PRESS KIT 2017 th 19 VISION The Jio MAMI 19th Mumbai Film Festival with Star is an inclusive movie feast. We showcase the latest cutting-edge, independent cinema. We ofer the best of world cinema to the people of Mumbai and we ofer the best of Indian cinema to the world. The Festival is run by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image popularly known as MAMI. This is a space where we revel in the sheer pleasure of cinema, the joy it gives us and how much it enhances our lives. The goal is to nurture and ignite a passion for movies. PROGRAMMING 2017 COMPETITIVE SECTIONS INDIA GOLD India Gold is a competition section for Indian feature films. Through this section, the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star showcases breakthrough and contemporary Indian films, made within the current year. ASHWATTHAMA RALANG ROAD Dir: Pushpendra Singh | Brij Dir: Karma Takapa | Nepali SEXY DURGA Dir: Ektara Collective | Hindi Dir: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan | Malayalam Dir: Devashish Makhija | Hindi Dir: Anushka Meenakshi, Iswar Srikumar | Chokri VILLAGE ROCKSTARS Dir: Dipesh Jain | Hindi Dir: Rima Das | Assamese JUZE ZOO Dir: Miransha Naik | Konkani Dir: Shlok Sharma | Hindi MACHINES Dir: Rahul Jain | Hindi INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION The section is a prestigious platform that shines a spotlight on new cinematic voices. It is open to debut filmmakers from all over the world who have films made within the current year. APOSTASY OBLIVION VERSES Dir: Daniel Kokotajlo Dir : Alireza Khatami UK | English, Urdu France, Germany, Netherlands, Chile | Spanish BAD LUCKY GOAT OH LUCY! Dir: Samir Oliveros, Dir : Atsuko Hirayanagi Colombia | Creole USA, Japan | English, Japanese I AM NOT A WITCH QUEST Dir: Rungano Nyoni, Dir : Jonathan Olshefski UK, France | English, Bemba, Nyanja, Tonga USA | English MONTPARNASSE BIENVENUE (JEUNE FEMME) SCARY MOTHER (SASHI DEDA) Dir: Leonor Seraille Dir: Ana Urushadze France | French Georgia, Estonia | Georgian MORE (DAHA) SUMMER 1993 (ESTIU 1993) Dir: Onur Saylak Dir: Carla Simón Turkey | Turkish Spain | Catalan MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND THE WOUND Dir: Ana Asensio Dir: John Trengove USA, Spain | English, Spanish South Africa | Xhosa OUT OF COMPETITION INDIA STORY ASK THE SEXPERT PUSHKAR PURAN Dir: Vaishali Sinha | English Dir: Kamal Swaroop | Hindi A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS RETURNING TO THE FIRST BEAT Dir: Prateek Vats | Bengali Dir: Surabhi Sharma | Hindi BHASMASUR THE FORSAKEN Dir: Nishil Sheth | Hindi Dir: Jiju Antony | Marathi THE SUMMER OF MIRACLES Dir: Amshan Kumar | Tamil Dir: Prasanth Vijay | Malayalam NIMMO WALKING WITH THE WIND Dir: Rahul Shanklya | Hindi Dir: Praveen Morchhale | Ladakhi Dir: Girish Mohite | Marathi WORLD CINEMA 24 FRAMES BRIGSBY BEAR CLAIRE’S CAMERA Dir: Abbas Kiarostami Dir: Dave McCary (KEUL-LE- EO-UI KA-ME- LA) Iran, France | English, Farsi USA | English Dir: Hong Sangsoo South Korea | Korean, French A GENTLE CREATURE (KROTKAYA) CALIFORNIA DREAMS Dir: Sergei Loznitsa Dir: Mike Ott DEVIL’S FREEDOM Ukraine | Russian USA | English (LA LIBERTAD DEL DIABLO) Dir: Everardo González A SUITABLE GIRL CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Mexico | Spanish Dir: Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra Dir: Luca Guadagnino USA | English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi Italy, France | English, Italian, French DINA Dir: Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles USA | English APRIL’S DAUGHTER CENTAUR (LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL) Dir: Aktan Arym Kubat FREE AND EASY Dir: Michel Franco Kyrgyzstan , France , Germany , Dir: Geng Jun Mexico | Spanish Netherlands | Kirghiz Hong Kong | Mandarin BARLEY FIELDS ON THE OTHER CHAVELA SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN Dir: Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi HOLY CAMP! (LA LLAMADA) Dir: Tian Tsering USA | Spanish, Portuguese Dir: Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi UK | Tibetan Spain | Spanish BEACH RATS CITY OF GHOSTS INVISIBLE Dir: Eliza Hittman Dir: Matthew Heineman Dir: Pablo Giorgelli USA | English USA | Arabic Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Germany, France | Spanish WORLD CINEMA IT COMES AT NIGHT ON BODY AND SOUL (TESTRÖL ÉS LÉLEKRÖL) Dir: Trey Edward Shults Dir: Ildikó Enyedi USA | English Hungary | Hungarian LIES WE TELL ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE Dir: Mitu Misra (BAMUI HAEBYUN-EOSEO HONJA) UK | English Dir: Hong Sangsoo South Korea | Korean LOVELESS (NELYUBOV) Dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev ONE THOUSAND ROPES Russia | Russian Dir: Tusi Tamasese New Zealand | Samoan, English LOVING PIA (AT ELSKE PIA) Dir: Daniel Borgman PENDULAR Denmark | Danish Dir: Julia Murat Brazil, Argentina | Portuguese MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS SIGNATURE MOVE Dir: Jennifer Reeder Dir: Mouly Surya USA | English, Urdu, Spanish Indonesia, France, Malaysia, Thailand | Indonesian SPOOR (POKOT) NOTHINGWOOD Dir: Agnieszka Holland Dir: Sonia Kronlund Poland, Germany, Czech Republic | Polish France, Germany | Dari, French SWEET COUNTRY NOVEMBER Dir: Warwick Thornton Dir: Rainer Sarnet Australia | English, Arrernte Estonia | Estonian, German WORLD CINEMA THE DAY AFTER (GEU-HU) THE PARTY Dir: Hong Sangsoo Dir: Sally Potter South Korea | Korean UK | English THE DEPARTURE THE SQUARE