India is the biggest movie producing nation in the world. With over 1000 films being made every year, quite a few make it big at the Box Office. Multiple story lines are explored, various new themes are introduced, all because of very creative endeavors.
Yet there is not a single film to compete for the top honor Palme d`Or at the prestigious 62nd Cannes Film Festival.
20 films from different countries have made their way to compete at the 12- day French Riviera starting May 13.
Almodovar’s “Broken Embraces”, Campion’s period film on poet John Keats titled “Bright Star”, Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock”, Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet’s thriller “Map of the Sounds of Tokyo” that centres on a fish-market employee who doubles as a contract killer. Chinese filmmaker Ye Lou too is competing with his secretly filmed “Spring Fever”. This year, American filmmaker Pete Docter’s animation film “Up” will be the opening film and Jan Kounen’s “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky” has been selected as the closing movie.
Nepal’s film industry Kollywood is not heard of in the international film fraternity. “Himalaya,” a Nepali movie in collaboration with France, brought Nepal’s movie industry into the limelight by entering the best foreign language film category at Academy Awards in 2000. Nearly about a deacde later, Nepal is set to debut again and this time luck has been smiling– thrice. Three of Nepal’s films have made it to the non competitive section of the festival; Manoj Babu Panta’s film “Where Is The Story” alongside Deepak Rauniyar’s debut film “Chaukhat” and Binod Paudel’s “Awaken Eyes”….
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