Mumbai Film Festival has introduced the 11 titles chosen for its South Asia competitors, the primary aggressive part of the competition, which incorporates the UK’s Oscars submission, Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, making its South Asian premiere.
The road-up additionally contains Nepal’s Oscars submission, Min Bahadur Bham’s Shambhala, together with one different Nepali title – Deepak Rauniyar’s Pooja, Sir – and Bhutanese title Agent Of Happiness, directed by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbo.
Indian titles within the competitors embody Rima Das’ Village Rockstars 2, which lately gained a Jiseok award at Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant; a number of award-winner Women Will Be Women, by Shuchi Talati; Raam Reddy’s The Fable and Midhun Murali’s Kiss Wagon (see full line-up under).
The non aggressive Focus South Asia part is screening ten options and 13 shorts, together with a title from Afghanistan – Roya Sadat’s The Sharp Edge Of Peace – and a brief movie from Myanmar, Comrade Poopy, made by an nameless filmmaker a couple of couple escaping the current navy coup.
Mumbai movie competition, which is organised by the Mumbai Academy of Transferring Picture (MAMI), expanded its competitors part from India to different South Asian nations for the primary time eventually 12 months’s version, which was the primary in a bodily format following the pandemic.
This 12 months, the competition is going down in a shorter, stripped down format (October 19-24) after dropping its title sponsor, Mukesh Ambani’s Jio, however plans to ramp up once more for subsequent 12 months’s version. MAMI board member and famend filmmaker and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur has stepped in to steer the competition by its transition.
Cannes Grand Prix winner All We Imagine As Light, directed by Payal Kapadia, will open the competition, whereas Sean Baker’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora will play because the closing movie.
Gala premieres embody 5 Indian movies – Kanu Behl’s Despatch, Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Ghamasaan, Sonal Dabral’s Go Noni Go, Suman Ghosh’s The Historic and My Melbourne, from Kabir Kahn, Imtiaz Ali, Onir and Rima Das.
The World Cinema part will display screen 41 titles, together with a crop of competition favourites corresponding to Emilia Perez, The Substance and The Room Subsequent Door – and a powerful number of debut and sophomore options, together with April, from Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili, Matthew Rankin’s Common Language, Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond and Truong Minh Quy’s Viet And Nam.
The competition additionally options two aggressive sections of quick movies – Dimensions Mumbai, that includes shorts from rising filmmakers, and the Royal Stag Barrel Choose Massive Quick Movies, bringing collectively quick movies from each aspiring and established filmmakers.
Mumbai Movie Pageant 2024 South Asia Competitors:
Agent Of Happiness, by Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó (Bhutan, Hungary)
Women Will Be Women, by Shuchi Talati (France, India, Norway)
Kiss Wagon, by Midhun Murali (India)
Little Jaffna, by Lawrence Valin (France)
Nocturnes, by Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan (India, US)
Pooja, Sir, by Deepak Rauniyar (Nepal, Norway, US)
Rhythm Of A Flower, by Amit Dutta (India)
Santosh, by Sandhya Suri (UK, Germany, France, India)
Shambhala, by Min Bahadur Bham (Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, Turkey, Taiwan, US)
The Fable, by Raam Reddy (India, US)
Village Rockstars 2, by Rima Das (India)
