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MUMBAI:
A plethora of brilliant cinema will be served on the platter for
cinema buffs at the Kala Ghoda Fest this year. The line up includes
Amu and NDTV Lumiere World cinema titles like Mind The Gap, Shiver
and That Day.
The
movies to be screened at the festival are:-
Amu (2005):- Writer-Director Shonali Bose’s sensational National
Award Winning debut venture, ‘Amu’- a controversial film
based on the 1984 Sikh Riots was the official selection at the Toronto
Film Festival 2005 and Berlin Film Festival and has won numerous
awards and accolades including two National Film Awards - Best Feature
Film, Best Director (English language), FIPRESCI Critics Award,
Gollapudi Srinivasa Award – Best Debut Director (India), Star
Screen Award – Best English Film (India), Teenage Choice Award,
Jury Award, Italy (Cine Donne Film Festival) and Audience Choice
Award (Indian Film Festival, Washington DC).
Amu
is the story of Kaju (Konkana Sensharma), a 21 year old Indian American
woman who returns to India to visit her family. In wandering around
Delhi she is overcome by déjà vu and stumbles upon
secrets and lies from her past. Aided by Kabir, a young man who
is deeply attracted to her and her quest, she embarks on an unstoppable
journey to seek the truth. She soon starts discovering that the
genocide against the Sikhs in Delhi 1984 might hold the key to her
mysterious origins.
Mind
The Gap! (2007):- Mind The Gap, which screened at the 2007 Göteborg
International Film Festival is a charming romantic-comedy set against
the backdrop of racial tension in modern day Sweden. Mind the Gap
concerns two young women (from different backgrounds) Turkish-born
Yasmin and Swedish Elin who become friends while training at the
Swedish Police Academy .Together, they learn to mind the gaps along
the path toward independence and self-discovery.
Shiver
(2008):- Directed by multiple-award winner Isidro Ortiz, Shiver
screened at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival. Shiver
revolves around Santi (Junio Valverde), a 16-year-old suffering
from XP, a disease that makes him acutely sensitive to sunlight.
Life in Barcelona becomes difficult for him and he longs to leave.
Best of all would be to move to Laponia, because the sun seldom
shines on this northern Swedish town, and so life there, he is convinced,
would be more bearable. His mother Julia (Mar Sodupe) has different
plans as she can’t afford moving to another country. She decides
to move to Arrozas de Valdeon, a remote village in northern Spain,
rarely penetrated by the sun’s rays on account of the high
mountains that surround it. Instead of the mountain idyll they so
longed for, the two soon encounter an odd series of events. At first,
animals begin to disappear – apparently by the influence of
something unknown lurking in the nearby woods. And then one day
a young boy is killed. Santi, who witnesses the boy’s death,
soon becomes the prime suspect in the eyes of the villagers. Antonio,
the local policeman, asks Julia to keep an eye on her son in order
to avoid any more trouble. In the meantime, Santi begins to make
friends. In order to prove his innocence, he and Angela (Blanca
Suárez) decide to get to the bottom of the mystery that lies
buried in the woods. They discover a wild girl whose parents died
long before in tragic circumstances. And it turns out that some
of the inhabitants of Arrozas de Valdeon are not as blameless as
they would like to believe.
That
Day (2007):- Swiss helmer Jacob Berger’s intense, insular (French)
drama which won the Best Director Award at the 2007 Montréal
World Film Festival unfolds over a single eventful day and is told
from three different perspectives - a cheating husband, a betrayed
wife and their baffled son.
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