A cine fan’s pot of gold!

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Riding high on the Osian’s waves…

There are film festivals and there are film festivals… and then there are film festivals like the Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema! A breath of fresh air, an oasis in the desert of mediocre films; the festival has been bestowed with plenty of eulogies… and the fact remains that Osian’s deserves each one of them. Conceived in 1999 as ‘Cinefan’ by Cinemaya, a quarterly magazine on Asian cinema, it showcased 27 films and was presented by the Network for the Production of Asian Cinema (NETPAC). Five years later, Cinefan and Cinemaya were acquired by Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art and through the years, the festival has attained international acclaim and respect among the film fraternity. Says director Rajat Kapoor, whose fi lm Mithya was screened at the festival, “Osian’s is the best film festival in the country, considering the focus they have on Asian cinema. One usually sees festivals screening whatever comes their way but Osian’s has a definite focus, which reflects in the kind of work they screen.”

This year the festival’s (held between July 20 – 29) tagline read ‘Re-creating Cinematic Culture’ and it included a tribute to Kenji Mizoguchi and a focus on Japan, and struggle for freedom in Asia and the Arab world – thus commemorating 150th year of India’s First War of Independence too. For those looking for a meeting point of the merit conscious experimentalists and lovers of world cinema, Osian’s was the place to be!
Edit bureau: Pooja Priyadarshini with inputs from Neha Sarin

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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