[Reader-list] OSIAN’s CINEFANto be held from 24-30 October this year

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

Osian’s Cinefan, one of the world’s leading festivals of Contemporary 
Indian, Asian and Arab Cinema will be held at the Siri Fort Complex and 
Alliance Française in New Delhi. The Festival
will be a reflective insight into the multitudes of cultures & ideas 
with a focus on India


organized by Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art in association with the 
Government of the NCT of Delhi.


For the first time in eleven years, India will be in the spotlight at 
the Festival.



With Osian’s entering the world of learning and education with OLE, the 
programming lineup of the Festival has altered profoundly providing a 
radical platform for OLE. The role
of learning and education will henceforth be taken up in an explicit 
manner. The NewStream Cinema Section, takes this concept further and 
will showcase and explore exhaustively
films that have dared to redefine mainstream cinema. Film makers from 
India and those associated with the films will interact with the 
audiences via Q&A sessions, lectures, panel
discussions and seminars to ensure connectedness and a deeper 
understanding of each film screened. The approach will be intensive and 
an in depth analysis and scrutiny of the
selected films will take place.

In an incredibly atypical approach, the festival curators this year did 
not embrace a theme beforehand. Instead, brilliant films were first 
selected, analyzed and then woven into a
narrative20- a radical change from the way films are selected at most 
film festivals. Director –General, Mani Kaul is at the helm of Osian’s 
Cinefan, supported ably by the Festival
Director of the Festival, Indu Shrikent.

In another first , the Auction coinciding with the festival this year 
will bring to the collector, a striking range of Indian and Asian 
Antiquities.

Hundreds of students from various private & government schools and 
colleges visit the festival each year bearing testimony to the role it 
plays in taking forth the cause of
learning & education.



Mani Kaul
Director – General
Osian’s Cinefan

“Osian’s-Cinefan’s young friends Vishal Bhardwaj, Imtiaz Ali, Zoya 
Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee will along with their 
wonderful star actors and technicians arrive at Siri Fort
during our festival and directly present in NewStream the emerging new 
face of Indian cinema through their films that have won both critical & 
popular acclaim.

The festival is equally ready with a list of breathtaking experimental 
films for InCompetition as also a range of world cinema that is set to 
engage the audience in cross cultural encounters
in the InDialogue section. InDialogue is not just about screening of 
films, it is about creating intellectual events such as in-depth 
lectures, panel discussions,Q & A and seminars around films and 
filmmakers.

Thus, Osian’s-Cinef
an Film Festival will this year realize its true 
objective of integrating and disseminating art knowledge by merging 
with Osian’s radically original educational
initiative called Osian’s Learning Experience (OLE).”


For further details, please contact:

Supriya Chawla
T +91 11 41743166
F +91 11 41743177
E supriya at osians.com

B B Nagpal
M +91 9810902198
M +91 9810542096
E bangontargetpr at gmail.com