MUMBAI: The 60th Berlin International Film Festival has selected Indian filmmaker Madhusree Dutta‘s Cinema City for screening.
This "installation project" will be on display in several cinema foyers, exploring questions about the relationship between urban space and cinema during the Festival in Berlin from 11 to 21 February.
Filmfare and National awards winner Dutta, a National School of Drama (NSD) alumni besides filmmaking, is also said to be a producer-curator-pedagogue-researcher-activist.
Congratulating Dutta and her project team, acclaimed Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today urged India Government and large private conglomerates of India to promote independent cinema.
Another Indian entry into this Festival is My Name Is Khan in ‘out of competition‘ category. Directed by Karan Johar, its cast includes Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol besides Christopher B. Duncan who plays US President Barack Obama. It is the story of Rizwan Khan of Mumbai who suffers from Asperger syndrome.
Berlin International Film Festival is said to be ‘the biggest audience event in the film world‘. The last Berlin Festival registered 486,955 visitors from 136 countries with 389 film screenings.
