StarBuzz Weekly, Toronto-In honour of the 150th Birth Centenary of Rabindranath Tagore
Location: University of Toronto, Innis Town Hall
St, George at Sussex (next to Robarts Library)
Dates: Saturday December 3, 2011, 12:30pm - 9:00pm
Sunday, December 4, 2011, 1:00pm - 8:00pm
The festival will consist of feature films based on stories by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) and documentaries regarding this extraordinarily gifted poet, writer and educator whose 150thbirth anniversary is being celebrated worldwide in 2011. A highlight of the festival will be the North American premier of Shey (He) a feature film by award-winning poet and filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta of India based on Rabindranath's mischievous satire by the same title (never previously rendered as cinema). Mr. Dasgupta has won several national awards and a special jury prize for directing at 2000 Venice International Film Festival for his film The Wrestlers (Uttara). Recently he received the best feature film award at the 2011-54th Asia Pacific Film Festival held in Taipei for his latest Bengali movie, Window (Janala).
An additional attraction of the festival will be the first Canadian showing of Noukadubi ("Boat wreck"), a Bengali film directed by award-winning filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh released on January 2011.The movie is a period film set in the 1920s, based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Sponsored by New College, Innis College, Centre for South Asian Studies and York University
Tickets: $10 one day; $15 both days
For information or advance tickets:
Contact: Kathleen or Joseph O'Connell prof_oconnell@yahoo.ca
Soumidh (Somu) Mondal "S MONDAL" smondal@gmail.com
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