IFFI to pay homage to Bertrand Tavernier Christopher Plummer and others
New Delhi Nov 17 PTI The International Film Festival of India IFFI will be paying special tributes to late cinema personalities Bertrand Tavernier Christopher Plummer Jean-Claude Carriere and Jean-Paul BelmondoThe festival on Wednesday announced that the 52nd edition of the annual movie gala will showcase films of the four artistes who passed away in the year gone byTavernier the veteran French director of a host of acclaimed films including Round Midnight and These Foolish Things died in March this yearThe festival will honour the filmmaker by screening his 1984 feature A Sunday in the CountryThe film gala will also showcase Ridley Scotts 2017 movie All The Money In The World which featured Hollywood actor Plummer who passed away in February this year aged 91The dashing actor was best known for playing Captain von Trapp in the Hollywood classic The Sound of Music At the age of 82 he became the oldest Academy Award acting winner in history when he won the trophy for his 2010 movie BeginnersCelebrated French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrire who penned some of the most memorable movies of the past half-century including The Tin Drum and Cyrano de Bergerac will be honoured with the screening of his 2018 movie At Eternitys GateThe 89-year-old writer died on February 9 this year at his home in ParisThe IFFI will screen the 1960 movie Breathless which introduced the world to French actor Jean-Paul BelmondoNicknamed Bebel by French audiences Belmondo was one of the countrys biggest box-office stars in the 60s and 70s He died in September this yearBesides paying tributes to these cinema personalities the gala will also screen films by some of the masters of contemporary cinema from across the worldThe films include Everything Went Fine French by Franois Ozon In Front of Your Face Korean by Hong Sangsoo Memoria English Spanish by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Parallel Mothers by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar Suzanna Andler French by Benoit Jacquot and Tom Medina French by Tony GatlifThe 52nd edition of International Film Festival of India is being organised by the Directorate of Film Festivals the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in collaboration with the Goa governmentThe nine-day film gala will be organised in a hybrid format — virtual and physical — from November 20 to 28 PTI RB RDS RDS
New Delhi Nov 17 PTI The International Film Festival of India IFFI will be paying special tributes to late cinema personalities Bertrand Tavernier Christopher Plummer Jean-Claude Carriere and Jean-Paul BelmondoThe festival on Wednesday announced that the 52nd edition of the annual movie gala will showcase films of the four artistes who passed away in the year gone byTavernier the veteran French director of a host of acclaimed films including Round Midnight and These Foolish Things died in March this yearThe festival will honour the filmmaker by screening his 1984 feature A Sunday in the CountryThe film gala will also showcase Ridley Scotts 2017 movie All The Money In The World which featured Hollywood actor Plummer who passed away in February this year aged 91The dashing actor was best known for playing Captain von Trapp in the Hollywood classic The Sound of Music At the age of 82 he became the oldest Academy Award acting winner in history when he won the trophy for his 2010 movie BeginnersCelebrated French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrire who penned some of the most memorable movies of the past half-century including The Tin Drum and Cyrano de Bergerac will be honoured with the screening of his 2018 movie At Eternitys GateThe 89-year-old writer died on February 9 this year at his home in ParisThe IFFI will screen the 1960 movie Breathless which introduced the world to French actor Jean-Paul BelmondoNicknamed Bebel by French audiences Belmondo was one of the countrys biggest box-office stars in the 60s and 70s He died in September this yearBesides paying tributes to these cinema personalities the gala will also screen films by some of the masters of contemporary cinema from across the worldThe films include Everything Went Fine French by Franois Ozon In Front of Your Face Korean by Hong Sangsoo Memoria English Spanish by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Parallel Mothers by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar Suzanna Andler French by Benoit Jacquot and Tom Medina French by Tony GatlifThe 52nd edition of International Film Festival of India is being organised by the Directorate of Film Festivals the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in collaboration with the Goa governmentThe nine-day film gala will be organised in a hybrid format — virtual and physical — from November 20 to 28 PTI RB RDS RDS
