Press Release
Final countdown for the tenth edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival, in Madrid from 17th to 31st may 2011.
1 PRESS CONFERENCE
The presentation of the festival at a press conference will take place at Ateneo de Madrid :
Date : 11 de may – 12.00 h
Participants : FERNANDO TRUEBA (Oscar winner), GRAN WYOMING (TV presenter), IMANOL URIBE (Director), SERGIO PAZOS (Actor), PEPE VIYUELA (Actor), TETE DELGADO (Actress) y ABDUR RAHIM QAZI (Festival director).
2 VENUES :
Spanish Filmoteque
Ateneo de Madrid
Intermediae (Matadero de Madrid),
La Boca del Lobo,
House of Asia,
Sala Triángulo,
Uned Madrid
Colegio de Psicólogos
Aranjuez Auditorium
La Tabacalera
College Sta María
Lavapiés Square
Sala Caracol
3 SECTIONS
Indian Section
Competition
Classics
Films from Satyajit Ray film and television institute
Documentaries
Spanish productions in India
Films related to the writings of Rabindranath Tagore
Asian Section
Out of Competition
International Section
Films about Gypsies
Australian aborigin films
FILMS
Indian Section will be represented in COMPETITION by 8 films by directors of different countries : India, Italy, England and Germany.
Girish Kasaravalli (Riding the stallion of dreams) who represented the trend of "New Indian Cinema", participates once more with a quiet peculiar story about a gravedigger who dreams. Rakesh Mehta (Khuda Kushi) y Dr Biju Kumar (The way home) talk about the contradictions and the consequences of blind terrorism trying to defend people against the injustice, oppression and poverty, which is not the case. Bela Negi (Dayeen ya Baeen) makes a great production about a daydreaming loser. Italo Spinelli (Gangor), the multiawarded Kim Longinotto (Pink Saris) and Ananth Mahadevan (I am Sindhutai Sapkal) talk about women, their struggle in our disbalanced society for dignity. Daniela Creutz (Arranged Happiness) will present her film on interracial relationship and arranged marriage in Kashmir.
In CLASSICS we will show emblematic films like : Barsaat (Raj Kapoor), Pyaasa (Guru Dutt), Shahib Bibi aur Gulam (Abrar Albi), Mahanagar (Satyajit Ray), Nagarik (Ritwick Ghatak), directors who represent the golden era of indian cinema.
From this year the festival will be showing a selection of films done by the students of SRFTI. This edition will include 11 shortfilms, a clear trend and concerns of new filmmakers from India.
In DOCUMENTARIES we have selected 4 films of Spanish production with Alfredo de Braganza (Smoking Babas), resident in India showing the world of the Sadhus, David Varela (Banaras Me), who has been shooting during one entire year to get the enigmatic atmosphere of Varanasi. Javier Gomez Serrano (Dhallywood), widely known documentalist, who enters for the first time in the Bangladeshi Cinema industry. José Luis Gutiérrez (Color en Matruchhaya) who talks about the heeling properties of the Art in an Indian orphanage : Matruchhaya.
Finally for the 150 anniversary of the indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, the festival is glad to present 4 classical worldclass films : Teen Kanya (Satyajit Ray), Char Adhyay (Kumar Shahani), Charulata (S. Ray) and Ghare Baire (S. Ray).
The International Section has two important subsections :
Films about Gypsies, with films of Mona Nicoara (Our school, Romania), Sheree Folkson (Gypsy Woman, USA), Pablo Vega (Romnia, Spain), Tony Gatlif (Korkoro, France). All of them showcasing the needs on education and exclusion they have suffered for ages.
Australian Cinema will be represented this year by films done on aborigins. Great films of worldly known directors like : Phillip Noyce (Rabbit Proof Fence), Rolf de Heer (The Tracker), Freddy Schepisi (The chant of Jimmy Blacksmith), Ivan Sen (Beneath Clouds) y Nicolas Roeg (Walkabout).
Asian Section will include 3 films caracterized by the social isolation of their main caracters : Dance Town (Jeon Kyu Hwan), Wailing Wall (Elyes Baccar) y The way we are (Ann Hui).
44 films that reflect the situations of exclusion, loneliness, friendship, abuse of power, children, women, as everyday in nearly every society.
SPECIAL GUESTS :
Tanushree Shankar Theatre (16 actors)
María de Medeiros (Actress, director)
Nandita Das (Actress, director)
Ananth Mahadevan (Director)
Sachin Khanolkar (Producer)
Bindiya Khanolkar (Producer)
Victor Banerjee (Actor)
Daniela Creutz (Director)
Ashiq Dar (Actor)
Gen Hewett (Producer)
Karen Zusman (Producer)
More Information :
Photos in FLICKR : http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagineindia_film_festival/collections/72157626032277370/
Vídeos in VIMEO :
Presentation Trailer of the Festival :
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