A French movie being screened at the 13th International Film Festival. Picture by Srinivas

Jamshedpur, March 17: It was a date with foreign films for movie lovers of Jamsh- edpur as they were treated to two films from France and Turkey.

Screened at the Centre for Excellence, the audience at the 13th International Film Festival witnessed some beautiful cinematography and rare sentiments of the filmmaker Brigittie Rouan projected in his film, Housewarming.

The movie, which was the first screening of the day, exploits the life of a lawyer who fights against immigration policies.

She fights for the immigrants and their rig- hts and finally wins the case.

Marked by a brilliant script, the cinematography is worth praising.

The film occasionally drifts from the serious to comedy to suit the genre.

The second foreign film of the day was the Tur- kish film Making Boats out of Watermelon Rinds, a film based on the life of the director of the film, Ahmet Ulucay.

The story revolves around two adolescents, who live in a small village.

The film explores their undying spirit and passion for cinema, which makes them take up odd jobs.

They apply their passion working on their little old machine to show motion pictures from disposed films that they collect from the local movie hall with the assistance of just the lone village idiot, considered an absolute madman by the rest of the villagers.

Set in the rural heart- land of a Turkish village, the movie magnificently manages to capture the innocence of the childhood years with a haunting melody running right through the movie in the background with good musical strains to tran- sport the audience to their days of nostalgic childhood.

In the foreign movie section, movies from nine different countries from across the world are being showcased at the Centre for Excellence.

In the Indian Panorama section, Life in a Metro was screened at Beldih Club this evening.

“There are not many viewers, who come to watch the foreign langu- age films, but the audience who come are connoiss- eurs of quality cinema. Our choice of movies is also such that it appeals to all the sections of the audience,” said Debashish Chakraborty, the general secretary of Celluloid Chapter, the organisers of the 13th International Film Festival, which would end later this week.