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The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project, a film directed by Srinivas Sunderrajan is one among the 12 films that will contend for the Transilvania Trophy at the tenth edition of Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff).

Presented by Romanian Film Promotion, 10th Tiff will take place from June 3-12, 2011 in Cluj- Napoca and June 15-19, 2011 in Sibiu, Romania. The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project will compete with films from Spain, Iceland, Sweden, USA, Germany, Denmark, Argentina, Belgium, Uruguay, Israel and Russia.

The film belonging to meta fiction genre stars Kartik Krishnan, Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy, Swara Bhaskar and D Santosh. A Hindi-English drama-thriller film shot in Mumbai, it was screened in Mumbai International Film Festival, 2010, South-Asian International Film Festival New York 2010 and Asian Hot Shots International Film Festival Berlin 2010.

The films in competition are:

A useful life / La vida util

Dir: Federico Veiroj, Uruguay – Spain, 2010

Innocent Saturday / V subbotu

Dir: Alexander Mindadze, Russia – Germany – Ukraine, 2011

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We haven't mentioned the Berlinale at all in the heat of Oscar week. So let's do that, shall we? Better late than never. The festival closes tomorrow but the awards were handed out over the past two days.

"Nader and Simin: A Separation" Golden Bear

Asghar Fahradi, who got a lot of Oscar buzz a couple years back (though no nomination) for About Elly, won this year's Golden Bear for Nader & Simin: A Separation (2011). The Hollywood Reporter explains the film like so.

Farhadi's drama traces the breakup of a Iranian family set against the political tensions in Tehran. While not overtly political, Nader and Simin is starkly critical of conditions in Iran, notably the country's huge class divide. It was widely tipped to win Berlin's top prize, not least because of the current upheaval in the Middle East.

Fahradi dedicated his prize to jailed filmmaker Jafar Panihi who was also...

[Editor's note: I've asked our team of world film correspondents to dish out their top 5 films of the year from their respective countries. Here's Eithan Weitz's take on the Best in Israeli Cinema in 2010.] Looking back on the year of Israeli cinema we first notice that there weren't any standouts such as Waltz with Bashir or Beaufort, meaning none of the films unveiled were exceptional in quality, however Israeli cinema did produce several strong and moving dramas, while the industry choose this year to test out the viability of new genre films. There was the hilarious and extremely successful comedy (a rarity in Israeli cinema) This is Sodom, and horror/slasher movie Rabies. It appears that audiences, both domestically and locally have come to expect excellence when it comes to Israeli movies, and while critical reception on the international an local front paled to previous crop years, and box office had several duds these next five films are worth the mention. #5. The Mission of the Human Resources Manager – Eran RiklisAnother adaptation of a book, this turned out to be a deep and moving drama...

In the battle of competing Israeli film festivals, the Haifa Film Festival was always regarded as the small, less interesting of the two. The films selected for Haifa were either: the ones that the Jerusalem Film Festival had rejected, or the ones that weren't ready in time. In recent years, the organizers at Haifa have bent the rules so that films that didn't have a finished 35mm print, could still participate. That way, films far from the main stream found their way to center stage (as was the case with last year's winner, Seven Minutes in Heaven, and Frozen Days, the 2006 winner). This year's competition included what should have been a sure-fire winner in The Mission of the Human Resources Manager (a five Ophir award winner), but final outcome of the competition was a surprising one, with The Flood (a.k.a Mabul), screened from a HD copy (helmer Guy Nattiv...