Finally after so many years I managed to go yesterday to the film festival in Florence. The River to River Festival organized under the guidance of Wild Velo is the most important annual event with the Indian cinema in Italy that offers a chance to see the best of Indian cinema art and meet with his players. For example, this year you have the chance to see the most important works of three directors Bengali Satyajit Ray, Aparna Sen and Oniro . Sen and dreaming are attending the festival with their latest film, along with Rahul Bose, the hero of these films shared.
addition, the festival offers a chance to see some of the new world of Bollywood in full version (with songs and music) and in Italian with subtitles. The most important films in the program this year include Ishqiya Vishal Bhardwaj, Love Aaj Kal of Imtiaz Ali (with Saif Ali Khan), Rajneeti by Prakash Jha and Peeplo Live Anusha Rizwi.
By now the festival is wrapping up, but if you're still in time to see some major motion picture. The complete program can be found on the site River to River Festival. I missed the first part of the festival and I am sorry especially for having lost the first European Iti Mrinalini director and actress Aparna Sen and a Marathi language film, Maati Maay of Chitra Palekar, which had heard a lot. However, I am happy that finally I could see at least a few films.
Yesterday, Tuesday, December 7th, I spoke with the director Oniro . It 'been a very interesting conversation because we talked about a subject close to my heart - the immigration issue. Tonight Oniro present his new film I Am (I am) due for release in rooms in February 2011. I helped myself to this movie, because I translated part of the Italian subtitles. However I do not anticipate much in the coming days I will write of this discussion. Today, December 8, I hope to talk with Rahul Bose and Aparna Sen.
But today I want to write short films seen yesterday.
Minimum Maharaja of Franco La Cecla is a work in progress, this is a film not yet complete, which presents a small ex-king of a small suburban town in Gujarat. The piece presented at the festival speaks especially of an evening of songs organized by ex-king on the history and business of its ancestors. The explanations of the Cecla, after the film on Pingala language used to write the stories of real local family, were very interesting. Among the collaborators, the film also shows the name of the friend Dennys.
Mumbai. La cour des Peintres of Louise de Champfleury and Dindinaud Dominique, was on the manual preparation of a large canvas to advertise the new movie by Karan Johar (My name is Khan), an endangered art. Posters have now created digitally painted canvas completely replaced manually. While airing the film, I spoke with Oniria, so I've only seen part of it.
Shaving Co. Grant St. (15 ') of Payal Sethi was the first of four short films on the theme of the afternoon. The film tells an afternoon of memories in New York, when an elder came from India to visit his daughter, goes around the city with a delivery boy and continues to see in the shops and streets, the ghost of his young wife disappeared many years ago. It 's a sweet and tender film.
Looking For You (12 ') by Cary Rajinder Sawhney is set in England and in some ways resembles St. Shavig Grant Co. With a brief but effective language, the film tells la storia sul tema della reincarnazione.
Un uomo di mezz'età d'origine indiana accompagna la moglie per le compere e viene avvicinato da una giovane donna che lo avvicina, lo guarda in modo strano e dice, "Avevi detto che saresti venuto a prendermi. Sono salita sul treno e mi hanno ucciso." L'uomo ha uno strano flash, una visione di se stesso vestito in una kurta bianco insieme alla giovane donna. Intanto torna la moglie e lui torna a casa un po' perturbato. Poi vede la giovane donna ancora fuori dalla sua casa, che gli ripete le stesse cose. Questa volta la sua visione è dei giorni della separazione tra l'India e Pakistan, e dei disordini violenti tra gli indù e musulmani. La giovane donna si aggrappa a lui and weeps in despair, is still trapped in memories. When you receive an official who takes away the girl crying, maybe it escaped from the psychiatric services.
The Road Home (21 ') of Rahul Gandotra about Pico, a boy of Indian origin, born and raised in England is in a very prestigious boarding school in the mountains in India . The boy with the brown skin does not feel Indian not speak Hindi, will not eat spicy food and speaks with an English accent, but the color of his skin means that for all he is an Indian boy. The film is the story of one day when he decides to run away from Pico school to return to England and the people he meets.
The young French girl in Pico says, "You can be both, English and Indian," while the taxi driver says, "It 's your destiny, you're dark-skinned and you have to understand that all you will be Indian."
It 's the movie that prompted me to reflect more on identity. The film is about the issues that the majority of young immigrants, born in Italy and came here as children, they experience the hard way. Although they feel very Italian, because it is the only home they have ever known, however, the first question that people are them is often, "Which country are you from?". Somehow, I think the question also relates to all children with dark skin or non-European features adopted in Italy.
The fourth and final short film yesterday was Kharboozey (19 ') of Rizwan Siddiqui. There is a saying that Indian regards kharboozey (melons) - says that change color like chameleons second to those around them. The film is about the Muslim identity in India, where for fear of being subjected to violence, two Muslim men when they move from an area inhabited by Hindus, they pretend to be Hindus. The two men who share a ride in a rickshaw, they do not trust one the other, and the man driving the rickshaw, and not to arouse suspicion stories racist against Muslims.
I think the film would have been more interesting and effective if it ended at the time when the two men meet unexpectedly at the home of a family. Instead, the film continues with black and white images of the Muslim people mixed with images of explosions and deaths, and then some final explanation that the two had made to guard because now the name of Islam is seen as synonymous with bombs and terrorism.
I spoke with Rizwan. He is from Lucknow and has worked at an advertising agency a Nuova Delhi. Lui continua a vivere e lavorare tra queste città. Kharboozey è suo primo film, realizzato con mezzi molto limitati a Lucknow, ed ha già guadagnato apprezzamento presso un festival del cinema in India. "Non ho piani per il futuro, preferisco non fare i piani. Voglio vivere quello che sarà. Sono una persona molto sicura e non mi piace pianificare", Rizwan ha detto, sottolineando il suo rapporto con la sua città natale, "mi piace andare in giro sulla mia moto con mai moglie e due figli, mi piace che dove vivo tutti conoscono il mio nome, il mio fruttivendolo conosce i nomi dei miei figli, questo rapporto con le persone con i luoghi è la cosa più importante per me."
Dei 4 cortometraggi visti ieri, i primi due parlavano di identità nel senso personale o privato, mentre gli altri due parlavano di identità sociale. Per quanto riguarda il linguaggio cinematografico, penso che i primi tre film erano molto più sofisticati, mentre il film di Rizwan era un po' più "raw". In modo diverso ho apprezzato tutti i film, ma mi ha stimolato di più il film di Rahul Gandotra, "The Road Home".
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