Indian
Film Festival of Melbourne was incepted in 2010 and was
founded by its director, Mitu Bhowmick Lange. Mitu has had an illustrious
career spanning across production-filmmaking and has been the pioneering force
behind the festival. In 2012 the
Victorian government and Film Victoria board officially backed the festival.
Since its inception, the festival has grown; pillar-to-pillar attracting some
of the most celebrated Indian films over the past decade to the festival and
has hosted some of the biggest Indian stars from the subcontinent. 2019 is a big
year for the festival as it completes a decade and this year the festival will
take place from August 8th to August 17th.
IFFM
has not only grown from a small compact festival into a major annual cultural
event in Melbourne but has also been honoured with some major accolades and has
officially become the largest Indian festival in the southern hemisphere. The festival in its 10 years of
existence has seen the who’s who of Indian cinema in attendance, from Amitabh
Bachchan to Priyanka Chopra, Karan Johar, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Vidya Balan,
Kangana Ranaut, Rajkumar Hirani, Kabir Khan, Nikhil Advani, Rani Mukerji,
Sushant Singh Rajput, Rajkummar Rao, Freida Pinto, Richa Chadha, Konkona Sen
Sharma, Ali Fazal and many others.
Each
year the festival celebrates a core theme and in 2019
the
theme of the festival has been selected to be courage. Courage as a term has
come to be true to the cinema, especially in the last few years. Be it on
screen and off, Indian cinema’s content has chosen to tell stories of subjects,
which have been brave, tough and have given us some heroic icons. The theme is
in lieu with a celebration of this element of modern day cinema, which will be
celebrated at the 10th Indian Film Festival of
Melbourne.
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