NEW DELHI: About 100 feature and short films from across 25 countries including India will be screened in the 11th Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema. The festival will be held in Delhi from 24 to 30 October.
As in previous years, the festival is being organised by Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art in association with the government of the NCT of Delhi.
The opening film of the festival will be a France-Romanian co-production, Hooked, directed by Adrian Sitaru.
For the first time, India will be in the spotlight at the festival. Said Osian‘s chairman Neville Tuli, "With Osian’s entering the world of learning and education with Osian’s Learning Experience (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."
Tuli denied that the festival had been scaled down but said priorities had been re-defined.
The NewStream Cinema section with six prominent Hindi films takes this concept further and will showcase and explore exhaustively films that have dared to redefine mainstream cinema.
These films are Amir, Dev D, Kaminey, Love Aaj Kal, Luck by Chance and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!.
In a new initiative, there is the InDialogue section of 34 films from 28 countries that show a dialogue of sensibilities amongst the makers of a certain kind of cinema dedicated to the subtlest and most intelligent employment of the possibilities of the cinematic, all over the world.
The Indian features in the InCompetition section are 033, Khargosh and Man’s Woman and other stories.
