After a three-year hiatus, the Jio MAMI Mumbai Movie Competition is returning with a bigger lineup and an expanded give attention to South Asian cinema.
The pageant will characteristic 250 movies together with 40 world premieres, 45 Asia premieres and 70 South Asia Premieres. The opening and shutting movies haven’t been finalized but.
The pageant’s new imaginative and prescient is to develop into a hub for South Asian and South Asian diaspora cinema and expertise and, in line with this, the primary competitors is for 14 movies from the area. These embrace the world premieres of Leesa Gazi’s “A Home Named Shahana” (Bangladesh-U.Okay.), Dibakar Das Roy’s “Dilli Darkish” (India), Sumanth Bhat’s “Mithya” (India) and Fazil Razak’s “The Sentence” (India). The brand new focus can even embrace 46 non-competition movies from South Asia.
The Icons South Asia strand options Anand Patwardhan’s Toronto title “The World is Household”; “Indi(r)a’s Emergency” by Vikramaditya Motwane; and Busan titles – “Paradise” by Prasanna Vithanage and “One thing Like an Autobiography” by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. The Indian gala premiere strand contains Anurag Kashyap’s Cannes title “Kennedy”; Devashish Makhija’s Rotterdam movie “Joram”; and Wendy Bednarz’s Toronto choice “Yellow Bus.”
Competition inventive director Deepti DCunha mentioned: “We’re very proud that we have now managed to attain such a various curation in our South Asia part inside the first yr of us increasing our imaginative and prescient to be a pageant that’s centered on constructing an ecosystem for brand spanking new cinematic voices from South Asia and the South Asian diaspora.”
Competition director Anupama Chopra added: “We hope to emerge as a melting pot of expertise from the world over whereas spotlighting and creating extra alternatives for South Asian movies and filmmakers.”
The world cinema part options 99 titles from over 35 nations together with Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall” by Justine Triet, Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” Madeleine Gavin’s Sundance winner “Past Utopia,” “The Daughters of Fireplace” by Pedro Costa, Kore-eda Hirokazu’s “Monster,” “In Our Day” by Hong Sang-soo, “Unusual Approach of Life” by Pedro Almodóvar, “The Outdated Oak” by Ken Loach, “Fallen Leaves” by Aki Kaurismäki and “La Chimera” by Alice Rohrwacher.
Head of worldwide programming Anu Rangachar mentioned: “These titles have the innate potential to solely get greater with time. Our curation additionally has some hidden gems that one wouldn’t be capable of in any other case watch in India, because the chance of them independently releasing right here is pretty low.”
Competition co-director Maitreyee Dasgupta added: “Via the assorted applications and competitions, the pageant strives to be a vacation spot the place filmmakers and audiences really feel empowered, heard, and expertise the enjoyment of cinema, it’s impression and new concepts.”
SOUTH ASIA COMPETITION
“Towards the Tide” by Sarvnik KaurLanguage(s): Marathi, Hindi, Koli | India, France | South Asia Premiere
“Agra” by Kanu BehlHindi | India, France | South Asia Premiere
“Bahadur – The Courageous” by Diwa ShahHindi, Nepali | India | Asia Premiere
“Barir Naam Shahana” (“A Home Named Shahana”) by Leesa GaziBengali | Bangladesh, U.Okay. | World Premiere
“Dilli Darkish” by Dibakar Das RoyBengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Pidgin English, Yoruba | India | World Premiere
“Guras” by Saurav RaiNepali | India | South Asia Premiere
“Kayo Kayo Color?” (“Which Color?”) by Shahrukhkhan ChavadaGujarati, Hindi | India | Asia Premiere
“Mithya” by Sumanth BhatKannada, Marathi| India | World Premiere
“Rimdogittanga” (“Rapture”) by Dominic SangmaGaro | India, China, Netherlands, Qatar, Switzerland | South Asia Premiere
“Shivamma” by Jaishankar AryarKannada | India | South Asia Premiere
“Sthal” (“A Match”) by Jayant SomalkarMarathi | India | Asia Premiere
“Thadavu” (“The Sentence”) by Fazil RazakMalayalam | India | World Premiere
“The Monk and the Gun” by Pawo Choyning DorjiDzongkha, English | Bhutan, France, USA, Taiwan | India Premiere
“The Pink Suitcase” by Fidel DevkotaNepali | Nepal, Sri Lanka | Asia Premiere
FOCUS SOUTH ASIA – Non-Competitors
Options“Aattam” (“The Play”) by Anand EkarshiMalayalam | India | Asia Premiere
“Aiz Maka Falea Tuka” (“At present Me, Tomorrow You”) by Sreejith KarnaverKonkani | India | World Premiere
“All India Rank” by Varun GroverHindi | India | Asia Premiere
“Bailadila” by Shailendra SahuHindi | India | World Premiere
“Be Kucheye Khoshbakht” (“And, Towards Completely happy Alleys”) by Sreemoyee SinghEnglish, Farsi | India | South Asia Premiere
