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  • ‘Water’ sets stage for fourth Jagran Film Festival

    ‘Water’ sets stage for fourth Jagran Film Festival

    MUMBAI: The movie Water marked the inauguration of the fourth Jagran Film Festival here in Mumbai. Produced by the Film and Television Department of the Tel Aviv University in association with Tu Vas Voir, the screening also marked the Asian premiere of the film.

    The 120 minute feature, born out of an unique Israeli-Palestinian cinematic cooperation, is a compilation of some fictional and self-experience based stories. The other screenings for the day were Haco Cheko’s 72 minute Turkish film Nowhere Li Vir, Sanjay Jadhav’s 132 minute Marathi film Duniyadari and Kundan Shah’s 143 minute classic Jane Bhi Do Yaaron. The festival was attended by filmmakers, litterateurs, cinephiles and scribes.

    This six-day long cinematic extravaganza was inaugurated in the presence of Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, Indian film and stage actress Nimrat Kaur, Anil Sharma, Sudhir Mishra, Dorothy Briere, Manoj Srivastava, Sai Tamhankar, the mayor of Mumbai Sunil Prabhu and many others from the entertainment industry. Also present were the directors of the film Yael Perlov, NirSa’ar and Maya Sarfaty, Mohammad Fuad, Yona Rozenkier, Mohammad Bakri, Ahmad Barghouti, Pini Tavger and Tal Haring.

    The festival will feature the finest works of cinematic geniuses from India and many other countries. More than 50 national and international feature and short films will be showcased in the final edition of this festival.

  • ‘Water’ to be the opening film at 4th Jagran Film Festival

    ‘Water’ to be the opening film at 4th Jagran Film Festival

    The 4th edition of the Jagran Film Festival, Mumbai 2013 will begin with the film Water and will be screened on 24 September at Fun Republic in Andheri, Mumbai. Water is a 120 minute feature film born out of a unique Israeli-Palestinian cinematic cooperation. Produced by the Film and Television department of the Tel Aviv University in association with Tu Vas Voir, the project Water is made in HD, colour. Yael Perlov had initiated this project and is also the artistic director of Water. Its original version is in Arabic, Hebrew, and English.

     

    Taking complete artistic freedom, in 2012, a small group of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers directed a feature film that explored a strong unifying subject – Water. Besides being a highly poetic and pastoral subject, Water is also a very political and violent subject with respect to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Water is about two conflicting populations, which couldn’t overcome the prejudice and political intimidations, but ultimately finds a platform for a unique collaboration, in the form of this feature film. This is one of the reasons why Water is so special.

     

    Cinema always has the ability to penetrate forbidden zones and Water exemplifies that. It has made all of us realise that we all yearn for a solution to this long-going on conflict. Several Directors have interpreted this subject in their own creative way, which together has given shape to Water.

     

    The film, a unique piece of art has been screened at various international film festivals, Venice International Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Mostra International de Cine de Sa? Paulo, Brazil, Stockholm International Film Festival, Swedenand many others. This is the Asian Premiere of the film.