The 12th River to River Florence Indian Film Festival has taken place from 7 to 13 December at Odeon cinema in Florence and from 14 to 16 December at Trevi cinema in Rome.
The Festival has celebrated 100 years of Indian cinema and for the occasion has had the honour to have as special guest the super Bollywood star and icon Amitabh Bachchan.
Among the feature film directors, River to River Florence Indian Film Festival has invited the successful Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur 1 and 2) and the newcomer Bedabrata Pain (Chittagong). The documentary filmmakers in Florence have been Anirudh Chawla (Balls) and Avadhoot Khanolkar (Bharatmata Ki Jai), as well as the producer Robin De (Living With Clay). Representing the short film section, Vikram Dasgupta, director of Calcutta Taxi, and Johannes Helsberg, music director of Afterglow, have attended the Festival.
Furthermore, Franco La Cecla, Anna Nadotti, Ashanti Omkar and Marco Restelli have been the speakers of the morning talks.
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The 11th edition of the Festival has taken place from 2 to 8 December 2011 at Odeon cinema.
Among the Festival guests, the directors and actors of the feature films Rudronil Ghosh (actor in Chaplin), Zaib Rehman (actress in Bol) and Q (director of Gandu).
Some of the directors of the short films and documentaries: Milind Dhaimade (director of Prakata Het Yad), Valerie Berteau and Philippe Witjes (directors of Himself He Cooks), Filippo Carli (director of Nataraja) and Anubhav Syal (cinematographer of Gulcharrey).
Furthermore, the speakers of the morning talks have been: Sauro Albisani, Franca Bacchiega, Fabrizia Baldissera, Maria Grazia Beverini del Santo and Folco Terzani.
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The tenth edition of the Festival has taken place from 3 to 9 December 2010 at cinemas Odeon and Spazio Uno.
Among the Festival guests, the directors and actors of the feature films: Aparna Sen (director of Iti Mrinalini, The Japanese Wife and Mr. and Mrs. Iyer), Rahul Bose (actor in I Am, The Japanese Wife, Split Wide Open, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer and director and actor of Everybody Says I'm Fine!), Ajit Ahuja (co-director of Ishqyia), Onir (director of I Am) and Malaika Shenoy (actress in Peepli Live).
Some of the directors of the short movies and documentaries: Prithi Gowda (Televisnu), Arati Kadav, Devendra Gandhi and Chetan Vora (Uss Paar), Franco La Cecla (Minimum Maharaja), Jan Michelini and Italo Spinelli (The Streets of Shantaram), Rupesh Paul (You Can't Step Twice in the Same River), Michael Anthony Rawlins (Kiss Me A'ready), Rizwan Siddiqui (Kharboozey) and Vijay Singh (India by Song).
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The ninth edition of the Festival has taken place from 4 to 10 December 2009 at cinema Odeon. Among the festival guests, filmmakers Ketan Mehta, Raja Menon, Sooni Taraporevala, Sanjeev Sivan, Kartik Singh, Dev Khanna, actresses Nandana Sen and Iyanah Bativala, and scriptwriter Shakir Kadri.
The Opening and Closing Films, both out of competition, have been Ketan Mehta's Rang Rasiya and Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues.
The winners of the River to River Digichannel Audience Award in the three sections: A Heaven on Earth by Deepa Mehta in the feature film section, Topi by Arjun Rihan in the short film section and Children of God by Yi Seung-yun in the documentary section.
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The eighth edition of the Festival has taken place from 5 to 11 December 2008 at cinema Odeon. Among the festival guests, filmmakers Fiorella Castanotto, Nishikant Kamat, Sahshank Ghosh, Richie Mehta, Christopher Mitchell, Sarab S. Neelam and Ramesh Sharma.
The winners of the River to River Digichannel Audience Award in the three sections: Amal by Richie Mehta in the feature film section, Funerailles by Subarna Thapa in the short film section, and Super 30 by Christopher Mitchell in the documentary section.
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The seventh edition of the Festival has taken place from 7 to 13 December 2007 at cinema Gambrinus.
Among the festival guests, filmmakers Ashish Avikuntak, Sarthak Dasgupta, Nandita Jain, Francesca Lignola, Ishaan Nair, Chitra Palekar, Stefano Rebechi, Joy Bimal Roy and Bhavna Talwar.
The winners of the River to River Digichannel Audience Award in the three sections: Maati Maay by Chitra Palekar in the feature film section, Saving Mum and Dad by Kartik Singh in the short film section, and Sotto il cielo di Ahmedabad by Francesca Lignola and Stefano Rebechi in the documentary section.
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The sixth edition of the Festival has taken place from 8 to 14 December 2006 at cinema Spazio Uno. Among the festival guests, filmmakers Aditya Bhattacharya, Jamil Dehlavi, Nicole Maria Krieger, Diego Liguori, Massimiliano Pacifico, Filippo Papini, Anna Pitscheider and Pietro Silvestri.
The winners of the River to River Digichannel Audience Award in the three sections: Infinite Justice by Jamil Dehlavi in the feature film section, Dog by Daniel Lang in the short film section, and I for India by Sandhya Suri in the documentary section.
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The fifth edition of the Festival has taken place from 9 to 15 December 2005 at cinema Spazio Uno. Among the festival guests, filmmakers Dheeraj Akolkar, Bharatbala, Krishna Das, Ruchi Narain, Gianluca Pipitone, Pietro Silvestri and Thomas Wartmann.
The winners of the River to River Digichannel Audience Award in the three sections: Sof Haolam Smola (Turn Left at the End of the World) by Avi Nesher in the feature film section, 6ft. in 7 min. by Rafael Del Toro in the short film section, and Between the Lines by Thomas Wartmann in the documentary section.
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The fourth edition of the Festival has taken place from 8 to 12 December 2004 at cinema Spazio Uno. Among the festival guests, filmmakers Goutam Ghose, Herbert Krill, Dishad Husain, Vinta Nanda and Partho Sen Gupta, actress Koel Purie and producer Mohanjit Singh.
Waisa bhi hota hai (Shit Happens) by Shashanka Ghosh has won the River to River DigiChannel Audience Award.
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The third edition of the Festival has taken place from 10 to 14 December 2003 at cinema Spazio Uno, at the presence of filmmakers Roysten Abel and Manisha Jha, journalist and filmmaker Meenakshi Shedde, and festival programmer and journalist Uma da Cunha.
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The second edition of the Festival has taken place from 11 to 15 December 2002 at cinema Spazio Uno, at the presence of filmmakers Rahul Bose and Anand Patwardhan, and festival programmer and journalist Uma da Cunha.
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The first edition of the Festival has taken place from 4 to 7 October 2001 at the Teatro del Ronḍ di Bacco of Palazzo Pitti, at the presence of filmmakers Preeti Chandrakant, Dev Benegal and Biju Viswanath.
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