River Florence Indian Film Festival that will take place from 5 to 10 December in Florence, Italy.
The famous director will introduce the Italian premiere of her latest film,Beeba Boys (Sunday, December 6, at 8.30pm), a crime thriller starring Randeep Hoda, about the violent culture clash between Indo-Canadian gangs fighting for control over drugs and firearms trafficking in Vancouver.
The Festival will pay tribute to Deepa Mehta by screening two other of her films: Water (2005), Canada’s nominee for the 2007 Academy Awards and the third in Mehta’s Elements Trilogy, about the life of Chuyia, an 8-year-old widowed child bride forced to live in eternal penance in a house with other Hindu widows; and Midnight’s Children (2012), an adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s book of the same name - the script was written by Rushdie himself - about the fate of two children, switched at birth by a nurse to let them live each other’s life.