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  • ‘Gulabi Gang’, ‘Unravel’ win awards at Aljazeera Filmfest

    ‘Gulabi Gang’, ‘Unravel’ win awards at Aljazeera Filmfest

    NEW DELHI: Two Indian films won awards at the recently-concluded 10th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival in Doha.

     

    Unravel directed by Meghna Gupta won the Jury award in the short film category. The film is an interesting look at how discarded clothes from the western world find their way to a textile recycling factory in Panipat in Punjab where inquisitive factory worker Reshma and her co-workers use both their imagination and rumours that travel with the discarded garments. The film has earlier been screened at Sydney and Raindance film festivals among others.

     

    The Public Liberty and Human Rights Award went to the multiple award-winning documentary Gulabi Gang by Nishtha Jain in the long film category. The film is based on the true story of women wearing pink saris attempting to empower themselves in Bundelkhand in India and fight against gender violence, corruption and for the rights of poor and the lower classes.

     

    The film has won the Best Film award in Muhr Asia-Africa documentary section at Dubai International Film Festival and Amnesty Award at the Planete+ Doc Film Festival in Poland, among others.

  • Several National Award winners slated for screening in New York

    Several National Award winners slated for screening in New York

    NEW DELHI: Anurag Kashyap’s highly lauded film ‘Ugly’ will open the fourteeth New York Indian Film Festival taking place next month.

     

    Slated from 5 to 10 May, the festival will screen a mix of 23 narrative features and 11 documentaries. The festival is curated by Aseem Chabbra, a senior Indian journalist based in the US.

     

    Geethu Mohandas’ Liar’s Dice which recently won two National Film Awards will be the centerpiece film. The closing film is the renowned Aparna Sen’s Goynar Baksho.

     

    The festival will also present a retrospective of British-based Gurinder Chaddha’s documentaries.

     

    Kamal Swaroop’s documentary about Dada Saheb Phalke’s life in Varanasi, Rangbhoomi made for the Films Division which won the best non-feature National Award for 2013 is also being screened.

     

    Delhi-based scribe turned filmmaker Utpal Borpujari will present his documentary on Naga folk music, Songs of the Blue Hills.

     

    Karan Bali’s 80 minute documentary, An American in Madras, based on American-born filmmaker Ellis R Dungan’s travails in the Tamil film industry will get a screening alongside the recently released Gulabi Gang by Nishtha Jain.

     

    Nagraj Manjule’s Fandry and Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar’s Astu which also won two National Awards each and Gajendra Ahire’s Postcard are three Marathi features to be screened at the festival. Assamese feature As The River Flows (Ekhon Nodir Xipare) by Bidyut Kotoky, will also be screened.

     

    Sumanta Ghosal’s The Unseen Sequence, a documentary exploring the dance form of Bharatnatyam through the art of Malvika Sarukkai, and Jaideep Varma’s documentary on Indian stand-up comedy, I Am Offended will also be screened along with Neela Venkataraman’s Sound Check documentary on music.

     

    Nagesh Kukunoor’s Lakshmi, the winner of Toronto Reel Film Festival and Amit Masurkar’s Sulemani Keeda, Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Nawaazuddin starrer Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa and, are also slated for screening. 

  • Gangs of Wasseypur to be screened at Hong Kong Film Fest

    Gangs of Wasseypur to be screened at Hong Kong Film Fest

    MUMBAI: Anurag Kashyap‘s magnum opus ‘Gangs of Wasseypur‘ I and II has been selected to be screened at the 37th Hong Kong International Film festival.

    The films starring Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Reemma Sen were premiered at the 65th Cannes Film Festival last year.

    Gulabi Gang directed by Nishtha Jain will also compete in the documentary section. The documentary traces a group of women in pink saris fighting against gender violence, corruption and for the rights of poor and Dalits.

    Gulabi Gang is pitted against films like Joshua Oppenheimer‘s The Act of Killing, Ikeya Kaoru‘s Roots, Delphine Lanson‘s Father‘s Birth, Alex Gibney‘s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Christian Rosta and Claus Strigel‘s Redemption Impossible.

    Apart from the above mentioned films, other films selected from India are ‘The Cloud-Capped Star, Celluloid Man, Ship of Theseus, Meghe Dhaka Tara, Guru of Silence, With You Without You and 21 Chitrakoot.

    The Hong Kong International Film Festival s one of Asia‘s most reputable platforms for filmmakers, film professionals and filmgoers to launch new works and view fresh features.

    This year the festival will screen over 330 titles from more than 50 countries in 12 major cultural venues across town.