PANJIM: The 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will present film delegates a potpourri of 280 films, inviting them to immerse themselves in the lives, aspirations and struggles of peoples from a total of 79 countries.
With the festival preparations being in full swing, Festival Director and Managing Director of NFDC Ravinder Bhakar; ESG chief executive officer Swetika Sachan; Director General of PIB Monideep Mukerjee and Additional Director General of PIB Pragya Paliwal Gaur addressed a curtain-raiser press conference at the Old GMC Building, Panaji on Thursday.
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The Austrian film, ‘Alma and Oskar’, directed by Dieter Berner, will open the festival on Sunday, November 20. Red Carpet for opening film will commence at 2 pm at INOX-I, Panjim, followed by the screening of the film.
Polish film Krzysztof Zanussi’s ‘Perfect Number’ is the closing film. Red Carpet for closing film will commence at INOX-I, Panjim at 2 pm on November 28, followed by the screening of the film. The opening and closing ceremonies will be held at Dr Shyama Prasada Mukherjee Indoor Stadium, Taleigao.
‘Fixation’, a 2022 film set in Germany, Canada and the USA, by Mercedes Bryce Morgan will be the mid-fest film.
A total of 25 feature films and 19 non-feature films from India will be showcased in the ‘Indian Panorama’ while, 183 films will be a part of international programming.
The festival presents a special section for Asha Parekh, the 52nd Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner, with the screening of her three films — Teesri Manzil, Do Badan and Kati Patang.
On the occasion of completion of 50 years of Manipuri cinema, a specially curated package of five feature and five non-feature films curated by Manipur State Films Film Development Society, will be screened under Indian Panorama.
As an initiative to promote films from North-East India, five feature and five non-feature films, will mark golden jubilee of Manipuri cinema.
