After the break of three years , the highly – awaited Mumbai film festival 2023 has returned again in 2023 . the edition was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic for past few years .This edition of the much desired Mumbai event has finally been announced .It has started from October 27 .Priyanka Chopra , the chairperson of the JIO MAMI Film Festival arrived at the grand opening of the event with gorgeous style on the first day at Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center in Mumbai . Along with her Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, and many others bollywood stars were spotted at the glorious event.
ABOUT THE EVENT
This is one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious film festival which is organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), which was founded by stalwarts group in 1997 the main objective of the film is to engage film lovers from all walks of life, and to cherish an ideal good cinema across the country by presenting the best global and Indian films .The 2023 edition of the Jio MAMI Mumbai film festival’ s main focus is South Asian and South Asian Diaspora cinema and talent. as the new head of jury of South Asian Film compitition , the great filmamker Mira nair told that , It is so important that MAMI recognizes the best first or early films because nothing can be more encouraging than one’s peers and gurus of cinema putting the wind in our sails . It is lined up with 2023 has over 250 films and over 40 world premieres 45 Asia premieres, 70+ South Asia premieres, and 13 sections.The world cinema section is featuring 99 titles from over 35 countries including Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall” by Justine Triet, Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” Madeleine Gavin’s Sundance winner “Beyond Utopia,”
USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT MAMI
Register through the website which is given below to book shows & details. You can book your ticket from here too: https://in.bookmyshow.com/events/jio-mami-mumbai-film-festival-2023/ET00369469
TICKET PRICE – starting from 1000 INR
DATE – from October 27 to November 5
TIME – starting from 10 A.M .
•you need to be 18 years of age or above to be able to register and attend the film festival.
SCREENING VENUE
•Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre
•The Studio Theatre The grand theatre
•PVR ICON, Oberoi Mall INOX
•Inorbit Mall INOX
•R-City Mall
•Regal Cinema
•Colaba
•Jio World Drive
•PVR Dynamix Mall
•Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai .
•all venues have food and drinks that can be purchased by you at the venue.
•SOUTH ASIAN COMPITITION
Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam,Bengali, Nepali, Garo and Dzongkha films are participating for this compitition.
The 14 films included – Sumanth Bhat’s Mithya, Shahrukhkhan Chavada’s Kayo Kayo Colour? (Which Colour?), Fazil Razak’s Thadavu (The Sentence), Pawo Choyning Dorji’s The Monk and the Gun, Jayant Somalkar’s Sthal (A Match), Dominic Sangma’s Rimdogittanga (Rapture), Jaishankar Aryar’s Shivamma and Fidel Devkota’s The Red Suitcase.
Kanu Behl’s Agra, Diwa Shah’s Bahadur – The Brave, Saurav Rai’s Guras, Sarvnik Kaur’s Against the Tide, Dibakar Das Roy’s Dilli Dark, Leesa Gazi’s Barir Naam Shahana (A House Named Shahana) .
The sections included are
•Marathi talkies
•Dimensions Mumbai
•Gala Premieres
•After Dark
•Focus South Asia
•Icons: South Asia
•Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films .
MEMBERS
Film critic, Anupama Chopra is the Festival Director at Jio MAMI.
Isha Ambani is the Executive Director .
Festival co-director is Maitreyee Dasgupta.
Festival artistic director is Deepti DCunha.
Head of international programming Anu Rangachar.
According To ANI, Directors Mani Ratnam and Luca Guadagnino are set to receive the prestigious Excellence in Cinema Award at the 2023 Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, as officially disclosed by the festival organizer .
“Through the various programs and competitions, the festival strives to be a destination where filmmakers and audiences feel empowered, heard, and experience the joy of cinema, it’s impact and new ideas.” said by the co- director of the event ,Maitreyee Dasgupta .
