Sarvnik Kaur’s documentary Against The Tide gained the Golden Gateway Award at this yr’s Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, whereas the Silver Gateway Award went to Bahadur – The Brave, directed by Diwa Shah. The Special Jury Award went to Kanu Behl’s Agra.
Against The Tide follows two fishermen struggling to offer for his or her households as the ocean turns hostile on account of local weather change. Bahadur – The Brave revolves round Nepalese migrant laborers throughout the lockdown imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic in India.
Agra, which had its world premiere at this yr’s Cannes movie pageant, is the story of younger Indian man making an attempt to navigate cramped residing circumstances, sexual repression and a dysfunctional household to create his personal house on the planet.
The South Asia Competition jury was headed by Mira Nair and in addition included Australian filmmaker David Michod, Filipino filmmaker and actor Isabel Sandoval and French critic and pageant director Edouard Waintrop.
Among different juries on the pageant, the Film Critics Guild Gender Sensitivity Award was offered to A House Named Shahana (Barir Naam Shahana), directed by Leesa Gazi.
The Rashid Irani Young Critics’ Choice Award went to Shahrukhkhan Chavada’s Which Colour? (Kayo Kayo Colour?), whereas the NETPAC award was offered to Rapture, directed by Dominic Sangma, which picked up the Cultural Diversity Award on the Asia Pacific Screen Awards on the identical night.
Civic Studios’ Light Camera Impact Award, recognising two non-feature movies specializing in topics of local weather, sexuality and caste, went to Blackhole, directed by Pradyumna Patil, and Consecration (Praan Pratishthana) from Pankaj Sonawane. Flowering Man by Soumyajit Ghosh Dastidar obtained a particular point out on this class.
The IMDb Audience Choice Award went to The Monk And The Gun, directed by Bhutanese filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji.
While the awards ceremony occurred on the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) on November 3 night, the pageant will proceed with screenings till November 5. Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla performed because the closing movie on November. 3
The pageant confronted some operational difficulties in its first version returning as an in-person occasion after the pandemic, with points across the on-line ticketing system and a scarcity of appropriate resort rooms for worldwide company. Not serving to issues was the truth that a few of the Cricket World Cup matches had been happening in Mumbai on the identical time.
But each worldwide company and native viewers praised the programming, which expanded its focus from Indian to South Asian cinema this yr, and in addition offered a powerful line-up of current worldwide pageant movies.
Another spotlight of the pageant had been the masterclasses held by Mira Nair, Mani Ratnam, Luca Guadagnino, David Michod and Priyanka Chopra, who additionally serves as Mumbai movie pageant chairperson.
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