International short film fest from tomorrow

PTI / May 30, 2002, 21:09 IST

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KOLKATA: From the shortest three-minute capsule to an over two-hour celluloid tale, 41 documentaries from seven countries of the world would be screened at the International Short Film festival beginning here on Friday.

International short film fest from tomorrow

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">KOLKATA: From the shortest three-minute capsule to an over two-hour celluloid tale, 41 documentaries from seven countries of the world would be screened at the International Short Film festival beginning here on Friday. To be inaugurated with the acclaimed 138-minute African entry The Truth Commission directed by Andre Van In, the festival would have a separate section featuring works of legendary film makers like Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, Chief producer of films division and Managing Director of NFDC Dipankar Mukherjee said at a press meet here today. The five-day festival, being organised by the Films Division, would feature award winning entries from Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, France, UK, USA, Australia and India, he said. The shortest film Mobile by Joshy Joseph would be an attempt to look at social mobility through spatial mobility while portraying a collage on Kolkata. The festival, to be inaugurated by eminent film maker Mrinal Sen, would have award winning entries in Kabir Khan''s Mechanics of Change, Yashna Maya Padamsee''s American entry Pum Pum, Dutch Tommie by Tise Van Huisstede and My Friend Su by Neeraj Bhasin. Other acclaimed entries would be the Tamil film Aayeeshaa by V Shiva Kumar, Belgian The Chinese Dog by Lut Vandekeybus, Spanish Images of Dictatorship by Patricio Henriquez, Amar Kanwar''s The Many Faces of Madness and Kabir Khan''s Two Assasinations and an Accident.</div> </div>

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