“Earlier than Spring” by Shrutismriti ChangkakotiAssamese | India | World Premiere
“Chingari” (“The Spark”) by Rajesh S. JalaHindi | India | South Asia Premiere
“Daayam” (“Inheritance”) by Prasanth VijayMalayalam | India | World Premiere
“Pricey Latika” by Kanchan PantHindi, Kumaoni | India | World Premiere
“Follower” by Harshad NalawadeHindi, Kannada, Marathi | India | Asia Premiere
“Ghaath” (“Ambush”) by Chhatrapal NinaweMarathi | India | Asia Premiere
“Naangal” (“This Is Us”) by Avinash PrakashTamil | India | World Premiere
“Whereas We Watched” by Vinay ShuklaEnglish, Hindi| India, U.Okay. | Asia Premiere
“Pushtaini” (“Ancestral”) by Vinod RawatEnglish, Hindi, Kumaoni | India | Asia Premiere
“Riders on the Storm” by Jason Motlagh, Mark OltmannsFarsi, Pashto | Austria | Asia Premiere
“Sahela” (“Companion”) by Raghuvir JoshiEnglish, Hindi | Australia | Asia Premiere
“Shwe Pyi Taw Hmyaw Taing Approach” (“Golden Land Fantasy”) by AnattaBurmese | Myanmar | World Premiere
“Stolen” by Karan TejpalEnglish, Hindi, Marwari, Santhali | India | Asia Premiere
“Sultana’s Dream” by Isabel HergueraBasque, Bengali, Hindi, English, Spanish | India, Germany, Spain | South Asia Premiere
“The Scavenger of Desires” by Suman GhoshHindi | India | South Asia Premiere
“Was Von Der Liebe Bleibt” (“Between Us”) by Kanwal SethiGerman | Germany | Asia Premiere
“Zende” by Akshay ShahEnglish, Hindi, Marathi | India | World Premiere
Shorts“Aakhiri Tukda” (“The Final Fragment”) by Anant Jain, Pranjal AcharyaHindi | India | World Premiere
“Battisi” (“Dentures”) by Siddharth Potade, Nikhil LamaHindi | India | Asia Premiere
“Chaar Chappalein” (“4 Slippers”) by Anurag KashyapHindi | India | Asia Premiere
“Chiso Ghar” (“A Bleak Dwelling”) by Bidushi GiriNepali | Nepal | World Premiere
“D-Grade Se A-Grade Tak” (“The Blessed and The Damned”) by Aniket KumarHindi, Magahi | India | World Premiere
“Farther than Distance” by Taruna KhatriEnglish, Hindi | India | World Premiere
“Flowering Man” by Soumyajit Ghosh DastidarHindi | India| World Premiere
“Foreigners Solely” by Nuhash HumayunBengali, English | Bangladesh, U.S. | South Asia Premiere
“Goodbye, Good day” by Omkar PhatakEnglish | India| Asia Premiere
“Helena” by Ayarush PaudelEnglish, Hindi, Nepali | Nepal, UAE | World Premiere
“Kamathipura” by Aayushman PandeyHindi | India| Asia Premiere
“Mai” by Milind DhaimadeEnglish, Hindi, Marathi | India| World Premiere
“Melody Day” by Shailesh SinghPolish | Poland | World Premiere
“Nazar” (“The Gaze”) by Sean Sankalp RajuHindi | India, U.S. | Asia Premiere
“Nehemich” by Yudhajit BasuMarathi | India | Asia Premiere
“Pha-Yar-Sin” (“The Altar”) by Moe Myat Could ZarchiBurmese | Myanmar | South Asia Premiere
“See-Zar Tain” (“Night Clouds”) by Aung PhyoeBurmese | Myanmar, Czech Republic, France | South Asia Premiere
“Sluggish Shift” by Shambhavi KaulNo dialogues | India, U.S.| Asia Premiere
“The Flamingos And Different Migratory Birds Tour” by Pranjal DuaEnglish, Hindi, Marathi | India | World Premiere
“Thirty” by Ei Mon KyawBurmese | Myanmar | World Premiere
“Ullarivu” (“The Awakening”) by Sumi MathaiMalayalam | India | World Premiere
“White Ant” by Shalini AdnaniEnglish, Hindi | India, UK | South Asia Premiere
“Windhorse” by Sunil GurungEnglish, Nepali | Nepal, USA | World Premiere
“XO” by Samrat DasGuptaBengali, English, Hindi | India | South Asia Premiere
ICONS: SOUTH ASIA
“Animating the Archive” – quick movies by Amit Dutta
“Gau Ayeko Bato” (“A Street to a Village”) by Nabin SubbaNepali | Nepal | South Asia Premiere
“Indi(r)a’s Emergency” by Vikramaditya MotwaneEnglish, Hindi | India | World Premiere
“PaathKatha” (“The Golden Thread”) by Nishtha JainBengali, Hindi | India, Netherlands, Norway, U.Okay. | South Asia Premiere
“Paradise” by Prasanna VithanageEnglish, Hindi, Malayalam, Sinhala, Tamil | Sri Lanka, India | South Asia Premiere
“One thing Like an Autobiography” by Mostofa Sarwar FarookiBengali | Bangladesh, Germany, India | South Asia Premiere
“Trolley Occasions” by Gurvinder SinghPunjabi | India | World Premiere
“Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” (“The World is Household”) by Anand PatwardhanEnglish, Hindi, Marathi | India | Asia Premiere
GALA PREMIERES“Berlin” by Atul SabharwalEnglish, Hindi | India | Asia Premiere
“Everyone Loves Sohrab Handa” by Rajat KapoorHindi | India | World Premiere
“Joram’ by Devashish MakhijaHindi | India | South Asia Premiere
“Kennedy” by Anurag KashyapHindi | India | South Asia Premiere
“Sharmajee Ki Beti” by Tahira Kashyap KhurranaHindi | India | World Premiere
“Yellow Bus” by Wendy BednarzArabic, English, Hindi, Tagalog, Urdu | India, Jordan, UAE, USA | Asia Premiere
