Austrian movie ‘Alma & Oscar’ directed by Dieter Berner would be the opening movie of the 53rd version of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which begins in Goa on November 20.
In the ‘Indian Panorama’ part, 280 movies from 79 international locations, together with 25 function and 20 non-feature movies from India, shall be screened on the pageant, which can conclude on November 28.
The Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award shall be offered to Spanish movie director Carlos Saura. An eight-film retrospective devoted to Soura, who obtained the Golden Bear for Best Director on the Berlin International Film Festival for Deprisa Deprisa, shall be a serious spotlight of IFFI.
France is the ‘highlight’ nation this 12 months – eight French movies shall be screened underneath ‘Country Focus’.
Three movies of this 12 months’s Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner Asha Parekh – ‘Teesri Manzil’, ‘Do Badan Aur Kati Patang’ – shall be screened as a part of Asha Parekh Retrospective. Krzysztof Zanussi’s ‘Perfect Number’ would be the closing movie.
Addressing the media in New Delhi on Monday, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan stated that 5 function and 5 non-feature movies could be screened to advertise movies from the Northeast and to mark the golden jubilee of Manipuri cinema.
For the primary time, IFFI will see pavilions on the strains of main worldwide markets just like the Marche du Cannes. The 42 pavilions will home movie workplaces of varied state governments, collaborating international locations, business and media models of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Many of the restored classics shall be out there in ‘The Viewing Room’, the place one should buy the rights to those movies and use them at movie festivals around the globe.
A e book adaptation program has been began to advertise movie diversifications of books. Some publishers are additionally anticipated to be current to promote the rights to the books to make the movie. Several movies, together with Richard Attenborough’s Oscar-winning movie ‘Gandhi’, shall be screened within the ‘Divyangjan’ part with embedded audio narration and subtitles.
Singer Lata Mangeshkar, singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, Kathak maestro Pt. Birju Maharaj, actors Ramesh Dev and Maheshwari Amma, singer KK, director Tarun, Assamese actor Nipon Das and singer Bhupinder Singh. In the worldwide phase, IFFI can pay tribute to Bob Rafelson, Ivan Reitman, Peter Bogdanovich, Douglas Trumbell and Monica Vitti.
‘Indian Panorama’ will open with Prithvi Konnur’s Kannada movie ‘Hadinlentu’ whereas Divya Cowasji’s ‘The Show Must Go On’ will flag off the non-feature movie part. There shall be a particular screening of Pan Nalin’s ‘Chelo Show – The Last Film Show’, India’s official entry to the Oscars within the Best Foreign Language class and Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘India Lockdown’.
Upcoming Telugu movies, Remo, Deepti Naval and Kalki Koechlin’s ‘Goldfish’ and Randeep Hooda and Ileana D’Cruz’s ‘Tera Kya Hoga Lovely’ shall be premiered at IFFI, together with an episode of OTT reveals like ‘Vadhandhi’, ‘Khakee’ with. and ‘Fauda Season 4’.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
