Dear friends of the festival,
the 4th Indian film festival ‚Bollywood and beyond’ has successfully ended and with approximately 9,000 visitors we could improve on the number of visitors of 2006. For the first time additional awards in the categories Indian Short, Indian Documentary and an Audience Award were presented this year. The director of the film ‘Apna Asmaan’ (shown in the category ‘Cinema of Language and Regions’) was awarded the German Star of India, which is endowed with 4,000 Euro. The Indian Documentary Award is endowed with 1,000 Euro and was awarded to Paromita Vohra for her movie ‘Q2P’. Saillesh Duparee recieved the Indian Short Film Award for ‘Spandan / The Heart Beat’, this award is equally endowed with 1,000 Euro. The Audience Award was handed to John Jeffcoat for his opening film ‘Outsourced’, once again the prize is endowed with 1,000 Euro.
‘Bollywood and beyond’ 2008
July 16 to 20, 2008
The preparations for the festival in 2008 have already begun. Next year we will not only celebrate our own little anniversary: besides five years Bollywood festival in Stuttgart the 40th aniversary of the town twinning between Stuttgart and Mumbai makes the festival very special. As inherent part of the India Week, coordinated by the Honorary Counsel of the Republik of Inida for Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, the fifth Indian film festival will once again give an insight into Indian culture, society and politics throgh its wide spread programme of accompanying events.
The festival intends to explore especially the areas which often appear alien and unfamiliar to us and by these means it promotes mutual understanding. We try to encourage this aspect of cross-cultural communication by bringing togehter people from India and Germany. Therefore the festival provides the ideal framework.
The film programme is planned to be announced by the end of May / beginning of June 2008 – many confirmations can only be made after the Film Festival of Cannes.
The programme of accompanying events will be publicised as early as possible and announced in our newsletter.
For further questions please contact us via email to info@filmbuerobw.de
Best wishes from Stuttgart,
your festivalteam
Indo-German Business Forum
Bollywood & Beyond Film Programm
Bollywood & Beyond Events
Bollywood & Beyond Guests
Mediapartner of Filmbüro Baden-Württemberg e.V. is XING group "INDIA - Prospects in Central Europe"
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