MIFFed directors set up parallel fest

If you thought the big documentary fight ended when the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) dropped its censorship clause last year, you were wrong.

Just as the bi-annual festival for short, documentary and animation films comes up on February 2, there’s more intrigue. Outraged film-makers are holding a protest show. About 30 ‘‘uncomfortable films’’, left out of MIFF through backdoor censorship, will be screened at the protest festival.

‘‘We’re working out a name. It will be a parallel festival with the same dates and time,’’ says film-maker Anand Patwardhan.

The rejected films are mainly political. Several directors want an inquiry into MIFF’s functioning.