The 57th edition of Valladolid’s Seminci Film Festival will take place from October 20 to 27. A retrospective with the title ‘Bollywood’s other cinema’ will include eight films from the past ten years, all of them made outside Bollywood, India’s powerful film industry known for its musical acts and colourful choreographies. The chosen films are by a new generation of film-makers interested in showing the country’s social reality by moving away from clichés and, in some cases, clearly influenced by Western cinema.
Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Vishal Bhardwaj, Shonali Bose, Kiran Rao and Sanjay Leela Bhansali are the directors selected. The first, Anurag Kashyap, is the main representative of this kind of cinema. The retrospective scheduled by the Seminci will feature three of his films: Black Friday (2004), Dev D (2009) and That Girl in Yellow Boots (2010). Kashyap is also a talented producer: he produced Udaan (2010), Vikramaditya Motwane’s debut movie. The list is completed by Maqbool (2003), by Vishal Bhardwaj; Amu (2005), by Shonali Bose, one of India’s most acclaimed arthouse films; Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries) (2010), by Kiran Rao and, lastly, Black (2005), by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who was nominated for the Oscars for his film Devdas.
The retrospective was organised by Valladolid’s Film Festival together with Casa de la India, a patron of the Foundation, and the Embassy of India to Spain. The Spain India Council Foundation collaborated actively, together with the Directorate of Film Festivals India and sponsor Air India.
