World cinema is where the
next battleground is and film studios, production houses, multiplex chains,
television are all busy shoring up on their libraries.
There is no better hunting
ground than film festivals and currently Cannes is where most marketing and
buying teams are parked. The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival, (14 to 25 May )
was found in the year 1939, and is one of the world’s oldest, most
influential and prestigious film festivals.
Known for its grandeur and
glitz it is known as much for the screening of world-class movies hand picked by
experts. A screening at Cannes ensures good worldwide business.
NDTV Lumiere has
acquired the exclusive rights, to seven of the movies being screened at the
Cannes Film Festival. These include, A Christmas Tale by Arnaud Desplechin ,
Three Monkeys by Nuri Bilge Ceylan , Chelsea on the Rocks by Abel Ferrara ,
Sangue Pazzo by Narco Tullio Giordana, Tokyo by Michel Gondry, Leo Carax, Nong
Joon-Ho Salt of the Sea by Anne-Marie Jacir and the critics’ choice Home
by Ursula Meire.
For Director
Lumiere, Sunil Doshi who says he has watched around 4,000 films so far and
selected 350, this is a big feather in his cap as he had seen, selected and
bought these movies in February at the Berlin Film Festival, much before Cannes
announcement.
The film-maker
who made Bheja Fry and Mixed Doubles further adds that the rights are bought for
seven years and include screenings across all theatrical, TV, and home video.