Marking a return after a gap of two years, the 12th Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema proved to be the biggest film event in the country with as many as 176 films from around 38 countries from India, Asia and the Arab world. The Film festival which was held inNew Delhi from 27 July to5 August 2012 at Siri Fort Complex and the Blue Frog at the Kila Complex, had 15 World premieres, 8 International premieres, 104 Indian premieres, and 13 Asian premieres. The screenings included 61 shorts.

The films were shown within a framework which focused on Freedom of Creative Thought and Expression - the special theme for this year according to Osian’s Group Chairman Neville Tuli.Five Landmark films from the history of cinema made against prevailing censorship norms - Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salo, Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh-Thi’s Baise-Moi, Shuji Terayama’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup, the Devika Rani-Himanshu Rai starrer Karma and Jafar Panahi’s This is Not a Film.

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com