Mumbai Film Festival to debut new programming strand: 'Spotlight'
The upcoming Mumbai Film Festival will launch a new programming strand titled Spotlight at the 18th edition of the event, later this month.
The fresh section is officially described as "a carefully crafted segment of films that recognizes Indian cinema's historical trajectories, celebrates its creative impulses and explores its futures," and will kick off with the world premiere of Vikramaditya Motwane's film "Trapped."
"Trapped," starring National award-winning actor Rajkummar Rao ("Aligarh," "Hamari Adhuri Kahani," "CityLights") is a survival drama which centers on the story of a man (Rao) trapped in a room for 28 days.
Other Spotlight selections include Priyadarshan's "Sometimes," Buddhadeb Dasgupta's Toronto, Busan and London selection "The Bait," Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Toronto selection "Once Again," Brahmanand Singh's "Paper Boat," and an anthology of short films, "Shor se Shuruat" by emerging directors Supriya Sharma, Arunima Sharma, Rahul V. Chittela, Pratik Kothari, Amira Bhargava, Annie Zaidi, Satish Raj and Kasireddi (via Variety).
The Mumbai festival is set to run from October 20-27, with the program to include the screening of approximately 175 films from 54 countries.
