From Waltz With Bashir [+leggi anche:
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Having made a name for herself with her short films, especially Printed Rainbow (awarded three prizes at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2006 and upwards of thirty worldwide) and True Love Story (which had its international premiere in competition in the very same Croisette-based selection in 2014), Gitanjali Rao participated in the first edition of Cannes Critics’ Week’s Next Step programme - an initiative aimed at helping young filmmakers make the leap from short films to full-length works – to develop Bombay Rose.

Written by the direct herself, Bombay Rose interweaves several stories of impossible love. The plot revolves around Kamala, a young dancer in a club who has escaped from a child marriage and who now lives in the chaotic streets of Bombay (Mumbai). But she must choose between fighting for the economic survival of her family or fully committing to the love she feels for Salim, a boy from Kashmir … It’s a romance which Gitanjali Rao has developed on a visual level by mixing painting with animation, a style which she specialises in and which allows her to blend together the documentary-like aspects of the film and the very harsh environment in which it is set, with the movie’s poetic atmosphere, further elevated by the musical score and unmistakably Bollywoodian flavours.

Headed up by Cinestaan International (based in Mumbai, London and Los Angeles, and who are also handling sales of the feature film), Bombay Rose was co-produced by Les Films d’Ici (Serge Lalou and Charlotte Uzu), by the British outfit Goldfinch Entertainment and by Qatar (Doha Film Institute), with the notable support of the CNC’s Aide aux Cinémas du Monde fund. The animation work itself was carried out by PaperBoat Design Studios.

In terms of animated titles, Les Films d'Ici are currently producing The Siren [+leggi anche:
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Of note among their fiction films, meanwhile, is Ricordi? [+leggi anche:
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