The race for Golden Crown is on

With just 2 days to go for the closing ceremony, the race for Golden Crown Pheasant is on.  The sixth day of the festival treated delegates with visual extravaganzas in World Cinema category.   Calton Towers by Salil Lal Ahamed, Gour Hari Dastaan – The Freesom File by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, Red Amnesia by Xiaoshuai Wang, Labour of Love by Adithya Vikram Sengupta, The Confrontation by Miklos Jancso, The Great Passage by Yuya Ishii, Winter Sleep by Nuri Blge Ceylan, A Fair Ground Attraction by Mehmet Eryilmaz and Cirais Columbia by Danis Tanovic hit the screens today. 

10 films were screened under the International competition section, most of which will have its final screening tomorrow.  Buster Keaton’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Miklos Jancso’s The Confrontation were screened under the Retrospective Section.

 Tala Hadid, director of The Narrow Frame of Midnight, Narges Abyar, director of Track 143 and Shrihari Sathe, director of Thousand Rupee Note attended the first session of the press conference. The second session was attended by Malayalam directors T K Santhosh (The Enlightened) and N K Muhammad Koya, (Alif).  

Narges Abyar (Director of Track 143), T K Santhosh (Director of The Enlightened), Srihari Sathe (Director of Thousand Rupee Note), Adityavikram Sengupta (Director of Labour of Love), N K Muhammed Koya (Director of Alif), Tala Hadid (Director of The Narrow Frame of Midnight), Ananth Narayan Mahadevan  (Director and Screenwriter of Gour Hari Dastaan – The Freedom File), C P Surendran (Screenwriter  of Gour Hari Dastaan – The Freedom File), Shekar Sathe (Producer of Thousand Rupee Note) attended the conversation session of Meet the Director. They interacted with the audience by sharing their experiences in film making.

In Conversation was another relevant session conducted today. In this session renowned Turkish film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan spoke with Gonul Donmez-colin. She said that “Film is a letter sent out to the spectator. It is just like putting a pot in the sea. We don’t know where it goes”. She also replied to the queries of the audience.

The panel discussion on Intellectual Property rights and Indian Cinema Praxis was enlightened by the presence of Anjum Rmabali (Screenwriter), Mariam Joseph (Executive Producer), Ajith Kumar (Director & editor), Ramachandra Babu (Cinematographer), Arathi Ashok (Ast. Prof Cochi National School of Legal studies), Vinay Shetty (Legal Expert) and Leenus (Director).