Small Talk

Way to Go

Having won accolades for his work globally filmmaker Amit Dutta has added another feather to his cap as his films will now be screened at The 56th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen,Germany. An alumnus of the Film and Television Institute Of India Dutta’s films will be a part of the Profiles at Oberhausen: Three filmmakers and one artists’ movement. The profiles are traditionally dedicated to individual filmmakers or important movements in the history of short films. The Oberhausen has upheld that the works of Dutta that oscillate between Indian mythology and a personal symbolism whose distinctive pictorial language is often compared with that of Sergei Parajanov. His film Keshkambli was screened in Oberhausen in 2003 and won the FIPRESCI Award at the festival in 2007 for Kramasha. The screening will include Chakravak – the bird,Ma Pa – mother father,Masaan and Kramasha – to be continued,among others. The festival that is on till May 4 will have Dutta’s films screened today.