MIFF 2018, II
Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for Documentary, Short and Animation Films, which begins on 28 January, 2018 in Mumbai, has released the list of films to be screened in four sections. Here is the list of films selected for the International Competition section, in the two duration-based categories, 45 or less and no specified duration. The shortest of the lot runs for 15 minutes while the longest is a marathon 183 minutes long. Films come from India, Canada, Australia, USA, UK, France, Austria, Poland, Finland, South Korea, BanglaDesh, Estonia and Singapore.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SECTION | |||||
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| Sr. No. | Title In English | Country | Duration in mins | Category | Director |
| 1 | Campus Rising | India | 74 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Yousuf Saeed |
| 2 | The Dispossessed | Canada | 183 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Mathieu Roy |
| 3 | Abdul & Jose | Australia | 52 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Luigi Acquisto & Lurdes Pires |
| 4 | SALAM | United States | 75 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Anand Kamalakar |
| 5 | RICE | United Kingdom | 35 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | David Blamey |
| 6 | Atul | India | 52 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Kamal Swaroop |
| 7 | 3 Seconds Divorce | Canada | 54 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Shazia Javed |
| 8 | Charlie vs Goliath | United States | 80 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Reed Lindsay |
| 9 | The Cinema Travellers | India | 96 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Shirley Abraham & Amit Madheshiya |
| 10 | Surabhi Family, In Life In Drama | France/India (Made in collaboration with France Televisions) | 52 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Neeta Jain Duhaut |
| 11 | THE BAULKHAM HILLS AFRICAN LADIES TROUPE | Australia | 84 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Ros Horin |
| 12 | VELVET REVOLUTION | India | 56 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Nupur Basu |
| 13 | Brother Jakob, are you sleeping? | Austria | 86 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Stefan Bohun |
| 14 | The Poetics of Fragility | United States | 64 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Nicolas Grandi & Lata Mani |
| 15 | A Brave Bunch. Uprising through children’s eyes. | Poland | 29 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Tomasz Stankiewicz |
| 16 | I am Bonnie | India | 45 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Satarupa Santra, Farha Khatun,Sourabh Kanti Dutta |
| 17 | Earth Crusader | India | 55 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Shabnam Sukhdev |
| 18 | My Secret Forest | Finland | 56 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Niina Brandt |
| 19 | Born Together | Bangladesh | 72 | Documentary Film (Any Duration) | Shabnam Ferdousi |
| 20 | Grandfather | India | 22 | Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.) | Amar Kaushik |
| 21 | THAT GUSTY MORNING | India | 22 | Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.) | Jahnu Barua |
| 22 | MY TURN | South Korea | 15 | Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.) | Nakyung Kim |
| 23 | The Egg | Israel | 19 | Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.) | Nadav Direktor |
| 24 | ICE | France / Estonia | 15 | Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.) | Anna Hints |
| 25 | Wabi Sabi | Singapore | 25 | Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.) | Anshul Tiwari |
Registrations are open. Contact registration@miff.in or go to www.miff.in
Screenings will be held at the Films Division Complex and the Russian Culture Centre, both on Peddar Road, in south Mumbai.
MIFF has been organised since 1990, by the Films Divsion of the Government of India, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
It is a biennial event.