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MAMI to honour Greek auteur Theodoros Angelopoulos

Pallab Bhattacharya, New Delhi
Nothing could be a better way to wrap up a film festival than conferring the Lifetime Achievement award to a legendary directorlike Theodoros Angelopoulos of Greece.
That is precisely what awaits film buffs at the closing ceremony of the eight-day Mumbai Film Festival, to be held on November 5 when the International Lifetime Achievement award will be conferred on Angelopoulos.
Among the masterpieces of Angelopoulos is the 1988 film "Landscape in the Mist" which operates at several levels including family and philosophical. The film, watched by this correspondent at a Kolkata film festival in 1988, was adjudged the best European film the same year.
The Mumbai Festival, organised by Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI), will begin with conferment of lifetime achievement award to noted actor Shashi Kapoor at the inaugural ceremony on October 29.
On the occasion, film lovers will be treated to an Angelopoulos retrospective
to salute the master director.
Divided into five sections -- International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors, World Cinema, Indian Showcase, Dimensions Mumbai and Retrospectives -- the festival will showcase the "best in contemporary Indian cin-
trophy for the best film. Silver Gateway of India and $50,000 for the Jury Grand Prize.
The festival this year will see the introduction of a $20,000 Audience Choice Award.
The five-member jury for the festival will include leading Hollywood scriptwriter Paul Schrader and eminent Iranian
ema," says veteran director Shyam Senegal. chairperson of Mumbai Academy of Moving Images. The festival will also include an exhibition to celebrate six decades of Dev Anand's Navketan Films.
The competition section of the festival carries a cash award of about US $100,000 and Golden Gateway of India
’ filmmaker Jafar Panahi.
Founded in 1997, MAMI is headed by Benegal and has among others, leading film personalities like actresses Shaban a Azmi, Jaya Bachchan, actor-director Amol Palekar, Farhan Akhtar and directors Yash Chopra, Ashutosh Gowarikar and Karan Johar.