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MAMI Mumbai Film Festival Highlights | 22nd October

MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, one of Asia’s most prestigious cinematic events, is dazzling audiences with its 2024 edition from October 19 to 24. This six-day celebration promises a spectacular showcase of world cinema, community, creativity, and culture.

 

On Day 4, highlight was the Industry Programme that was hosted by MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in collaboration with the Festival’s Community Partner, Soho House Mumbai. The Industry Programme includes panels and screenings aimed at fostering creative dialogue and knowledge sharing for filmmakers, industry experts. To celebrate Indian and global cinema, community, and culture at Soho House Mumbai from October 21 to 23, 2024. Attached release shares insights on the masterclasses held on Day 2 of the Industry Programme.

 

Additionally at the festival a spectacular line up of films were screened, including My Melbourne, Shambhala and The Shameless.

 

My Melbourne: Set in Melbourne, the anthology film features four diverse stories based on true incidents. In Nandini, a queer Indian man (Indraneel) and his estranged father reunite to complete a ceremonial ritual, exploring their fraught relationship and the power of forgiveness. In Jules, a newlywed (Sakshi) and a homeless individual form an unlikely bond and find connections despite their differences. In Emma, a talented deaf dancer grapples with self-doubt and discrimination until she finds inspiration in a chance encounter with another deaf dancer. In Setara, an Afghan girl (15) rebuilds her life through cricket after fleeing the Taliban.
The metropolis is the site of encounters, reconciliations, and sometimes self-discovery. For the diaspora, such encounters traverse the limits of culture, generational distance, violence, and bigotry. In My Melbourne, sexual identity, religious positioning, class imaginaries, and corporeal limits are explored as new spaces and emotional strains encroach upon the known and the settled. Four filmmakers, known for very different kinds of cinema, see four possibilities in the metropolis. Located in new contexts, most of them stay with their well-tested frames while at least one steps away from aesthetic and cultural comfort zones. Two films speak of the Indian diaspora, one of the Afghan diaspora, and the fourth deals with the local cultural universe. Affirmative in approach, these films tell us that the world still inheres a promise.

 

Other notable attendees on Day 4 included Imtiaz Ali, Kabir Khan, Mini Mathur, Kritika Kamra, Onir and Reema Das amongst others.

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