MUMBAI: The 11th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) will be held from 29 October to 5 November.
Organised by Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), MFF, a Reliance Big Entertainment initiative, has the distinction of being the only international film festival in India to be organised by an independent body of practicing film professionals.
Says filmmaker Shyam Benegal, "All the sections of the festival carry some of the best films made the world over. Whether it‘s the thematic or the director‘s point of view that makes every film so distinctive, our audience will be able to see and experience it for themselves."
The festival is divided into five sections - international competition for the first feature films of directors, world cinema, Indian showcase, dimensions Mumbai and retrospectives.
Above The Cut, an out of competition section, will highlight those debut features which are extraordinary but could not be included in the competition section. Films to be screened in the section include Rwanda, The Day God Walked Away (France), She A Chinese (UK-France-Germany), Ajami (Germany-Israel), La Pivellina (Austria-Italy) and Should I really Do It? (Turkey).
Some of other Indian films to be screened at the festival include Bengali films like Buddhadeb Dasgupta‘s Janala and Rituparno Ghosh‘s Abohomaan along with Marathi films like Umesh Kulkarni‘s Vihir and Renuka Shahane‘s Rita and Madhupal‘s Malayalam film, The Crown.
