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2nd Diorama International Film Festival & Market

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Opening film	Shahin by Salar Tehrani, Persian, Iran
Closing film	Mystic Shrine Maiden by Takeshi Sone, Japanese, Japan
Location	Delhi, India
Founded	2019
Festival date	18 December 2020 – 01 January 2021
Website	www.diorama.in

The 2nd Diorama International Film Festival & Market took place virtually from 18th December 2020 to 01st of January 2021. The 15-day long festival took place across five continents, covering an audience of over two million. The festival screened over 200 films from all around the world. An initiative of Indian Film Institute, a Non-Governmental Organisation, aimed at promoting the appreciation of the cinematic art, Diorama partners with Film Federation of India, the apex body of Indian film makers.

Online Edition

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Diorama International Film Festival and Market decided to go online for its second edition. Turning the pandemic into an opportunity, the festival covered an audience of over two million across five continents. The festival was organized on four platforms for audiences across the globe – Diorama Live, India; Mediastar, Indonesia; Filmocracy, USA; and My Open Stage, Turkey. It was also the first international film festival to completely adapt to an online space that conducted online screenings, webinars, film market, networking, and every film festival activity.

Diorama Film Bazaar

The second edition of Diorama Film Bazaar took place between 18-23 December 2020. The Bazaar had 400 Indian and international film professionals participating. This edition of the Film Bazaar comprised of the following sections:

The Pitch Fest

The Bazaar selected eleven film projects for mentoring and financial support. The projects selected were:

• The One Who Dream (Swapnamkanunnavar) By - Dr. Biju Kumar Damodaran
• The Thug (The Great Indian Thug) By - Ajitesh Sharma
• The Acceptance (Manjoor) By - Rohan Sharma
• The Great Onion (Kanda Vanda) By - Gaurav Madan
• You, Me & Demon By - Geeta L Sahai & Shrinkhla Sahai
• Mental Manifesto By - Diganta Dey
• The Choas (Purab Ke Bhasadbaaz) By - Abhishek Prasad
• Curfew (Toque De Queda) By - Radolfo Pereira
• Love, With A Blue Tick By - Tanmir Singh
• Travellers Beware (Yaatri Kripya Dhyaan De) By - Manpreet Singh Dhami
• Aparajita By - Pankaj Verma

The Diorama Film Bazaar Film projects were mentored by Thomas Mai (Producer-Australia, Formerly Trust Film Sales, Katapult Films, Trust Nordisk), Brian Herskowitz (Screenwriter, Producer, Film Fund Advisor- USA), Per Nielsen (Award winning Consulting Producer, Screenwriter - Denmark), Elliot Grove (Founder, President Raindance Film Festival & Screenwriter - UK), Nikolaj Nikitin (Artistic Director, Prague Film Festival - Germany), Philip Chea (Former Director, Singapore Film Festival-Singapore), Irakli Chikvaidze (Producer-, Head Sarke Studio -Georgia), A. Sreekar Prasad (Producer-Editor- India) and Stare Yildirim (Producer- Turkey).

The First Cut

A section dedicated to films seeking distribution and festival participation had 121 entries.

Short Film Center

A section dedicated international short films seeking partnerships, distribution and festival participation invited 140 entries.

Bazaar Sessions

The Film Bazaar organized as many as 39 Webinars on its partner sites. Some of the prominent names that spoke at these webinars were Jonathan Wolf, Managing Director, American Film Market; Jerome Paillard, Executive Director, Cannes Film Market; Tarun Sawhney, CEO, Shorts TV; Academy Award Winning Director, Jeffrey D. Brown; Producer Jane Charles; Dimple Kapadia, Sarika, Puneet Issar, Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill, Voice Actor, Mona Ghosh Shetty; Rahul Bhat, Divya Dutta, Arjan Bajwa, Kirti Kulhari, Karan Aanand, Shreya Chaudhary, Ritwik Bhowmik, Rahul Mittra, Jim Sarbh, Film Directors Rahul Rawail, Deepak Tijori, Sriram Raghavan, Anant Mahadevan, Anand Tiwari, Laetitia Eido, Lead Actress from Netflix Series ’Fauda’; Mozhgan Taraneh from Iran, Brazilian Singer Carlyta Mohini from India, Bollywood Singer Raky from South Korea, Singer Viruss, Short Film veterans Saameer Mody, Cyrus Dastur, alongside hundreds of other international film professionals.

