47th International Film Festival of India(47th IFFI2016) International Jury

The International Jury for IFFI 2016

Ivan Passer (ivan passer)- Chairperson (Czech Republic, USA) - internationally acclaimed Writer and Director .His noted films are ,A loves of a blonde (1965) and Fireman’s blonde (1967). He has received Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Larry Smith - Member (UK) - internationally acclaimed Cinematographer and Director, best known for his collaborations with director Nicolas Winding Refn and Stanley Kubrick..

Lordan Zafranovic (lordan zafra-novich) - Member (Croatia) - internationally acclaimed Writer and Director.  He started his feature film career by directing film, Sunday (1969). His documentaries Eyes of Beijing (2003) and China’s Terracotta Warriors (2003) won awards for best director at the Belgrade Festival of Documentary and short film. Documentary and experimental film Symphony of the Heaven City (2004) won the UNESCO Prize for the best documentary in 2004

Nagesh Kukunoor - Member (India) -A well known film maker from India  Hyderabad Blues 1&2, Rockford, Iqbal and Dor are some of his most acclaimed films.

Leila Kilani (Laila Kilani) - Member (Morocco) - She is a director and writer, known for Sur La Planche (2011), Tangier, the Burners' Dream (2003), Our Forbidden Places (2008).

47th IFFI- 47th International Film Festival of India 2016-Films selected for international competition.

47th IFFI-15 Films selected for International Competition Section.

 According to her,Daughter, House of Others, I, Olga Hepnarova, Mellow Mud, Nelly, Personal Affairs, Rauf, Scarred Hearts, The Last Family, The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis, The Throne and The Student,Ishti,  and Sahaj Paather Gappo

 

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  House of others

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  The Throne

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  Personal Affairs

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  Rauf

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  The Last Family

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  The Long Night Of Francisco Sanctis

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  Daughter

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  Nelly

• Scarred Hearts

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  The Student

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  Ishti

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  Sahaj Paather Gappo

Two Indian Films: ‘Ishti’ and ‘Sahaj Paather Gappo’ (Colours of Innocence),  will also compete for the prestigious Peacock awards.

4th Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF).“Remember” Canadian-German thriller won "Best Feature Film .

Canadian film Remember won the best feature film award and its star Christopher Plummer grabbed the best actor award at the fourth Hanoi International Film (HANIFF) that closed in the capital city on November 5.
List of awards and winners at 2016 HANIFF:
-- Best Feature-Length Film: Remember by director Atom Egoyan (Canada)
-- Best Short Film: Three Variations on Ofelia by director Paulo Riqué (Mexico)
-- Best Director of a Feature-Length Film: Eduardo Roy Jr. for his film Ordinary People (Philippines)
-- Best Leading Actor: Christopher Plummer for his role in Remember (Canada)
-- Best Leading Actress: Hasmine Kilip for her role in Ordinary People (Philippines)
-- Best Young Director (under 30) of a Short Film: Pham Ngoc Lan for his film Another City (Vietnam)
-- Jury Prize for Feature-Length Film: One Way Trip by director Choi Jeong-yeol (South Korea)
-- Jury Prize for Short Film: Heart of the Land by director Kaika Astikainen (Finland)
-- Jury’s Special Mention for Feature-Length Film: Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass by director Victor Vu (Vietnam)
-- People’s Choice Award for Competitions: Jackpot by director Dustin Nguyen (Vietnam)

21 st International Film Festival of Kerala 2016-Films selected in the Malayalam Cinema today section

Films selected in the Malayalam Cinema today section

 

6 Feet/Aaradi 
Dir: Saji Palamel Sreedharan/ India/ 100min/2016

Godsay 
Dir: Sherrey Govindan,Shyju Govind/ India/175min/2016

Ka Bodyscapes 
Dir: Jayan Cherian/India/99min/2016

Kammatipaadam 
Dir: Rajeev Ravi/India/99min/2016

Kismath 
Dir: Shanavas Bavakutty/India/ 103min/2016

Lives Elsewhere/ Mohavalayam 
Dir: T. V. Chandran/India/ 120min/ 2016

Mahesh's Revenge/ Maheshinte Prathikaram
Dir: Dileesh Pothen/ India/ 121min/2015

21st International Film Festival of Kerala 2016-21st IFFK-Films in International Competition

The Following films will vie for the coveted Golden PHEASANT CROW ,SILVER PHEASANT CROW awards in the ensuing   21st edition of International Film Festival of Kerala from 9th to 16th December 2016 International Competition   Clair Obscur  Dir:Yesim Ustaoglu/Turkey/105min/2016 Clash  Dir: Mohamed Diab/Egypt/97min/2016 COLD OF KALANDAR/KALANDAR SOĞUĞU  Dir:MUSTAFA KARA/Turkey, Hungary/134min/2015 Die Beautiful  Dir:Jun Robles Lana/Philipino/120min/2016 Knife in the Clear Water  Dir:WANG Xuebo/China/93min/2016 Last Mural, The/ Chitrokar  Dir: Saibal Mitra/ India/127min/2016 Manhole  Dir: Vidhu Vincent /India/85min/2016 Midnight Keteki /Maj Rati Keteki  Dir: Santwana Bardoloi/ India/116min/2016 Sink  Dir:Brett Michael Innes/South Africa/115min/2016 Soul on a String  Dir: Yang Zhang/China/82min/2016 The Cursed Ones  Dir:Nana Obiri-Yeboah, Maximilian Claussen/ Ghana, UK/100min/2015 The Return  Dir:Green Zeng/Singapore/83min/2015 Where are my Shoes? (Alzheimer)/Kafsh hayam koo (Alzheimer)  Dir: Kioumars Pourahmad/Iran/100min/2016 When the Woods Bloom/KaaduPookkunnaNeram  Dir: Dr. Biju / India/106min/2016

THE FOURTH HANOI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL(HANIFF),2016

 The Fourth Hanoi International Film Festival  is being held in Hanoi ,the capital city of Vietnam from  November 1 st  to  5 th 2016 in Hanoi. This  is a major cultural event, a festival of film makers all over the world with the participation of 146 films from 43 countries and territories.

