesh Mandalaparthy<br />
Editor Manendra Lodhi<br />
Pushkar Puran<br />
During the full moon in the<br />
month of Kartik, the town and<br />
the nearby dunes become<br />
an enormous fairground in<br />
the lake city of Pushkar in<br />
Rajasthan. Kamal Swaroop<br />
explores the ancient myths<br />
and politicking of Indian<br />
Gods as the heavens descend<br />
and the water in the lake turns<br />
holy.<br />
The Waterfall<br />
On a visit to his cousin Nilu’s<br />
beautiful hill town, city kid<br />
Karan immediately takes to<br />
the deep forests. He soon<br />
learns that the waterfall they<br />
visited will be destroyed for<br />
sake of development projects.<br />
Deeply disturbed, Karan finds<br />
himself in deep contemplation<br />
about the conflicting progress<br />
of development and nature.<br />
✪ OPENING FILM<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | Doc-Drama | 99 min | Colour<br />
Director Kamal Swaroop<br />
Producer Kamal Swaroop and Match Cut Films LLC<br />
Cinematographer Ashok Meena, Kumar Avyay<br />
Editor Shweta Rai<br />
2016 | English | Short Film | 20 min | Colour<br />
Director Lipika Singh Darai<br />
Producer LXL Ideas Pvt Ltd<br />
Story Lipika Singh Darai<br />
Cinematographer Indraneel Lahiri<br />
Editor Lipika Singh Darai<br />
Music Gaurab Chaterjee<br />
Cast Soham Maitra, Rwitobroto Mukherjee, Indrashish Roy<br />
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Dadasaheb Phalke<br />
Award <strong>2017</strong><br />
The highest honour in Indian Cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke<br />
Award, celebrates the cinematic legacy of the Father of Indian<br />
Cinema, by applauding industry veterans for their lifetime<br />
contribution. The 48th <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong> showcases three films of the<br />
Dada Saheb Phalke Award Winning director for 2016,<br />
Shri K. Viswanath.<br />
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K Vishwanath<br />
K Vishwanath is an Indian audiographer, director, screenwriter, and character actor noted for his work in Telugu, Tamil and<br />
Hindi cinema. He is the recipient of five National Film Awards, six state Nandi Awards, eleven Filmfare Awards. In a film career<br />
spanning sixty years, he has directed 53 feature films. He is also the recipient of the Padmashri & Andhra Pradesh State<br />
Raghupathi Venkaiah awards.<br />
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Sagara Sangamam<br />
Balakrishnan, a poor but<br />
exceptionally gifted Indian<br />
classical dancer wants to<br />
compete at an All-India<br />
competition. He is spotted<br />
by Madhavi who helps him<br />
prepare for the main event.<br />
Drawn emotionally close to<br />
her, he decides to propose<br />
to her only to realize she is<br />
married.<br />
Shankarabharanam<br />
Sankara Sastry is devoted to<br />
divine music. At the height of<br />
popularity, he meets Tulasi a<br />
dancer, who is interested in<br />
classical arts. She wishes<br />
to learn under Sastry’s<br />
tutelage as his disciple. But,<br />
a casteism ridden society<br />
frowns upon this, compelling<br />
Tulsi to leave, only to return<br />
years later with her son.<br />
1983 | Telugu | 160 min | Colour<br />
Director K. Vishwanath<br />
Producer Nageshwara Rao Edida<br />
Cinematographer Nivas P.S.<br />
Editor G.G. Krishna Rao<br />
Cast Kamal Haasan, Jaya Prada, Sarath Babu, Sailaja S.P, Sakshi Ranga<br />
Rao, Dubbing Janaki, Potti Prasad, Jit Mohan Mitra<br />
1979 | Telugu | 143 min | Colour<br />
Director K Vishwanath<br />
Producer(s) Sriramulu Akasam, Nageshwara Rao Edida<br />
Cinematographer Balu Mahendra<br />
Editor G.G. Krishna Rao<br />
Cast Somayajulu J.V., Manju Bhargavi, Tulasi, Allu Ramalingaiah,<br />
Chandramohan, Nirmalamma, Pushpakumari, Sakshi Ranga Rao<br />
The film is about an egoistic<br />
music teacher envious of the<br />
