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2nd INDIA INTERNATIONAL WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL

NEW DELHI, 11th TO 18 DEC. 2006

Venue: SIRI FORT AUDITORIUM 1, 2, 3, 4/BANGA SANSKRITI MANCH (GOLE MARKET)
No. of Films : 130
Participating country : 30

Competition : World Cinema (feature), Participating Countries: France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Russia, India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Mexico, Cuba, Romania, Belgium, Switzerland, Israel, Luxemburg etc.

Competition : Documentary & Short films all over the world.

Cinema of the World : non competitive

International Focus : ISRAEL

Indian Panorama : a showcase of films by Women Directors in India

Retrospective : CAROLINE LINK (German woman Director, Oscar nominated film (NOWHERE IN AFRICA)

Tribute : ARUNDHUTI DEVI & MANJU DEY

Special Retrospective: APARNA SEN

Film Institute Focus : Polish Film Institute, Berlin Film Institute, Mexican Film Institute, Jerusalem Film Institute, Satyajit Ray Film Institute, Andrezje Wazda Film Institute, British Film Institute,

Joint Hand : India & Aboard 5 films (Teen Yaari Katha by Sudeshna Ray & Abhijit Guha, Nital By Sumitra Bhave & Sunil Sukthankar, Ontarjatra (Homeland) by Tareqe Masud & Cathrine Masud, Ciel Blue Ciel Noir by Sabrina Farji & Noela Paul, The Cherry on Top by Ayesha Shood & Nitya Mehra )

Women Directors’ Film Market : Film related Production house stall.

Opening Film : ONE NIGHT by NIKI KARIMI (Iran)

This year two films from Pakistan : MITTHI BHOR CHAWL & SOCIETY GIRL, one film from Lebanon : DUNIA BY JOCELNYNE SAAB, one film from Tunisia FLOWER OF FORGETFULNESS.

Speaker : INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS : Bhawana Somaaya, Editor, Screen Magazine, Mumbai. Mohamed Nikibin, Film Critic from Iran. Cassandra Java, Producer & Director, Los Angeles, Rupak Saha, Editor, Anandlok Magazine, Kolkata, Pallav Bhatacharya, Dy. Editor, Press Trust of India, Shatabdi Roy, actress, Kolkata, Antara Dev Sen, Editor, Little Magazine, Delhi ( daughter of nobel laureate Economist Mr Amarta Sen), Joan Nowicki, Actor from Poland.

PANEL DISCUSSION speakers : Speakers List : Helen Dobrensky, Editor, DIGITFILMS.COM
Tammy Ben Haim, Head, Scientific & Cultural Affairs, Embasy of Israel, India.

Jury Board (feature) : Ms Malti Sahai ( Chairperson) India, Former Festival Director, International Film Festival of India, Ms Katalin Vajda from Hungary, Festival Manager, Budapest Film Fsetival, Mr Khalid Mohamed, Editor, Filmfair Magazine, Mr Nabyendu Chatterjee & Mr Hasan Imam from Bangladesh.

Jury Board (non- feature) : Ms Mita Basisth (Mumbai), Mr Daud Haider (Germany), Ms Shejo Singh (Delhi)

Guest Participation : Hollywood, Bollywood stars & Europe

Inaguration : Hon’ble Chief Minister, Delhi,Hon’ble Minister of I&B,Hungarian Leading women film director MARTA MESZAROS. After Japan & South Korea we’re the pioneer in India in association with Ministry of I & B & Govt. of Delhi

Cinema of the World (competition, feature): only one Entry from India : SRINGARAM by Sharada Ramanathan.

INDIAN PANORAMA : SRINGARAM by Sharada Ramanathan

SHABD by Leena Bajaj

AVINETRI by Shatabdi Roy

DWITIYA PAKSHA by Anyanya Chatterjee

SANCHARAM by Lygia Pulapally

ADAJYA by Santana Bardolui

JANMADINAM by Prema Karanth

For MALE VOICE : YATRA by Goutam Ghose

KAALPURUSH by Buddhadev Dasgupta

SANSHAY by Saibal Mitra

NAI NEERALU by Girish Kasaravalli

AGNISAKSHI by Shyamaprasad Rajagopal

Organized by Kolkata Film & Media Studies

IIWFF ( Regd office)55B, Mirza Ghalib Street, Saberwal House, Gr. Floor, Calcutta – 7000016

Ph: 98113 74518 ( Delhi), 92315 48040, 98301 97447, 2227 1144, 22271288, 6535 7166

Email: iiwff05@yahoo.com/iiwff_06@yahoo.co.in/shyamalideb@yahoo.co.in(Festival Director)

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Contact the festival

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 10/29/2006 - 23:59.

Dear K.S.Sivakumaran,

You can email the event direct at the following emails to ask :

iiwff05@yahoo.com

iiwff_06@yahoo.co.in/shyamalideb@yahoo.co.in

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Sri Lankan delegate to the festival

Submitted by K.S.Sivakumaran (not verified) on Fri, 10/27/2006 - 17:29.

I wish to attend your festival.I am a literary & film critic in Colombo. My columns appear in The Island, Sunday Standard and Business Standard newsppaers published in Colombo.

Would I be invited to the festival with hospitality,please.
Kindly respond now for me to make the travel arrangements.

Ms Malti Saha would vouch for my credentials.

Thanks

Sicerely

K.S.Sivakumaran

21 Murugan Place
Off Havelock Road
Colombo 06
Sri Lanka

Telephone 011 94 1 2587617

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