Spanish film 'Blancanieves' to close Mumbai Film Festival

Blancanieves, a 2012 black-and-white silent film, which is Spain's official entry to the Oscars next year, will be the closing film at the 14th Mumbai Film Festival.
Directed by Spanish auteur Pablo Berger, the film premiered at the Toronto festival and won the Special Jury Prize and an ex-aequo Best Actress Silver Shell Award for Macarena Garcia at the 2012 San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Mumbai Film Festival, presented by Reliance Entertainment and organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image, is the third only film festival where the film is set to be showcased.
The film inspires a strong sense of cinematic nostalgia and has been rumored to be a tribute to 1920's European silent films, liberally mixing humor and melodrama.
Carmen (Macarena Garcia) is a beautiful young woman with a childhood tormented by her terrible stepmother, Encarna (Maribel Verdu).
Running from her past, Carmen, will undertake an exciting journey accompanied by her new friends: a troupe of dwarves Toreros. An original vision of a classic tale, it is set in the south of Spain in the 20's, full of adventure, excitement and humor. With a surprise ending, in 'Blancanieves' reveals that life is not like in the stories.
The festival, which runs from October 18 to 25, will feature a lineup of over 230 movies with special event segments dedicated to French, Italian, Afghan and Indian cinema as well as silent films.
Some of the celebrated titles that are part of the festival line-up include Love (Amour), a French film written and directed by legendary filmmaker Michael Haneke, Rust and Bone, a French-Belgian film based on a short story collection of the same name written by Craig Davidson.
Robert Pattinson starrer Cosmopolis, Beyond The Hills, On the Road, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love, Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's The Gardener are also part of the festival.