extraordinary talent of his<br />
prodigious young disciple.<br />
Swathi Kiranam<br />
1992 | Telugu| 130 min | Color<br />
Director K. Vishwanah<br />
Producer V. Madhusudhan Rao<br />
Cast Mammootty, Master Manjunath, Radhika Sarathkumar<br />
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Homages<br />
<strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong> pays Homage to Indian film industry<br />
veterans who have passed away in the last year, by<br />
showcasing a selection of films from their impressive<br />
and lasting cinematic legacies.<br />
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Abdul Majid<br />
3 May 1932 – 23 September <strong>2017</strong><br />
Abdul Majid, Assamese director started as a playwright with Banchita, Dhuli Makoti, Char,<br />
Sihat Ahise, Choretal. He entered films as actor in Nip Barua’s Ranga Police and produced,<br />
wrote and directed films. His best known film is Chameli Memsaab, deploying a staid narrative<br />
progression weaving romance into clearly defined themes.<br />
Chameli Memsaab<br />
1975 | Assamese | 144 min | B&W<br />
Director Abdul Majid<br />
Producer Seuj Bolchhabi Santha<br />
Screenplay Abdul Majid<br />
Cinematographer Bijoy Dey<br />
Music Bhupen Hazarika<br />
Cast George Baker, Binita Gohain, Haresh Dutta<br />
A love story set in the tea gardens of Assam.<br />
A British planter falls in love with a tea garden<br />
worker. The planter marries the girl and soon<br />
finds himself accused of her murder.<br />
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J. Jayalalitha<br />
24 February 1948 – 5 December 2016<br />
J. Jayalalitha was an Indian actor and politician, who served six terms as the Chief Minister of Tamil<br />
Nadu, for over fourteen years, between 1991 and 2016. Her debut in Kannada film was Chinnada<br />
Gombe, her debut Telugu film was Manushulu Mamathalu, in Tamil it was Vennira Aadai, in Hindi<br />
it was Izzat and in Malayalam it was the film Jesus. Jayalalithaa was awarded the Kalaimamani by<br />
the Government of Tamil Nadu. She has received several honorary doctorates and awards from the<br />
University of Madras.<br />
Ayirathil Oruvan<br />
1965 | India | Tamil | Color | 174 min<br />
Directors B. Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu<br />
Producer B. Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu<br />
Screenplay K. J. Mahadevan<br />
Cinematographer V. Ramamoorthy<br />
Editor R. Devarajan<br />
Cast Jayalalitha J , R.S. Manohar, Nagesh, M.N. Nambiar,<br />
M.G. Ramachandran<br />
When a town doctor and researcher, Manimaran<br />
is accused of treason by the dictating ruler and<br />
sold along with numerous other men as a slave,<br />
he escapes with his companions, gets captured<br />
by pirates who force him to serve for them<br />
before gaining their support in fighting back the<br />
dictatorship for his country’s freedom.<br />
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Kundan Shah<br />
19 October 1947 – 7 October <strong>2017</strong><br />
Kundan Shah was an Indian film director and writer. He is most known for his comedy<br />
classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and his 1985–1986, TV series Nukkad with Saeed Akhtar<br />
Mirza. Shah studied direction at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune and he<br />
developed an interest in the comedy genre. His directorial debut was the comedy film<br />
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro in 1983. He also was the co-writer of the film, with Satish Kaushik.<br />
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro<br />
1983 | India | Hindi | 132 min | Colour<br />
Director Kundan Shah<br />
Producer National Film Development Corporation<br />
Screenplay Kundan Shah<br />
Cinematographer Binod Pradhan<br />
Editor Renu Saluja<br />
