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Rita Azevedo Gomes recieves Imagineindia Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024

Rita Azevedo Gomes is an independent filmmaker who, since 1989, the year of her first feature film, has been recognized for her quality and autonomy in the film industry. Her films have been acclaimed by both national and international critics and have been selected for various film festivals worldwide. She has received numerous awards and has been honoured with retrospectives of her work. She is frequently invited to participate in symposiums, master classes, and debates.

She has been active in the fields of Cinema, Theatre, Opera, and other artistic domains since the early 1970s. As a filmmaker, after her debut feature film, “The Sound of the Shaking Earth” (1989), she persisted with determination in her cinematic endeavors. Nearly a decade passed, and in 2001, she directed her second feature film, “Fragile as the World,” which was enthusiastically received at the Venice Film Festival and highly praised by critics.

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Women,s voices

Anemone (Alicia Hernanpérez) Spain

Anemone
Alicia Hernanpérez
Spain. 2022. 14 min

Samantha and David are in the car looking out to sea. They are going to scatter their mother’s ashes on the beach of their childhood, but nothing goes as planned. Sister and brother will face their respective truths about that mother figure. This is a story about a miscarried ritual. It tells the difference between what we imagine and what actually happens.

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Divine Accounts (Eulalia Ramón) Spain

Divine Accounts
Eulalia Ramón
Spain. 2022. 14 min

Monica is a normal woman with a normal life in any place in any of these modern times. However, one day, for an unimportant detail that could have been resolved like any other previous disagreement, she kills her husband. She thus discovers crime as a substitute for anxiolytics, liberation from all hypocritical moralism and, why not?, the usefulnes.

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Documentary Section, Women,s voices

All of Our Heartbeats are Connected through Exploding Stars (Jennifer Rainsford) Sweden

All of Our Heartbeats are Connected through Exploding Stars
Jennifer Rainsford
Sweden. 2022. 77 min

On March 11, 2011 the largest earthquake in modern history hit Japan and then, thirty minutes later, dark tsunami waves roared in over the coast of North-Eastern Japan dragging cars, homes and lives out into the sea.
In the film we meet Yasu who has done over 100 dives in search of his lost wife. Sachiko keeps writing letters to her husband that was taken by the wave. Satoko is a young woman who struggles with overcoming her trauma from the disaster. On the other side of the ocean, in the Hawaiian island of Kaho’olawe, a group of volunteers are gathering to clean the beach from Japanese tsunami debris floating in from the Ocean.

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- Official Section -, Women,s voices

A Letter from Kyoto (Kim Min-Ju) South Korea. Official Section

A Letter from Kyoto
Kim Min-Ju
South Korea. 2022. 102 min

Hwa-ja has raised her three daughters by herself after her husband died. One day, Hye-young, the middle child, who dreams of becoming a writer, comes back to Yeongdo in Busan after having some mishaps in Seoul. Yeongdo is a lively neighborhood where a lot of foreigners move to; according to a myth, once you enter Yeongdo, you will have trouble leaving it. The eldest, Hye-jin, works to support her family financially and the youngest, Hye-joo, dreams of going to Seoul to study after she graduates from high-school. While spending time with her mother, Hye-young comes across a letter written in Japanese that arouses her curiosity. She starts to question Hwa-ja about her past and learns new stories she had never heard of. In the meantime, something in Hwa-ja’s heart that she had kept buried for decades slowly comes back up. “Sometimes, when you follow the past, you can take a step for- ward.”» Kim Min-ju.

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Short Films Section, Women,s voices

Journey to the Sun (Ansgar Schaefer, Susana de Sousa) Portugal

Journey to the Sun
Ansgar Schaefer, Susana de Sousa
Portugal. 2021. 109 min

Journey to the Sun reflects on children in situations of conflict and post-conflict, and the potency of their gaze in revealing the realities obfuscated by official narratives.

Just after the Second World War, 5,000 young children were sent from Austria to stay with host families in Portugal, where they could recover from the violence of war. They were often welcomed in by well-to-do families with domestic staff living in sunny villas, and for most of the children this was a holiday in paradise. The contrast with their living conditions at home, and the huge difference between the lives of rich and poor in Portugal in this period, made a deep impression on the young Austrians.

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Ekavali Khanna, Jury at Imagineindia

Born in Kolkata, Khanna attended Modern High School and is a graduate of Delhi University. A Punjabi father and a Goan mother , Ekavali was raised in Kolkata. She is fluent in Hindi ,English ,Urdu ,Bengali and Punjabi . Of mixed Punjabi and Goan heritage. Khanna divides her time between both Mumbai and Kolkata depending on her work, and culturally identifies as a Bengali.

Ekavali Khanna made her debut with Kaun Kitne Pani Main, directed by national award winner Nila Madhab Panda in the year 2014. The same year she worked with another national award-winning director Dr. Chandra Prakash Dwivedi in the film Zed Plus as the parallel lead opposite Adil Hussein. In 2014 and 2015 she did two more films: Daasdev by Sudhir Mishra and Satra Ko Shaadi Hai, directed by Arshad Sayed. She also did a guest appearance in Bollywood Diaries directed by K.D Satyam. Her next release in 2015 was Dear Dad, opposite Arvind Swamy, directed by Tanuj Brahmar. In 2017 she acted in Bioscopewallah, directed by Deb Medhkar and Angrezi mein kehte Hain , directed by Harish Vyas for which she won best actor at Oiffa 2018. In 2017 she acted in the Norwegian film What will people say, as Najma she got critically acclaimed globally, the movie directed by Iram Haq was the official entry to the Oscars in 2019.

In 2018 she acted in the Hollywood film ‘Line of Descent’, directed by Rohit Karn Batra. She also played a pivotal role in Veere Di Wedding, directed by Shashank Ghosh where she stole hearts with her lively Paromita. In the same year she played a role in Chotte Nawab directed by Kumud Chaudhary, Dark light directed by Mayur Hardas, Yaarjigri directed Amit Joshi, Anaam directed by Ganesh Shetty and Aadhar directed by Suman Ghosh.

She has also appeared in Bangla films like Katmandu, directed by Raj Chakroborty, Dwando directed by Suman Ghosh, and ‘Nirontor’, directed by Chandrashish Ray.