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CHANGE IN FILM SCHEDULES in SALA BERLANGA

2012-05-17T18:51:00.003+02:00

THESE ARE THE NEW FILM SCHEDULES :

Imagineindia 2012 film schedule at SALA BERLANGA, Madrid.

Sala Berlanga (Calle Andrés Mellado 53. Madrid)

More info : www.imagineindia.net

MAY

18 Friday

20.00 July Rain

(Marlen Khutsiyev) Russian Section

22.00 Volga Volga

(Andrey Silvestrov, Pavel Labazov) Russian Section

19 Saturday

20.00 A Gift for Stalin

(Rustem Abdrashitof) Russian Section

22.00 The Moon at the Bottom of the Well

(Nguyen Vinh Son) Section Vietnam

20 Sunday

20.00 Achal (The Stagnant)

(Bikramjit Das Gupta) Competition

22.00 SHORTS

Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute

Beauty (Torsha Banerjee)

Bamboo Shoots (Steven Imna Tumsu Ao)

Thugberam (Venkat S Amudhan)

Falling Awake (Ryan Demello)

The Threshold (Shishir Ray)

Karyukai (Dominic Megam Sangma)

Googles (Shamik Kr Rakshit)

OTHER SHORTS

The Cabin Man (Ashish Pandey)

21 Monday

20.00 The Insatiable Moon

(Rosemary Riddell) Section New Zealand

22.00 The Tracker

(Rolf de Heer) Australian Section

22 Tuesday

20.00 Scenes from Bohemian Life

(Konstantin Seliverstov) Russian Section

22.00 Here and There ?

(Siu Pham, Jean Luc Mello) Section Vietnam

23 Wednesday

20.00 Andrei Rublev 1

(Andrey Tarkovskiy) Russian Section

22.00 Andrei Rublev 2

(Andrey Tarkovskiy) Russian Section

24 Thursday

20.00 A Gift for Stalin

(Rustem Abdrashitof) Russian Section

22.00 One Night the Moon

(Rachel Perkins) Australian Section

IMAGINEINDIA BARCELONA 2012 (Programme)

2012-05-17T13:17:00.002+02:00

FRIDAY / 1 June

19:30 FESTIVAL INAUGURATION

- INDIAN DANCE : MAGICAL BOLLYWOOD

- MEMORIES IN MARCH Director : Sanjay Nag

SATURDAY / 2 June

16:30 - THE WAY HOME Director : Dr. Biju Kumar
21:30 - AADAMINTE MAKAN ABU
Director : Salim Ahamad

SUNDAY / 3 June

17:00 - ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA
Director: Zoya Akhtar

WEDNESDAY / 6 June

17:00 - ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA
Director: Zoya Akhtar

THURSDAY / 7 June

19:00 - URUMI
Director: Santosh Sivan

FRIDAY / 8 June

22:00 - Dev D
Director: Anurag Kashyap

SUNDAY / 10 June

16:30 - TRAFFIC
Director: Rajesh Pillai

WEDNESDAY / 13 June

20:00 - AADAMINTE MAKAN ABU
Director : Salim Ahamad

SPANISH TELEVISION with Imagineindia 2012

2012-05-12T09:58:00.000+02:00

Spanish Television,s best programme on cinema, DIAS DE CINE with Imagineindia.

You can view the first news on Imagineindia 2012 before it,s inauguration at the Spanish National Television.

Dias de Cine has taken care of this festival due to it,s solid programme. Next week, just before the inaugural date, they will give a more ample and proper coverage.

http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/dias-de-cine/dias-cine-10-05-12/1401930/

MINUTE : 43.11

PRESS CONFERENCE. Imagineindia 2012. Filmoteca Española

2012-05-08T10:54:00.002+02:00

PRESS CONFERENCE

"DREAM IN TIMES OF CRISIS"

As in every edition and already eleven, Imagineindia International Film Festival invites the press in order to present it,s programme and it,s parallel activities. Edition marked by the difficult times we are passing through, where the ordinary becomes strange. Therefore this edition of Imagineindia claims to go ahead, not all is lost, and the slogan of the same would be "Dream in times of Crisis".

The many friends of the Festival like, Fernando Trueba, Carlos Saura, Sharmila Tagore, A.R.Rahman, continue to support us from backstage. This year one more joined us, the actor HUGO SILVA, who has confirmed that he will help us with his presence. Next to him in the table will be the unconditional WYOMING, SERGIO PAZOS and QAZI ABDUR RAHIM (festival director).

