The 6th Asian Women’s Film Festival organised by the International Association of Women in Radio and Television(Iawrt) commenced on Saturday with a welcome address by Jai Chandiram, President, Iawrt India and Director of the festival. This festival is being organised in New Delhi from March6-8. On the first day, there were two seminars Women and the Public Space and Caught in A madding Mass Media. The following two days will showcase films of women film makers of Asian origin in a range of genres.
The theme of this edition of the 6th edition of the festival is Breaking Boundaries: Shared Spaces. Inauguration address will be delivered by Mrinal Pande, Director of Prasar Bharti followed by The Stitches Speak by Nina Sabnani on the 7th of March.
The film festival received 150 films from Australia, Algeria, Bangladesh, France, India, Iran, Jordan, Malaysia, Norway, Pakistan, South Korea and Sri Lanka.
The theme of this edition of the 6th edition of the festival is Breaking Boundaries: Shared Spaces. Inauguration address will be delivered by Mrinal Pande, Director of Prasar Bharti followed by The Stitches Speak by Nina Sabnani on the 7th of March.
The film festival received 150 films from Australia, Algeria, Bangladesh, France, India, Iran, Jordan, Malaysia, Norway, Pakistan, South Korea and Sri Lanka.
- 3/6/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Berlin -- The East and the Far East are in focus at this year's Rotterdam International Film Festival, which unveiled its competition lineup Thursday. Of the 15 titles vying for Rotterdam's Tiger Awards, more than half are from Eastern Europe and Asia.
Japan has two contenders: Tsubota Yoshifumi's "Miyoko," a biopic based on the Manga artist Abe Shinichi and his wife Miyoko and "Autumn Adagio" from first-timer Inoue Tsuki, which focuses on the life of a middle-aged nun.
Anocha Suwichakornpong, whose short "Graceland" (2006) was the first Thai film included in Cannes' official selection, makes her feature debut in competition at Rotterdam with "Mundane History," a drama about a family dealing with their wheelchair-bound son. Scwichakornpong will also attend Rotterdam's CineMart, chasing funds for his next project "By the Time it Gets Dark."
Other Asian entries in Rotterdam this year include minimalist drama "Sun Spots" from China's Yang Heng and "My Daughter,...
Japan has two contenders: Tsubota Yoshifumi's "Miyoko," a biopic based on the Manga artist Abe Shinichi and his wife Miyoko and "Autumn Adagio" from first-timer Inoue Tsuki, which focuses on the life of a middle-aged nun.
Anocha Suwichakornpong, whose short "Graceland" (2006) was the first Thai film included in Cannes' official selection, makes her feature debut in competition at Rotterdam with "Mundane History," a drama about a family dealing with their wheelchair-bound son. Scwichakornpong will also attend Rotterdam's CineMart, chasing funds for his next project "By the Time it Gets Dark."
Other Asian entries in Rotterdam this year include minimalist drama "Sun Spots" from China's Yang Heng and "My Daughter,...
- 1/7/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rigorberto Perezcano’s Northless was the top winner at the ninth edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival held earlier this month. Set in a small Mexican town, the film tells the story of a young man (Harold Torres) waiting for the right time to cross the barbed-wire-strewn border into the United States. The Jury Prize went to two films: Nabil Ben Yadir’s Belgian "coming-of-age" drama Les barons and Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen’s Malaysian family drama My daughter. In the former, three Belgian denizens of Arab background must make tough decisions about their lives and future; in the latter, a teenager has a love-hate relationship with her love-starved mother, who is always going from one romantic liaison to another. Also, Lotte Verbeek was the [...]...
- 12/28/2009
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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