FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ELEVEN YEARS, INDIAS WILL BE IN THE SPOTLIGHT AT THE FESTIVAL.
With Osian’s entering the world of learning and education
with OLE, the programming lineup of the Festival has altered
profoundly providing a radical platform for OLE. The role
of learning and education will henceforth be taken up in an
explicit manner. The NewStream Cinema Section, takes this
concept further and will showcase and explore exhaustively
films that have dared to redefine mainstream cinema. Film
makers from India and those associated with the films will
interact with the audiences via Q&A sessions, lectures, panel
discussions and seminars to ensure connectedness and a
deeper understanding of each film screened. The approach
will be intensive and an in depth analysis and scrutiny of the
selected films will take place. |
Festival Announces
MANI KAUL
as Director General "Osian’s-Cinefan’s" young friends Vishal
Bhardwaj, Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar,
Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee
will along with their wonderful star
actors and technicians arrive at Siri Fort
during our festival and directly present
in NewStream the emerging new face
of Indian cinema through their films
that have won both critical & popular
acclaim.
The festival is equally ready with a list
of breathtaking experimental films
for InCompetition as also a range of
world cinema that is set to engage the
audience in cross cultural encounters
in the InDialogue section. InDialogue is not just about screening of films, it is about creating intellectual events such
as in-depth lectures, panel discussions,
Q & A and seminars around films and filmmakers.
Thus, Osian’s-Cinefan Film Festival
will this year realize its true objective
of integrating and disseminating
art knowledge by merging with
Osian’s radically original educational
initiative called "Osian’s Learning Experience (OLE).” |
In an incredibly a typical approach, the festival
curators this year did not embrace a theme
beforehand. Instead, brilliant films were first
selected, analyzed and then woven into a
narrative - a radical change from the way films
are selected at most film festivals. Director –
General, Mani Kaul is at the helm of Osian’s
Cinefan, supported ably by the Festival
Director of the Festival, Indu Shrikent.
Hundreds of students
from various private &
government schools
and colleges visit
the festival each year
bearing testimony to
the role it plays in
taking forth the cause of
learning & education
| In anot her first , the Auction coinciding with the
festival this year wil bring to the collector, a
striking range of Indian and Asian Antiquities. |
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