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Excitement governed Day 7 of the 15th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Association of Moving Images (Mami) and presented by Reliance Entertainment. While the penultimate day had an amazing lineup of events, it also signified that only one day of the Festival remains.

Today’s list of master pieces included Shield of Straw directed by Takashi Miike, Before Midnight directed by Richard Linklater, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, Om Prakash Srivastava’s A Few Days More, Gloria directed by Sebastian Lelio, legendary Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar, The Sea Inside directed by Alejandro Amenabar, Costa Gavras’ Capital, Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag among many more.

A must watch on today’s list was director Mirra Bank’s “The Only Real Game”, a documentary exploring the power of baseball for people in Manipur. A small group of baseball-loving New Yorkers and two Major...

Open Forum Panels

Oct 18th, 2-3pm, Screen 3, Metro Cinema

Do film festivals help films achieve success?

Speakers : Marc Baschet ( French producer of Oscar winning films No Man’s Land, An episode in the life of an iron picker), Umesh Kulkarni, Anand Gandhi, Peter Van Hoof ( Programmer, International film festival of Rotterdam)

Moderator : Liz Shackleton, Asia chief, Screen International

Oct 19th, 2-3pm, Screen 3, Metro Cinema

Alternative distribution plan for Indie films.

Speakers : Isabelle Dubar, Guneet Monga, Shubra Gupta, Nandini Mansinghka

Moderator : Chris Hainsworth

Oct 20th, 2-3pm, Screen 4, Metro Cinema

Rejuvenation of Marathi Cinema presented by Akhil Bhartiy Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal in association with Mami

Speakers : Sanjay Jadhav (director -Duniyadari )

Amitraj (Music -Duniyadari )

Ashutosh Ghorpade (Director -Cultural Affairs -Mh Govt )

Deepti DCunha (Film Festivals)

Ambar Hadap (Story –Balak Palak )

6.Avinash (Music-Premachi Gosht )

7.Jayesh Muzumdar (Producer -Viacom 18)

Moderator: Vijay Patkar

Oct 21st, 2-3pm,...