Aparna Sen film to be screened in Fukuoka fete

By Gautaman Bhaskaran

TOKYO, AUG. 17. The coming Fukuoka International Film Festival will feature an Indian movie in its main Asian Panorama section. Ms. Aparna Sen's `Paromitar Ek Din' (House of Memories) in Bengali is the director's latest work, which explores in 132 minutes, the life of a middle class woman trapped in a loveless marriage with a handicapped child.

Interestingly, the film explores not quite the relationship between the woman and her husband as it does between her and her mother-in-law, played superbly by Ms. Sen herself.

The 11-day Festival takes pride in introducing to Japan and the world Asia's cinematic excellence, and `Paromitar Ek Din,' as the Festival Director, Mr. Tadao Sato, feels, ably qualifies here.

The Festival has yet another aim or two: to discover talent and promote cultural Asia.

It is a comparatively small Festival of just 32 films, divided into four sections (Asian Panorama, Iranian Collection, Chinese Language Basket and Focus on a Philippine Director)., it provides ample opportunity and scope for debates and discussions among the movie fraternity, something which most similar events elsewhere do not.

Some of the Festival's highlights this year are Turkey's `Clouds of May', Malaysia's `Lieutenant Adnan', Thailand's `Behind the Painting', Vietnam's `The Golden Key' and Japan's `Hole in the Sky'. Some of Iran's renowned auteurs, such as Mr. Majid Majidi and Mr. Ebrahim Forouzesh, will be at Fukuoka with their celluloid creations.

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