Immagini dall’India

A festival of Indian films was organized in Udine by the Società  Indologica «Luigi Pio Tessitori», in collaboration with the Società  Udinese Teatri e Cinematografi, the Directorate of Film Festivals of the Government of India and the Embassy of India, with the patronage of the Regional Authority of Friuli Venezia Giulia .

The two-day festival, which took place on 21 and 22 July 1995 at the Ariston cinema, offered an opportunity to enjoy some of the most significant works produced by Indian film-makers over the last forty years.

The five films featured were shown in the original language with English and French sub-titles and were selected from those which took part in Chhaya ’95, the festival of Indian film held at Rome in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni from 23 June to 7 July 1995. The works chosen for Immagini dall'India were Maya Memsaab (Ketan Mehta, 1992), Devi (Satyajit Ray, 1960), Khandar (Mrinal Sen, 1983), Roja (Mani Ratnam, 1992) and Awaara (Raj Kapoor, 1951). The following speakers took part in the inaugural ceremony of the festival: H. Viswanathan, deputy chief of mission of the Embassy of India, Marisanta di Prampero, councillor of the Municipal Authority of Udine, Livio Jacob, director of the Cineteca del Friuli, Maria Malignani, chair of the Società  Udinese Teatri e Cinematografi and Fausto Freschi, president of the Società  Indologica «Luigi Pio Tessitori».