ImagineIndia Barcelona Film Festival celebrates this year it,s fourth edition. The best films showed at the 10 th edition of International Film Festival ImagineIndia in Madrid will be selected, being complemented with few films of previous editions.
The three previous editions of this festival in Barcelona have been a great success and the festival will continue with the same enthusiasm to give a showcase to films which normally do not reach the spanish screens, and show the less known face of Indian Cinema.
Indian cinema is experiencing huge change on it,s script, editing and production knowhow and growing up with Films which highlight controversial issues in the Indian society : woman and child abuse, terrorism, organized crime, quite different to the "Mainstream cinema from Bollywood", far from the glamorous musical numbers and luxury. Directors like Anurag Kashyap, Ram Gopal Varma, Dr. Biju, Ananth Mahadevan, Nandita Das, Mani Ratnam, etc... along the years have been presenting their best work at Imagineindia, breaking topics, with a more dynamic contemporary stance which even for the West could be not acceptable, immersed in a long confusion. Every film of Lars Von Trier is the "best ever" when "No Smoking" of Kashyap is "Exotic".
The opening Gala of the festival will be held on December 2 at the Film Institute of Catalonia in Barcelona, with the presence of Qazi Abdur Rahim (Director of ImagineIndia), Rafael Carrasco (Asian Films), Octavi Martà (Deputy Director Film). The Inaugural movie will be Riding the Stallion of a Dream of Girish Kasaravalli.
In addition to the exhibition of films there will be numerous side events related to Indian culture that will make this event unique in Barcelona.
PROGRAMME
Friday 2 December
Performance of Bollywoodian team : MAGICAL BOLLYWOOD
Saturday 3 December
Saturday 3 December
19:15 Arranged Happiness (Daniela Creutz)
Sunday 4 December
16:30 Arranged Happiness (Daniela Creutz)
20:00 Riding the stallion of a dream (Girish Kasaravalli)
Tuesday 6 December
19:00 I am Sinduthai Sapkal (Anand Mahadevan)
Wednesday 7 December
22:00 The Way Home (Dr Biju)
Thursday 8 December
22:00 Dharm (Bhavna Talwar)
Saturday 10 December
16:30 Dharm (Bhavna Talwar)
Tuesday 13 December
20:00 No Smoking (Anurag Kashyap)
Friday 16 December
19:00 The Way Home (Dr Biju)
Thursday 29 December
19:00 Riding the stallion of a dream (Girish Kasaravalli)
Dates : 2 - 29 December
Venue : Filmoteca de Catalunya
Tickets : 3€
Venue : Filmoteca de Catalunya
Tickets : 3€
Organizer: ImagineIndia and Asian Films
Sponsors: Mortiz, Mayura and Sogo.
Collaborators: University of Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Coordinator of Film and Video Festival of Catalonia.
