XMITA’s ‘Retrospective section Boost’ to filmmaking in Kashmir

KL Report

SRINAGAR

To give a ‘boost’ to the filmmakers and filmmaking of the region Experimental Moving Images & Theatre (XMITA) during its biannual calendar event “the prestigious International Film Festival of Kashmir” has this year slotted the retrospective section for the Kashmiri filmmaker Ali Emran, a statement said on Tuesday.

XMITA is holding an “International Film Festival” in Kashmir. The event was scheduled to happen earlier this month but due reasons unknown, the event could not take place.

Addressing a press conference a few days back, the organizers, flanked by a Mumbai based Film Maker-Gurmeet Singh, had said that the event shall now start from 18 of this month. However, they added that the venue of the mega event is yet to be identified.

Filmmaking in Kashmir began way back in 1964. Manziraat is known to be the first feature film in Kashmiri language. Released in the year 1964, the movie was directed by Jagjiram Pal, the statement informed.

“The first ever feature length film by a Kashmiri is Habba Khatoon. This first full length feature film was released in 1977; it was written and directed by Bashir Budgami,” it said.

“Kashmir may not have been able to produce many films in past decades but the future seems relatively very bright keeping in view the fact that many young people are trying to build good cinema in Kashmir this indeed is a welcome change and as we announce the retrospective section of the IFFK-2014 we are glad to inform that Ali Emran a young filmmaker who has made about twenty (20) films in different genres has got his place reserved as a Kashmiri filmmaker who has a credible contribution towards building the Film Industry in Kashmir and thus we are according the retrospective section of the IFFK-2014 to his films out of which four films of his will be screened for the first time,” the statement further said.

“The quality of his film is depicted by the novel treatment that he ascribes to every film in a different manner every time, his films so far may not have been made on a very big budget but in a way this has helped his films to present the creative impulse in a pure and original form,” it added.

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