In the evening of November 5th,  the award ceremony and closing function  will   take place at the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Palace. A jury of eminent film personalities under the Chairmanship of Regis Wargnier will decide the winners among 11 feature length  films .

 JURY OF FEATURE LENGTH FILMS

    Regis Wargnier
    Jury Chairman

    Director, producer, screenwriter; France

Régis Wargnier directed his first film “La femme de ma vie” in 1986. His biggest success was back in 1993 when his film “Indochine” was priced with the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards.

Geraldine Chaplin

Jury member
D.O.B: July 31, 1944
Hollywood Actress; United States of America

Geraldine Chaplin is the daughter of famous Charlie Chaplin and started her own career with her first role in “Limelight” at the age of 8. In 1966, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year-Actress. In 1982, she was a member of the Jury in Cannes and in 2011 she acted as the president of the Jury for the Moscow International Film Festival.

  Adoor Gopalakrishnan

  Jury member

   Director, producer, script writer; India

  Adoor Gopalakrishnan is one of India’s finest filmmakers. In 1972, he  produced      his first full-length film “Swayamvaram” which became one of the major films of the Indian New Wave. He won several national and international awards, amongst others the British Film Institute Award in 1982 for “Elippathayam” and the Indian National Award for Best Film in 1995 for “Kathapurushan”.

    Maria Izadora Calzado
    Jury member

     Actress; Philippines

Maria Izadora Calzado has featured in various films, she hosted some shows herself and was on multiple magazine covers, for exemple Women’s health or Cosmopolitan Magazine. Over the past years, she won numerous prizes for her acting. Iza Calzado is also a National Ambassador of World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines.

   Dao Ba Son

  Jury member

   Director, Vietnam

He had been teaching in Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema from 1973 to 1977, then he has worked at Vietnam Feature Film Studio since 1980. In his entire 24-year-career, he has played and directed over 80 of feature films and video feature films, and has achieved many great awards in Vietnam National Film Festivals as well as Golden Kites Awards of Vietnam Cinema Association. The film he directed “The Song about the Musician in Thang Long royal Citadel” (Vietnamese: Long Thanh Cam gia Ca) scooped the Golden Kite awards with four awards : Best Feature Film Award, Best Scriptwriter Award, Best Designer Award and Best Actress Award in the Golden Kite Awards 2010.

The 18th Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival-David Chou's Diamond Island won Golden Gateway Award in International Competition.

The Jio Mami 18th Mumbai Film Festival has come to a close last evening. The ceremony which took place at Bal Gandharva Rangmandir, Bandra, saw a galaxy of  stars and celebrities attending the function .Winners under various categories were announced. 

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Full list of Winners :

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Golden Gateway Award - David Chou's Diamond Island.

Silver Gateway Award - Ralitza Petrova's Godless.

The Jury Grand Prize Natalia Almada's Everything Else.

Special Mention for Political Commitment of the Film - When Two Worlds Collide.

The Special Mention - Macarena Arias's Alba.

INDIA GOLD

Golden Gateway Award - Haobam Paban Kumar's The Lady of the Lake.

Silver Gateway Award - Satish Babusenan and Santosh Babusenan's The Narrow Path.

Jury Grand Prize - Aicheng Jai Dohutia's The Hidden Corner.

Special Mention - Deepak Sampath's Autohead

Special Mention - Shirley Abraham and Amit Madhesiya's Cinema Travellers.

DIMENSIONS MUMBAI

Golden Gateway Award - Santosh Ganpat Kamble for Mumbai's Mahuwa.

Silver Gateway Award - Tabu Kaariya's Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh.

Special Mention (Dimensions Mumbai) Award - Yashwardhan Goswami's Bombai.

HALF TICKET

Golden Gateway Award (Feature) – Laha Mebow's Hang in There, Kids!

The Silver Gateway Award (Feature) – Evi Goldbrunner and Joachim Dollhopf's At Eye Level.

Special mention (Feature) – Mrinmoy Mondal, Shupratim Bhol's Colours of Innocence.

The Golden Gateway Award (Short) – Vincent Patar and Stephane Aubier's A Town Called Panic: Back to School.'

The Silver Gateway Award (Short) - Nina Sabnani's We Make Images.

Special Mention (Short) - Pedro Paulo De Andrade's The Best Sound in the World.

OTHER AWARDS

Oxfam Award for Best Film on Gender Equality - Alankrita Shrivastava's Lipstick Under my Burkha

Mastercard Best India Female Filmmaker 2016 Award - Konkona Sensharma for A Death in the Gunj.

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Audience Choice Award - The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi.

Young Critics Choice Award - Shirley Abraham and Amit Madhesiya's Cinema Travellers.

BOOK AWARDS

Special Mention for Excellence in Writing on Cinema (Hindi) - Naye Daur Ka Naya Cinema by Priyadarshan.

Special Mention for Excellence in Writing on Cinema (English) - Kanan Devi: The First Superstar of Indian Cinema by Mekhala Sengupta

Excellence in Writing on Cinema Award (Hindi) - Bhartiye Cinema Ka Itihas by Anil Bhargava.

Excellence in writing on Cinema Award (English) - The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjeeby Jai Arun Singh.