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Call For Entries : 18th Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI)

Posted: May 9, 2016 by moifightclub in Call For Entries, Film Festival, Mumbai Film Festival, News
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The 18th edition of MAMI Mumbai Film Festival is open for entries now. The biggest film festival in the country, MAMI is looking for Indian as well as International films in the competitive and non-competitive section.

1Aza9iZzThe festival also has a new logo this year. The 18th edition of the fest will run from 20th to 27th October 2016.

In the last few years, the festival has discovered and showcased some of the best desi and international films. So do check it out and send you entry.

There are 3 categories in the competitive section.

  • International Competition

    The section is a prestigious platform that shines a spotlight on new cinematic voices. It is open to debut filmmakers from all over the world who have films made within one calendar year of the festival.

  • India Gold

    India Gold is a competition section for the Indian feature films. Through this section, the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival With Star showcases breakthrough contemporary Indian films produced in India this year and provides them a platform for promotion internationally.

  • Dimensions Mumbai

    Dimensions Mumbai is a short film section that focuses on the young filmmakers of Mumbai. The section screens short films from local filmmakers under the age of 25.

For Indian Entries – For a film to be eligible as an Indian entry, the director or one of the directors must be an Indian citizen, AND at least one of the producers of the film must be an Indian citizen. Please note that both criteria need to be met for eligibility.

To know more about the festival, other categories and further details, click here.

 

Watch The National Award Winning Films (Only In Delhi)

Posted: May 4, 2016 by moifightclub in Awards, cinema, Film Festival
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Like every year, the Directorate Of Film Festivals is organising the screening of the films which won the National Awards this year. And some of these films won’t even release in the capital.

Delhi, don’t miss them. And the best part – all the films will be shown with English subtitles.

Date : The screenings will run from 5th May to 17th May, 2016. All the films will have English subtitles.

Venue : Sri Fort Auditorium II, New Delhi

Entry : Free. On first come basis. Just carry a I-card

Our recco : Chauthi Koot, Duranto, Kothanodi, Visaaranai, Masaan, Katyar Kaljat Ghusli, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Talvar, Margarita With A Straw, Sairat, Piku, Thithi.

The screening schedule is enclosed in the pic.

NFA screening schedule

First Look : Hardik Mehta’s docu “Amdavad Ma Famous” (Trailer)

Posted: April 27, 2016 by moifightclub in Documentary, film, Film Festival, first look, Indie, Poster, Trailer
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Hardik Mehta’s documentary, Amdavad Ma Famous (Famous In Ahmedabad), bagged the National Award For Best Non-Feature film (Swarna Kamal) this year. Its next stop is the prestigious Hot Docs aka Canadian International Documentary Festival. The fest has put up the first trailer of the film.

Do check it out

AMFAnd here’s the official synopsis from the fest site –

Zaid is a playful kid with a love of kites that quickly spirals into an addiction. He starts skipping school, risking life and limb in traffic and trespassing on rooftops, all in pursuit of high-flying fun. Is he just being a kid—or is he becoming a criminal? A sublime social commentary on adult hypocrisy and childhood curiosity.

Crew

Director : Hardik Mehta
Producer : Arya Menon, Akanksha Tewari
Editor : Hardik Mehta
Cinematographer : Piyush Puty
Composer : Alokananda Dasgupta
Sound: Manoj Goswami
Website: https://www.facebook.com/amdavadmafamous/

 

First Look : Anurag Kashyap’s Raman Raghav 2.0 (Poster + Stills)

Posted: April 25, 2016 by moifightclub in bollywood, cinema, Film Festival, first look, On location, Stills, Xclusive
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The first look of Anurag Kashyap’s new film, Raman Raghav 2.0, is out. The film stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal and Sobhita Dhulipala in the lead.

The film will have its world premiere at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Do check out the poster and the stills.

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Raman Raghav Poster
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Sobhita Dhulipala
Vicky Kaushal
Vicky Kaushal

Radhika Apte Bags Top Award At Tribeca Fest

Posted: April 23, 2016 by moifightclub in Awards, cinema, Film Festival
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Radhika Apte

Good news has come from the ongoing Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Radhika Apte has bagged the Best Actress Award in International Narrative Feature section for her performance in Anurag Kashyap’s Clean Shaven.

