BWI: 39th IFFI to Host Wong Kar Wai Retrospective in Association with Palador

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Source: Palador
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:03 PM IST (12:33 PM GMT)
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Release no: 18559
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39th IFFI to Host Wong Kar Wai Retrospective in Association with Palador
4 Palador Titles to be part of the Festival; 3 of Wong Kar Wai's Masterpieces to be Showcased under "Cinema of the World"; Floating Clouds by Mikio Naruse to be part of "IFFI Goa Film Treasures"

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 -- (Business Wire India) -- Palador, the undisputed leader in the World Cinema category with over 1,000 of the best and most awarded films, is all set to make its presence felt at the 39th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) by screening four movies from its extensive library. "In the Mood for Love", "Fallen Angels", "Happy Together" will be showcased under Cinema of the World section as part of Wong Kar Wai Retrospective while "Floating Clouds" by (Mikio Naruse) has been short listed under IFFI Goa Film Treasures. IFFI 2008 will take place in Goa from November 23 to December 2 this year.

Elaborating on Palador's participation in the festival, Gautam Shiknis, Founder and Managing Director, Palador Pictures said, "IFFI is an upcoming international platform. With the support of major film distributors and production houses in India and abroad, it can also become one of the top international film festivals. This year we are participating with four movies and hope to reach a huge number of discerning World Cinema fans across India through it."

He further added, "IFFI provides great opportunities through Film Bazaar and this year we have also registered our participation in the same. Through this, Palador intends to explore local and international co-production projects and enter into joint productions starting next year"

"These four films are outstanding examples of World Cinema and it is fitting that IFFI has included them in the festival this year. We are slowly yet surely moving towards creating a distinct space for World Cinema," said Mohan Polamar, Joint Managing Director and Co-Founder, Palador Pictures.

About the participating films:

In the Mood for Love is a beautiful and evocative film set in Hong Kong of 1962. Chow, a newspaper editor, moves into a building with his wife, where Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her husband, have also moved in. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen cross each others path, and a discovery of common tastes begins. It is a stylistic masterpiece that evokes romantic longing.

Fallen Angels is a romantic thriller. A cold-blooded professional killer is tired of the risks and wants to quit. His agent, who has broken the professional code of no personal involvement, persuades him to do one last job. With fatal results.

Happy Together is about the trauma that lovers go through. Lovers who are happy together are all the same. Lovers whose relationships fall apart are all different, unique in the ways they inflict emotional torture on themselves and each other.

The director of the above three movies, Wong Kar Wai, is known for the strong visual magic in his films. He is a writer, director, producer and actor, and is credited with some very interesting and appealing scripts covering an array of genres from romantic comedy to action drama.

Floating Clouds is a 1955 Japanese film based on the novel of the same name by Japanese author and poet Fumiko Hayashi. Floating Clouds follows female protagonist Koda Yukiko, a Japanese woman just returned to Japan from French Indochina and her relationships with the men in her life.

Mikio Naruse was a Japanese film director, writer and producer. He directed some 89 films in about four decades spanning from the end of the silent era through the sixties.

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Palador is the undisputed leader in the World Cinema category with over 1000 of the best and most awarded films from across the world. The films in Palador's catalogue include both masters of yesteryears and the current crop of mavericks: Bergman, Chaplin, Keaton, Kurosawa, Kieslowski, Godard, Trauffaut, Kiarostami, Lynch and many more. The Palador collection covers all genres and eras and is the single largest collection of quality films in the world. This library of acclaimed cinema is being taken to Indian audiences (urban and rural) via an integrated distribution model that covers a DVD label, theatrical releases, video-on-demand and a dedicated television channel.

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