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SPOTLIGHT ON INDIAN FILM 
Jameson Belfast Film Festival, in conjunction with the British Council, are highlighting, ‘New Indian Cinema’ in a retrospective on both feature and documentary work.
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MONDAY 23RD MARCH 2009
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ADOOR GOPALAKRISHNAN
We are honored to welcome Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India's most acclaimed contemporary filmmaker, as a special guest to the 9th Jameson Belfast Film Festival.
Check out the Spotlight on Indian Film section for full details:
The Walls - Mathilukal
QFT
Saturday 28th March, 2pm
£6 / £5.50
India / 1990 / 120mins
Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Inspired by a fact-based novella by South Indian writer and revolutionary Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, this meditation on the nature of freedom takes place during Basheer's political imprisonment in the 1940's.
Shadow Kill – Nizhalkuthu
QFT
Sunday 29th March, 2pm
£6 / £5.50
India / 2003 / 90mins
Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Set in 1941 in a remote village in the princely state of Travancore, today part of the southwestern Indian state of Kerala, Gopalakrishnan’s slow-paced, powerful and at times visually beautiful film centres on the tragic life of Kaliyappan, an aging state executioner and his family.
A panel discussion with Adoor Gopalakrishnan (following Shadow Kill) will take place at QFT, Sunday 29th March, 3.30pm
Other Indian film titles in the Festival Programme include Quick Gun Murugan and two documentaries, Hair India and Flying on One Engine. Check out the World Cinema and Maysles Brothers Documentary Competition sections for full details
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