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  • ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ to premiere at 72nd Berlin International Film Festival

    ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ to premiere at 72nd Berlin International Film Festival

    Mumbai: Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s much-anticipated film “Gangubai Kathiawadi” starring Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn will be screened at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival in February. The screening will also mark the world premiere of the film that is set for theatrical release on 18 February 2022.

    “Gangubai Kathiawadi” has been chosen to be screened as part of Berlinale Special, a segment of the film festival which is dedicated to showcasing exemplary cinema. This year’s selections are films that have been shot during the pandemic. “We are happy to premiere Gangubai Kathiawadi and to be continuing the tradition of the Berlin Film Festival being a special setting for Indian movies, this time with a film that joins the usual craft in shaping camera movement and the choreography of bodies with a subject that is socially relevant, also beyond in India,” stated artistic director of Berlin International Film Festival Carlo Chatrian. “From the very beginning we were taken by the story of Gangubai, an exceptional woman dragged into exceptional circumstances.”

    As Sanjay Leela Bhansali celebrates 25 years in the world of cinema, this will be his tenth film. “The story of Gangubai Kathiawadi has been very close to my heart. My team and I have given it all to make this dream possible. We take pride and honour in showcasing it at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival,” said Bhansali.

    Producer Jayantilal Gada of Pen Studios added, “I believe in Mr. Bhansali and his craft. It gives me great joy that our film will be presented at the Berlin International Film Festival and I am proud to associate with him for it. Alia has given a great performance and I am thankful to Ajay Devgn too for being a part of this project. It’s a story that will engage and appeal to global audiences.”

  • Indian short film Panchabhuta at Busan Intl fest

    Indian short film Panchabhuta at Busan Intl fest

    MUMBAI: Mohan Kumar Valasala’s Panchbhuta (The Five Elements) will compete at the 29th Busan International Short Film Festival that will be held from 10 to 14 May.


    The film captures the existence of the five elements on a dumping ground in Kolkata. The focus of the documentary is on the existence of the elements and life in this space.The documentary portrays only visuals and sounds to evoke. It does not have voice over, story, plot, characters, dialogues and interviews. I Panchbhuta is structured in sync with the different times of the day – morning, afternoon, evening, night and back to morning. The further structuring is divided into capturing the moments of the elements – fire, water, air, ether and soil.


    Panchbhuta is the only Indian film to be shown at the festival. It had its world premiere at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.

  • Berlinale opens with Farewell My Queen

    Berlinale opens with Farewell My Queen

    MUMBAI: The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival opens today with the world premiere of Benoît Jacquot’s film Farewell My Queen (Les adieux ? la Reine)

    While Mohan Kumar Valasala’s Panchabhuta will compete in Berlinale Shorts at the festival, Gattu, directed by Rajan Khosa and produced by the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI) will compete in Generation KPlus section of the festival.

    Kutch, a project to be directed by Bobby Bedi will be the first Indian project to participate in Berlinale co-production market.

    Farhan Akhtar’s Don 2 which is a co-production between India and Germany will have a special screening at the festival.

    Indian film curator and journalist Meenakshi Shedde is on the FIRPRESCI jury of the festival. All members of the International Jury- Anton Corbijn, Asghar Farhadi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mike Leigh, François Ozon, Boualem Sansal and Barbara Sukowa – will be present. The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival will close on February 19, 2012.

  • NFDC sets up Indian pavilion at Berlin film fest

    NFDC sets up Indian pavilion at Berlin film fest

    NEW DELHI: The Indian Pavilion at the European Film Market being held along with the Berlin International Film Festival this month is being put up by the National Film Development Corporation.

    The festival is being held from 9 to 17 February. The NFDC has already received a substantial number of entries for Indians wanting to participate in the Festival, NFDC sources told indiantelevision.com

    The India Pavilion is publishing a guide consisting of information about the Indian film industry professionals attending the market and the festival.

    This guide will provide information about the various companies and delegates from India attending the Berlinale. It will also contain information about the various co-production treaties that India has signed, leading international film festival in India, guidelines on filming in India, and market/festival screenings of Indian films at Berlin.