Cast Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Satish Shah, Om Puri,<br />
Pankaj Kapur<br />
Vinod and Sudhir are photographers, they<br />
are trying to start a photo studio. The first<br />
real assignment that they get, draws them<br />
into the shady world of Bombay real estate.<br />
They discover that one of the biggest builders<br />
in Bombay, is trying to bribe the Municipal<br />
Commissioner into giving him a bridge<br />
contract.<br />
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Dr. Narayana Rao Dasari<br />
4 May 1947 – 30 May <strong>2017</strong><br />
Dr. Dasari Narayana Rao, is an Indian is a politician, film director and producer. He directed<br />
about 150 films, produced 53 films and worked in above 250 films as a dialogue writer and<br />
as a lyricist . He was soon recognised as a potential stage artiste, scriptwriter and director.<br />
During his career he also acted in Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada languages. He won Andhra<br />
Pradesh State Best actor award for his acting.<br />
Osey Ramulamma<br />
1997 | India | Telugu | Color | 158 min<br />
Director Narayana Rao Dasari<br />
Producer Dasari Padma<br />
Cinematographer Shyam K. Naidu<br />
Music by Vandemataram Srinivas<br />
Cast Vijayshanti, Rami Reddy, Narayana Rao Dasari<br />
The story revolves around a woman’s rebellion<br />
in Telangana. Ramulamma at a very young<br />
age of 13 was impregnated by the dora. The<br />
dora orders his men to throw the baby and kill<br />
Ramulamma. The baby is found by naxals and<br />
raised by them. Injured Ramulamma is taken<br />
care of by a Dalit couple who treat her as their<br />
own sister.<br />
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Om Puri<br />
18 October 1950 – 6 January <strong>2017</strong><br />
Om Puri was an Indian actor who had appeared in both mainstream Indian films and art<br />
films. His credits include appearances in British and American films. Puri graduated from<br />
the Film and Television Institute of India and was also an alumnus of the 1973 class of<br />
National School of Drama where Naseeruddin Shah was a co-student. He made his film<br />
debut in the 1976 film Ghashiram Kotwal, based on a Marathi play of the same name.<br />
Ardh Satya<br />
1983 | Hindi, Marathi | 130 min | Colour<br />
Director Govind Nihalani<br />
Producer Vasant Mamania, Manmohan Shetty, Shivanand Shetty,<br />
Pradeep Uppoor<br />
Screenplay Vijay Tendulkar, Vasant Dev<br />
Cinematographer Govind Nihalani<br />
Editor Renu Saluja<br />
Cast Om puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah<br />
Anant realizes that the police are manipulated<br />
by politicians. Frustrated, he turns his anger<br />
on suspects held in cells and beats them<br />
mercilessly. His frustrations rise after he is<br />
sidelined for a medal and counseled to resign<br />
from this job. Things only get worse after he<br />
brutally assaults a suspect resulting in death.<br />
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Ramananda Sengupta<br />
8 May 1916 – 23 August <strong>2017</strong><br />
Ramananda Sen Gupta was an Indian cinematographer. He was born in Dhaka in 1916<br />
and became a centenarian in 2016. Sengupta stood behind the lens in more than 70<br />
films. His work in cinematography began in 1938 when he joined as an apprentice at the<br />
Aurora Film Corporation in Kolkata. He worked with G. K. Mehta, as first assistant on the<br />
1941 film Kurukshetra. Sengupta’s first independent work was Purbaraag directed by<br />
Ardhendu Mukherjee.<br />
Nagarik<br />
1952 | Bengali | 127min | B&W<br />
Director Ritwik Ghatak<br />
Producer (Film Guild) Pramode Sengupta, Bhupati Nandi,<br />
Ritwik Ghatak<br />
Screenplay Ritwik Ghatak<br />
Cinematographer Ramananda Sengupta<br />
Editor Ramesh Joshi<br />
Cast Ajit Banerjee, Kali Bannerjee, Gangapada Basu,<br />
Satindra Bhattacharya<br />