The following will be present at the press conference:

The Gran Wyoming

Sergio Pazos

Hugo Silva

Qazi Abdur Rahim (festival Director)

Jesús Menéndez Pabón (Commissioner of Expo: dreams of India XXL)

Kruk Cezary (Director Institute of culture Polish)

Miguel Hermoso

PLACE:

FILMOTECA ESPAÑOLA (Calle Santa Isabel, 3, Madrid)

9 may, Wednesday.

11.30 h

Exhibition : "DREAMS OF INDIA XXL", CINETECA el Matadero (16-27 may). Imagineindia 2012

2012-05-07T16:42:00.000+02:00

Exhibition : "DREAMS OF INDIA XXL", CINETECA el Matadero (16-27 may). Imagineindia 2012.

The photographic exhibition "DREAMS OF INDIA XXL" is positioned as the main parallel event of the 11th edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival 2012.

The exhibition will run from 16 to 27 may at Cineteca el Matadero in Madrid and is produced by the Organization WORLDBRAND Society and Clorofila Digital.

Curator of the exhibition:

Jesús Menéndez Pabón, photographer and founder of WORLDBRAND Society

INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

For the understanding among cultures.

The exhibition "DREAMS OF INDIA XXL" is the result of sociological research on "100 Indian families tell us their stories" developed by WORLDBRAND Society by its founder, Jesús Menéndez Pabón. Who after leaving behind the life of an executive, he founded this organization aimed at the understanding of cultures. He lived for 3 years with different communities of Asian subcontinent to portray their lives. From Bombay Slums, the Gypsy sands of Rajasthan, Fakir,s of West Bengal villages, the secrets of theeternal city of Varanasi, the Muslim corner of Kashmir or Tamil Nadu,s villages.

All this in order to break the clichés of how are perceived other cultures in the "developed society" and generate a dialogue through which we can feel and understand, regardless of races, classes, caste, language, beliefs or backgrounds, finally we are not so different.

THE CORNER OF DREAMS

To generate dialogue.

The exhibition includes in the venue a corner especially designed to share dreams, thus generating a dialogue through this universal language on both sides of the planet.

On the one hand it will show many of the hundreds of dreams collected over 4 months in the exhibition of WORLDBRAND Society at the National Museum of anthropology in Madrid (24 Nov. 2011 to 8 April 2012). Written or drawn dreams that visitors deposited in a ballot box specially designed for this purpose and that are our real treasure.

On the other hand, the Box will be present at the exhibition "DREAMS OF INDIA XXL" of Matadero Madrid, urging visitors to also share their own dreams.

Exhibition on "Indian Gypsies of Kathputli Colony" at SALA PRIORITE

2012-05-04T10:03:00.000+02:00

"Exhibition on Indian Gypsies"

Sala Priorité: Calle Montera 42, Metro : Gran Vía / Sol.

(8 May - 12 June)

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.

Kathputli Colony began as a cluster of makeshift tents set up by gypsy puppeteers from Rajasthan in an open field. Over the years they were joined by other performers from across the country.

This colourful cast has made Kathputli one of Delhi's most famous slums. Its residents perform for guests at the city's five-star hotels, in plush restaurants, at parties thrown by embassies and wealthy businessmen, and for audiences around the world. But they return to their windowless huts without running water and basic sanitation.

Sala Priorité: Calle Montera 42, Metro : Gran Vía / Sol.

(8 May - 12 June)

First Press Release. Imagineindia 2012

2012-05-03T13:26:00.001+02:00

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".

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 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewxw3ynAjkM

https://vimeo.com/36337053

Vídeos Imagineindia 2012 :

http://www.youtube.com/user/imagineindia?feature=mhee

https://vimeo.com/user1281861/videos

Photos Imagineindia 2012

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagineindia_film_festival/

Web Imagineindia

www.imagineindia.net

Imagineindia 2012 Programme at RUSSIAN CENTRE

2012-04-27T19:00:00.002+02:00

The Russian Centre of Science and Culture will be participating at the 11th edition of Imagineindia with the following programme.

Russian Centre of Science and Culture
Calle Atocha 34. Madrid
Free entry.

