Waheeda Rehman inaugurates 40th international film festNovember 23rd, 2009 PANAJI - Legendary actress Waheeda Rehman inaugurated the 40th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) here Monday by lighting the lamp at a glittering function here. The actress, who in the past captivated audiences with her spellbinding performances in movies like "Pyaasa", "Kagaz ke Phool" and in more recent times "Rang de Basanti" and "Delhi 6", wished the newest edition of IFFI well.
Capital to host first Pravasi film festNovember 23rd, 2009 more images
more imagesNEW DELHI - The capital is set to host Pravasi Film Festival 2010 Jan 3-6 next year. Films made by Indians living abroad or made outside the country will be showcased at the fest in its first edition.
Chinese film 'Wheat' to open Goa IFFINovember 21st, 2009 PANAJI - The 40th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will be inaugurated by veteran actress Waheeda Rehman at a glittering ceremony here Monday. Chinese film "Wheat" directed by He Peng will be the opening film of the 11-day festival which will screen nearly 300 films from Nov 23 to Dec 3.
11th Osian film fest to put spotlight on IndiaOctober 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The 11th annual Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, starting here Oct 24, will focus on Indian films and filmmakers for the first time since its inception a decade ago. "Osians-Cinefans young friends Vishal Bhardwaj, Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee along with their wonderful star actors and technicians will directly present in NewStream (Cinema Section) the emerging new face of Indian cinema through their films that have won both critical and popular acclaim, Mani Kaul, director general of the film fest, said in a statement released here Tuesday.
Big Pictures heads to Pusan, London fest with four filmsOctober 6th, 2009 MUMBAI - Four movies produced by Big Pictures - "Well Done Abba", "Abohamaan", "Kutty Srank" and Janala - will be screened at the upcoming 14th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) and 53rd London Film Festival. While "Kutty Srank" and "Abohamaan" will be screened in A Window on Asian Cinema section at Pusan film fest in Korea starting Oct 8, while "Well Done Abba" and Janala will be screened in the World Cinema Category of the London fest, beginning on Oct 14 respectively.
Taiwan's National Palace Museum to open first-ever joint exhibition with ChinaOctober 2nd, 2009 Taiwan museum to open joint exhibition with ChinaTAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's National Palace Museum said Friday it will open its first-ever joint exhibition with China next week, 60 years after they split amid civil war. The exhibition reunites treasures from China with those that Beijing has long said were stolen when they were taken to Taiwan.
China shows strength, vitality as republic turns 60October 1st, 2009 BEIJING - China staged a grand celebration in Tiananmen Square at the heart of Beijing Thursday, showcasing the strength and vitality of Chinese-style socialism over the past 60 years, a report said. President Hu Jintao and other leaders viewed the two-hour pageant involving about 200,000 servicemen and women and civilians, from atop the square, where Mao Zedong first president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) proclaimed the country's birth in 1949.
Taiwan says it will bar visit by Uighur activist to avoid harming ties with ChinaSeptember 25th, 2009 Taiwan to bar visit by Uighur activistTAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's interior minister said Friday the island will bar a visit by Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, whom Beijing has accused of inciting ethnic violence in China's far west. The decision was made "in consideration of our national interests," Chiang Yi-hua said.
Yash Chopra to be honoured at international film festSeptember 5th, 2009 LONDON - Veteran Bollywood director Yash Chopra has been named the Asian filmmaker of the year by organisers of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) to be held in South Korea next month. Chopra's popular films, including Lamhe, Dhoom 2, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and New York, will be showcased in a retrospective section at the fest, said a press release from Yash Raj Films.
Indian films galore at Toronto fest, NFDC film to participateSeptember 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Joining the league of commercial Hindi films like Road Movie, Delhi-6, "What's Your Raashee?" and "Dil Bole Hadippa" being screened at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the latest one to gain entry at the fest is NFDC's Konkani film The Man Beyond The Bridge. Directed by National Award-winning Laxmikant Shetgaonkar, the Konkani feature film will be screened under the Discovery Section of the fest and will have a total of five screenings during the gala.
'Chinese hack into Australian film festival website'July 26th, 2009 LONDON - The website of Australia's biggest film festival was hacked into after a Chinese diplomat called to complain about the screening of a film about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, the BBC reported Sunday. Melbourne International Film Festival head Richard Moore told BBC radio that the website was hacked into just after a Chinese consular official called to demand the withdrawal of a documentary film about Kadeer, who belongs to the predominantly-Muslim Uighur minority.
Chinese film producers face financial woesJuly 18th, 2009 BEIJING - Chinese film producers are struggling to make ends meet even though the country's movie industry earns good profits, say officials. Hollywood blockbuster Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen collected 400 million yuan ($58.4 million) in China after the movie was released worldwide June 24, breaking the record set by Titanic ten years ago in the country.
Gay themes no longer in Bollywood closetJune 14th, 2009 MACAU - Gay themes in Bollywood are well out of the closet, if the many comic acts and sexual innuendos at the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) here Saturday night were anything to go by. With a number of quips about gay relationships by hosts Boman Irani and Ritesh Deshmukh the order of the day, Abhishek Bachchan topped it off with his remarks as he won the Best Comic Role award for the film "Dostana" about him and John Abraham pretending to be a gay couple to secure accommodation from Priyanka Chopra's character in the film.
Osian film fest shifted to OctoberJune 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The annual Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema has been re-scheduled from July to October from this year onwards. The film fest used to be held during July at the Siri Fort Complex in the capital since its inception a decade ago but from now it will be held in October.
Taiwan art collection reflects tumultuous history, better relations with ChinaMay 9th, 2009 Taiwan art collection evokes tumultuous historyTAIPEI, Taiwan — Sixty years later Zhuang Ling remembers it all — the rain pelting down onto the roiling sea, his mother retching from seasickness and, of course, the cargo of priceless art works the freighter Chung Ting was carrying from China to the Taiwanese city of Keelung. It was toward the end of the Chinese civil war, and Zhuang's father had been ordered by the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek to help shepherd the cream of the country's thousand-year-old imperial art collection from the Yangtze River port of Nanjing, ahead of the communist takeover of the mainland.
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