Ramu lives in a lower-middle-class<br />
neighbourhood with his family. Ramu’s sister, is<br />
dressed up and paraded in front of prospective<br />
in-laws who humiliatingly examine her. The<br />
light of Ramu’s life is his girlfriend Uma, who<br />
lives in an equally precarious situation.<br />
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Reema Lagoo<br />
21 June 1958 – 18 May <strong>2017</strong><br />
Reema Lagoo was an Indian theatre and screen actress known for her work in Hindi and<br />
Marathi cinema. She began her acting career in Marathi theatre. However, she received<br />
wider recognition with roles in television serials, Hindi and Marathi films. She debuted in<br />
films in 1979 with the Marathi film Sinhasan. Lagoo also had a fairly successful career as<br />
a television actor in both Hindi and Marathi languages. She debuted on television in 1985<br />
with the Hindi series Khandaan.<br />
Savalee<br />
2007 | Marathi | Colour<br />
Director Rajendra Talak<br />
Producer Shivendu G. Agrawal<br />
Screenplay Pratima Kulkarni<br />
Cinematographer Debu Deodhar<br />
Editor Vidyadhar Pathare<br />
Cast Reema Lagoo, Amruta Subhash, Urmila Kanitkar<br />
The story revolves around an identity clash<br />
between mother and daughter. Savalee delves<br />
into the emotional dimension of not just<br />
mother and daughter or Guru and Shishya, but<br />
it also gives a kaleidoscopic insight into the<br />
other sensitive and volatile aspects of various<br />
relationships.<br />
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Tom Alter<br />
18 October 1950 – 6 January <strong>2017</strong><br />
Tom Alter, grew up in North India in the towns of Rajpur and Mussoorie, and studied at<br />
Woodstock School. Alter was enamoured by films and in June 1972, after noticing a small<br />
classified ad in the newspaper, he enrolled at the prestigious Film and Television Institute<br />
of India, Pune. Alter was one of the two people selected out of more than 1000 applicants<br />
that year and he learned his craft at FTII.<br />
Ocean of an Old Man<br />
2008 | Hindi, Bengali, English | 80 min | Colour<br />
Director Rajesh Shera<br />
Producer Pinaki Chatterjee,<br />
Alan McAlex, Rajesh Shera<br />
Screenplay Rajesh Shera<br />
Cinematographer Tapan Vyas<br />
Editor Rajesh Shera<br />
Cast Tom Alter, Jamie Alter, Akash<br />
Thomas is a teacher in a 1974-established<br />
Government-run primary school in the<br />
Andaman & Nicobar Islands. His students<br />
attend his classes by boat from a number of<br />
nearby islands. Everything changes after the<br />
devastating December 2004 Tsunami strikes.<br />
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Vinod Khanna<br />
6 October 1946 – 27 April <strong>2017</strong><br />
Vinod Khanna was an Indian actor and producer of Bollywood films. He was the recipient<br />
of two Filmfare Awards. He was also an active politician. After his debut in 1968, Khanna<br />
first acted in supporting and antagonistic roles; as an angry young man in the movie Mere<br />
Apne, and as the military officer, turned fugitive in the critically acclaimed movie Achanak,<br />
which was a film based on the events of K. M. Nanavati.<br />
Achanak<br />
1973 | India | 1h 36min | Crime, Drama | Color<br />
Director Gulzar<br />
Producer Raj N. Sippy<br />
Screenplay Gulzar<br />
Cinematographer K. Vaikunth<br />
Editor Waman B. Bhosle, Gurudutt Shirali<br />
Screenplay Gulzar<br />
Music Salil Chowdhury, Vasant Desai<br />
Cast Vinod Khanna, Om Shivpuri, Lily Chakraborty, Farida Jalal, Asrani<br />
Major Ranjeet Khanna is in love with his wife<br />
Pushpa, who seems to be much in love with<br />
him as well. When Ranjeet discovers his wife<br />
is having an affair with his best friend, he kills<br />
them and turns himself in to the police.<br />
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Accessible India,<br />
