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Filmmaker Costa Gavras is feted in Mumbai

Lifetime Achievement award at film festival

PALLAB BHATTACHARYA, New Delhi
Internationally-acclaimed Greek director Costa Gavras, whose artistically-made highly political films like “Z” and "The Missing" never cease to appeal to viewers across time-span, was conferred the Lifetime Achievement award at a film festival organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) on Thursday night.
One of world cinema's most feted filmmakers, Gavras is best known for his political thrillers, such as the Best Foreign Language Oscar-winner "Z" (1969), "The Missing” (1982) starring Jack Lemmon, for which Gavras won the Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Oscar, "The Little Apocalypse" (1993) and "Amen" (2002).
Presenting the award to 80-year-old Gavras, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithivraj Chavan said he was happy to honour the director whose films were a huge influence on him.
Costa Gavras, whose latest film "Capital" deals with the murky world of private banks in the US, received a standing ovation as he reached the dais to receive his award.
The filmmaker said he was moved to be acknowledged by a cinema-loving audience. "We are in a big fight, an exceptional fight for making free movies. This award will help me in this fight and give me courage to make more such movies," said Gavras.
The biggest quality about Costa Gavras' political films is that his message against capitalism and dictatorship comes out seamlessly out of the stories he narrates and one never feels it is superimposed in any way. The director always avoids the temptation of being loud in his political films.
This year's Mumbai festival's competition jury is presided over by "Driving Miss Daisy" director Bruce Beresford with fellow members including French actress Nathalie Baye, Japanese film-maker Masato Harada, Indian actress Konkona Sen Sharma and Canada-based Indian director Deepa Mehta.
The India Gold competition jury is headed by Oscar winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi while other jurists include Australian film editor Jill Bilcock ("Moulin Rouge"), British actor-director Waris Hussein ("Passage to India"), Afghan director Siddiq Barmak ("Osama") and Hong Kong International Film Festival director and film critic Roger Garcia.
The festival opened with a screening of Lee Daniels' "The Butler", starring Forest Whitaker. The festival's closing film is "The Fifth Estate", which will screen after the awards ceremony on October 24.
The festival, featuring more than 200 films from 65 countries, with a focus on Spanish, French and Cambodian cinema, will also pay tribute to the late Bollywood icon Yash Chopra, who died in October last year, late Bengali director Rituparno Ghosh and late Bollywood actor Pran.