MIFF-14 competition films to be screened simultaneously in Nagpur

Mumbai International Film Festival

competition films’ screening in city

* This is being done for the first time and the films in national and international competition sections will be screened at Central Railway’s Gunjan Hall

Staff Reporter
For the first time, the connoiseurs of films screened in national and international sections of Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) will be able to watch those in Nagpur. Films Division, the organiser of MIFF-2014, has decided to hold parallel screenings of competition section films in the city between February 4 and 9.
“This is being done to give further impetus to the documentary film movement in the country. Films Division is taking the unique endeavour ‘MIFF Zone’ under which this is being done,” Anil Kumar Co-ordinator of MIFF-2014, told ‘The Hitavada’. According to Anil Kumar, MIFF has become a Mumbai-centric festival and many people -- despite being genuinely keen on watching competition section movies -- were not able to visit Mumbai. “If people cannot come to MIFF, we will take MIFF to people,” he said.
MIFF is the oldest and the largest international film festival for the non-feature and animation films in Asia. MIFF-2014 has received 793 entries from 34 countries. Of these, 588 are for national section and 205 for international section.

Published in The Hitavada CityLine on January 29, 2014

All films in national competition section and select films in international section will be shown at Central Railway’s Gunjan Hall in Nagpur between February 4 and 9. Nagpur is among seven cities where parallel screenings of the films will be held. Cities other than Nagpur and Mumbai include Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chennai, and Bangalore. Additional screening will be held in suburban Mumbai. For each centre, 28 hours of screening has been planned. On weekdays, screenings will take place in the evenings while on Saturday and Sunday, films will be screened day long from 10 AM to 6 PM. There is no entry fee.
The festival line up includes Indian and international documentary and short film titles made over the past two years. Films have been selected through rigorous two-tier process to ensure that varied committees viewed the entries before making their choices.
The International Competition includes documentaries and short films that have been making the right noises around the festival circuit for a while. These include ‘Fire in the Blood’ (by Dylan Mohan Gray), Algorithms (Ian McDonald), I Am Micro (Shai Heredia), Salma (Kim Longinotto), The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer), and Gulabi Gang (Nishtha Jain).
The Indian section includes the likes of Celluloid Man (Shivendra Singh Dungarpur), Tamaash-The Puppet (Satyanshu Singh and Devanshu Singh), Shepherds of Paradise (Raja Shabir Khan), Golden Mango (Govind Raju), and Have You Seen the Arana? (Sunanda Bhat).

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