Busan International Film Festival 2018 to host premiere of Rima Das' Assamese feature Bulbul Can Sing
6 years, 4 months ago

Busan International Film Festival 2018 to host premiere of Rima Das' Assamese feature Bulbul Can Sing

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Bulbul Can Sing will be screened in A Window on Asian Cinema section at the Busan International Film Festival. Mumbai: After making its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, National Award-winning filmmaker Rima Das’ next Assamese feature, Bulbul Can Sing is all set to make its South Asia premiere at the 23rd Busan International Film Festival 2018. In a statement Rima Das said, “It’s a huge honour to return to TIFF after Village Rockstars and start the journey of my next feature, Bulbul Can Sing, which will have its world premiere in the competition category - Contemporary World Cinema. Rima Das’ debut film as a writer-director-producer, Man with Binoculars, premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2016.

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Rima Das' Tora's Husband to have world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival
2 years, 5 months ago

Rima Das' Tora's Husband to have world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival

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“I lost my father during the early days of shooting the film. Multiple National Award-winning director Rima Das ’ new movie Tora’s Husband will be screened at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Das, whose previous independent features Village Rockstars and Bulbul Can Sing, also had their world premiere at the prestigious film festival, said the story …

National Award-winning director Rima Das’ film to premiere at Toronto film festival
2 years, 5 months ago

National Award-winning director Rima Das’ film to premiere at Toronto film festival

Hindustan Times  

TORONTO: National Award-winning director Rima Das’s latest feature Tora’s Husband, set in the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, will be the first Indian film to be featured in the prestigious Platform section of the Toronto International Film Festival next month. A still from director Rima Das’ film Tora’s Husband, which will have its world premiere at TIFF in September and …

Aparna Sen directorial The Rapist to premiere at Busan International Film Festival
3 years, 4 months ago

Aparna Sen directorial The Rapist to premiere at Busan International Film Festival

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National Award-winning director Aparna Sen’s film The Rapist, starring Konkona Sensharma, Arjun Rampal, and Tanmay Dhanania, is set to have its world premiere at the 26th Busan International Film Festival. The film, produced by Applause Entertainment in association with Quest Films Pvt Ltd, is part of the ‘‘A Window on Asian Cinema’’ section of the festival and is nominated for …

Rima Das, Village Rockstars and Bulbul Can Sing director, part of International Jury at Berlinale
4 years, 11 months ago

Rima Das, Village Rockstars and Bulbul Can Sing director, part of International Jury at Berlinale

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Rima Das will be part of a jury also comprising Iranian filmmaker Abbas Amini and South African filmmaker Jenna Bass. Bulbul Can Sing director Rima Das has been asked to join the panel of the 14Plus International Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival this year, reports The Quint. Das will be part of a jury also comprising Iranian filmmaker …

‘Bulbul Can Sing’ Director Rima Das to Be Part Of Berlinale Jury
4 years, 11 months ago

‘Bulbul Can Sing’ Director Rima Das to Be Part Of Berlinale Jury

The Quint  

She told IANS, “It’s only last year that Bulbul Can Sing was part of Generation 14Plus. For the 14Plus section this year, Das is on the jury along with Iranian filmmaker Abbas Amini and South African filmmaker Jenna Bass. For KPlus, the jury includes French cinematographer-director Marine Atlan, Mexican filmmaker María Novaro, and German filmmaker Erik Schmitt. Her 2018 film …

National Awards 2019: Rima Das reacts to Bulbul Can Sing's National Award win for Best Assamese Film
5 years, 5 months ago

National Awards 2019: Rima Das reacts to Bulbul Can Sing's National Award win for Best Assamese Film

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Rima Das’ film Bulbul Can Sing has bagged the National Award on Friday for the Best Assamese Film. The critically acclaimed feature, in fact, also won the Best Indie Film at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia earlier this week. Das says, “ Very happy that Bulbul Can Sing is awarded the National Film for Best Assamese …

Shah Rukh Khan to present Rima Das' Bulbul Can Sing as opening film at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2019
5 years, 6 months ago

Shah Rukh Khan to present Rima Das' Bulbul Can Sing as opening film at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2019

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National Award-winning filmmaker Rima Das ’ latest Assamese feature, Bulbul Can Sing is all set to be the opening film of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. Shah Rukh Khan, this year’s chief guest at the festival, will present the film to the Australian audiences in Melbourne. It had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2018, where it …

India’s official entry Village Rockstars by Rima Das is out of Oscar race
6 years ago

India’s official entry Village Rockstars by Rima Das is out of Oscar race

Hindustan Times  

India’s official entry for the best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars 2018, Village Rockstars, is out of the race for the honour, as is Iram Haq’s Norwegian drama What Will People Say, starring Indian actors. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Monday announced that nine films have advanced to the next round of voting in …

