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  • Indian film Yeti screened to applauding audiences in Torino in Italy

    Indian film Yeti screened to applauding audiences in Torino in Italy

    NEW DELHI:  Abhijit Mazumdar’s Yeti was screened to raving audiences at the 32nd Torino Film Festival in Italy, which concluded today. The film was screened in the ONDE (Waves) section of the festival, which is a non-competitive showcase of experimental films.

     

    Yeti is about a film crew which is shooting a movie in Mumbai. Because of tensions in the country, work slows down, and as reality slowly comes out into the shot footage, fiction does the same off the set, and the images contain inextricable truths.

     

    The festival called the film “a disturbing and at times surprising theorem of cinematography and cinephiles, suspended between Blow-Up, The Conversation and, above all, the cinema of Tsai Ming-liang.”

     

    Mazumdar is a Direction graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He has made a number of short films, documentaries and commercials. His films have received both national and international awards. Mazumdar’s earlier short vanishing point was screened in the Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in 2012.

     

    It was also screened at Glasgow Shorts, and Jameson Durban Film Festivals and in the International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala (Focus Section) 2012.

  • Three Indian films to screen at Barbara International Film Festival

    Three Indian films to screen at Barbara International Film Festival

    MUMBAI: Three films from India would grace the 28th Barbara International Film Festival that will be held from 24 January to 3 February.

    While Anurag Kashyap‘s Gangs of Wasseypur has been selected for the competition section, Manjeet Singh‘s Mumbai Cha Raja and Suman Ghosh‘s Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights will be screened in Pan Asia section.

    A co-production, Blood Brother (India, USA) by Steve Hoover will compete in Documentary section. The film chronicles the story of a man-dissatisfied with his life in America-who decides to move to India and restart his life among children living at an orphanage for those infected with HIV.

    Another film concerning India is One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das by Jeremy Frindel, that will be showcased in the Cinesonic section. The film tells the story of Jeffrey Kagel who sold allhis possessions and moved from suburban Long Island halfway across the world to India, where he studied under Neem Karoli Baba. He later emerged as Krishna Das and became a world-renowned chant master and spiritual leader, helping to bring what he had learned to the West.