The award was given by Jean Reno. And here’s the Jury comment on her performance :

“This award goes to an actress who has conveyed bravery and emotional depth in different relationships around her. A contemporary story that breaks through established culture.”

For complete list of winners, click here.

‘Madly’ is an international anthology of short films exploring love in all its permutations. Directed by Gael García Bernal, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Silva, Anurag Kashyap, Sion Sono and Natasha Khan, the six stories in Madly portray contemporary love in all its glorious, sad, ecstatic, empowering, and erotic manifestations.

Tribeca Film Fest will run till 24th May, 2016.

To watch Madly’s trailer, go here and click on the play button.

More about ‘Madly’ from Tribeca

Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US, India, and Australia. All forms of love are on display in this anthology. And all manners of feelings expressed from jubilance to depression are done so strongly. In Afterbirth, actress Mia Wasikowska goes behind the camera to tell the story of a young mother’s postpartum struggles; Gael García Bernal explores how pregnancy affects one couple’s already ambivalent relationship in Love of My Life; and ghosts of past relationships are resurrected in Natasha Khan’s I Do. These stories of love never shy away from taboo either: Sion Sono’s Love of Love delves into underground sex clubs in Japan, and Anurag Kashyap’s Clean Shaven uncovers the social relevance of a woman’s pubic hair. Love can even be delightfully irreverent at moments, Dance Dance Dance from Sebastian Silva features an eye-roll from Jesus. Madly, after all, is a contemporary portrait of love in all its glorious, sad, ecstatic, empowering, and erotic manifestations.

 

Shirley Abraham & Amit Madheshiya’s docu ‘The Cinema Travelers’ Selected For Cannes Classics

Posted: April 22, 2016 by moifightclub in cinema, Film Festival, Indie, News
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Cannes Film Festiva’s Classics section has unveiled its line-up for this year’s edition. Indian filmmakers Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya’s doucmentary ‘The Cinema Travelers’ will be screened in the section.

Here’s the description according to official synopsis – The portrait of a traveling movie theater in India, which continues to bear the magic of the images to a stunned audience, is faced with technological, numerous and complex changes. A projector repairman narrates film changes with poetry, philosophy and pragmatism.

The film is 1hr36 min long. To know more about the film, click here.

The Classics section will also screen eight other documentaries about cinema. For complete line-up of Classics section, click here.

GudhThe year’s fest has another Indian film – Saurav Rai’s short film Gudh (Nest) in Cinefoundation selection. Rai is a graduate of Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata, and this 28-min short is his diploma film.

To know more about Rai and his short, click here.

To mark its 19th year, the Cinéfondation Selection has chosen 18 films (14 works of fiction and 4 animations), from among the 2,300 works submitted this year by film schools from all over the world. Fifteen countries from three continents are represented. Seven of the films selected come from schools taking part for the first time, and it is also the first time that a film school from Venezuela has reached the selection stage. More than half of this edition’s movies are directed by women, with 10 out of the 18 films selected. The complete list of selection is here.

The three Cinéfondation prizes will be awarded at a ceremony preceding the screening of the prize-winning films on Friday 20th May in the Buñuel Theatre.

POTD : Raam Reddy’s ‘Thithi’ At New Directors/New Films, 2016

Posted: March 19, 2016 by moifightclub in Film Festival, Indie, News, POTD
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The picture was captured by film reviewer and fest programmer Aseem Chhabra. The still is from Raam Reddy’s directorial debut Thithi has been selected for this year’s edition of the prestigious New Directors/New Films. Aseem pointed in his FB post that they were playing the entire New Directors/New Films’ trailer in the loop, so he waited for the moment to capture the film’s image of ‘Century Gowda’.

Celebrating its 45th edition in 2016, New Directors/New Films introduces New York audiences to the work of emerging filmmakers from around the world. Throughout its rich history, New Directors has uncovered talents like Pedro Almódovar, Chantal Akerman, Hou Hsiao–hsien, Christopher Nolan, Laura Poitras, Spike Lee, and Kelly Reichardt.

Curated by Museum of the Modern Art and Film Society of Lincoln Center, it will show 27 features and 10 shorts this year.

Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s ‘Memories and my Mother’ Selected For Cannes Cinefondation

Posted: March 13, 2016 by moifightclub in cinema, Film Festival, Indie, News
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21adityavikramAditya Vikram Sengupta made an impressive debut with his feature film, Asha Jaoor Majhe(Labour Of Love).  And here’s some news about his next film titled Memories and my Mother.

The project have been selected for this year’s edition of Cannes Cinefondation. For L’Atelier’s 12th edition, 15 projects from 14 countries have been selected, from the new director to the well-known filmmaker.

The film is an Indo-French-German co-production which is currently in development and pre-production. It has been produced by For Films, which includes producers Jonaki Bhattacharya and Vikram Mohinta, and French producer Catherine Catherine Dussart who had produced Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction.

In an interview to HT, he had given more details about the film during Film Bazaar selection. And here we quote…

As Sengupta says in the course of a conversation the other day, his new film will be an “emotional response” to a city — Kolkata — where he grew up. The work is all about an ageing metropolis, where his story unfolds, a story that has been inspired by true events. Kolkata with its teeming millions and confusion confounded will present a study in contrast. Sengupta’s protagonist will be Manu, who lives in a crumbling old mansion, his ancestral home, and one night he gets on to the top of it to meet his deceased relatives. As the helmer quips, he plans to paint a picture where tradition and modernism will mix and mingle to create “magic realism”.

The Cinefondation’s Atelier hosts its 12th edition this year and will invite to the Festival de Cannes 16 directors whose projects have been considered particularly promising. Together with their producers, they will be able to meet potential partners, a necessary step to finish their project and start the making of their film. L’Atelier provides its participants access to international co-productions, thus accelerating the film’s completion.

The Cinefondation’s Atelier has been created in 2005 to stimulate creative filmmaking and encourage the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers. So far, out of 171 projects accompanied, 126 have been released in the theaters and 18 are currently in pre-production.

 

 

Q’s Brahman Naman – All The Sundance Buzz

Posted: February 8, 2016 by moifightclub in cinema, Film Festival, film review, Indie, Interview, movie reviews, News, reviews
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Q’s latest film Brahman Naman premiered at the recently concluded Sundance Festival. Here’s all the buzz that the film generated at the fest – The fridge, the fish, and the fan!

Brahman Naman

– For Twitch Interview of Q and the cast, click here.

– Guardian has given it a three-star rating. Review is here

– Variety review is here

– Hollywood Reporter review is here

– Review on Twitch Film is here. Calls it a “fantastic facre”

– Netflix scooped up worldwide SVOD rights. Details here

– Interview on Film Companion where Q reveals that the film is really about caste system.

– Pillow Talk with Q and Shashank Arora (they are literally on the bed)

 

First Look : Q’s Brahman Naman (Teaser)

Posted: January 22, 2016 by moifightclub in cinema, Clips, Film Festival, first look, Indie, Story / Plot / Synopsis, Trailer, video
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Brahman Naman

Q’s new film is soon going to have its world premiere at the ongoing Sundance Film Festival in World Cinema Dramatic Competition segment. It will compete with 11 other films in that segment.. And just before its screening, the makers have released the teaser of the film. Check it out.

And here’s the official synopsis –

It’s the 1980s and Naman (Shashank Arora, star of Cannes hit TITLI) is a know-it-all nerd driven by the whims of his raging hormones. Heading up Bangalore University’s team of bespectacled misfits (best friends Ajay and Ramu), the trio of lusty intellectuals spend the majority of their time on the quizzing circuit, using their winnings to buy nudie magazines, whiskey, and beer, fantasizing about the buxom neighborhood beauty all the while. When the boys qualify for the National Quiz Championships, they make a booze-fuelled train trip across the country determined to defeat their rivals in Calcutta and desperate to lose their virginities along the way.

Unfolding to the tune of the iconic anthem, “Whiskey Bar,” as Naman and his friends run amok against the colorful backdrop of the Indian landscape, his quest for sex and glory is complicated when he finds his intellectual superior in a stunning female quizzer. Directed by Indian filmmaker Q. (known for his controversial cult hit Gandu) Brahman Naman is a smart, raucous sex comedy that’s raunchy and endearing in equal measure— replete with innovative masturbation methods that put even Philip Roth’s Alexander Portnoy to shame.

Click here to read more about the lead characters of the film.

 

 

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