Dates for Imagineindia 2012 (17-31 May 2012)

Imagineindia International Film Festival 2012 will take place in Madrid from 17 to 31 May 2012. More than 13 venues / 60 films from all over the world, invited countries New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Poland / International Competitive Section / 40 Parallel Activities, make of this festival the most important feature film festival of Madrid.

Nandita Das recoge el Premio de Honor en Imagineindia 2011/ Nandita Das picking up the Honorary Award from Imagineindia Film Festival on Vimeo.

www.imagineindia.net PRESENTS : Nandita Das picking up the Honorary Award at the Closing Gala of Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011 from the director of the festival Qazi Abdur Rahim

Stock Formula in Bollywood

If the makers of mainstream potboilers can talk of tried and tested formulas for hits, the producers of porn also have their own proven mantras for success :
COLLEGE EXCURSION : A group of overgrown college students on a field trip, find themselves inexplicably in the middle of a jungle and have to perforce shack up in a deserted guest house or hotel. Generally, the boys and girls are in equal numbers. While the girls pout and pirouette in front of the mirror, bathe in a waterfall or shower, and keep dressing and undressing, the boys busy themselves playing peeping toms, peering into keyholes or through the bushes ... till disaster strikes. The victim is the girl - either of a rapacious ghost in the building or of a mysterious entity who emerges from the jungle on full-moon nights. The heavens choose this very occasion to open up and amidst all the thunder and lightning, the terrified girls cosy up with the boys. Since the telephone and electric lines have conveniently snapped by then, there is no way for them to reach out to civilisation. And in their growing anxiety, with suspense building up, they suddenly discover they were born man and woman !!!!

DEREK BOSE

Grandioso Plano Secuencia (Main Hoon Na) from Imagineindia Film Festival on Vimeo.

Imagineindia screennings in Portugal

Imagineindia International Film Festival will screen for the first time in Portugal. Two films of Guru Dutt and Abrar Albi, PYAASA and SHAHIB BIBI AUR GULAM, will be screened for the first time in Lisbon at Portuguese Film Institute in July 2011. These films had been previously shown at the Classic Section of this film festival in Madrid.

"EL SENTIR DE LA VIDA" at Imagineindia 2011

"EL SENTIR DE LA VIDA" performed at the Closing Gala of the Tenth Edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011 at Sala Caracol. ZELIA FERNANDES /Voice / CANDELA OLARTE /Percussion / SELMA LORO / Viola / JORGE HAZOMOON / Hang / RODRÍGO DÍAZ /Dance. All of them made of the Gala one of the best ever done and served us with one of the best moments of the festival,s Closing Gala.

El sentir de la vida en la Gala Imagineindia 2011 (4) from Imagineindia Film Festival on Vimeo.

www.imagineindia.net PRESENTS : The performance of "EL SENTIR DE LA VIDA" at the Closing Gala of Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011 at Sala Caracol.