Marathi film 'Vihir' to compete at Berlin Film Festival

After receiving a positive response at various films festivals, Marathi film Vihir, would now be competing at the Berlin International Film Festival beginning next month.

"The movie would be screened at Berlin on February 14, 15, 16 and 17," movie's writer-actor Girish Kulkarni said adding the first show would be a red-carpet one.

Vihir (well) is the only second Marathi movie to be screened at Berlin after Jabbar Patel's Samana featured in the festival 35 years ago.

Coincidentally, both Samana and Vihir have veteran actor Dr Mohan Agashe in its cast.

"Vihir is competing with around 15 movies in the 'generation  section' of the festival for a crystal bear," Girish said.

'Generation Section' is sub-divided into two sections on the basis of age groups. While the first section features movies dealing with children in the age group of 6-14 years, the other is for 14-21 age group. Vihir is categorised in the latter, Girish added.

The movie would be released on March 5 here.

Besides Berlin, the movie would also be screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010 (IFFR).

Vihir is a tale of a teenager dealing with the sudden death of his elder cousin and his journey to find out answers to questions about life and death.