Accessible Films<br />
Now, in its second successive year, Accessible India<br />
is a collaboration between <strong>IFFI</strong>, Saksham Bharat<br />
and UNESCO with the aim to promote the creation of<br />
inclusive spaces for the differently abled to access the<br />
joy of cinema.<br />
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Hindi Medium<br />
A couple from Chandni<br />
Chowk aspire to give their<br />
daughter the best education<br />
and thus be a part of her life<br />
and be accepted by the elite<br />
of Delhi.<br />
Secret Superstar<br />
Insia lives with her mother<br />
Najma, younger brother<br />
Guddu, and an overbearing<br />
father. Her father is<br />
completely against her dream<br />
of one day becoming a singer.<br />
The story is centred around<br />
how the young Insia manages<br />
to sneak off to Mumbai to<br />
fulfil her dream.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | 132 min | Colour <strong>2017</strong> | Hindi | 150 min | Colour<br />
Director Saket Chaudhary<br />
Producer(s) Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Dinesh Vijan<br />
Cnematographer Laxman Utekar<br />
Editor A Sreekar Prasad<br />
Cast Irrfan Khan, Neha Dhupia, Saba Qamar, Deepak Dobriyal, Amrita<br />
Singh, Tillotama Shome<br />
Director Advait Chandan<br />
Producer(s) Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao<br />
Screenplay Advait Chandan<br />
Cinematographer Anil Mehta<br />
Editor Hemanti Sarkar<br />
Cast Zaira Wasim, Meher Vij, Raj Arjun, Aamir Khan<br />
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Acknowledgements<br />
Steering Committee<br />
Technical Committee<br />
Jahnu Barua (Convener)<br />
Siddharth Roy Kapur<br />
Shoojit Sarcar<br />
Bharat Bala<br />
Anand Gandhi<br />
Prasoon Joshi<br />
Vani Tripathi<br />
Piyush Pandey<br />
Shaji N. Karun<br />
Meren lmchen<br />
Ashwiny lyer Tiwari<br />
Director NFDC<br />
Nagesh Kukunoor- Chairman, Technical Committee<br />
Nagesh Kukunoor - Chairman<br />
NFDC representative<br />
Sameer Arya<br />
Director DFF<br />
Commissioner, Panaji Municipality, Govt of Goa<br />
Chief Engineer (Elect.), Govt of Goa<br />
Health officer, Panaji<br />
Chief Fire Officer, Goa<br />
Traffic Commissioner, Panaji, Goa<br />
Incharge, INOX Theatre, Goa<br />
Chairman, Kala Academy, Goa<br />
CEO, ESG, GOA<br />
Ketan Mehta, Representative of Real Image/ Qube<br />
Anirvan Ghosh, Representative of Pulz Electronics<br />
Ujwal Nirgudkar, Representative of SMPTE<br />
K J Madhusudan, Representative of Barco<br />
Preview Committee<br />
Vivek Agnihotri (Convener)<br />
Khalid Mohamed<br />
Aarti Bajaj<br />
Ramesh Patange<br />
Naresh Chander Lal<br />
Narendra Kohli<br />
Saibal Chatterjee<br />
Abhimanyu Singh<br />
Bhawana Somaaya<br />
Jeevitha Rajasekhar<br />
Gautami Tadimalla<br />
Nitesh Tiwari<br />
G.S. Bhaskar<br />
Pallavi Joshi<br />
Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury<br />
Raja Krishna Menon<br />
Siddharth Kak<br />
Tarun Katial<br />
Abhishek Basu<br />
Hrishitaa Bhatt<br />
Abhishek Jain<br />
Dr. Santwana Bordoloi<br />
Bhaskar Hazarika<br />
Pradip Kurbah<br />
Dominic Megam Sangma<br />
Maipaksana Haorongbam<br />
Zuala Chhangte<br />
Dr. Sachidanand Joshi<br />
Dr. Bharat Gupt<br />
Nirmala Sharma<br />
Rathi Vinay Jha<br />
Rajesh Kumar Singh<br />
Anil Rastogi<br />
Punit Asthana<br />
Ajay Malkani<br />
Bhumenjoy Konsam<br />
Sangee Dorjee Thongdok<br />
Dr. Lavlin Thadani<br />
Filmmaker<br />
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CBFC Member<br />
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Writer<br />
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Actress<br />
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Actress<br />
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Reliance, CEO<br />
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Actress<br />
