6TH CIFF, CHENNAI - 17TH TO 26TH Dec 2008
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FESTIVAL
Retrospectives
- Alain Resnais - France
- Aki Kaurismaki - Finland
- Fatih Akin - Germany
- Kim-Ki-Duk - Korea
Tribute
- Keisuke Kinoshita - Japan
- C.V. Sridhar - India
Homage
- Youseff Chahine - Egypt
Country Focus
- Russia
Theme On Warsaw
- 5 films from Poland
WORLD FILMS FROM :
- Brazil
- China
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Hungary - 5 films
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Serbia
- Spain
- Turkey
Celebrations of 60 Years OF IFFS from ITALY
Films by Students of L.V.Prasad Film & T.V. Academy
Chennai TALENT CAMPUS
Life achievement Awards
Film from Algeria, Croatia, Macedonia, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Palestine, Singapore, Slovenia, SriLanka
Films by world famous directors / masters of cinema
- Jiri Menzel - I Served The King Of England from Czhek
- Andrzej Wajda - Katyn from Poland
- Paul Cox - Salvation from Australia
CANNES WINNERS
- Best Film : ” The Class” from FRANCE
- Best Director : “Three Monkeys” Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan from TURKEY
Phillipines - CASKET FOR HIRE - The Director / His Wife is coming to the festival.
U.S. Consulate is giving PAPER CLIPS - The Director of the film is coming to the festival.
- An Indian Producer born in SriRangam, Trichy and settled In America - His film “Pretty To Think So” is participating
SriLankan Film ” Flowers of sky / Akasa Kusum” by Prasanna Vithanage - His latest film - Our members are Assistant Directors in this film.
Indian Panorama films from Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Assamese, Tripura, Tamilnadu.