A Mutinous DC Film Fest

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Imagine my surprise upon opening the handy-dandy filmest DC insert in the Washington City Paper, to find a plethora of Indian films being screened. Now, I am used to seeing one or two, but amongst the many other fine films from other countries being screened, 10 Indian films have been selected for screening. A couple highlights of the selections include an opening night screening of Rituparno Ghosh’s Raincoat (starring TMBWITW Aishwarya Rai) sponsored by Air India and Nutella, a screening of Chokher Bali also starring Rai, both with Ghosh in attendance, the stunningly beautiful, musically amazing, yet poorly scripted Dil Se (score by AR Rahman), Dev starring Om Puri and Amitabh Bachchan (with Amitabh in attendance), and Songs of Mahulbani which will be shown with the Oscar nominated Little Terrorist. The newly colorized Mughal-e-Azam, Morning Raga, The Journey, The Sandstorm, and a Thousand Dreams Such as These round out the desi flicks. Also of interest is the 90 minute film by Salam Pax, entitled Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blogger.

More details at filmfestdc.org

4 thoughts on “A Mutinous DC Film Fest”

  1. RAINCOAT is highly recommendable!!! Go and support well made hindi movies and stop complaining about the trash that comes out of bollywood

    (after all…if good movies make money, theyll have to stop making trash, right?)

  2. If you have film suggestions, this would be an ideal time to let you know that this year’s SALTAF (South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festiva) hosted by NetSAP and the Smithsonian at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum on Oct. 1-2nd, will have an entire day dedicated to the exploration of South Asian cinema.

    As an adjunct, we’re also planning a short-film competition.

    If you’d like to get involved in the planning, or know of filmmakers who might appreciate a venue to discuss their work, please let me know by shooting me an email!

  3. Salil… mind sending me an email with this information? I have a site that would like to list this information, especially the competition.

  4. same here salil – i will have some free time after may, and this sounds like a cool thing to get involved with