World Movie Festival held at Siri Fort

A two-day film carnival, World Movie Festival was held at Siri Fort from November 16 to 17. The festival was organised by Navrasa Duende, an arts and entertainment venture.

The line-up for the inaugural screening featured acclaimed classics of the World Cinema including

Apocalypse Now

directed by Francis Ford Coppola's,

Tokyo Story

directed by Yasujiro Ozu's, The Marriage of Maria Braun directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder's, Charulata directed by Satyajit Ray, The Passion of Joan of Arc directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, and

Pulp Fiction

directed by Quentin Tarantino.

The festival included a collection of movies that are considered to be milestones of World Cinema across six landmark movements and events: the golden age of silent films of the 1920s, the Poetic Realism of the ’30s, the Italian Neo-Realism as well as the

French New Wave

of the ’50s and the ’60s. The selection also featured revered contemporary classics as well as independent filmmaking achievements from India and Hollywood that embellish the cinematic landscape of the late twentieth and the twenty-first century.

“Through Navrasa Duende World Movie Festivals, we aim to reflect the evolution that cinematic art has witnessed in 100 years since 1920. As such, we have focused on narrative technique and craft, genres, technical innovation, historical, geopolitical, and social contents as well as context, among other things,” said Dinesh B. Singh – Festival Director. “We also considered factors such as a film’s popularity and timelessness quotient while making the selection. The objective is to initiate a larger Indian audience in World Cinema and introduce film aficionados to the immense value that lies beyond Hollywood and

Bollywood

.”