Over 160 landmark films from 50 countries will be screened in the week-long fifth edition of Bangalore International Film Festival (5BIFFes), scheduled to commence on December 20.
Akira Kurosawa fans can watch
I Live in Fear, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Madadayo, The Idiot
, and
Scandal,
which have not been screened in recent years.
In a Better World
(Susan Blier),
Babette’s Feast
(Gabriel Axel),
Monsieur Lazhar
(Philippe Falardeau) and
Le Havre
(Aki Kaurismaki),
Like Someone in Love
(Abbas Kiarostami) are an added attraction.
Anti-war films such as
The English Patient
(Anthony Minghella),
The City of Life and Death
(Chuan Lu),
Life is Beautiful
(Roberto Benigni),
Coming Home
(Hal Ashby) and
Napola
(Dennis Gansel) will be screened under Special Genre category.
12 categories
The
films are classified under 12 categories: Retrospective, Masters of
Cinema (Revising Classics), Anti-War (Special Genre), Special Focus on
Germany, Country Focus (Denmark and Taiwan), International Film Critics
Award winners, Cinema of the World, Asian Cinema, Chitrabharati, Kannada
Cinema and 100 years of Indian cinema.
Forty films will be screened in the Cinema of the World category, and 23 under Asian Cinema section.
Best
works of Chan-Wook Park (South Korea), Fatih Akin (Germany), Juliette
Binoche (French actor), Girish Kasaravalli (Karnataka), Jahnu Barua
(Assam) will screened in Retrospective category.
Similarly,
17 best works by filmmakers, including Akira Kurosawa (Japan),
Henri-Georges Clouzot (France) and Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy) will
be screened in Masters of Cinema category.
Seven screens
The
films will be shown in seven screens: Inox Garuda Mall (3 screens),
Lido Fame (2 screens), Sulochana (at the Information Department) and
Priyadarshini (Badami House).
Disclosing this at a
press conference on Wednesday, BIFFes artistic director H.N. Narahari
Rao said due to lack of time, there will be no International Competition
section.
However, there will be competition in Asian
Cinema, Chitrabharati and Kannada Cinema sections. “While the best film
in Chitrabharati section will get Rs. 4 lakh cash award, Asian Cinema
and Kannada Cinema will get Rs. 2 lakh each, which will be shared by the
producer and the director.”
Selection of Kannada
section was on and final list of 9 would be announced shortly said
Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy president Tara.
Specialist on editing
Information
Secretary B. Basavaraju said there would a Master Class on Editing by
Andrew Bird, the British-born film editor who has worked mostly in
German cinema, for the benefit of technicians of Kannada film industry.
Session
There would be special session on 100 years of Indian Cinema.
“Besides all these, there will be public screening at the Freedom Park every evening during the festival.”
While
the curtains of 5BIFFes to go up in Jnanabharati auditorium, a function
had been organised at Sulochana Auditorium to mark 100 years of India
Cinema, said N. Vishu Kumar, Director Department of Information.
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