Dir: Lana Wilson Dir: Ruben Östlund USA | Japanese Sweden, France, Denmark | English, Swedish THE FLORIDA PROJECT THELMA Dir: Sean Baker Dir: Joachim Trier USA | English Norway, Sweden, France, Denmark | Norwegian THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE UNTITLED (TOIVON TUOLLA PUOLEN) Dir: Michael Glawogger & Monika Willi Dir: Aki Kaurismaki Austria, Germany | English, German Finland, Germany | Finnish, English, Arabic VAZANTE THE SUMMIT Dir: Daniela Thomas Dir: Santiago Mitre Brazil, Portugal | Portuguese Argentina, Spain, France | Spanish WAJIB Dir: Annemarie Jacir THE THIRD MURDER (SANDOME NO SATSUJIN) Palestine, France, Germany, Colombia, Norway, Qatar, UAE | Dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda Arabic Japan | Japanese OPENING FILM MUKKABAAZ Dir: Anurag Kashyap The story of Mukkabaaz is set in the city of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. Shravan (Vineet Kumar Singh) is a lower-caste boxer struggling to leave his mark and making the case with his fists that he deserves a chance to compete. His career is threatened afer he delivers a nasty right hook to the face of Bhagwan — his employer, the local kingpin, and the top boxing promoter in the region. Following this melee, Bhagwan does everything he can to stop Shravan from ascending up the ranks, including preventing him from pursuing the woman he has fallen in love with, Sunaina. Bhagwan will go to any length to punish and humiliate Shravan. But what he doesn’t count on is Shravan’s tough-mindedness. He’s been an underdog all his life and will stop at nothing to go all the way to the Indian National Boxing Championship. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY JOHN MADDEN HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL JURY John Philip Madden is an English director of film, television, theatre, and radio. An alumnus of the University of Cambridge with a B.A. in English Literature, he began his career with theatre, before moving on to the BBC and entering the world of radio and television. With several prominent television titles to his credit, including Prime Suspect 4 and episodes of Sherlock Holmes, Madden turned his focus to feature films in the early nineties. His film Shakespeare in Love won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1998 as well as the Silver Bear at the 49th annual Berlin International Film Festival. His recent successes include much-loved The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel series and Miss Sloane (2016). Along with his work as a director, Madden serves as a jury member for the digital studio Filmaka, a platform for undiscovered filmmakers to showcase their work to industry professionals. ALEXIS ZABE CELINA JADE Alexis Zabe is a cinematographer from Mexico City whose Celina Jade is a Hong Kong-American actress, singer, work spans various platforms with films, commercials, songwriter, model and martial artist. Her early career and music videos. In 2004, he garnered widespread as a singer, which began when she was only 14, got her acclaim for his work on fellow film-school graduate widespread success and numerous No. 1 hits across Asia. Fernando Eimbcke’s film Duck Season, and earned his first As an actress, she has several noteworthy roles to her Cinematography Honors at Mexico’s Ariel Awards. He has credit, including that of ‘Shado’ in the first two season of since worked on several acclaimed titles including Carlos CW’s Arrow. Her most recent success is her leading role the Reygadas’ Silent Light (2007) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012), Chinese action megahit Wolf Warrior 2 (2017). both of which won awards at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2013, Zabe worked as the cinematographer on the music video of Pharrell Williams’ widely popular song “Happy”. His most recent feature film is Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, which premiered at Cannes 2017. KONKONA SANTIAGO SENSHARMA MITRE Konkona Sensharma is an award-winning actress and film Santiago Mitre is an Argentine film director and screenwriter. director. Beginning her career as a child artist in Bengali He began his directorial work with a short film in 2002, and films at the age of 4, she has now acted in over 40 films continued to work on commercials for the next four years. in Hindi, Bengali and English. Her performance in Mr. and He went on to work as a writer on several notable feature Mrs. Iyer (2002) earned her a National Film Award for Best films, including Pablo Trapero’s Lion’s Den(2008), Carancho Actress along with widespread critical acclaim. She won (2010), and White Elephant (2012) – all of which showcased her second National Film Award four years later for her at various editions of the Cannes Film Festival. He continued performance in Omkara in 2006, which was also the year to earn critical praise as a filmmaker with his own directorial she debuted as director with her short film Naamkoron. In works The Student (2011) and Paulina (2015), with the latter 2016, she established herself as a director with her debut winning him the Critics’ Week Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI feature film A Death in the Gunj while continuing her Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. His most recent feature, The work as an acclaimed actress with Alankrita Shrivastava’s Summit (2017), opened at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard to Lipstick Under My Burkha.