Many Things To Look Out For In IIFA 2023

The 23rd edition of IIFA is set to take play on 26 and 27 May at Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. From Vicky Kaushal and Abhishek Bachchan as hosts to Salman Khan putting stage on fire, we have various reasons to look forward to this great event, which is nothing short of a visual spectacle, as we do every year.

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Watch what Salman Khan has to say for 23rd IIFA 2023

Mega Star Salman Khan has always been a part of the IIFA, and this year he will once again demonstrate his star power and captivate a global audience with his larger-than-life performance.

Vicky Kaushal's magnetism and Abhishek Bachchan's eccentricity and spontaneity will undoubtedly entertain and enthral the audience as the attractive duo rock the stage as stylish hosts.

Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Kriti Sanon, Nora Fatehi, Rakul Preet Singh, and others are set to light up the stage with exciting and spectacular performances.

Aside from some grooves, it will be a memorable night for all music fans as musical geniuses such as Amit Trivedi, Nucleya, Sunidhi Chauhan, Badshah, and Mika Singh will captivate the audience with soulful and rocking vocals.

Last but not least, our multi-talented personality Farah Khan will be in charge of the hosting duties at the IIFA Rocks. Her sense of humour has always been on the desired level, and we can expect her to make the audience giggle once more.

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Culture Working Group under India's G20 Presidency to organise a Global Thematic Webinar

The Culture Working Group (CWG) under India’s G20 Presidency will be organising the Global Thematic Webinar on “Leveraging Digital Technologies for the Protection and Promotion of Culture”. The webinar is the last in the series of the four organised by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, which is being facilitated by UNESCO (Paris), as a knowledge partner of CWG.

The webinar is scheduled for 20 April 2023, from 12:30 PM to 8:30 PM (IST), with the intent to foster an inclusive dialogue and initiate an in-depth discussion from an expert driven perspective on the priority area articulated by the CWG and supported by the G20 membership. The aim is to discuss the digital upskilling and capacity building of cultural practitioners and sharing of best practices to digitise cultural heritage assets for long term preservation by experts from G20 members, guest nations, and relevant international organisations.

At the global thematic webinar, experts would also discuss the impact of emerging technologies and the new opportunities they present to memory institutions for reaching wider audiences and engage them in novel and immersive ways. These include artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality and robotics among others.

Artificial intelligence, for instance, can help memory institutions analyse and categorise vast amounts of data, making it easier to organise and access digital archives. Virtual and augmented reality technologies can create immersive experiences that enable visitors to interact with historical artefacts and cultural heritage sites in a more engaging and personalised way. Robotics can be used to create replicas of artifacts and cultural objects, enabling their preservation and dissemination beyond the physical boundaries of the institution.

However, the constantly evolving nature of digital technologies also presents challenges for memory institutions, particularly in the areas of digital preservation. This challenge requires an agile, context-specific, and global framework for the digitisation and digitalisation of culture. The potential of emerging technologies to transform the way we engage with culture is immense, and memory institutions need to be proactive in leveraging these technologies to achieve their mission of preserving and disseminating cultural heritage by exploring opportunities for collaboration among the various stakeholders for digitalisation and digitisation of culture, especially with private technology firms.

The upcoming webinar will consist of three speaking segments, specifically designed to explore and discuss significant aspects of the theme - Leveraging digital technologies for the protection and promotion of culture. These segments will aim to facilitate knowledge sharing and exchange of good practices, identify gaps and priorities, and provide recommendations to the CWG.

The webinar will have three speaking segments and experts will be distributed across these segments based on their respective time zone. The webinar will be moderated by representatives from ICOM, ICOMOS, and UNITAR with expertise on the topic. It will be live streamed on the YouTube channel of UNESCO. The previous global thematic webinars on priority one, two and three were conducted on 28 March, 13 and 19 April respectively.

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The official poster of the 76th Festival de Cannes

Catherine Deneuve stands on Pampelonne beach, near Saint-Tropez, for the filming of Alain Cavalier's La Chamade, adapted on Françoise Sagan's novel.

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Official poster - 76th edition © Photo de Jack Garofalo/Paris Match/Scoop – Création graphique © Hartland Villa - Côte d’Azur, June 1, 1968.

She plays Lucile, a cosmopolitan and shallow character tinted with comfort and a penchant for luxury. Her heartbeat is fast, rushed, and passionate. Every year, the Festival de Cannes honours the heart of cinema, and its vivid and alive pulse can be heard everywhere. The 7th Art's heart - its artists, professionals, amateurs, and press - beats like a drum to the rhythm of the urgency imposed by its perpetual nature.

The actress of Peau d’Âne is an embodiment of cinema, far from what is conventional or appropriate. The actress of Peau d’Âne is an embodiment of cinema, far from what is conventional or appropriate. Without compromise and always in tune with her convictions, even if it means going against the grain of the times. She is the muse of Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Marco Ferreri, Manoel de Oliveira, André Téchiné, Emmanuelle Bercot or Arnaud Desplechin. Her collaborations are in the pantheon of immense filmmakers of yesterday and today. Catherine is the link between them all. For more than 60 years, the greatest French star has never stopped shooting, reinventing herself, experimenting, daring to do counterintuitive work or first films. An icon who has never stood still and has kept her art alive. Deneuve embodies in her very own way the richness of the cinema that the Festival wants to defend: auteur films but also quality popular films.

Four years before 1968, Catherine Deneuve illuminated Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which won the Palme d’or in 1964. The following year, Repulsion by Roman Polanski won the Silver Bear in Berlin. This was followed by A Matter of Resistance by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, The Young Girls of Rochefort by Jacques Demy and Luis Buñuel’s Belle de jour.

From then on, hers will be a path of glory, studded with masterpieces and commitments that will shape the portrait of a star as well as that of a woman of convictions. For Catherine Deneuve also co-signed the “Manifesto of the 343” in 1971, demanding the legalization of abortion on one hand and a collective text in 2018 in which a hundred women reject, “puritanism, denunciation and any form of expeditious justice” on the other hand.

Catherine Deneuve also starred in Indochine by Régis Wargnier, which remains, to this day, the last French winner, in 1993, of the Oscar for best international film. In 1994, she was Vice President of the Jury headed by Clint Eastwood which awarded the Palme d’or to Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino. In 2000, Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier was the second Palme d’or in her filmography. In 2005 she received an Honorary Palme d’or and in 2008, under the presidency of Sean Penn, the Special Prize of the 61st Festival for her entire career. In 2016, Catherine Deneuve was awarded the Prix Lumière which she dedicated “to the farmers”, thus taking everyone by surprise once again.

Joyful, bold-faced and romantic, a young woman with long blond hair smiles, confidently, at her future. It is a certain form of magic that Catherine Deneuve embodies – pure, incandescent and sometimes transgressive. It is this unspeakable magic that the 76th International Film Festival conveys with this timeless poster. To reiterate the glorious present of cinema and to envisage its future full of promise. Catherine Deneuve stands for what cinema should never stop being: elusive, daring, irreverent. Something self-evident: a necessity.

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