Rima Das' Village Rockstars out of race for Best Foreign Language Film at Academy Awards 2019
6 years ago

Rima Das' Village Rockstars out of race for Best Foreign Language Film at Academy Awards 2019

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Village Rockstars is set in Rima Das’ own village of Chhaygaon in Assam. India’s official entry for the best “Foreign Language Film” category at the Oscars 2019, Village Rockstars, is out of the race for the honour, as is Iram Haq’s Norwegian drama What Will People Say, starring Indian actors. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on 17 …

TIFF 2018: Rima Das on Bulbul Can Sing, and India’s Oscar pick Village Rockstars
6 years, 3 months ago

TIFF 2018: Rima Das on Bulbul Can Sing, and India’s Oscar pick Village Rockstars

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For those who have watched Rima Das’ Village Rockstars, her new film, Bulbul Can Sing that premiered at TIFF 2018, will seem like both a departure from and a sequential successor to Dhunu’s story For those who have watched Rima Das’ Village Rockstars, her new film, Bulbul Can Sing that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, will seem like …

‘Village Rockstars’ is India’s official entry to Oscars 2019
6 years, 3 months ago

‘Village Rockstars’ is India’s official entry to Oscars 2019

The Hindu  

In a major victory for northeastern indie cinema and female filmmakers, Rima Das’ National Award-winning Assamese film Village Rockstars has been selected as India’s official entry to the 91 Academy Awards, 2019. “It’s the first Assamese film to be sent as an official entry, in fact first from the northeast,” says Utpal Borpujari, film critic and filmmaker. The 12-member selection …

Jio MAMI 20th Mumbai Film Festival: Bulbul Can Sing, Balekempa among nine films to be screened in India Gold section
6 years, 3 months ago

Jio MAMI 20th Mumbai Film Festival: Bulbul Can Sing, Balekempa among nine films to be screened in India Gold section

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Mumbai Academy of Moving Image announced the lineup for the India Gold section of the upcoming Jio MAMI 20th Mumbai Film Festival. Mumbai Academy of Moving Image announced on Wednesday the lineup for the India Gold section of the upcoming Jio MAMI 20th Mumbai Film Festival. Balekempa, the directorial debut of Ere Gowda, and Rima Das’ Bulbul Can Sing, which …

Rima Das' National Award-winning film Village Rockstars to release in India on 28 September
6 years, 3 months ago

Rima Das' National Award-winning film Village Rockstars to release in India on 28 September

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Mumbai: After winning the Best Feature film Award at the 65th National Film Awards, Rima Das’ directorial Village Rockstars, an Assamese movie, will release across India on 28 September. The film, which had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and India premiere at the Mumbai Film Festival 2018, has been screened in more than 70 international and …

Assamese director Rima Das’ movie on teen love gets packed world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival
6 years, 4 months ago

Assamese director Rima Das’ movie on teen love gets packed world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival

Hindustan Times  

When she arrived in Toronto last year, young Assamese director Rima Das was an unknown filmmaker with a self-made production in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival. A still from director Rima Das’ Bulbul Can Sing, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. I think if the film was there somewhere, it might …

TIFF 2018 Day 5 round-up: Robert Redford bids farewell with Old Man & the Gun; Bulbul Can Sing premieres
6 years, 4 months ago

TIFF 2018 Day 5 round-up: Robert Redford bids farewell with Old Man & the Gun; Bulbul Can Sing premieres

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Rima Das said she was overwhelmed by response to her film, Bulbul Can Sing at TIFF 2018 Robert Redford bowed out on Monday from a 50-year acting career, calling what he has said will be his final movie “a wonderful film to go out on.” With plenty of other interesting films premiering at TIFF 2018, here’s a round-up of all …

TIFF 2018: Women filmmakers lead Indian representation, from Rima Das to Ritu Sarin
6 years, 4 months ago

TIFF 2018: Women filmmakers lead Indian representation, from Rima Das to Ritu Sarin

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While gender inequality may have come to haunt the Venice Film Festival, TIFF 2018 does not seem to have a problem in that department. While the issue of gender inequality may have come to haunt the recently concluded Venice Film Festival, its Canadian counterpart, the Toronto International Film Festival, does not seem to have a problem. Rima Das After creating …

National Award-winning filmmaker Rima Das' Bulbul Can Sing to premiere at TIFF 2018
6 years, 4 months ago

National Award-winning filmmaker Rima Das' Bulbul Can Sing to premiere at TIFF 2018

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Rima Das returns to TIFF after the globally acclaimed Village Rockstars, which premiered at the festival last year. National Award-winning filmmaker Rima Das ’ next Assamese feature, Bulbul Can Sing is set to have its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2018. The writer-director-producer returns to the prestigious film festival after the globally acclaimed Village Rockstars, which premiered at …

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