Renowned Auteur, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and film critic
and writer, Aruna Vasudev, will be honoured at the second edition of the
International Film Festival of Colombo to be held from November 7 to 11..According
to Handagama, the festival Director the
two septuagenarians would
receive the life-time achievement award at the valedictory of the festival. They
had been chosen for having put the Asian cinema on the international map.
Over 100 films, from different countries
such as Iran, France, Serbia, China, Brazil, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Germany and
Bangladesh are being screened in this
festival at five locations in Colombo. Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa, Adoor’s Elippathayam, and
Baldvin Zophoníasson’s Vonarstræti (Life in a fishbowl)
are part of this young festival. Berlin Golden Bear award winning film ‘Taxi’ by Jafar Panahi, Eisenstein
in Guanajuato by Peter Greenaway and Sils Maria by Olivier Assayas will be shown
in the festival..The
two competition sections of the fest for feature films are set apart for films
from Asia and for Sri Lanka.The award would be decided by a jury comprise of Klaus Eder
(Germany) – Chairperson, Jeffrey Jeturian (Philippines), Na
Renhua (China), Max Tessier (France)and Fatemeh (Simin) Motamedarya (Iran) and
a NATPAC jury.
A bunch of most acclaimed French movies tittled French Film
Corner : a gift from France wil be screened.Prof. Dragan Milinovich Simon who is an eminent
university professor, producer, drama writer and director will conduct two
master class based on the themes of ”Looking at Movies” and ”Reading Kusturica”
– At Sri Lanka Foundation.One
day (November 9) would be devoted to short films. An exhibition on the Sri
Lankan film industry would be held at the premises of the National Film
Corporation of Sri Lanka. Handagama informed the media that the festival,
organised by the Film Directors’ Guild of Sri Lanka, was being sponsored by the
Film Corporation, Ceylon Theatres and the Okinawa International Movie Festival
of Japan.
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