04 January,2011 10:17 AM IST | | Amrita Bose
From a long forgotten thumri to a 120-year-old travelling theatre company to the world's youngest film industry, a new film festival goes in search of all things cultural from across India
What happens when the city's National Gallery of Modern Art and India Foundation for Arts, a non profit organisation that supports and provides grants for all forms of performing arts, come together? You get a film festival that promises to tell stories on the big screen, tracing a mixed bag of art and cultural heritage of our country from Ladakh to Andhra Pradesh. The films chosen to be screened under the IFA Film Festival look at the dying traditions of performing arts including dance, theatre and even puppetry.
Still from Nee Engey
The documentaries and features have been made by filmmakers who are grantees of the IFA. "NGMA regularly shows films in association with the Bangalore Film Society and Suchitra Film Society. So this was another opportunity for us to showcase some fine films from around the country," says Sobha Nambisan, director of NGMA Bengaluru.
"Along with fine arts, we want to highlight social issues, culture and education," she adds. The NGMA has previously had film festivals on Shakespeare's works, non violence and a special series on contemporary art and painters. Spread across two months, these multi-lingual films will be screened at the NGMA every weekend.u00a0
At: National Gallery of Modern Art, Manikyavelu Mansion, 49 Palace Road, Bangalore.
Call: 2220 1027
For: Free Entry
Read on to Page 15 for full festival schedule