More info : www.imagineindia.net
www.centroruso.info

MAY

7 Monday

19.00     The Diamond Arm
(Leonid Gaidai) Russian Section

14 Monday

19.00   Ivan Vasilievich : Back to the Future
(Leonid Gaidai) Russian Section

21 Monday

19.00     The White Sun of the Desert
(Vladimir Motyl) Russian Section

28 Monday

19.00      A Nest of Gentlefolk
(A.Mikhalkov-Konchalovskiy)
Russian Section

Imagineindia 2012 film schedule at SALA BERLANGA

2012-04-24T18:27:00.001+02:00

Imagineindia 2012 film schedule at SALA BERLANGA, Madrid.

Sala Berlanga (Calle Andrés Mellado 53. Madrid)

More info : www.imagineindia.net

MAY

18 Friday

20.00 July Rain

(Marlen Khutsiyev) Russian Section

22.00 Volga Volga

(Andrey Silvestrov, Pavel Labazov) Russian Section

19 Saturday

20.00 A Gift for Stalin

(Rustem Abdrashitof) Russian Section

22.00 The Moon at the Bottom of the Well

(Nguyen Vinh Son) Section Vietnam

20 Sunday

20.00 Achal (The Stagnant)

(Bikramjit Das Gupta) Competition

22.00 SHORTS

Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute

Beauty (Torsha Banerjee)

Bamboo Shoots (Steven Imna Tumsu Ao)

Thugberam (Venkat S Amudhan)

Falling Awake (Ryan Demello)

The Threshold (Shishir Ray)

Karyukai (Dominic Megam Sangma)

Googles (Shamik Kr Rakshit)

OTHER SHORTS

The Cabin Man (Ashish Pandey)

21 Monday

20.00 The Insatiable Moon

(Rosemary Riddell) Section New Zealand

22.00 The Tracker

(Rolf de Heer) Australian Section

22 Tuesday

20.00 Scenes from Bohemian Life

(Konstantin Seliverstov) Russian Section

22.00 Here and There ?

(Siu Pham, Jean Luc Mello) Section Vietnam

23 Wednesday

20.00 Andrei Rublev 1

(Andrey Tarkovskiy) Russian Section

22.00 Andrei Rublev 2

(Andrey Tarkovskiy) Russian Section

24 Thursday

20.00 A Gift for Stalin

(Rustem Abdrashitof) Russian Section

22.00 One Night the Moon

(Rachel Perkins) Australian Section

Documentary Programme. Imagineindia 2012. CINETECA

2012-04-24T15:24:00.002+02:00

Film schedule of Documentaries participating in Imagineindia 2012 at the venue CINETECA el matadero.

More info : www.imagineindia.net

May

23 Wednesday

20.00 Ramblers, Roamers, Vagabonds

(Sandor Sillo, Hungary)

21.30 The Great Indian Jugaad

(Anandana Kapur, India)

24 Thursday

19.00 One man, one cow, one planet

(Thomas Burstyn, New Zealand)

Portless

(Talia Leibovitz, Spain)

21.00 Russian Experimental Shorts

(Olga Chernysheva, Russia)

MARMOT

The Train

Anonymous

Seven Excercises

Tretiakovka

Russian Museum

Festive Dreams

March

Les Roi des Aulensa

25 Friday

19.00 The curse of the Hedgehog

(Dumitru Budrala, Romania)

21.00 The Bengali Detective

(Philip Cox, Great Britain)

26 Saturday

19.00 Amrit, the nectar of inmortality

(Philipp Eyer/Jonas Scheu, Switzerland)

At the Stairs

(Rajesh S Jala, India)

21.00 Shorts over Ganga River

(David Varela, Spain)

- Last portrait

- No men´s children

- Solitudes - Dawn nº 1.856.280

27 Sunday

19.00 Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein

(Shabnam Virmani, India)

21.00 The great Indian Jugaad

(Anandana Kapur, India)

30 Wednesday

19.00 Russian Experimental Shorts

Mashka (Larisa Bocharova)

The Nail (Yuriy Lonkoff)

Hadron Collider (Evgeny Goltsov)

Iron (Aglaya Kusnosenko)

Night on Earth

(Andrey Stempkovsky)

Him, her and him
(Sergey Groznov, Nikolay Bogdanov)

