Berlin International Film Festival | Of friendship, riots, and food
Curator and programmer Meenakshi Shedde tells us what India is up to at the Berlin International Film Festival this year
Berlin: It is an exciting year for India at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, with five films in various sections. The festival runs 7-17 February. And it’s great to be back! It’s about my 15th year as India consultant to the Berlin Film Festival. In my first year, Mani Ratnam had just sent his Dil Se, which was translated as von Herzen, or From the Heart. What happens at Berlin is that it is usually cold—currently 4 degrees centigrade and the forecast is minus 6 by Sunday—so you keep rubbing your hands briskly, and the warmth generated kind of rubs off into a gesture of anticipation as well.
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