9th Indian Film Festival of Bhubaneswar to revolve around ‘Contemporary Indian Cinema’

NewsBharati    11-Feb-2018
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Bhubaneswar, February 11: Remarkable films to portray different insights into the Indian Cinema, here comes the 9th Indian Film Festival of Bhubaneswar (IFFB) which will begin from 14th February, organized by Film Society of Bhubaneswar (FSB). The festival will focus on contemporary Indian Cinema and will screen unseen films of different regions. 

“Every year, remarkable films are made in various Indian languages. They together give the identity of Indian cinema. The cinema that we generally get to see in theatres (generally products of film industries of Mumbai or South India) is only a small part of the bigger picture,” pointed out FSB Secretary Subrat Behura.

The seven-day festival will be featuring around 30 outstanding contemporary works of cinema in the languages of Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Manipuri, Khasi and Odia, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil, Marathi and Hindi and Punjabi.

There will be a retrospective of noted Malayalafilmmakerer G Aravindan, one of the great directors of Indian Cinema. Internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli will grace the festival as Chief Guest. There will be workshops and master classes for students with noted filmmakers.

The film festival hopes to encourage young filmmakers to work from the eastern part of the country by providing mentoring opportunities with master filmmakers, said Actor and Producer Swostik Choudhury.

The 9th Indian Film Festival of Bhubaneswar will screen contemporary works from across the country at IDCOL Auditorium.

Some of the award-winning films included are ‘Kutrame Thandanai’ (Crime is punishment) by M Manikandan, ‘Merku Thodarchi Malai’ (Western Ghats) by Lenin Bharathi (both Tamil), ‘Munro Thuruthu’ (Munroe Island) by Manu (Malayalam), ‘Capital I’ by Amartya Bhattacharyya (Oriya), and ‘Masaan’ by Neeraj Ghaywan (Hindi).

Some of the topics which will be discussed will be the role of media in the development of Cinema culture in Odisha, the role of literature in cinema, the future of Independent cinema in Odisha and its globalization, and the importance of digitization in democratizing cinema. There will be workshops for students, interested film enthusiasts and separate slots for the screening of student films and auteur’s films.