Film Schedule. Imagineindia 2012. SPANISH FILM INSTITUTE

2012-04-24T12:54:00.001+02:00

17 may/ 21.45h ABU, SON OF ADAM

(Salim Ahamad). Competition

18 may/ 21.30h MEMORIES IN MARCH
(Sanjay Nag). Competition

19 may/ 19.30h ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA
(Zoya Akhtar). Competition

20 may/ 19.20h The Saragossa Manuscript

(Wojciech Has). Polish cinema

22 may/ 17.30h MEMORIES IN MARCH

(Sanjay Nag). Competition

22 may/ 20.00h URUMI

(Santosh Sivan). Competition

24 may/ 17.30h ANTAREEN
(Mrinal Sen). Classics

25 may/ 17.30h OKA OORI KATHA

(Mrinal Sen). Classics

25 may/ 21.45h HOURGLASS SANATORIUM
(Wojciech Has). Polish Cinema

27 may/ 17.30h AAMAR BHUVAN

(Mrinal Sen). Classics

29 may/ 19.45h EK DIN ACHANAK
(Mrinal Sen). Classics

30 may/ 22.00h NIZHALKKUTHU
(Adoor Gopalakrishnan). Classics

MORE INFO : www.imagineindia.net

LIST OF FILMS participating at Imagineindia 2012

2012-04-16T17:38:00.000+02:00

MEMORIES IN MARCH (Sanjay Nag) INDIA

ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA (Zoya Akhtar) INDIA

TRAFFIC (Rajesh Pillai) INDIA

URUMI (Santosh Sivan) INDIA

AADAMINTE MAKAN ABU (Salim Ahamad) INDIA

ACHAL (Bikramjit Das Gupta) INDIA

AAMAAR BHUVAN (Mrinal Sen) INDIA

ANTAREEN (Mrinal Sen) INDIA

EK DIN ACHANAK (Mrinal Sen) INDIA

OKA OORI KATHA (Mrinal Sen) INDIA

BALA (Satyajit Ray) INDIA

SADGATI (Satyajit Ray) INDIA

SATYAJIT RAY (Shyam Benegal) INDIA

NIZHALKKUTHU (Adoor Gopalakrishnan) INDIA

BEAUTY (Torsha Banerjee) INDIA

BAMBOO SHOOTS (Steven Imna Tumsu Ao) INDIA

THUGBERAM (Venkat S Amudhan) INDIA

FALLING AWAKE (Ryan Demello) INDIA

THE THRESHOLD (Shishir Ray) INDIA

KARYUKAI (Dominic Megam Sangma) INDIA

GOGGLES (Shamik Kr Rakshit) INDIA

THE CABIN MAN (Ashish Pandey) INDIA

THE GREAT INDIAN JUGAAD (Anandana Kapur) INDIA

KABIRA KHADA BAZAAR MEIN (Shabnam Virmani) INDIA

AT THE STAIRS (Rajesh S Jala) INDIA

THE BENGALI DETECTIVE (Philip Cox) ENGLAND

AMRIT : NECTAR OF IMMORTALITY (Philipp Eyer / Jonas Scheu) SWITZERLAND

PORTLESS (Talia Leibovitz) SPAIN

LAST PROTRAIT (David Varela) SPAIN

NO MEN,S CHILDREN (David Varela) SPAIN

SOLITUDES (David Varela) SPAIN

THE MOON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL (Nguyen Vinh Son) VIETNAM