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Secretary, IGNCA<br />
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Indian Panorama<br />
N. K. Vyas Head - Indian Panorama<br />
Tanu Rai<br />
Dy. Director - Indian Panorama<br />
Anshuman Shekhar<br />
Programmer<br />
Abhisek Das<br />
Assistant Programmer<br />
Jolyn Clare Langhu<br />
Assistant Programmer<br />
Harmeet Kaur Sahdev<br />
Festival Coordinator<br />
Rajat Aggarwal<br />
Festival Coordinator<br />
Surender Kumar<br />
Festival Assistant<br />
World Cinema Programming<br />
Deepika Suseelan<br />
Bhuvan Lall<br />
Sanjay Ram<br />
Anshuman Sekhar<br />
Prateek Rawat<br />
Chandrima Chatterjee<br />
Jeevika Kalra<br />
Rajat Aggarwal<br />
International Curators<br />
Martine Armand<br />
Jay Bajaj<br />
Srinivasa Santhanam<br />
Film Scheduling<br />
Prasad Khatu<br />
Administration<br />
N K Vyas<br />
Sunita Rawat<br />
Sonal Mathur<br />
Masterclasses and Panel Discussions:<br />
Vani Tripathi Tikoo<br />
Anupama Bose<br />
Lancy Paul John<br />
Almas Malik<br />
Prashanth R<br />
Gargi Upadhyay<br />
Senior Programmer<br />
Honourary Consultant<br />
Consultant Programmer & Festival Manager<br />
Programmer<br />
Programmer and Executive Assistant to the Festival Director<br />
Assistant Programmer<br />
Festival Coordinator<br />
Festival Coordinator<br />
Head Administrator<br />
Co-ordinator<br />
Senior Consultant<br />
Curator<br />
Consultant - NFDC<br />
Vertical Manager<br />
Co-ordinator<br />
Executive - NFDC<br />
Intern- NFDC<br />
Mixed Reality Sidebar<br />
Anand Gandhi<br />
Artistic Director<br />
Tom Millen<br />
Curator<br />
Mark Atkin<br />
Curator<br />
Anupama Bose<br />
Consultant - NFDC<br />
Vinay Nagashetti<br />
Manager<br />
Zain Memon<br />
Coordinator from Memesys Culture Lab<br />
Rohan Raut<br />
Technical Coordinator from Memesys Culture Lab<br />
George Kuruvilla<br />
CMD, BECIL<br />
D. R. Gogoi Director (O&M), BECIL<br />
W. B. Prasad General Manager, BECIL<br />
Rajeev Sharma<br />
Asst. Manager, BECIL<br />
Avinash Khanna<br />
Asst. Manager, BECIL<br />
Prashanth R<br />
Executive - NFDC<br />
Print Unit Coordination<br />
Sushant Shrotriya<br />
Deepu Chaudhary<br />
Ajay Prakash<br />
International Catalogue Print Layout<br />
Sanjay Colaco<br />
Sachin Puthli<br />
Manish Chhatpar<br />
Print Sources<br />
Unit Manager (Films Division) as Print Co-ordinator for 48th <strong>IFFI</strong><br />
Film Shipper (Films Division) as Print Collector & Dispatcher for 48th <strong>IFFI</strong><br />
LDC (Films Division) as Print Room In-charge for 48th <strong>IFFI</strong><br />
Beta Cinema, Films Distribution, Wildbunch, Socavón Cine, Pluto Film, MandarinVision, Tokyo International, Sophie Goyette, MM<br />
Square Co., Ltd. , The Match Factory, Wide, Memento, Luxbox Films, Funny Balloo, Film Factory, Nikkatsu, Arthouse Traffic, Reel<br />
Suspects, Nikkatsu, New European Film Sales, Pyramide, Tuvan Media, Jour 2 fete, Festival Agency, Farabi Cinema Foundation<br />
, Westend Films, MK2, Mundial Sales, Films Boutique, Elle Driver, Chinese Shadows, Picture Tree, Be For Films, Fox Star India,<br />
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Films, FilmNation, Koz Film, Robbie Thorpe, Terry Pheto, Busi Sizani, Rodrigo Letier, Andrey Shalopa, Anton Yudintsev, Le Che,<br />
Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane, Debora Ivanov & A nna Muylaert, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Jia Zhangke, Dong Ping,, Francesca, Sanjay<br />
Bhutiani, Rodrigo Michelangeli, Sofia Brockenshire, Park Circus, Shochiku Co Ltd., Tamasa Distribution, , Friedrich-Wilhelm-<br />
Murnau-Stiftung, Svenska Filminstitutet, NFAI, Ego Film Arts, IM Global, Asian Shadows, Alma Cinema, Midnight Lamp Films, Seville<br />
International, Mongret Media, Films Distribution, WTFilms, Search Engine Films, The Film Sales Company. Mike Mac Millan.