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10th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation
Films
held from 3rd to 9th February, 2010
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INTERNATIONAL
CATEGORY
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Award
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Title of the Film
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Entry No.
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Duration
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Country
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Director
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Producer
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Citation
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Best Documentary Film / Video (Upto 60 mins)
Golden Conch + Rs. 2,50,000/-
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GODDESSES
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104
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42 mins.
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INDIA
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LEENA
MANIMEKALAI
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C.JERROLD
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The young filmmaker, Leena Manimekalai, is faced with three old material goddesses
who for different reasons find themselves naturally emancipated from Tamil tradition
and orthodoxy. Leena creates for Goddesses a trusting filming arena that was never
manipulative so that the three women opened up and revealed their total strength
and power bordering on the archetype. They emerged free, master of the very tradition
that had earlier kept them shackled.
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Second Best Documentary Film / Video (Upto 60 mins.)
Silver Conch + Rs. 1,00,000/- To Be
Shared Between Two Directors ( i.e. Rs.50,000/- each + Silver Conch )
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ONE DAY IN
PEOPLE’S
POLAND
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129
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58 mins.
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POLAND
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MACIEJ .J.
DRYGAS
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MACIEJ .J.
DRYGAS
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September 27, 1962 was an ordinary day in
Poland
except for its reconstruction by Maciej J Drygas in the film One Day in People's
Poland
. The archival images and sounds retrieved
from several sources obviously do not synchronize to a singular reality. Without
an effort to force a historical realism upon the material, the director keeps the
two tracks independent, makes them move closer and further away from each other,
creates an extraordinary document that is startling in its revelation of the nature
of surveillance the state maintained in the sixties by keeping account of banal
and inconsequential details in the daily life of its suspect citizens. The enormous
task of editing the monumental archival material in the way it has been done is
most commendable.
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BEYOND THE WALL
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132
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20 mins.
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POLAND
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VITA
ZELAKEVICIUTE
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MACIEJ . J.
DRYGAS
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Beyond the Wall uses short and pure images that elude description, often cannot
be named. Through this poetic procedure the director directly enters into a hazy
(often out of focus) universe of Russian soldiers sent to prison hospital to serve
their sentence. The nondescript events such as the walks, the meals, the medicines,
the crowding of the cell generate an unforgettable poem of silence and depth in
confinement. Vita Zelakeviciute's narrative of broken spirits is a reflection on
cold and heartless systems mankind is able to set in place in governance of countries.
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Best Documentary Film / Video (Above 60 mins.)
Golden Conch + Rs. 2,50,000/-
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SALATA BALADI
(HOUSE SALAD)
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72
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103 mins.
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EGYPT
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NADIA KAMEL
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SHARRY LAPP, NADIA KAMEL,
ELDA
GUIDINETTI,
RICHARD COPANS
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Salate Baladi breaks down the classical cinema composition and makes a home movie
deeply insightful of history. It makes geographical borders between countries appear
unnatural, incapable of constricting families from their extensive affinities. The
metaphor is no longer the family tree rooted in local soil – it is closer to a multiplicity
in the manner the grass grows. Naida Kamel brings a new world family together.
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Second Best Documentary Film / Video (Above 60 mins.)
Silver Conch + Rs. 1,00,000/-
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VIEW FROM A
GRAIN OF SAND
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28
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82 mins.
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USA
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MEENA NANJI
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MEENA NANJI,
AMIE WILLIAMS
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Faced with an environment where women are oppressed to the extreme, Meena Nanji
was able to make her characters in View from a Grain of Sand feel safe for them
to re-evaluate their condition under the Taliban and post-Taliban periods in
Afghanistan
in front of the camera. Even as they put themselves to risk they are prepared to
boldly share their knowledge and experience with the filmmaker - we sensed, for
other women and children to understand and question.
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Best Fiction Film / Video (Upto 75 mins.)
Golden Conch + Rs. 2,50,000/-
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KRAMASHA
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207
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22 mins.
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INDIA
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AMIT DUTTA
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DIRECTOR, FILM & TELEVISION INSTITUTE OF
INDIA
, PUNE
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In the manner music keeps you quietly enthralled with a resonating sense of things
without a need to necessarily reduce the experience to a verbalization of meanings,
Kramasha offers a world of images and sounds that made us smell and touch the lush
of nature amid a mysterious index of hallucinations. Like a dream that we may fail
to understand but that reaches deep recesses of our unconscious and touches familiar
chords, Amit Dutta's Kramasha weaves a powerful narrative that blends legends, myths
and nostalgia into a film that allows us to recall our own early experiences.
