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Cannes 2012

By Nandita Dutta | Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Breaking myths and telling you everything that you should know about Indian films at

Cannes Film Festival 2012

Which are the Indian films at 65th Cannes Film Festival?

Miss Lovely by Ashim Ahluwalia in Un Certain Regard

Peddlers by Vasan Bala in 51st

Cannes Critics Week

Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 & 2 in Directors Fortnight

Kalpana by Uday Shankar in Cannes Classics

Project The Untold Tale by Shivajee Chandrabhushan in

LAtelier

Are Cannes Critics Week and Directors Fortnight officialselections?

No. They are parallel sections of the Cannes Film Festival.

Then what is official selection?

Cannes Film Festival official selection comprises of Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of

Competition, Special Screenings, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Classics and the Cinfondation.

The most important of the official selection are the Competition and Un Certain Regard. Films that are

representative of arthouse cinema with a wide audience appeal are presented in Competition, and Un

Certain Regard focuses on works that have an original aim and aesthetic.

Miss Lovely andPeddlers compete for Camra dOr in 2012

Camra dOr is awarded to the best first feature film presented either in the Official Selection, during

Directors Fortnight or during Cannes Critics Week.

Mira Nairs Salaam Bombay and Murali NairsMarana Simhasanam won this award in 1988 and 1999

respectively. Shaji N. Karuns Piravi won the Camra dOr Special Mention in 1989.

Miss Lovely and Peddlers will compete for Camra dOr in 2012.

Peddlers directed by Vasan Bala will screen in 51st Cannes Critics Week

Cannes Critics Week is a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival created by the French Union ofFilm Critics in 1962. Its mission is to honor the first and second feature films by filmmakers from around

the world and allow the French Critics to defend and explore the best young creative film.

Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Wong Kar Wai, Jacques Audiard and Arnaud Desplechin made their

debut at the Critics Week.

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DearCinema.com founder-editor Bikas Mishra has been invited on France 4 Visionary Award Jury in

51st

Cannes Critics Week. More details here.

Peddlers, set in Mumbai, portrays two parallel love storiesbetween a cop and his married neighbor

and a runaway and an immigrant. Read Vasan Balas interview here.

Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 & 2 directed by Anurag Kashyap will screen in Directors Fortnight

2012

Directors Fortnight is a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival created by the French DirectorsGuild in 1968.

Since its inception, the Directors Fortnight has showcased the first films of Werner Herzog, Rainer

Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Haneke, Spike Lee, Luc et

Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Sofia Coppola among others.

The Directors Fortnight pays particular attention to the emergence of independent fringe filmmaking,

and even to contemporary popular genres, provided these films are the expression of an individual talent

and an original directorial style.

Gangs of Wasseypuris a gangster revenge drama spanning six decades and three generations set inWasseypur, a small cinema obsessed hub in Dhanbad. Read Anurag Kashyaps interview here.

Miss Lovely directed by Ashim Ahluwalia will screen in Un Certain Regard 2012

Un Certain regard, meaning a certain outlook was introduced at the Cannes in 1978 to present films with

all kinds of visions and styles. Mani Kauls Satah Se Uthata Aadmi was the first Indian film to find a

place in this category in 1981. Adoor GopalakrishnansElippathayam followed suit in 1982 and Mrinal

Sens Khandharin 1984. Un Certain Regard is part of the official selection and the second most

important section of the festival after Competition.

Vikramaditya Motwanes Udaan was screened in Un Certain Regard in 2010.

Set in the lower depths of Bombays C grade film industry, Miss Lovely follows the devastating story

of two brothers who produce sex horror films in the mid-1980s. Read Ashim Ahluwalias interview here.

Kalpana directed by Uday Shankar will be screened as part of Cannes Classics

The Cannes Classics programme was created in 2004 to showcase restored prints of classic films and

masterpieces of film history.

Kalpana (1948) has been restored by the World Cinema Foundation chaired by Martin Scorsese from a

copy of the original negative preserved by the National Film Archive of India.

It is the only film written and directed by noted dancer Uday Shankar. Kalpana is a dance-drama

revolving around a young dancers dream to set up a dance academy. The film featured Uday Shankar

and his wife Amala Shankar in lead roles.

Shivajee Chandrabhushans The Untold Tale the first Indian project at LAtelier

The Cinfondation started organizing the LAtelier in 2005. Each year, LAtelier selects about fifteen

feature length projects from around the world, and invites their directors to Cannes in order to put them

in contact with film professionals. The filmmakers are selected according to the quality of their project

and that of their previous films, as well as on the state of progress of their finance plan. LAtelier

enables them to gain access to international financing and speed up the production process.

The Untold Tale is about a young puppeteers journey to India that unravels her true identity. The story

begins in Spain, travels through France and culminates in Rajasthan. Read Shivajee Chandrabhushan

(director) and Triparna Banerjees (writer) interview here.


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So, is 2012 the biggest year for Indian Cinema at Cannes?

No. India has had a glorious history at the Cannes Film Festival ( SeeIndias tryst with Cannes). In

1946, the year Cannes Film Festival began, Chetan AnandsNeecha Nagarwas screened in

competition. It won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (Best Film) at the maiden edition of

Cannes.

In 1953, Raj KapoorsAwara was selected in competition while three short films- Kumaon Hills by

Mohan Bhavnani,New Lands for Old People by Krishna Gopal and The Great experimentby V.R

Sarma competed in the short films category. That means four official selections.

In 1954,Do Beegha Zameen by Bimal Roy andMayurpankh by Kishore Sahu were in competition

while Feminine fashions and Folk Dances of India by Mohan Dayaram Bhavnani competed in Short

Films category. Four official selections again!

In 1956, two feature films were selected in competition: Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray and

Shevgyachya Shenga by Shantaram Athavale.

In 1974, M.S Sathyus Garam Hawa was nominated for the Palm dOr or the Golden Palm, the highest

prize awarded to the competing films at the Cannes film festival.

In the wake of this history, there is no Indian film in competition this year.Miss Lovely is the only filmin Official Selection.

However,2012 can easily be called the most remarkable year in recent times with Indian films making it

to diverse sections at Festival de Cannes, after a lull in the last decade.

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Tript i Kappu Sharma Mithibai College, Bombay University

good to read some actual information rather that people making tall

claims about their films. cheers for Indian films in Cannes!

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Neha Sharm a Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

cheers to all the films and film makers that got us here, to 2012!

Reply Like Yesterday at 12:48am2

R Das Filmm aker Independent Filmmaker at Zero Budget Movies

9th cannes Film Fest ival Awards:Best Human Document: Pather

Panchali by Satyajit Ray.

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Rammohan Log anathan Bangalore, India

Educative :)

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apursansar (signed in using yahoo)

Shandar article. Thanks Nandita (and @ankash). Though, you missed

1955. It had two films in competition section. Boot Polish and Biraj

Bahu. BP was nominated for Palm d'Or.

http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/1955/inCompetition.html

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f i lmographer (signed in using yahoo)

1994, SWAHAM, the Indian film in Malayalam language directed by

Shaji N Karun was selected in Cannes Competition. after that, noIndian films were selected in competition so far! Appu

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Chris Higgins Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

Great round up!

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