The
Entertainment Society of Goa in association with The Directorate of Film Festivals has organised the 65th
National Award Winning Film Festival 2018 from 25th May to 7th June 2018 at
Maquinez Palace.
The Festival was
inaugurated in the presence of Prasad Oak and Nagraj Manjule on Friday 25th May
2018, 6.00 PM at Auditorium 1, Maquinez Palace.
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Kaacha Limbu which won the award for the Best Regional
Film (Marathi) directed by Prasad Oak and Pavasacha Nibandha a non
feature film directed by Nagraj Manjule which won the award for Best
Audiography was screened on the inaugural day.
During this period, a
bouquet of 23 films will be screened which includes Regional Films that have
won the National Award this year. For the closing, film Village Rockstars will
be screened and the director of the film Rima Das will be present for the
screening and for Q & A session after the screening.
Apart from that,
these are some of the other prominent films to be screened during the festival
– Village Rockstars (Assamese) which won the Golden Lotus for the Best
Film and garnered rave review from across the globe , Bhayanakam (Malayalam)
for which Jayraj won the Best Director, Mom (Best Actress Sridevi), Nagarkirtan,
the Bengali film which garnered 4 awards including Best actor for Riddhi
Sen and a Special Jury Prize, Irada (Best supporting actress Divya
Dutta), Newton (Best Hindi film and special jury prize for Pankaj
Tripathi). The best of regional films of the year like Thondimuthalum
Driksakshiyum (Malayalam, which also won Fahadh Faasil the Best
Supporting actor), DHH (Gujarati), Hello RC (Oriya) Mayurakshi
(Bengali), Ishu (Assamese), To Let (Tamil), Gazi (Telugu),
Hebbettu Ramakka (Kannada) will also be screened during the festival
which will be on till 7th June.
The audiences will
also get a unique opportunity to watch films from languages like Jasari (Sinjar),
Tulu (Paddayi), Ladakhi (Walking With the Wind) all of which won
the Best Regional film award. Mhorkya (Marathi) which won the Best
Children’s film will also be screened. All the films will have English sub
titles. In all, over 23 films will be screened with four Malayalam and three
each of Hindi and Marathi with the other languages contributing the rest. The
screening of the films on weekdays will be at 6.30PM, and on Saturday and
Sundays at 11.00AM, 5.00PM and 7.30PM. The screening is open to all on first
come first serve basis. However, since some of the films have an Adult
certificate, the entry will strictly depend on the censor rating of the film.
On
this occasion, a special car designed by Pune-based Paridhi Bhati, 26, Bhavana
Varma, 33, Tonu Sojatia, 29 is on display at Entertainment Society of Goa venue
on Friday and saturday. It is a very unique and eye-catching car since its
exterior is designed as a full-fledged ‘moving tribute’ to their idol Sridevi,
who passed away in February.
