Director Krzysztof Zanussi wins Indian Lifetime Achievement Award
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Nick Hodge
23.11.2012 09:39
Director Krzysztof Zanussi has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 43rd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI).
Krzysztof Zanussi: photo - wikipedia
“Moving pictures change the world, they change the way we look at the world around us,” Zanussi said on collecting his award in Panjim, Goa.
Speaking to the Polish Press Agency (PAP), Anna Tryc-Bromley, director of the Polish Institute in Delhi, reflected that the award is “the highest tribute” a film-maker can receive in India, noting that the festival is “one of the most important in Asia.”
Zanussi was a leading proponent of the so-called “Cinema of Moral Anxiety”of the seventies and early eighties, which probed the chinks in Poland's communist reality.
His 1973 classic, Illumination (Illuminacja) is being screened during the festival.
In an interview given for the Times of India, Zanussi warned against excessive political correctness, saying that “it can stifle efforts for honest pursuit and expression of divergent views on reality.”
Meanwhile, Wojciech Smarzowski's drama Rose (Roza), which is set in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, is one of the 15 films competing in the main competition, and Friday will sees a special day of Polish cinema.
The 43rd International Film Festival of India runs until 30 November. (nh)