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Osian's -Cine Fan Festival of Asian and Arab cinema

KAVITA CHARANJI, New Delhi
Cine buffs turned out in full strength at the recently concluded Osian-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab cinema in New Delhi. The largest festival of its kind in the world, viewers got to catch up with over 200 feature and short fiction films from around 40 countries.
Among the widely seen films were Tokyo Sonata (directed by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Lemon Tree (directed by Israeli director Eran Riklis), Brick Lane (Sarah Gavron, UK) , Taxi Driver (Paul Schrader, USA), The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, USA), and Flight of Red Balloons ( Hou Hsiao-hsien from France),
Some award winning names emerged, such as Tokyo Sonata which won the Best Film category in the Asian Arab Competition, while the First Features Award for Best film went to Confessional (Philippines).
Meanwhile, several films won accolades in the Indian competition. There was Gulabi Talkies as the Best Film (directed by Girish Kasaravalli), Best Director Remo (for A Story of Red Hills), Rajat Kapoor as Best Actor in The Prisoner along with Govind Namdco (Kahootar) and the talented Umashrce who bagged the Best Actress award for her role in Gulabi Talkies.
Bengal too found a voice in the festival. Mrinal Sen's Khandhar (The Ruins), Rahul Bose's The Whisperers and Anjan I hut's Chalo
(Let's Go) lured the audience, among others. The well-known Dutt, who has carved a niche as musician, actor, lyricist and filmmaker, told the press that he wants to make films that would shed the Bengali stereotype as seen in most Bengali films. Also, he said his attempt was to reach Bengali audiences throughout the country and convey the message that Bangla cinema docs not just mean the works of the stalwarts of Bengali cinema, Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen.
Another actor Rahul Bose (who acted in the film The Whisperers as well as wrote the screenplay) expressed the view tha t although he is a firm disbeliever against censorship of any kind, there is an inbuilt selfcensorship that makes filmmakers retain a certain integrity to ensure that morality codes are not broken.
Much credit for the successful festival must go to film critic, author, scholar Aruna Vasudev who started Cinefan “The Cinemaya Festival of Asian Cinema" with a modest 27-odd films around 10
years ago. Says Aruna, who is also an editor and publisher and the founder of Cinemaya Magazine on Asian Cinema. “ The festival has gone from strength to strength. Though it began in a small way, it is now a major event, which is very satisfying."
As for the lack of representation from Bangladesh, she says that Matir Moina has been aired previously in Delhi. However as she points out, “ Bangladesh has a handful of good directors but not enough films are being made."