The upcoming version of the MAMI Mumbai Movie Competition is bookended by two high winners on the Cannes Movie Competition 2024. The competition opens with the screening of the Grand Prix-winner ‘All We Think about as Mild’, which is the primary function movie of Mumbai-based director-writer Payal Kapadia. The closing movie is Sean Baker-directed Anora, the winner of Palme d’Or 2024. Whereas Anora described it as “a searing critique on wealth, privilege and the American dream”, All We Think about As Mild’ is a poetic account of three working ladies struggling to remain afloat in Mumbai as they cope with their relationships and feelings.
The competition, scheduled to be held from October 19 to 24 October, will showcase over 110 movies, together with options and non-features throughout all genres, in over 50 languages. Despite the fact that this version will display screen a few of the greatest worldwide and South Asian movies, the variety of competition venues has decreased to 2 — the artwork deco single display screen Regal Cinema in Colaba and Juhu’s PVR, which has 5 auditoriums.
After the success of final 12 months’s inaugural ‘South Asia Competitors’, the competition places the highlight on the unbiased filmmakers from South Asia and its diaspora once more with 11 options, together with 4 Indian options. The road-up with a mixture of fiction, documentary and animation, options Agent of Happiness by Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó (Nepali, Dzongkha, English), Ladies Will Be Ladies by Shuchi Talati (English, Hindi), Kiss Wagon by Midhun Murali (Malayalam), Nocturnes by Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan (English, Hindi, Bugun), Santosh by Sandhya Suri (Hindi), Shambhala by Min Bahadur Bham (Tibetan, Nepali) and Village Rockstars 2 by Rima Das (Assamese).
The Asia premiere of Little Jaffna by Lawrence Valin (French, Tamil), Pooja, Sir by Deepak Rauniyar (Hindi, Maithili, Nepali) and The Fable by Raam Reddy (English, Hindi) will likely be held underneath this part. Amit Dutta’s Rhythm of a Flower (Phool Ka Chand) may have its world premiere.
The Focus South Asia, a non-competitive part, will display screen movies of all lengths in addition to non-features that provide a various array of narratives. The lineup, comprising 10 options and 13 non-features, contains A Fly on the Wall by Nilesh Maniyar, Shonali Bose (English | India, USA), Angammal by Vipin Radhakrishnan (Tamil | India), Boong by Lakshmipriya Devi (Manipuri), In Retreat (Be-qayaam) by Maisam Ali (Hindi, Ladakhi) and The Shameless by Konstantin Bojanov (Hindi), whose lead actor Anasuya Sengupta gained the Un Sure Regard Prize for Greatest Actress.
Among the most celebrated movies of the 12 months will likely be screened underneath the World Cinema part. Among the many big-ticket titles are The Room Subsequent Door by Pedro Almodóvar, Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard, The Substance by Coralie Fargeat, A Completely different Man by Aaron Schimberg, Cloud by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Harvest by Athina Rachel Tsangari, Suspended Time by Olivier Assayas, Rumours by Man Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson, April by Dea Kulumbegashvili, and Common Language by Matthew Rankin.
The competition can even host ‘Gala’ premieres of Despatch by Kanu Behl (starring Manoj Bajpayee, Shahana Goswami), Ghamasaan by Tigmanshu Dhulia (starring Arshad Warsi, Pratik Gandhi), Go Noni Go by Sonal Dabral (starring Dimple Kapadia, Manav Kaul), the anthology My Melbourne directed by Kabir Khan, Imtiaz Ali, Onir, Rima Das, and The Historical (Puratawn) by Suman Ghosh (starring Sharmila Tagore, Rituparna Sengupta and Indraneil Sengupta).
