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“The Weight” is that rare thing, a truly unique and challenging piece of cinema that blurs the line between film and art. The fifth feature from Jeon Kyu Hwan, known for his Berlinale-featured works “Varanasi” and “Dance Town”, the provocative film marries extreme and graphic content with melancholic philosophising, following Kim Ki Duk regular Cho Jae Hyun (“Moebius”, “Bad Guy”) as a hunchbacked mortician as he goes about his dreary life. The film has enjoyed great success at international festivals, most notably winning the Queer Lion Award at the 69th Venice International Film Festival (the first Korean film to do so), as well as picking up various prizes at Fantasporto, Tallinn and the International Film Festival of India. Cho Jae Hyun plays Jung, a hunchback who works in a morgue taking care of the corpses before they make their final journey. Despite being afflicted with advanced tuberculosis and arthritis, he...

Mira Nair being awarded with the Special Centenary Award by the Australian Film Maker, Paul Cox, at the closing ceremony of the 43rd International Film Festival of India (Iffi-2012), in Panaji, Goa on November 30, 2012.

Gurvinder Singh’s Punjabi film ‘Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan’ bagged Golden Peacock for the best film and a cash prize of Rs. 4 million (Usd 73600) at the 43rd International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2012.

The festival came to a close today with the screening of Mira Nair’s ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’.

The Iffi this year celebrated the centenary year of Indian Cinema by bestowing the ‘Centenary Film Award’ to Mira Nair’s ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’. This film was selected by a special jury panel. The award carries Silver Peacock, Certificate and a cash prize of Rs. 1 million (Usd 18000)

Best Director’s award went to Kyu-hwan Jeon for his film ‘The Weight’. He got Silver Peacock, Certificate and a cash prize of Rs.