    This guide will be available at the India Pavilion booth, to be located at 106, Martin Gropius Bau at European Film Market and will be distributed to all visitors to the Pavilion.

  • Gattu and Don 2 to feature at Berlin Intl fest

    Gattu and Don 2 to feature at Berlin Intl fest

    MUMBAI: Rajan Khosa’s Gattu has become the second film chosen to be screened at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in the Generation Kplus segment. Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Don 2 will also feature in the festival.

    Produced by the Children Film Society of India (CFSI), Gattu has been acclaimed at other fests too.

    The Shah Rukh Khan film will screen for two reasons: the film, being financed by the German government, would attract viewers there; besides, in the process, it would have its German premiere.

    A total of 58 short and full-length films from 32 countries have been selected for the Generation Kplus and Generation 14-plus competitions. Two of these films will be screening out of competition.

    Members of the International jury are- Scottish documentary filmmaker, Mark Cousins, author and festival programmer, Rasmus Horskj?r from Denmark, film commissioner for children and youth at the Danish Film Institute Frieder Schlaich, German filmmaker cum producer and distributor Marité Ugas from Peru, director of the film El Chico Que Miente, Maxine Williamson from Australia, and artistic director of the Asian Pacific Screen Academy.

    The festival will be held from 9-19 February.

  • PVR to release Coriolanus on 20 January

    PVR to release Coriolanus on 20 January

    MUMBAI: PVR Pictures will officially distribute Coriolanus inspite of the fact that the film was imported to India by Tanweer Films. The film, an adaption of Shakespeare’s tragedy by the same name, has Ralph Fiennes making his directorial debut.

    Coriolanus was premiered at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in February 2011. It also received honors at the Belgrade International Film festival 2011.

    Additionally, the distribution house will also release Hammer Films’ Daniel Radcliffe-starrer Woman In Black on 10 February.

    Directed by James Watkins, the film is being released in the country in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

    The film has Radcliffe playing a widowed lawyer Arthur Kipps who leaves his son in London to settle the legal affairs of the recently deceased Alice Drablow. But upon his arrival, it soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret.

    Although the townspeople try to keep Kipps from learning their tragic history, he soon discovers that the house belonging to his client is haunted by the ghost of a woman who is determined to find someone and something she lost… and no one, not even the children, are safe from her vengeance.

    Besides Radcliffe, the film also stars Ciaran Hinds, Janet Mc Teer, Roger Allam, Shaun Dooley, Sophie Stuckey and David Burke among others.

  • Meryl Streep to receive Berlinale honour

    Meryl Streep to receive Berlinale honour

    MUMBAI: Academy award winner Meryl Streep will be awarded an Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival on February 14.
     
    This will be followed by a screening of her latest work The Iron Lady in which she portrays Great Britain’s former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.


    Streep who has appeared in over 40 films has received 16 nominations for the Academy awards (two wins) and 18 Golden Globe nominations and seven wins.
     
    “We are delighted to be able to award the Honorary Golden Bear to such a terrific artist and world star. Meryl Streep is a brilliant, versatile performer who moves with ease between dramatic and comedic roles,” Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick has been quoted to have said.


    Meryl Streep won her first Oscar for the divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer and the second for her performance in Sophie’s Choice. Recently, she received a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Margaret Thatcher in the upcoming film The Iron Lady.

  • Don 2 to screen at Berlinale on 23 December

    Don 2 to screen at Berlinale on 23 December

    MUMBAI: The Shah Rukh Khan starrer Don 2 will have a special screening at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival today.

    Don 2, an Indo-German co-production, directed by Farhan Akhtar, has been partly shot in Berlin, also stars a Berlin actor Florian Lukas who plays a German detective. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra in the lead.

    The other films to be screened at Berlinale Special are: documentary film Marley from Great Britain and the USA, the Spanish film La chispa de la vida, Keyhole from Canada and documentary series Death Row from the USA.