There are just 15 days left for the arrival of the 11th edition ofImagineindia International Film Festival (17-31 May 2012). A city wide celebration of cinema in Madrid and Barcelona (1 - 13 june). It is also an edition, and we have no other choice than to mention, with slogan which could be "Dreams in times of Crisis".
Almost 70 films included in 12 sections, will participate this year at the four venues: Filmoteca Española, Cineteca el Matadero, Sala Berlanga and Russian Centre of Science and Culture.
The Competitive Section consists of 6 films and combines both, the great production of the Bollywood factory and Alternative cinema.Zindegi Na Milegi Dobara is a big production of Bollywood which has the special interest of having been shot in Spain. Urumi represents the type of Indian historical film, which is the arrival of Vasco da Gama to India. Memoirs in March of Sanjay Nag minimizes the impact of homosexuality on a mother. Achal (The Stagnant) is a picture of the different street dwellers that populate the rude city which is Calcutta.
The Classics Section shows the least watched films of great Indian directors like Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen and Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Films such as Bala, Amar Bhuvan, Oka Oori Katha, shown for the first time in Spain and after the festival will be touring to other Film Institutes.
For second time the festival shows short films done by students of the best Film Institute in India, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute.
In the Documentary Section to mention the films related to the Ganges River with the works of the Spanish director David Varela(short films shot in Varanasi), Rajesh Jala ("On the stairs", on the endpoint that is the River in the lives of many elderly women), Philipp Eyer and Jonas Scheu ("Amrit, the nectar of immortality", on the largest pilgrimage in the world, Khumb Mela, on the banks of the Ganges).
The festival also puts its interest on the Spanish shootings that occur on/related to India as the film "Portless" (Talia Leibovitz) and the Shorts of David Varela.
In the Asian and International Sections are numerous the participant countries, such as Vietnam, Poland, Russia, New Zealand or Australia. Poland is represented by the retro on Wojciech Jerzy Has, while Russia with more than 20 films is one of the filmographies with greater presence at the festival, with directors such as Marlen Khutsiyev, Andrey Tarkovskiy, Andrei Silvestrov , Konstantin Seliverstov and Olga Chernysheva. Note also the presence of films on gypsies with the participation of two features from Hungary and Romania.
The festival will feature special guests such as Gran Wyoming, Fernando Trueba, Sergio Pazos, Miguel Hermoso, Carlos Iglesias, Farah Hamid, Philipp Eyer, Jonas Scheu, David Varela, Diego Fernández, Javier Marías and a large etc.
Parallel activities
Presentations of films, exhibitions of photographs and texts on Indiawill be the focus of the activities of the festival.
The Opening Gala of the festival will be held at Cineteca el Matadero,May 16 with the presentation of the exhibition "Dreams of India XXL", curated and produced by Jesús Menéndez Pabón, founder ofWorldBrand Society and Clorofila Digital. It is the fruit of a sociological research where 100 Indian families tell us their history, developed by Jesús Menéndez, who lived for 3 years with different communities of the Asian subcontinent to portray their life. From the slums of Bombay, the Gypsy sands of Rajasthan, the villages of fakirs in West Bengal, the secrets of the eternal city of Varanasi, the Muslims of Kashmir or the inner looks of Tamil Nadu villages.
The exhibition will later travel to La Tabacalera and UNED MADRID.
"Exhibition on Indian Gypsies".
Once in a while, in our constant search for strange and surprising places, people and stories, poverty and pride, we are faced with something that really inspires us. This finding is a place that doesnt appear on any map. Very close to the Centre of New Delhi, the colony treasures stories never to forget.
For hundreds of years these itinerant artists travelled through the Indian countryside, creating stories, creating the backbone that unites a country. Before the advent of radio, film and television, these artists helped to shape what we now call the India Web.... In the 1950s artists moved to a vacant land next to a forest in West Delhi. Their new home was called Kathputli colony.
Since then, acrobats, puppeteers and magicians of New Delhi have called this slum colony Kathputli, their home.
Sala Priorité: Calle Montera 42, Metro : Gran Vía / Sol.
(8 May - 12 June)
Thanks to our Collaborators :
Filmoteca Española, Cineteca el Matadero, Sala Berlanga, Sala Priorité, Russian Centre for Science and Culture, Institute of Polish culture, Institute of Gypsy culture, Directorate for Film Festivals (India), Ministry of information (India), Ministry of External Affairs (India), Indian Embassy in Madrid, Embassy of Viet Nam, Ministry of culture (Spain), Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (India), Filmoteca de Catalunya, Clorofila Digital, Worldbrand Society, Madrid Municipality, Generalitat of Catalonia.
Trailer Imagineindia 2012 :
https://vimeo.com/36337053
Vídeos Imagineindia 2012 :
https://vimeo.com/user1281861/videos
Photos Imagineindia 2012
Web Imagineindia
www.imagineindia.net