The Film Bazaar also hosted 1951 online meetings between Film Bazaar participants. Participating Companies: Vuulr, Singapore, Bohemia Media, UK, ScriptDoor, USA, Filmocracy, USA, Luxbox, France, Radio and Television of Slovakia, Der Filmverleih GmbH, Germany, Combined Solutions, Singapore, Studio KAIBURI", Georgia AND 90 others.

Diorama Film Bazaar Awards

• Best Film Locations Presentation: Centre Cinematographique Maroccain (Moroccan Cinema Centre), Morocco jointly with Spain Film Commission

• Best Indian Film Location Presentation: Gujarat Tourism

• Most Viable Feature Film Project: ‘Kanda Vanda (The Great Onion)’ by Gaurav Madan

• Diorama Film Bazaar Recommends Certificate: Documentary Film: Mental Manifesto’ of Diganta Dey; Documentary Film: ‘You Me and Demon’ by Geeta L Sahai and Shrinkhla Sahai

Webinars

The festival organized more than 130 webinars and sessions, with an impressive speaker list of Academy and BAFTA Award winners, actors, directors and other film professionals from around the world. The second edition went beyond the conventional role of a film festival and brought unique and even complicated topics like the ‘Copyright Laws’, ‘Protection of Intellectual Property Rights’ into focus through Live interactions with some of the world’s best legal minds. The diverse topic range covered subjects like ‘Stunts Action Direction’, ‘Intimacy Coordination in Films’, ‘Creating and Producing Music Videos’ among several others. The festival presented a mix of panel discussions, masterclasses, exclusive interviews and other informative sessions. Some of the prominent webinars in the second edition were-

• Masterclass on Directing Biographies by Omung Kumar
• Director’s Special with Sriram Raghavan
• Masterclass with Ace Casting Director Mukesh Chhabra
• Screenwriting for the Global Industry by Jason Mirch
• How to prepare for an audition with Nandini Shrikent
• Directing Stunts and Action – Ben Heidrich, Lachlan Russel, Chetan D’Souza, Krzysztof Szymański
• Shooting in India: Opportunities and Challenges – Vikramjit Roy, Head of Film Facilitation Centre, India
• ‘Writing Great Scripts’ by Hollywood Writer Max Timm
• Film Education vs Hands-on training - Chaitanya Chinchilikar, Whistling Woods International, Sriguha CG, Ramanaidu Film School
• Coffee Table Interview with Manoj Bajpayee
• An Actor’s World – Divya Dutta
• Meet the Actor – Jimmy Shergill
• Remembering Rishi Kapoor – Dimple Kapadia, Rahul Rawail
• The Big World of Shorts – Tisca Chopra, Namrata Shenoy, Sanjay Chopra, Anupama Gupta
• Actors too look for Good Scripts – Vinay Pathak
• Meet the Actor – Kirti Kulhari
• Master Class on Voice Dubbing and Acting – Mona Ghosh Shetty
• Masterclass on scripting and direction – Vipul K. Rawal
• Coffee Table Interview with Jim Sarbh
• Masterclass on Writing Dialogues – Abbas Tyrewala
• Life in Films – Seema Pahwa
• Coffee Table Interview – Pavan Malhotra
• Creating Bandish Bandits – Anand Tiwari, Ritwik Bhowmik, Shreya Chaudhry
• Locations are also Characters – Sanjay Puran Singh
• Developing a Film Project – Rahul Mittra
• Makeup for Film Stars – Ruhee M Bindra
• Inside Story of Sports Films – Robert Miller
• Costume Design: A career for Fashion Students – Anna Singh
• Connecting with Hollywood – Richard Botto, founder of Stage 32
• Stories that Sell – Siddharth Anand Kumar, Yoodlee Films
• Developing Documentary Projects – Dylan Mohan Gray
• Cinema of the Sellers – N Padmakumar
• Film Criticism Today: Relevance and Challenges – Derek Malcolm

Official Selections

Indian Competition

This section was dedicated to the Indian Feature Films from all the regions of the country. The following films were screened under the Indian Competition section:

• Bulbule directed by Manpreet Singh Dhami
• Fever directed by Santhosh Mandoor
• Fire of Teak Flame of Chinar directed by Kumar Chowdhury
• Kondan directed by Sachin Ashok Yadav
• Musings of an Uninspired Artist directed by Ronit Jadhav
• Mooso directed by Deepankar Prakash
• Odd Couple directed by Prashant Johari
• Parcel directed by Indrasis Acharya
• Ramana Savari directed by K. Shivarudraiah
• Riyaz directed by Mriganka Borah
• Veyilmarangal directed by Bijukumar Damodaran
• Virus directed by Ashiq Abu

International Competition

This section was dedicated to International Feature Films. It included feature films from different countries. The following films were screened under the International Competition section:

• Alive directed by M Siebert
• Beyond Memory directed by Miguel Babo
• Big Blue Sea directed by Maya Wong, K F Yuen
• Bozkir Look At The Birds directed by Mehmet Tanrisever
• Cardboard Clouds directed by Sergio Hernandez Sanz
• Catharsys Or The Afina Tales Of The Lost World directed by Yassine Maroco Marroccu
• Cry Of The Sky directed by Shahram Qadir
• From Love directed by Ninad Mikovic
• Gratefulness directed by Salim Hamdi
• He Went directed by Mehdi Esmaeili
• I Married My Mother directed by Domenico Costanzo
• Iliana directed by Vladimir Koyfman
• Mystic Shrine Maiden directed by Takeshi Sone
• Nelly directed by Marco Estrada Goya
• Nobody Is Crazy directed by Federico J. Arioni
• Paradise Hotel directed by Daniel Rehder Normand
• Profondo directed by Giuliano Giacomelli
• Remember Our Dance directed by Nariman Turebayev
• Run directed by Uche Chukwu
• The Letterbox directed by Rahman Mani
• Three Little Dreams directed by Chapour Haghighat
• White Flowers directed by Marco De Angelis
• Your Color (Deine Farbe) directed by Maria Diane Ventura
• Your Honour directed by Andres Puustusmaa
• Where I Come From directed by Takong Delvis
• Provincial Dreamers directed by Rumi Shoazimov
• Etude #2 directed by Andrey Burmistrov
• Letters Of Happiness directed by Svetlana Sukhanova
• Shahin directed by Salar Tehrani
• Non Living directed by Agustín Rubio Alcober
• The Uncle directed by Hyoung-Jin Kim
• Ms. Purple directed by Justin Chon
• Under The Trees directed by Thomas Scherer

Fear is The Key

The section was dedicated to Horror Genre of Films from around the world. The following films were screened under this section:

• A Night In Hell directed by Nikos Kourous
• Crypt directed by Vahid Zarrabinasab
• Séance directed by Johannes Franke
• The Dark Cinema directed by Pyae Zaw Phyo
• The White Devil directed by Ignacio Rogers
• Tlamatinimes The Lords Of Thunder directed by Andre Andrade

Migrant Stories

This was a special section dedicated to Migrant Stories. It included feature films from different countries on the problems faced by migrants settling down away from their own countries. The following films were selected under this special section:

• Life In A Shadow directed by Mohammed Faizal
• Never Forever directed by Fabio Massa
• Sawah directed by Adolf El Assal
• Second Future directed by A R Almalla
• To Go Or Not To Go directed by Reza Golchin, Alborz Poursayad
• Rabia And Olivia directed by Shadab Khan

Lockdown Stories

As the Covid-19 pandemic caused a worldwide lockdown, many filmmakers made films during this period. The section was dedicated to films made during lockdown. Following were the films selected under this section:

• Musings Of An Uninspired Artist directed by Ronit Jadhav
• Jaago Aur Jiyo directed by Siddhant Issar
• Virus directed by Vaidy Somasundaram
• Gharmua: The Home Coming directed by Simi Deka
• Made in China directed by Ale Damiani

Diorama Docs. (International Documentary Competition)

This section was dedicated to International Documentary Films. It included documentary films from different countries. The following films were under Documentary Competition section:

