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Film festival in Mumbai

MUMBAI: Retrospectives of Ritwik Ghatak and Andrzej Wajda and a global lifetime achievement award to Spanish director Carlos Saura will mark the 10th Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) international film festival that starts here on March 6.

About 140 films from 45 countries will be screened. A special attraction is Dimensions Mumbai, a short-film competition. Entries are invited for digital films of five-minute duration on life in Mumbai. The best entry will get a prize of Rs. 1.5 lakh. The deadline is March 1.

The week-long event will open with Andrzej Wajda’s latest film Katyn. It will close with The Mourning Forest (Japanese).

MAMI Awards for outstanding contribution to the Indian film industry will go to actor Rishi Kapoor. Lyricist Gulzar and actor Dharmendra will get the lifetime achievement award.

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