With the festive season approaching, Pune gets ready for yet another cinematic extravaganza. Presenting the 6th Asian Film Festival at Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. .

The Festival will start from Thursday, 16th October to Thursday, 23rd October 2008. Three locations will host AFF this time:

CityPride Multiplex (Kothrud)
National Film Archive Theatre (Prabhat Road)
Dhruva Auditorium at the Indira […]

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Film:High Heels
Director:Pedro Almodovar
Country:Spain
Year:1991
What I felt:
High Heels deals with the estranged relation between a mother and daughter. The mother, an actress returns home after 15 years to find out that the daughter has married her ex-lover. How they deal with the situation when he is alive and after he dies is what forms the story. I […]

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Four remarkable movies I saw today:
Bliss
Turkey
2007
Directed by Abdullah Oguz
2 words: Beautiful and Uplifting.
A wonderfully created spectacle of a story of an unfortunate banished girl from an Islamic village, who renews her life through a series of events that take place.
Wow factor: Direction and Cinematography
Valu
Maharashtra, India
2007
Directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
2 words: Hilarious and Sensational.
How would you […]

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Unbelievable, is the only word for the films of our generation. Same will be the feeling of experienced film makers if they see what the students have achieved. Since I couldn’t get up very early to catch a 9 AM show, I started PIFF day 4 with Emotional Nomads, a film from the Netherlands which […]

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Because of Love (Z milosci)
Director: Leszek Wosiewicz
Country: Poland
Year: 2007
Love, desire, obsession… new perspectives to the equivocal aspects. Story of Roza, bound to the labyrinthine life’s journey with her love unstirred. Abandoned, deflecting discipline, finding her escape mechanism. She doesn’t know where to go. Surrendered herself to a convent, this mysterious vestal virgin, bridges her […]

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