4th Asian Film Festival
20-27th October, 2005

Registration of delegates is already on. There will be three venues this time. Chavan Centre, Inox, and Plaza. Inox will mostly show DVDs. Registration is happening at Chavan Centre and Plaza. Though there is no delegates' fees, they will have to pay a measly Rs. 200 for the festival catalogue.

The opening film

Turtles Can Fly
by Baham Ghobadi of Iran.

The closing film

Hasina
by Girish Kasarvalli

In all 61 feature and 14 short films will be shown. This number can go up. The short films are all diploma films made by various film school students of Asia. There will be a competition among them and the best short will be given a cash prize of Rs. 1 Lakh and the ubiquitous trophy.

Adoor Goapalkrishnan will be felicitated and will be given the Asian Film Culture Award. Amol Palekar and Madhur Bhandarkar will be felicitated too.

The Highlights

The highlight of the festival will be the film made by the women filmmakers of Iran, Mongolian films. A retrospective of Tapan Sinha films, based on Tagore stories, is also part of the festival programme. They include films like Kshudhit Pashan, Kabuliwala, and Atithi.
 

The Organizers

The festival is organized by the Asian Film Foundation along with Parbhat Chitra Mandal, NFDC, Y.B.Chavan Pratisthan, Plaza Theatre, and supported by the Govt. of Maharashtra in association with the Express Group of Newspapers. Indian Airlines, Grand Hotel, Bright Advertising Agency, and Inox are also backing the festival financially or otherwise.

Surprisingly, P.L.Deshpande Academy is not one of the venues of the festival. Only the opening ceremony will be held there. Why? What are they going to do with three state of the art screens there if not use them for such festivals?

Khullamkhulla wishes all the success to the festival.

For further detail visit the AFF home page on the net. Here is the link:-

AFF MUMBAI HOME PAGE