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Interview with Ram Kamal Mukherjee

Tell us what inspired you to take that step into journalism. My father, Jaydeb Mukherjee was instrumental in guiding me. He realised that I liked writing, and…

Tell us what inspired you to take that step into journalism.

My father, Jaydeb Mukherjee was instrumental in guiding me. He realised that I liked writing, and I always preferred Shakespeare more than Newton in my school days! I guess the germ was already created; it needed the right soil to bloom. Continue reading Interview with Ram Kamal Mukherjee →

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Mehdi Rahmani, Jury member at Imagineindia 2020

Mehdi Rahmani will be Jury Member at the 19th edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival to take place in Madrid on 17 – 31 May 2020.

The Iranian director and producer was born in 1979. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Iranian Cinema and Broadcasting university-Tehran as a director and made 18 short films and documentaries. Continue reading Mehdi Rahmani, Jury member at Imagineindia 2020 →

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Mahtab Keramati, jury at Imagineindia 2024

Mahtab Keramati will be Jury at Imagineindia 2024

She was the Jury President at the 19th edition at Imagineindia in 2020.

Born on October 17, 1970 in Tehran, Iran, in 2006 she was appointed UNICEF National Ambassador in Iran.

She was taking acting courses when she was cast for the role of Helen in The Men of Angelos, which earned her national recognition.  She later appeared in films such as Mummy III and Rain Man, for which she was nominated for the Fajr Crystal Simorgh International Film Festival.  She then appeared in dramas such as Saint Mary and Crimson Soil and the films Hell, Purgatory, Heaven, There are things you don’t know, Alzheimer’s and the private life of Mr. and Mrs. M ..   She won a Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress in a supporting role for Twenty In 2015, winner of the Award for Best Actress International Imagineindia Film Festival.

Keramati won the Best Actress Award at Imagineindia for her performance in “Ghosts” by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui.

After the earthquake of Bam City which occurred on 26 December 2003, she approached philanthropy and charity work and on 30 December she was one of the artists partaking in a charity meeting for quake-stricken people of Bam. From 2013, releasing prisoners-sentenced-to-nemesis, have become one of the charity work she does and she has put some efforts in collecting blood money and getting the next of kin’s satisfaction. In this respect Shahab Moradi has been one of her companions. She is also a women’s rights activist.

FILMOGRAPHY

  • Mardi Az jense Bolour (1999)
  • Mumiyayi 3 (2000)
  • Mard Barani (2000)
  • Behesht az ane To (2000)
  • Molaghat ba Tooti (2003)
  • Shahe Khamoosh (2003)
  • Hashtpa (2005)
  • Salvation at 8:20 (2005)
  • Hess-e Penhan (2007)
  • The Reward of Silence (2007)
  • Adam (2007)
  • Atash-e Sabz (2008)
  • Shirin (2008)
  • Tardid (2009)
  • Women Are Angels (2009)
  • Doozakh Barzakh Behesht (2009)
  • Bist (2009)
  • Shabane Rooz (2010)
  • Adamkosh (2010)
  • There Are Things You Don’t Know (2010)
  • Alzheimer (2011)
  • Absolutely Tame Is a Horse (2011)
  • The Private Life of Mr. & Mrs. M (2012)
  • Azar (2012)
  • The Fourth Child (2013)
  • Inadvertent (2014)
  • Hussein Who Said No
  • Ghosts (2014)
  • Arghavan (2014)
  • Jameh Daran (2015)
  • Ice Age (2015)
  • BIAFF Film Festival Promo Video 2017 (2017)
  • Mazar-i-Sharif[4][5]
  • Majan (2015)
  • mordad (2015)
  • Boht (2016)
  • Shayad Eshgh Nabod (2016)
  • old Road (2016)
  • orca (2019)
  • Sahneh Zani (2020)
Mahtab Keramati
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Interview of G.García Márquez to Akira Kurosawa