HERE ... AND THERE ? (Siu Pham, Jean Luc Mello) VIETNAM

SNAKEHEAD FISH (Do Quoc Trung) VIETNAM

THE MAN WHO WAS THERE (Andy Nguyen) VIETNAM

MOTHER,S MILK (Andy DeJohn) VIETNAM

BEHIND THE DEATH (Ta Nguyen Hiep) VIETNAM

SUNDAY MENU (Liesl Nguyen) VIETNAM

FADING LIGHT (Thien Do) VIETNAM

DOG DAY (Linh Phan) VIETNAM

RAMBLERS, ROAMERS, VAGABONDS (Sandor Sillo) HUNGARY

THE CURSE OF THE HEDGEHOG (Dumitru Budrala) ROMANIA

THE TRACKER (Rolf de Heer) AUSTRALIA

ONE NIGHT THE MOON (Rachel Perkins) AUSTRALIA

THE DIAMOND ARM (Leonid Gaidai) RUSSIA

IVAN VASILYEVICH (Leonid Gaidai) RUSSIA

THE WHITE SUN OF THE DESERT (Vladimir Motyl) RUSSIA

A NEST OF GENTLEFOLK (Andrey Konchalovskiy) RUSSIA

ANDREI RUBLEV 1 (Andrey Tarkovskiy) RUSSIA

ANDREI RUBLEV 2 (Andrey Tarkovskiy) RUSSIA

JULY RAIN (Marlen Khutsiyev) RUSSIA

VOLGA VOLGA (Andrey Silvestrov, Pavel Labazov) RUSSIA

MASHKA (Larisa Bocharova) RUSSIA

THE NAIL (Yuriy Lonkoff) RUSSIA

HADRON COLÍDER (Evgeny Goltsov) RUSSIA

IRON (Aglaya Kusnosenko) RUSSIA

NIGHT ON EARTH (Andrey Stempkovsky) RUSSIA

HIM, HER and HIM (Sergey Groznov, Nikolay Bogdanov) RUSSIA

SHORTS (Olga Chernysheva) RUSSIA

SCENES OF BOHEMIAN LIFE (Konstantin Seliverstov) RUSSIA

THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (Wojciech Jerzy Has) POLAND

THE HOUR GLASS SANATORIUM ( Wojciech Jerzy Has) POLAND

WRITE AND FIGHT ( Wojciech Jerzy Has) POLAND

MEMOIRS OF A SINNER ( Wojciech Jerzy Has) POLAND

THE TRIBULATIONS OF A BALTHAZAR KOBER ( Wojciech Jerzy Has) POLAND

THE INSATIABLE MOON (Rosemary Riddell) NEW ZEALAND

ONE MAN, ONE COW, ONE PLANET (Thomas Burstyn) NEW ZEALAND

A GIFT FOR STALIN (Rustem Abdrashitof) KAZAKHSTAN

Imagineindia at Filmoteca de Zaragoza

2012-04-09T13:54:00.001+02:00

Imagineindia begins it,s collaboration with Filmoteca de Zaragoza. For the first time this film institute will be programming a short retro of the worldly known director from Taiwan Hou Hsiao Hsien :

25 april   A Summer at GrandPa,s, 1984.

2 may   Dust in the Wind, 1986.

3 may   Time to Live, Time to Die, 1985.

3 may   Café Lumiere, 2003.

VOTE Imagineindia International Film Festival

2012-01-17T11:03:00.001+01:00

Kindly VOTE the project of Imagineindia Internationational Film Festival at the crowdfunding platform of Lanzanos. One step of your,s means so much for us!

http://www.lanzanos.com/caja/

Imagineindia screens films of Girish Kasaravalli in Vigo

2011-12-30T13:36:00.000+01:00

Throughout the month of January 2012, will take place at the Lumiere Cinema Club in the northern spanish city of Vigo a short retrospective of the filmaker from Karnataka (India) Girish Kasaravalli. ImagineIndia in collaboration with Rosebud Films organizes this retro on this important filmmaker from Karnataka, which is one of the most dynamic and emerging State of India. The film Club founded in 1993, has been at the same time, one of the most dynamic among the Galician film clubs.

The screenings will take place at the mentioned Film Club at Placer Street in Vigo, the following days:

01/09/12 DWEEPA
16/01/12 HASINA
23/01/12 GULABI TALKIES
30/01/12 RIDING THE STALLION OF DREAMS

Imagineindia Barcelona 2011 (2 to 29 December)

2011-11-07T19:16:00.003+01:00

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 Martí (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

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€

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.

WOJCIECH J. HAS at Imagineindia 2012 (17 - 31 May)

2011-10-06T13:02:00.002+02:00

Wojciech J. Has at the eleventh edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival due to in May 2012. With the collaboration of : Instituto Polaco de Cultura and Filmoteca Española.

One of the most importante cult filmmaker from Poland, J. Has has been showed at Filmoteca Española more than 10 years back. In 2012 Imagineindia come back to this great polish director with the following films :

SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT
MEMOIRS OF A SINNER
THE WRITER
THE HOUR GLASS SANATORIUM
LES TRIBULATIONS DE BALTHAZAR KOBER

NEW ZEALAND as Invited country at Imagineindia 2012

2011-08-08T17:06:00.002+02:00

New Zealand will be one of the invited countries at the eleventh edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival 2012. Wilde nature, plain horizons, tough guys, remembrance of aborigin ancestors, makes of this filmography something special. Six film will be participating at Imagineindia, among them are :

THIS WAY OF LIFE (Thomas Burstyn, 2009)
One Man, One Cow, One Planet (Barbara Burstyn, 2008)
OPERATION 8 (Errol Wright, Abi King Jones, 2011)
THE INSATIABLE MOON (Rosemary Riddell, 2010)

This section has been curated by Gen Hewett.

