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  • Subhash Ghai opens 10th Third Eye Asian Film Festival

    Subhash Ghai opens 10th Third Eye Asian Film Festival

    MUMBAI: Filmmaker Subhash Ghai inaugurated the 10th Third Eye Asian Film Festival yesterday at the Ravindra Natya Mandir Complex, Prabhadevi, Mumbai.

    The opening ceremony saw the ‘Asian Film Culture Award‘ bestowed on noted Afghani filmmaker Siddiq Barmak. Barmak‘s film Osama will be screened tonight.

    The award presentation was followed by the screening of the festival‘s opening Film, 11 Flowers, directed by Chinese director Xioanshuai Wang.

    Some of the other important films to be screened at the festival are Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s Distant, Italo Spinelli‘s Gangor, Rajesh Pinjani‘s Babu Band Bajaa and Asghar Farhadi‘s A Separation. Iranian filmmaker Monir Qeidi‘s On the Way to Villa will also be screened at the Festival.

    The week-long festival has been dedicated to Dev Anand who passed away in London on 3 December. Incidentally, he had inaugurated the first edition of the festival in 2002.

    The festival will close on 29 December with the screening of Ketan Mehta‘s as yet unreleased film Rang Rasiya.

  • Third Eye Asian Film fest in Mumbaiin Nov-Dec

    Third Eye Asian Film fest in Mumbaiin Nov-Dec

    MUMBAI: The 10th edition of the Third Eye Asian Film Festival will take place in Mumbai from 22 to 29 December.

    According to the festival‘s director Sudhir Nandgaonkar, over 400 entries have been received from different Asian countries including Iran, China, Japan, Israel, Philippines and Indonesia.

    Out of these, 100 feature films and 50 short films will be shown during the week-long festival.

    Films will be screened under various sections like Spectrum Asia, First/Second Film Competition, Short Film Competition, Focus on one Asian country and Retrospective.

    While Ravindra Natya Mandir at Prabhadevi will be the main venue for the festival, the selected films would also be shown in Thane.

    The P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy has joined hands with Asian Film Foundation to host the festival this year.