Culture Cinema

It's the only Indian film in this year's festival edition and is competing in Orizzonti (horizons), a section dedicated to films representing new aesthetic and expressive trends in world cinema. Writer-director-editor Aditya said, "Venice is a dream festival for any filmmaker and we are extremely grateful and excited to be back with a Bengali film about the city, especially on the 100 birth centenary of Satyajit Ray."

Besides other genres, the mainstay of the cinema business was the family drama, or social films. These were dramas revolving around joint families. It was an elaborate saas-bahu, bhabhi-devar, nanand with a comic sidetrack making it formula family fare. It was a mix of emotion, tragedy, comic relief, and relatives at crossroads.

We identified 21 unique categories including History, Music, Festivals, Art and Artisans, Architectural Heritage, Education, Social Practices, Travel and Tourism, Literature, Mythology, Traditional Sports, Biodiversity, Cultural Reforms, Attire and Ornaments, Food, Traditional Medicine, Cultural Taboos, Tribal Community, Diaspora, Battles and Philosophy for this festival.