As the city’s most eagerly awaited cultural
event, the 15th Mumbai Film Festival, organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving
Image draws closer, it has been revealed that this edition of the festival will
conclude with the screening of ‘The Fifth Estate” as its Closing Film, a
dramatic thriller directed by Bill Condon.
The
Fifth Estate is a dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest
to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet
upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization. The film is
co-produced by DreamWorks and Participant Media and opened the Toronto International Film Festival 2013.
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel
Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful.
On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to
anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of
government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news
than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange
and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence
documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of
our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are
the costs of exposing them.
The festival promises to feature a lineup of
over 200 movies from 65 countries and
has announced new initiatives as part of the Mumbai Film Mart (Filmy
Room and India Project Room) and a brand new Experimental film section to the
festival.
The 15th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival
will be held from the 17th - 24th October, 2013 at Liberty Cinemas and Metro Cinema as the main festival
venues and Cinemax, Andheri as the satellite venue.
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