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In October 1990, in Tokyo, while Kurosawa was still filming his penultimate film, Rhapsody in August (Hachi-gatsu no kyōshikyoku, 1991), writer and director met to discuss the differences between literary and cinematographic language, and the difficulties of the adaptation of the first to the second.  On the occasion of the central topic of Rhapsody in August, they addressed the physical, spiritual and historical consequences of the Nagasaki nuclear bombing in 1945 and the reaction of the perpetrator, the United States: the establishment of a machinery of oblivion in Japan, under its auspices, in place of acceptance of his crime and publicly apologize; they also delved into the conditions of happiness, the limits of man, and, of course, the implications of this in art. It is a friendly duel between two of the sharpest and most passionate minds of his time, showing a deep concern to leave, through his work, a positive legacy for humanity.  This is a part of the interview. Continue reading Interview of G.García Márquez to Akira Kurosawa →

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Press release/Presentation of Imagineindia 2019

IMAGINEINDIA CELEBRATES ITS 18TH EDITION, SHOWING MORE THAN 80 MOVIES.

–  The festival will give the Lifetime Achievement Award to the indian director Buddhadeb Dasgupta.

–  It will take place in Madrid from 17 to 31 May 2019.

The 18th edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival will take place in Madrid from 17 to 31 May.  81 films, 5 venues, 18 international juries and 15 international guests in this festival, which has already become a classic among film festivals.  This year Imagineindia pays homage to the Indian director Buddhadeb Dasgupta with Lifetime Achievement Award. Continue reading Press release/Presentation of Imagineindia 2019 →

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Programme

PROGRAMME JANUARY-FEBRUARY-MARCH-APRIL/2021

CASA ASIA

Cines Girona
Carrer de Girona 175
Barcelona

Saturday 30 January
20.00 h

My Life With Satyajit Ray| Dir. Bo Van Der Werf| 2006 | 52’. Belgium | Documentary

The Song we Sang | Dir. Aarti Neharsh | 2020 | 21’ | India | Short

Saturday 6 February
20.00 h

A Foreigner in my Own Land | Dir. Nishajyoti Sharma| 2017 | 65’ | India | Documentary

Ellipsis | Dir. Raunaq Das, Abhirup Halder | 2019 | 17’ | India | Short

Saturday 13 February
20.00 h

Ee, Ma, Yau| Dir. Lijo Jose Pellissery| 2018 | 120’ | India | Drama

Saturday 20 February
20.00 h

Saroj Dutta and His Times| Dir. Kasturi Basu/Mitali Biswas| 2018 | 115’ | India | Documentary

Saturday 27 February
20.00 h

Tales From Our Childhood| Dir. Mukul Haloi| 2018 | 69’ | India | Documentary

Motherhood | Dir. Kirti Singh | 2018 | 30’ | India | Short

Saturday  6 March
20.00 h

Khanaur | Dir. Gurvinder Singh | 2019 | 100’ | India | Drama

Saturday  13 March
20.00 h

Raudram 2018 | Dir. Jayaraj| 2019 | 80’ | India | Drama

U for Usha | Dir. Rohan Parshuram Kanawade | 2019 | 22’ | India | Short

Saturday  20 March
20.00 h

The Geshema is Born | Dir. Malati Rao| 2019 | 70’ | India | Documentary

Kamali | Dir. Sasha Rainbow |2019 | 24’ | Great Britain, India | Short

Saturday  27 March
20.00 h

Odd Couple | Dir. Prashant Johari| 2019 | 117’ | India | Drama

Saturday  3 April
20.00 h

Sisters of The Trees | Dir. Camila Menéndez / Lucas Peñafort| 2019 | 82’ | Argentina | Documentary

Saturday  10 April
20.00 h

Trijya | Dir. Akshay Indikar| 2019 | 91’ | India | Drama

Travel Brand Xperience
Avenida Diagonal 512

Tuesday  17 March
19.00 h

Murghab (Daler Kaziev, Martin Saxer, Marlen Elders)  Germany

Driving Lessons (Marziyeh Riahi) Iran

 

Monday  23 March
19.00 h

Precious (Irfan Avdic) Bosnia Herzegovina

Motherhood (Kirti Singh) India

 

