Miffed jury gets selective with awards
There was just one surprise in the otherwise lacklustre closing and awards ceremony of the just-concluded MIFF 2000, and that was the number of Golden Conch awards which remained on the shelf.



Child prodigy's stories spin a spell at MIFF
Ten-year-old and an imagination running on the wild, wild side. In the fantasy world of V Abhimanyu, a Class V student, mouths seek freedom from human bodies, books rebel against insensitive children, garbage conspires with wind to annihilate man and mother unknowingly kills her daughter.



DD skips closing ceremony telecast
Doordarshan, which broadcast live the opening ceremony of the Mumbai International Film Festival on February 3 and had promised to do the same on the closing day of the fest.



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