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| Cameraman K.K. Mahajan capturing the leaflet drop in Mrinal Sen's Chorus. |
-Brian Mendonca
Tomorrow is the last day of the 54th International film festival here in Goa.
The
highlight will definitely be the gala Asia Premiere of Featherweight - the
closing film of the festival. The American feature film is the directorial
debut of Robert Kolodny - American director, writer, and cinematographer.
The
commendation observes that ‘it unravels the mythmaking and the fiction of
modern stardom through the biopic of a star athlete, meticulously conceived in
the cinema verite aesthetic.’
Catch
the Kannada film Kantara In the International competition section - if you haven’t watched it yet. Woman of is a Polish film about a trans woman.
In
the Indian Panorama, feature section Iratta is a Malayalam film about
the murder of a police officer.
In
Cinema of the World, teenager Jenny learns to face the future in Twenty20. From
the Czech Republic comes Endless Summer Syndrome about a husband being
involved with their adopted child.
Intergrade
is a curated section of experimental films that have dared to speak in
original, idiosyncratic voices to push the boundaries of what we call cinema. Omen,
in this genre, presents four characters accused of being witches, in
Africa.
In
the docu-montage section Vista Mare exposes the subterfuge involved in
creating ‘a holiday in the sun’ to amuse vacationers in Italy.
In
the restored classics section you would not want to miss Mrinal Sen’s inventive
Chorus (1974), or the Marathi film Shyamchi Aai released sixty
years ago.
Little
Singham and Bahubali friends, in the animation category, save Mirchi nagar from
Aparshatru.
In
the UNICEF@IFFI section watch the Iranian film Singo to find out whether
the girl manages to save the horseshoe crabs on the island.
As
the curtains come down on the 54th iffi here in Goa, the bonhomie
and warmth it exuded, leads us to ask - is it time for one world cinema?
Answering the question is none other than Hollywood’s living legend, Michael
Douglas, in conversation with Shailendra Singh.
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