• Afghanistan: Imprisoned And Free directed by Vahur Liabia
• Checker Tobi And Our Planet's Secret directed by Martin Tischner
• Coffin Decolleté directed by Nancy Kamal
• Coral Woman directed by Priya Thuvassery
• Deep Roots directed by Luc Godonou Dossou
• Ivan's Game directed by Tomislav Zaja
• I See In The Dark directed by Lana Bregar
• In Search Of Woman directed by Mojtaba Kuhkan
• Kiss The Ground directed by Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell
• Kiruna -A Brand New World directed by Greta Stocklassa
• La La Every You directed by Chu Yen-lan
• Lat (addiction) directed by Arjun Rajput
• Linggih Aksara directed by Ni Luh Putu Indra Dewi Anjani
• Restoring Dignity directed by Claire Jeantet, Fabrice Catérini
• Serenade To The Wind directed by Sanela Bajric
• Shaman directed by Otwin Biernat
• Of Sand And Gold directed by Raghed Charabaty
• Portraits Of My Mother directed by Tavo Ruiz
• Paw Prints directed by Nebula Karkada
• The Metro Symphony directed by Audy Zandri, Antoine Fountaine
• The Outside In directed by Hansa Thapliyal
• The Power Of Passport directed by Simona Carlino
• The Sounds Of Life directed by Ori Di Vincenzo
• The Weight Of Gold directed by Vyesitzek, Milos Zmijewski & Oscar Diaz
• The Last Tribe directed by Amit Goswamy
• Ticket To The Moon directed by Veronika Janatkova
• Tickets, Please! directed by Astrid Serafini
• Uzrock directed by Arslan Veliev
• Voice Of Siang directed by Joor Baruah

Diorama Shorts (International Competition for shorts)

This section was dedicated to International Short Films. It included short films from different countries. The following films were under Shorts Competition section:

• 17/70/74 directed by Matija Munjiza Petrović
• 24 Truths directed by Selim Gribaa
• 30k An Ounce directed by Sagar Singh Sivaraman
• A Day of Rain directed by Alicia Zárate, Julio Godefroy
• Absence directed by Daniela Diaz
• Alexia directed by Martin Basile
• At Home directed by Luisina Anderson
• Best Seller directed by Max Lemcke
• Blue Bead directed by Abdulllatif Hamza Kanaan
• Borde Rio directed by Yura Labarca
• Can You Bear Me? directed by Julia Shuvchinskaya
• Coda directed by Lee Hsiang-Chun
• Colpevoli directed by Edoardo Paoli
• De Angelis directed by Gioacchino Balistreri
• Eavesdropper directed by Ahmet Tojac
• Egum directed by Yuri Costa
• Everybody Knows directed by Siddhartha Nuni
• Ex-Tenants directed by Christopher Beaulieu
• Fahrer - The Driver directed by James Caley
• Fever Queen directed by Nick Cotrufo
• Force Majeure directed by Ng Ho Yin, Chris
• Fuggiro Tanto Amore directed by Raúl Lorite
• Gharmua: The Home Coming directed by Simi Deka
• Grasshopper directed by Vladimir Karpychev
• Grey Town directed by Rishikeshwar Yogi
• Hunting Season directed by Dmitris Theocharidis
• Hype directed by Viktor Butok
• Hypnosis directed by David Trujillo
• Il Capolavoro - The Masterpiece directed by Stefano Moscone
• Irene directed by João Martinho
• Ivory Tower directed by Qingxi Zhang
• Kashti directed by Hritik Sanghavi
• Khisa (pocket) directed by Raj Pritam More
• La Ducasse directed by Margaux Elouagari
• La Mejor Mama Del Mun Do directed by Catalina Sandoval
• Love Bytes directed by Vicky Khandpur
• Luntian directed by Bryan Angelo Francisco Hocson
• Madu directed by Zikri Kamarulzaman
• Marisol directed by Zoe Salicrup
• Marquet Place directed by Annick Christiaens
• Mila directed by Andreas Vakalios
• Moth directed by Shu Zhu
• My Father Has Fangs directed by Mathias Tenenbaum
• My Life Is Like directed by Rizwan Hussain
• Naked Voice directed by Deepankar Prakash
• Noor directed by Rim Nakhli
• Pesa Madanthai directed by Sooriyan Kuppuswamy
• Pickpocketer directed by Somu Mitra
• Prelude directed by Gershon Sng
• Purple Scarf directed by José Prats
• Red Window directed by Hussein Alugaili
• Reise nach Nirgendwo - Travel to Nowhere directed by Thomas Scherer
• Relicious directed by Eugenio Villani, Raffaele Palazzo
• Rio directed by Zhenia Kazankina
• Roses Are Yellow directed by Aviaja Skotte
• Salty, Sweet directed by Péter Hajmási
• Sam'ak - Hearing Aid directed by Hamid Yousefi
• Sderot Kissufim directed by Noga Dekel
• Sealskin directed by Ugla Hauksdottir
• Sense directed by Diana Arias
• Sobat - Along With directed by Ganesh Dharmadhikari
• Sonia Loves, Sonia Doesn't directed by Natalia Beliaeva
• Square Of Freedom directed by Ming-wei Chiang
• Stubborn As A Mule directed by Victor Barges
• Stutter directed by Solmaz Etemad
• Suicide Candidates directed by Hamza Atifi
• Sweet Discomfort Of Missed Connections directed by Hussen Ibraheem
• Tapioca Diary directed by Okado Takashi
• The Die Is Cast directed by Denis Soroka
• The Fruitful directed by John Collins
• The Greatest Show directed by Ararat Gulanyan Lao Yan
• The Last Glass of Wine directed by Ramiro Brunel
• The orchard Dream directed by Yonathan Wezeli
• Today You Tomorrow Me directed by Christopher Neal
• Virus directed by Vaidy Somasundaram
• Who Is The Man? directed by Rosine Kaboré
• Wild Will directed by Alan King
• Ya Ben (And Me) directed by Yaren Zara Berg
• Hans Im Pech - Hapless Hans directed by Rena Dumont
• Resurrection Jaago Aur Jiyo directed by Siddhant Issar
• Barberry directed by Adilet Baktybekov
• Bhanumoti directed by Asif Ul Islam
• Bridge directed by Vahid Hassanzadeh
• Eclipse directed by Billie Aleman
• Home (Heima ) directed by Emil Alfreð Emilsson
• Made in China directed by Alicia Damiani
• Pauline directed by Junichi Shikano
• Race To Happiness directed by Jessy Tonda
• Sound Of Spring directed by Li Jiayi