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Second Best Fiction Film / Video (Upto 75 mins.)
Silver Conch + Rs. 1,00,000/- To Be Shared Between Two Director ( i.e. Rs.50,000/-
each + Silver Conch )
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UNDERTAKERS
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210
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9 mins.
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INDIA
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EMANNUEL
QUINDO PALO
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DIRECTOR, FILM & TELEVISION INSTITUTE OF
INDIA
, PUNE
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Emannuel Quindo Palo's Undertakers inverts certain empty conventions of acting to
distance the viewer from the narrative and create a moving account of a Catholic
coffin maker whose business is death but whose dead friends can claim free coffins.
The absurd idiom of the film draws a humane picture of the struggles of an ordinary
salesman who appears strangely caught between his survival and personal ethic.
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BARE HANDED
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131
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26 mins.
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BELGIUM
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THIERRY KNAUFF
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THIERRY KNAUFF
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Just the manner in which the dancer in Thierry Knauff's Bare Handed handles the
newspaper, handles the noise of the newspaper, strangely reveals the violence a
newspaper and therefore the world around us may carry. But it is the dancing woman
whom a verbal world threatens to contain.
In a series of deft choreographed movements and an equal graphic light the film
makes the dancer dance her way through memories and desires until after a complete
immersion in this world she loses herself in it.
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Best Animation Film / Video
Golden Conch + Rs. 2,50,000/-
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THE JURY DID NOT FIND A SUITABLE FILM IN THIS CATEGORY
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Second Best Animation Film / Video
Silver Conch + Rs. 1,00,000/-
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THE JURY DID NOT FIND A SUITABLE FILM IN THIS CATEGORY
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International Jury Award
Rs. 1,00,000/-
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FLOW : FOR LOVE
OF WATER
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62
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94 mins
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USA
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IRENA
SALINA
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STEVEN STARR
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The Jury decided to characterize the Award as a recognition of films that bring
unknown shocking revelations that threaten ecological and even existential balance
of the planet we inhabit. The depiction of a global crisis caused by privatization
of natural resource such as water in the film Flow: Love of Water attempts to educate
the audience of atrocities major corporations commit against individuals, families
and communities in the name of water and for the sake of plain old profit. The message
of the film is clear: make water free, clean and available to the citizens of the
world. The Jury commends the revealing research Irena Salina brought to bear on
the film and unlike our condition for awards at this edition of MIFF, the Jury exempts
this film from the obligation of discovering a parallel cinematic form to its content.
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Best First Film / Video of a Director - instituted by " Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari
" (A Govt. of Maharashtra Undertaking)
Trophy + Rs. 1,00,000/-
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INK (SIRA)
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25
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28 mins.
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INDIA
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BHARANI
TANIKELLA
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SREENIVAS TANIKELLA
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Through surreal imagery, Bharani Thanikela, Ink, is able to employ a violent visual
idiom for existential struggle of the poet, for the fight the poet wages against
violence of terrorism. His wife deeply
worried about their lives, takes on the mantle of fight against terrorism after
the poet's death. Film full of resilience.
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International Critics Award
Certificate of Merit
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SALATA BALADI
(HOUSE SALAD)
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72
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103 mins.
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EGYPT
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NADIA KAMEL
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SHARRY LAPP, NADIA KAMEL,
ELDA
GUIDINETTI,
RICHARD COPANS
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Best Film / Video of the Festival Award (for Producer only)
Rs. 1,00,000/-
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KRAMASHA
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207
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22 mins.
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INDIA
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DIRECTOR, FILM & TELEVISION INSTITUTE OF
INDIA
, PUNE
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In the manner music keeps you quietly enthralled with a resonating sense of things
without a need to necessarily reduce the experience to a verbalization of meanings,
Kramasha offers a world of images and sounds that made us smell and touch the lush
of nature amid a mysterious index of hallucinations. Like a dream that we may fail
to understand but that reaches deep recesses of our unconscious and touches familiar
chords, Amit Dutta's Kramasha weaves a powerful narrative that blends legends, myths
and nostalgia into a film that allows us to recall our own early experiences.
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