16th Mumbai International Film Festival

The 16th Mumbai International Film Festival (Mumbai International Film Festival) was held from 28 January to 3 February 2020.[1][2][3]

16th Mumbai International Film Festival
Official poster
LocationMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Founded1990
Hosted byFilms Division of India, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India
No. of films729 National and 144 International from 24 countries
Festival dateOpening: 28 January 2020 (2020-01-28)
Closing: 3 February 2020 (2020-02-03)
LanguageInternational
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Mumbai International Film Festival

The list included various kind of Documentaries, short fiction and animation films.[4] The festival also celebrated the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray by showcasing documentaries made by him including short film Pikoo (1980), Sukumar Ray (1987) and The Inner Eye (1972). In addition the festival showcased Satyajit Ray, Filmmaker (1982), directed by Shyam Benegal, and Sagnik Chatterjee’s documentary Feluda: 50 Years of Ray's Detective (2019), which focuses on Ray’s popular Feluda stories.[5]

Jury

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The Jury panel for MIFF 2020 included:

  • Shaji N Karun, Indian film director and cinematographer
  • Robert Cahen, American university professor, theatre director, playwright, and drama critic
  • Hama Haruka, Indian film producer
  • Amrit Gangar, Indian film scholar, historian, critic, curator and writer
  • Rehina Pareira, producer, writer
  • Thomas Waugh, Canadian critic, lecturer, author, actor and activist
  • A. K. Bir, Indian film cinematographer, screenwriter and director
  • Utpal Borpujari, Indian National Film Award winner as a film critic, and as a filmmaker
  • Pencho Kunchev, Bulgarian art director, director (Animation Department)
  • Kireet Khurana, Indian filmmaker, storyteller, and ad-film director

Selection

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Source:[6]

International Competition

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Title Director Country Duration
Documentary
Daughters of Scheherazade Ranjini Krishnan India 19min
Karbala Katha Sourav Sarangi India 40min
Moti Bagh Nirmal Chander India 59min
My Home India Anjali Bhushan India 45min
Pariah Dog Jesse Alk USA 77min
Swimming through the Darkness Supriyo Sen India 76min
The Outside In Hansa Thapliyal India 26min
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die Barbara Paz Brazil 75min
Blue Breath Rodrigo Areias Portugal 78min
Echo from the Pukpui Skies Joshy Joseph India 28min
Fiancees Julia Banter Switzerland 80min
Glow Worm in a Jungle Ramana Dumpala India 12min
Hasina: A Daughter's Tale Piplu Khan Bangladesh 72min
Moving Sand Floros Floridis Jeanine, Meerapfel Germany 47 min
Omarska Varun Sasindran France 19min
Shot Awake: The Making of Changlangshu's New Logdrum Anungla Zoe Longkumer India 26min
The Secret Life of Frogs Ajay Bedi & Vijay Bedi India 54min
Voice of Siang Joor Baruah India 57min
Wars Don't End Dheeraj Akolka Norway 64min
And What is the Summer Saying? Payal Kapadia India 20min
Animated Documentary
A Minor Genocide Natalia Koryncka-Gruz Poland 72min
Short Fiction
From Durban to Tomorrow Dylan Mohan Gray India 40min
An Essay of Rain Nagraj Manjule India 26min
Brishti Debashish Ghoshal India 20min
In the Month of Love Shashank Walia India 31min
Wig Atanu Mukherjee India 26min
Animation
Portrait of Suzanne Izabela Plucinska Germany 15min
The Fox of the Palmgrove Divakar S.K. India 9min

National Competition

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Genre Title Director Language Duration
Documentary Dwelling in Travelling Subha Das Mollick English 69min
Documentary Ladakh Chale Rikshawala Indrani Chakraborty Bengali 26min
Documentary Sindhustan Sapna Bhavnani English, Hindi, Sindhi 64min
Documentary The Motherland Shibu Prusty English, Odia 61min
Documentary At the Altar of India's Freedom - INA Veterans of Malaysia Choodie Shivaram English 30min
Documenrary Atasi Putul Mahmood Bengali 52min
Documentary Before it Vanishes Biju Pankaj Malayalam 21min
Documentary Elephants Do Remember Swati Pandey, Viplove Rai Bhatia, Manohar Singh Bisht English 37min
Documentary Son Rise Vibha Bakshi Hindi, English 49min
Documentary The 14th February & Beyond Utpal Kalal Hindi, English 58min
Documentary The Krishna Cosmic Circle of Life: Maya Chandra English 25min
Documentary Koothu Sandhya Kumar Tamil 52min
Documentary The Stork Saviours Vijay Bedi, Ajay Bedi English 26min
Documentary Waste Band Supriyo Sen English 54min
Documentary Aru Jan Boli Swadesh Kumar Pathak, Mukesh Sharma Hindi 35min
Documentary The Wounded Souls of the Rann Dinesh Lakhanpal English 55min
Documentary The Monks Who Won the Grammys Aparna Sanyal English 53min
Documentary Idiom of Rug Dip Bhuyan Hindi 52min
Films on Climate Change Babbling Rivers - A Gift of Human Labour, Love and Passion Kailash Bhutani Hindi 15min
Films on Climate Change The Wetland's Wail Aravind M. English 4min
Short Fiction 3 Star Split Shib Ram Sharma Bengali 15min
Short Fiction Aasiya Mayaram Silent 26min
Short Fiction Baitullah Jitendra Rai Hindi 6.4min
Short Fiction Bholi Amitabh S Verma Hindi 13min
Short Fiction Chaukhat (Door Frames) Bibhanshu Rai Bhoojpuri 31min
Short Fiction Dreams Athithya Kanagarajan Tamil 10min
Short Fiction Dying Wind In Her Hair Shazia Iqbal Hindi, Urdu 20min
Short Fiction Chaar Pandrah Saif Baidya Hindi 22min
Short Fiction Friends Forever Navjot Bains Hindi 10min
Short Fiction Shevanti Nilesh Kunjir Marathi 8.3min
Short Fiction Adi Sonal Heena D'Souza Hindi 29min
Short Fiction Naked Wall Anant Dass Sahni Hindi 29min
Short Fiction Mayyat Suyash Shinde Marathi 26min
Short Fiction Posharini Sreecheta Da Bengali 27min
Short Fiction Knock Knock Subash Sahoo Hindi, English 25min
Short Fiction Bishad Bindu Samrat Chakraborty Bengali 23min
Short Fiction Grandfather Umashankar Nair, Gaiti Siddiqui Nepalese 10min
Short Fiction Haze Nainisha Dedhia Gujarati 19min
Short Fiction Lacchavva Jai Shankar Kannada 26min
Short Fiction Plus Minus Jyoti Kapur Das Hindi 18min
Short Fiction A Turn Kaushikkumar Kiranbhai G Marathi 13min
Animation Amrita Swati Agarwal English 6min
Animation Bully Aroop Dwivedi Hindi 6min
Animation Koodedaan (Dustbin) Danish Kelkar Silent 2.2min
Animation Chakki Jyotsna Puthran Silent 6min
Animation Please Naveen Kiran Boktapa English 3.6min
Animation Now Your Home? Prasad Pandurang Mahekar Silent 2min

