BENGALURU : The spiralling crime against women is finding resonance in the reel world. The 7th
Bengaluru International Film Festival 2014 (Biffes) opens on December 4, with gender violence as its special theme.
Festival artistic director N
Vidyashankar on Wednesday said seven such films, including one from Pakistan, will be screened at the 8-day festival. The films are Oblivion (
Ethiopia), Mission Rape (Denmark), Stoning of Soraya (USA), The Paternal House (Iran), Osama (Afghanistan),
Magdalene Sisters (
Ireland) and Dukhtar (Pakistan).
“The focus is on violence against women in settings like war, within a family, community and religious institutions. There will also be discussions on these films,’’ said Vidyashankar. A seminar on gender violence will be organized by women groups of Bengaluru under the Janavadi Mahila Sanghatane. Actress
Suhasini is likely to take part in the seminar.
The delegates will also get the chance of watching some classic comedies, including a few restored works of Charlie Chaplin.
Shalini Rajneesh, principal secretary, information department, said 170 films from 44 countries will be screened. “There will be 11 sections, including cinema of the world with 62 movies. Film lovers can look forward to the retrospectives of Krzysztof Zanussi (
Poland) and
Phillip Noyce (Australia). Works of noted filmmakers like Jean Luc Godard, Zhang Yimou, Ken Loach, Nuri Bilge Ceylan will also be shown.’’
When
December 4-11
Where
Fun Cinema, Lido Inox, Chamundeshwari Studios (Cunningham Road), Sulochana (information department, Infantry Road), Priyadarshini (Badami House) and Freedom Park
Look Out For
An exhibition of photographs of Karnataka’s surviving cinema halls at Max Mueller Bhavan, Indiranagar
Second Story
Fest to salute Kannada titans
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Bengaluru: The film festival will pay tribute to litterateur titan U R Ananthamurthy in its Kannada retrospective section by screening four movies based on his novels, and a documentary on him.
Called Fiction to Film,
the movies are Samskara, Ghatashraddha, Avasthe, Mouni, and Girish Kasaravalli’s documentary U R Ananthamurthy: Not a biography, but a Hypothesis.
Festival artistic director N Vidyashankar said there’ll be special tributes to C R Simha, K M Shankarappa and Balu Mahendra by screening their films Bara, Kokila and
Maadi Madidavaru, respectively. The festival will salute
Dada Saheb Phalke award-winner and cinematographer V K Murthy by screening Guru Dutt’s classic Pyaasa and films of noted cinematographers like Josef Wirsching, Babubhai Mistry, Marcus Batley and Subrata Mitra.
Ten films will be screened in the Kannada competition section: Harivu, Ulidavaru Kandanthe, Gajakesari, Haj, Ingale Marga, December 1,
Sachin Tendulkar Alla, Brahmashri Narayana Guru Swamy (Tulu), Kariya Kanbitta and Chitramandiralli. Devara Nadalli (B Suresha) and Haggada Kone (Dayal Padmanabhan) will be released as part of Kannada premieres.
Attihannu Mattu Kanaja (MS Prakash Babu) and Prakruthi (Panchakshari) are the two Kannada entries in Asian competition section.
In the Centenary Remembrances section, tributes will be paid to Honnappa Bhagavathar and Hunsur Krishnamurthy, with screening of their movies Mahakavi Kalidasa, Asha Sundari and Bhaktha Kumbara. While India leads the list of number of films (49) to be screened at the festival, France comes second with 19, followed by Poland with 10 movies.