Awards

The following prizes were awarded

• Audience Choice Award – Best International Feature Film - Takeshi Sone for Mystic Shrine Maiden
• Audience Choice Award – Best International Documentary - Astrid Serafini for Tickets Please
• Audience Choice Award – Best International Short Film - Christopher Neal for Today You, Tomorrow Me
• Audience Choice Award – Best Indian Feature Film - Indrasis Acharya for Parcel (Bengali)
• Diorama Discovery Award – Best International Feature Film - Marco De Angelis, Antonio Di Trapani for White Flowers
• Diorama Discovery Award – Best International Documentary - Nancy Kamal for Coffin Décolleté
• Diorama Discovery Award – Best International Documentary - Greta Stocklassová for Kiruna - A Brand New World
• Diorama Discovery Award – Best Indian Feature Film – Sachin Yadav for Kondan (Marathi)
• Diorama Discovery Award – Best International Short Film - Ng Ho Yin for Force Majeure
• Diorama Discovery Award – Best International Short Film - Thomas Scherer for Travel to Nowhere
• Diorama Discovery Award – Best International Short Film - Hussein Alugaili for Red Window
• Diorama Debut Award – Best International Feature Film- Maria Diane Ventura for Your Colour (Deine Farbe)
• Diorama Debut Award – Best Indian Feature Film – Manpreet Dhami for Bulbule
• Diorama Debut Award – Best International Documentary - Martin Tischner for Checker Tobi and our Planet’s Secrets
• Diorama Debut Award – Best International Short Film - Aviaja Skotte for The Roses are Yellow
• Diorama Honour for the Best Horror Film – International Feature Film - Pyae Zaw Phyo for The Dark Cinema
• Best Lockdown Tales Award – International Short Film – Siddhant Issar for Resurrection
• Best Lockdown Tales Award – International Short Film - Ale Damiani for Made in China