Monday  30 March
19.00 h

Echilibru (Eve Cerubini, Victor Jullien, Jerome Fatalot) France

Bagatelle (Daniel Levin) Russia, USA

Travel Brand Xperience
Avenida Diagonal 512

Monday  3 February 2020
19.00 h

The way (Oleshya Shigina/ Veronica Ponomareva)  Russia

Monday  10 February 2020
19.00 h

A Silent Way (Manju Borah)  India

Monday  24 February 2020
19.00 h

Asfixia (Kenya Márquez)  Mexico

Filmoteca de Cataluña
Plaza de Salvador Seguí 1-9
Barcelona

Saturday 1 September
21.30 h

Lal Darja

Sunday 2 September
19.30 h

Manda Meyer Upakhyan

Tuesday 4 September
21.30 h

Swapner Din

Wednesday 5 September
21.30 h

Ami, Yasin Ar Amar Madhubala

Thursday 6 September
18.30 h

Kalpurush

Friday 7 September
21.30 h

Janala

Casa Asia
Cines Girona
Carrer de Girona 175

Saturday 22 September
20.00 h

Out of Frame (Wai Lun Kwok)  Hong Kong

Saturday 29 September
20.00 h

Bomba (Ralston Jover)  Philippines

Saturday 6 October
20.00 h

Highway 318 (Yunxing Nie)  China

Saturday 13 October
20.00 h

Blockage (Mohsen Gharaei)  Iran

Saturday 20 October
20.00 h

King of Peking (Sam Voutas)  Australia

B The Travel Brand
Avenida Diagonal 512
Barcelona

Monday 3 September
19.00 h

Mousse (John Hellberg)  Sweden

Szamota’s Mistress (Adam Uryniak)  Poland

Monday 17 September
19.00 h

King of Peking (Sam Voutas)  China / Australia

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Closing Gala Imagineindia 2018

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CLOSING GALA VIDEO

 

On May 31, Thursday, 7:00 pm, took place the Closing Gala of the 17th edition of the Imagineindia International Film Festival. With the presence of directors, international producers: Bauddhayan Mukherji (India) Director, Airat Iamilov (Russia) Director of photography, Delphine Montaigne (France) Actress, Yunxing Nie (China) Director, Sun Yun (China) Producer, Tzahi Grad (Israel) Director, producer.

The Gala was presented by the actor Sergio Pazos and actress Yolanda Font.

The Awards were given by Spanish cinema personalities like : Pedro Hernández (Producer of Magical Girl), Ángela Molina (Actress), Innocence (Singer), Azucena de la Fuente (Actress), Alba Ferrara (Actress), Lola Forner (Actress), José Marzilli (Representative of Javier Bardem), David Marqués (Scriptwriter of Campeones), Paola García San Juan (Director), Pedro Mari Sánchez (Actor), Félix Sabroso (Director) or authorities : Hagit Mualem (Embassy of Israel), Jeeva Maria Roy (Embassy of India) among others.

 

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Press Conference. Presentation Imagineindia 2018

The Official Presentation of Imagineindia 2018 will take place at a Press Conference on 8th May, atThe Travel Brand Xperience (Calle Miguel Ángel 33, Madrid),12.00 h.
The event will count with the participation of Juan Echanove (Actor), Gran Wyoming (TV presenter),Dani Mateo (TV Presenter), Sergio Pazos (Actor), Nerea Garmendía (Actress), Alba Ferrara(Actress), Helga Martínez (Photographer), David Marqués (Director), Yolanda Font (Actress),Mayte Ariza (Dream,s Strategy), Jaime Iglesias Gamboa (Film Critic), José Marzilli (Actor,s Agent), Cynthia Hurtado (Information and Culture Assistant Embassy of India), Jesús Arcos García (Cultural Secretary of Embassy of Israel) ,  Qazi Abdur Rahim (Festival Director).
Imagineindia festival is sponsored by the Madrid City Council, the State Government of Madrid,Embassy of India, Directorate for film festivals (DFF), Minsitry of External Affairs of India (MEA), in addition to the numerous collaborators.
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Imagineindia 2018 Official Presentation

The 17th edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival will come to Madrid’s screens from May 17 to 31, 2018. More than 80 films, 6 venues, 12 international guests make this festival a classic among the film festivals in Spain.

13 films from 11 countries will compete in the Official Section for the “Golden Chakra” in the 17th edition of Imagineindia, which will take place in Madrid from May 17 to 31. Accompanied by parallel sections for documentaries, short films, film schools, humanitarian conflicts (Syria), women or religions. Continue reading Imagineindia 2018 Official Presentation →