The Mumbai Film Festival returns to the city with its 19th edition in a cleaner avatar and a sharp focus on movie binging. This edition’s dates, from October 12 to 18, will focus on film screenings and masterclasses. The movie mela, however, will be held a week before the festival, on October 7.
The line-up for the Jio MAMI 19th Mumbai Film Festival with Star 2017 includes a handful of films that made their presence felt at the 2017 Cannes Film festival. There’s the Palme d'Or-winner The Square , by Swedish writer-director Ruben Ostlund and the Cannes Jury Prize-winner Loveless by Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev. The list also includes Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature , which competed for the Palme d'Or, and Sean Baker’s The Florida Project , which had its world première at the French Riviera.
MAMI’s world cinema section also features late Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s final film, 24 Frames and the critically acclaimed coming-of-age queer drama Call Me by Your Name , which had its world première at the Sundance Film Festival.
