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A festival of films
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Cinema Club of Coimbatore will present an international film festival
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The Cinema Club of Coimbatore (CCC) brings you International Film Festival Coimbatore 2007 on October 13 at Corporation Kalaiarangam, R.S. Puram. Four international films will be screened, followed by a paper presentation on Indian cinema. The festiv
al will be inaugurated by celebrities from Tamil and Malayalam Film Industry.
The Club strives to bring back old legacies of Coimbatore through this the Festival, for the city has a rich heritage in terms of films, theatres and dramas. In fact, Coimbatore was the first to have a film studio in Tamil Nadu. The Club had conducted a Children’s Film Festival last December. The first screening begins at 10.30 with the Chinese film The Road Home, directed by Yimou Zhang. When the city businessman Luo Yusheng returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his father, he finds his elderly mother insists that all the traditional burial custom be performed. Luo remembers the magical story of how his father and mother first met and got together.
The French film The Dreamlife of Angels by Erick Zonca follows at 1.30 p.m. In Lille, two penniless young women, Isa and Marie, with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who’s flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Marie slowly falls for a rich youth. When Isa tries to warn Marie, their friendship flounders.
The Arabic film Paradise Now by Hany Abu-Assad is at 3.30 p.m. The story places two close friends, Palestinians Said and Khaled, recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a terrorist attack in Tel-Aviv, blowing up themselves. However, things go wrong and both friends must separate in the border. Suha, the well-educated and well-traveled daughter of a martyr, challenges the action. Can minds change?After the paper presentation at 5.30 p.m, the Italian film Malena will be screened at 6 p.m. Made by Giuseppe Tornatore, the film is set in 1940.Two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato, he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna, a beautiful women, who’s moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband Nico who promptly goes off to war.
Entry passes are Rs. 50 for students and Rs. 100 for others. They are available at the Club and at Oxford Book Store on Trichy Road. For details, contact the Club at 3 B, Sri Nagar, Hope College, Peelamedu or call 0422- 4218161/94435-78887/99947-77117. Visit www.cinemaclubofcoimbatore.com
or e-mail: cinemaclubofcoimbatore@yahoo. co.in
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