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BANGALORE International Film Festival (Call for Entries)

2011-08-08T12:33:00.000+02:00

BENGALURU INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - 2011

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     We are pleased to announce the 4th edition of BIFFES, the Bengaluru International Film Festival, from 15th to 22nd December, 2011. This edition of the festival will be bigger in scope and ambition thanks to the Government of Karnataka, which has responded to the aspirations of the film fraternity of the state and announced annual budgetary funding and support for the festival. The event is being organised and conducted by Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy, founded by the government to promote cinema culture and education.
     For Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka, to aspire to and emerge as an important centre of international film culture is in keeping with Karnataka's glorious heritage and the state's achievements in the fields of literature, fine arts and cinema. The Kannada film industry has made signal contributions to the quality and range of Indian cinematic expression and grown to produce over a 100 feature films every year. Films from Karnataka have won national and international recognition and critical acclaim at various film festivals.
     The 4th BIFFES will feature both Competition and non-Competition sections. Selection of the films to be invited for screening at the competition will be made by an expert committee and prizes will be awarded by jury panels comprising Indian and international members.

The Competition Section itself will be in four categories:

1. International category for feature films:

Awards instituted by Government of Karnataka; International Jury

Best film Award: GOLDEN BERUNDA
Cash Award of Rs. 10,00,000 (approx. US $20,000)

Best Director Award: SILVER BERUNDA
Cash Award of Rs. 5,00,000 (approx US $10,000)

Eligibility: Films made between: 1st Jan 2010 and 15th June 2011.

2. Asian cinema category

Award from Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce; Netpac Jury

Cash Prize: Rs 2,00,000/- (approx: US $ 4,000)

Films made in the Asian Continent
Eligibility: Films made between: 1st Jan 2010 and 15th June 2011.

3. Chitrabharathi: Indian cinema category.

Award from Suchitra Film Society; FIPRESCI Jury

Best film award: SUCHITRA SANMAN
Cash Prize: Rs 2,00,000/- (approx: US $
4,000)

Indian language films.
Eligibility: Films made between: 1st Sept 2010 and 31st Aug 2011.

4. Kannada cinema category

Award: Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy; Film Societies' Jury.

Cash Prize: Rs. 2,00,000/- (approx: US$ 4,000)
Films in the languages of Karnataka
Eligibility: Films made between: 1st Sept 2010 and 31st Aug 2011.

Guidelines for both Competition and non-Competition Sections:

• Film submission formats: 35mm, Digi-Beta and international-standard digital
format
• Films must be sub-titled in English

Competition Section

o Films entered in competition sections of the other festivals in India are also
eligible.
o No screening charges will be paid for the films.
o One representative - Producer or Director or any authorized representative -
is entitled for travel (economy class- return airfare) and local hospitality at
the festival
o Entries are to be sent in the prescribed form (available on our website) along
with a DVD screener with English Subtitles.

We invite films for Non-Competition section also under the following
categories:

o World Cinema
o Retrospectives & Tributes
o Country Focus
o Special Genre
o Nostalgia

Do visit our website www.biffes.in for details about the film festival, guidelines
and entry forms.

Dates for Imagineindia 2012 (17 - 31 May 2012)

2011-07-19T15:19:00.002+02:00

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.

Stock Formula in Bollywood

2011-07-19T13:36:00.002+02:00

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

Imagineindia Screennigs in Portugal

2011-07-07T19:50:00.002+02:00

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

2011-07-02T20:26:00.001+02:00

"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.

Ananth Mahadevan bags 2nd prize at Imagineindia 2011

2011-06-25T17:46:00.002+02:00

Ananth Mahadevan bags the 2nd prize for Best Film at Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011 at the Closing Gala in Madrid for his film MEE SINDHUTAI SAPKAL.

Nandita Das at Imagineindia 2011 (Spanish Film Institute)

2011-06-24T21:22:00.001+02:00

Nandita Das came to Madrid to attend Imagineindia International Film Festival 2011. This is her participation at Spanish Film Institute.