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| Edited By: Aniruddha Guha |Source: DNA |Updated: Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST
The Mumbai Film Festival (MFF), organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI), is back with more foreign films than previous years. You may not want to miss Bright Star, directed by Jane Campion and based on the life of John Keats and Sweet Rush by Polish filmmaker Andrej Wajda.
“Earlier, we depended on favours from distributors and producers to lend their films for MFF. This year, with more money coming in, acquiring films was easy,” says filmmaker Shyam Benegal, chairman of MAMI.
Navidad (Chile-France), Seven Minutes (Spain), Soul At Peace (Slovakia) and The Blacks (Crotia), all of which released in 2009 and Ricky (France), which competed at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, will be screened at the MFF. The prize for the best film is Rs50, 00, 000.
The festival will pay tribute to Paul Schrader, who wrote Martin Scorcese-Robert De Niro films like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. An interactive session with Schrader is part of the festival, too. Bengali films Janala and Abohomaan by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Rituparno Ghosh respectively and the Marathi film Rita —Renuka Shahane’s directorial debut — will be screened.
Dimensions Mumbai, where young Indian filmmakers make a short film on any one aspect of Mumbai, continues in its second year, where as the Retrospectives section will include screenings of films by Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulus and Shashi Kapoor. The festival will begin on October 29-November 5.
