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Award winning Kashmiri film to open 20th Filmfest HamburgAward winning Kashmiri film to open 20th Filmfest Hamburg
The film “Valley of Saints” is the first feature-length film for Musa Sayeed whose parents fled from Kashmir and emigrated to the USA where the director was born.Years passed before Sayeed visited his parents’ country to be "overwhelmed" by the encounter.
Around 40,000 filmfans are expected this year at Filmfest Hamburg 2012 which will host over 140 international productions ranging from arthouse cinema to mainstream features, and debut films of young International and German filmmakers. The opening film, “Valley of Saints” is an Indo-American joint-production which was filmed in Kashmir in the Kashmiri language and has already won several international awards:To mention just two, it received the award for best film at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival where it was adjudged co-winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize.
The setting is Kashmir's idyllic Dal Lake where Gulzar (Gulzar Ahmed Bhat), a young boatman, lives in a leaking stilt house What are the choices for beleagured young people? Fast-paced living in a modern metropolis or an impoverished lifestyle in an endangered lakeside community? For, the Dal lake is threatened with a slow demise and if he stays, Gulzar could perhaps help to save it or conserve it. Debut film-maker Musa Syeed creates a multi-layered portrait of his conflicted ancestral homeland against a backdrop of environmental,cultural and political upheavals. “Valley of Saints” not only showcases a compellingly told love story helmed, written and edited by Musa Sayeed but also Yoni Brook's expansive camera work which allows moviegoers to immerse themselves in Kashmir.
The 20th Filmfest Hamburg will take place from September 27th to October 6th , 2012 at eight venues.Running parallel to the fest is the Michel Children and Youth Film Festival which celebrates its 10th anniversary.German audiences are familiar,perhaps even enamoured by Indian movies.As is well known, Bollywood badshah Shahrukh Khan has a considerable fan following. And then, there was the Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies which was partly shot in Hamburg's historic Atlantic Hotel where a German orchestra had premiered Tagore's Jana Gana Mana in the presence of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, Hamburg's then mayor and international diplomats. 18.08.2012 | Ronita Torcato's blog Cat. : Afzal Sofi Albert Wiederspiel Armed Attack Asia Atlantic Hotel Bachna Ae Bhat clan Delhi Director Entertainment Entertainment Europe Fatih Akin Germany Goldie Hawn Gulzar Ahmed Bhat Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg Art Museum Haseeno Human Interest Human Interest Jana Gana Mana Kashmir Kashmiri film awards Filmfestival Hamburg Los Angeles mayor Musa Sayeed Musa Syeed New York Nicholas Bruckman Olaf Scholz P. Sloan Feature Film Person Career Producer scientist Shahrukh Khan States of Germany Technology Technology the Art Cinema Award the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival the Michel Children and Youth Film Festival the SUNDANCE Film Festival Valley of Saints Warren Beatty
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