India has selected writer/director Pan Nalin's
Last Film Show as its submission to the Best International Feature Film category at the upcoming Academy
Awards.
The Cinema Paradiso-esque film tells the story of a young boy in rural India who falls in
love with the movies and befriends his cinema's projectionist.
Bhavin Rabari, Bhavesh Shrimali, Richa Meena, Dipen Raval, Alpesh Tank,
Paresh Mehta, Vikas Bata, Rahul Koli, Vijay Mer, Kishan Parmar
and Shoban Makwa star.
Last Film Show is in US cinemas from December 2nd. A UK/ROI
release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Samay, a 9-year-old boy living with his family in a remote village in India discovers films for the first time and is absolutely mesmerized. Against his father’s wishes, he returns to the cinema day after day to watch more films, and even befriends the projectionist, who, in exchange for his lunch box, lets him watch movies for free. He quickly figures out that stories become light, light becomes films, and films become dreams. Samay and his wild gang of friends move heaven and earth to catch and project light to achieve a 35mm film projection. But little do they know that soon they’ll be forced to make heartbreaking choices as an era is approaching to annihilate everything they love about their 35mm dreams…
