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.