• Opening Film
• World Competition
• Marathi Competition
• Student Competition
• Tribal Competition
• Global Cinema
• Country Focus
• Bafta Shorts
• Theme Movies
• Retrospective
• International Retro
• Indian Cinema
• MIFF Films
• Tribute

The Cinema Travellers

Original Name: The Cinema Travellers
English Name: The Cinema Travellers
Year: 2018
Run Time: 96 mins
Language: Hindi, Marathi
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: India
Director: Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya
Producer: Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya
DOP: Amit Madheshiya
Editor: Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya
Sound Designer: Pete Horner
Festivals: Cannes 2016

Director’s Biography:

AMIT MADHESHIYA and SHIRLEY ABRAHAM

Amit and Shirley are acclaimed Indian filmmakers. As a photographer, Amit began working on the Travelling Cinema project in 2008. Photographs from this project won the World Press Photo in 2011, World Photography Award in 2009 and 2011 and Grand Prize at the Humanity Photo Awards in 2009.The Cinema Travellers is their debutfeature documentary, which won the Special Jury Prize for L’Oeild’or: Le Prix du documentaire at Cannes 2016. It has played 96 film festivals and won 16 national and international awards, including the National Film Award.

Synopsis:

For over seven decades, showmen riding cinema lorries brought the wonder of movies to farwaway villages in India once every year. With their cinema projectors crumbling and film reels becoming scarce, the travelling cinema patrons are lured by slick digital technology. However, a benevolent showman, a shrewd exhibitor and a maverick projector mechanic are trying to keep the last traveling cinemas of the world running.