International Prism

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Genre Title Director Country Duration
International Prism
Short Fiction A Dying Wish Shubhra Dixit India 14min
Documentary Education on the Boat - A new hope for tomorrow KM Taj Biul Hasan Bangladesh 19min
Documentary The Black Mother Pawan Bargaje India 27min
Documentary The Other Men In Blue Tathagat Prakash & Navagat Prakash India 29min
Documentary Wings of Desire Pratibha Kaur Pasricha India 59min
Documentary Warli Art: Endangered Heritage Hemant Verma India 33min
Documentary Saalumarada Thimmaka: The Green Crusader P.Rajendran India 43min
National Prism
Short Fiction Albelo Jaipur Chandan Singh Shekhawa India 4.4min
Short Fiction Bhaskar Calling Sanjiv Kishinchandani India 24min
Short Fiction Camellia Sreelekha Mukherji India 17min
Documentary Children Of the Soil Ranadeep Bhattacharyya & Judhajit Bagchi India 4min
Short Fiction Gurez Shruti Anindita Varma, Amitabh S Verma India 8min
Short Fiction Look at the Sky Ashok Veilou India 30min
Short Fiction Nine Plus One Is Equal To One Rahul Yadav India 18min
Short Fiction Sankalp Mukesh Chandra India 5min
Short Fiction Summer Rhapsody Shravan Katikaneni India 20min
Documentary Festival of Pagodas Madhu Eravankara India 55min
Documentary The Geshema is Born Malati Rao Tibetian 56min

Masterclass

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16th edition of MIFF screened masterclasses by Michaël Dudok de Wit, Pencho Kunchev, Thomas Waugh, Mazhar Kamran, Ramesh Tekwani, Munjal Shroff, Chetan Sharma, etc.

Awards

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National Competition

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Best Animation Film : MIXI (Jyotsna Puthran)

Best Short Fiction Film (up to 45mins.): Bebaak: Dying wind in her hair (Shazia Iqbal) ; Lacchavva (Jai Shankar) - Special Mention

Best Documentary film (below 60 minutes) : Atasi (Putul Mahmoodl) ; Son-Rise (Vibha Bakshi) - Special Mention

Best Documentary Film (above 60 minutes) : Sindhustan (Sapna Bhavnani)

Best Sound Design : Pariah Dog

Best Editing Film : The Saleswoman; Fiancees

Best Cinematography: Bebaak : Dying wind in her hair

Best Actor : Ritvik Sahore (To Remember Me By)

International Competition

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Best Animation Film : Portrait of Suzanne (Izabela Plucinska); The Fox of the Palmgrove (Divakar SK)

Best Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.) : An Essay of Rain (Nagraj Manjule)

Best Documentary Film of the Festival (Golden Conch) : Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (Barbara Paz)

Pramod Pati Special Jury Award (For Most Innovative / Experimental Film) (For Director only) : And What is the Summer Saying (Payal Kapadia), Echo From The Pukpui Skies (Joshy Joseph)

IDPA Award for Best Student Film : Naked Wall (Anant Dass Sahni)

Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari Award for Best Debut Film of a Director (Govt of Maharashtra) : Grandfather (Umashankar Nair)

Special Award for Best Short film on Water conservatio & Climate Change (up to 15 mins.)(For Indian filmmakers only) : The Wetland's Wail (Aravind M)

Lifetime Achievement Award

References

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  1. ^ "Mumbai International Film Festival". miff.in. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  2. ^ "16th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF-2020) inaugurated | DD News". DD News. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  3. ^ "16th Mumbai International Film Festival witnesses a record 729 entries in National and 144 in International competition from 24 countries". Orissa Diary. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  4. ^ Arora, Sumit. "16th Mumbai International Film Festival begins". Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  5. ^ "Mumbai International Film Festival: Festival to celebrate birth centenary of Satyajit Ray". Indian Express. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Catalogue MIFF 2020 | Mumbai International Film Festival". miff.in. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Documentary maker gets Shantaram Award". The Hindu. 1 February 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
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