Friday, 24th October 2009 saw the commencement of the 11th Osian Cinefan, the prestigious film festival that centers itself in New Delhi. The festival will be noted for the first significant instance of a major festival’s
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THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Friday, 24th October 2009 saw the commencement of the 11th Osian Cinefan, the prestigious film festival that centers itself in New Delhi. The festival will be noted for the first significant instance of a major festival’s embracement and acknowledgment of changes in our mainstream cinema that they can see and we cannot. Thus, the fortress of Delhi, after much resistance from its enclosed and exclusive art culture, has finally fallen to the all pervasive market phenomena of Mumbai. It is an invasion, thus, of the old sacred space whose preservation is as essential as the protection of a national monument – for like the latter, the former is a document of the existence of a minority like us – a document we are not willing to let go of just as yet.
The seven day festival includes films from countries as diverse as Austria, Iran, Turkey, Japan, India, and Romania – and from certified cinematic masters such as Kiarostami, Kore-eda, Kim-ki-Duk, Audiard, Sathyu and exciting young filmmakers such as Sitaru, Dutta, Shera and Bannerjee.
Indian Auteur.Com announces, thus for its readers, its six-day series called ‘Six Degrees of Separation’, to begin on 25th October 2009. The objective of the series is to provide exhaustive insight into the field of film programming with Osian in the foreground. Get prepared for a series of video interviews, video coverage, vaux-pop, audio interviews, reviews, opinion pieces – that seek to act as a collective opinion on the festival, as well as provide the readers with a bystander’s view of the exercise.
See you there!
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FILM FESTIVAL UPDATE
(25th- 30th October)
Hooked: Opening Film at Osian 2009: Osian Film Festival 2009 opened with the Romanian film, Hooked/Pescuit Sportiv, and Anamaria Dobincicu gets behind the film to see where it stands in the context of the development of New Romanian Cinema
KAMINEY- A Film With a Soft Focus: 48 year old director Vishal Bhardwaj’s film Kaminey kicks off Osian Cinefan’s celebration of new stream Indian cinema, which is a collective of the works of young Indian filmmakers. In the first of our series, Six Degrees of Separation we republish the Kaminey review
An Interview with Anurag Kashyap: As the year gets over, the promised turnaround in cinema never happened. The interview of the most famous perpetrator of the myth, director Anurag Kashyap, assumes a new context six months down the line
Deep in the Valley: The Burning Pagoda: Deep Into The Valley is a meditation on the nature of film, and is especially relevant in these times, where the world talks about an impending unavoidable relinquishment of film, and its replacement with the digital video
A very short interview with Imtiaz Ali: The director of Socha Na Tha, Jab We Met and Love Aaj Kal contemplates on the nature of the Bollywood love story, modern cinema and emphasizes on the relevance of the story
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Posted By IndianAuteurTm | Saturday, October 24th, 2009 | Filed under Film Festivals, News
