International Film Festival (IFFI) Round Up

The 49^th International Film Festival of India recently announced the selection of Indian Panorama films for the year, 2018 to be screened in Goa.

The Feature Film Jury of 13 members was headed by acclaimed film director & screenwriter, Rahul Rawail. The Feature film Jury constituted of the following Members: Major Ravi – filmmaker & actor, Ahathian – director, Ujjwal Chatterjee – director, producer & screenwriter, Imo Singh – director, Utpal Datta – filmmaker, Sekhar Das – director, Mahendra Teredesai – director & writer, Haidar Ali – actor & screenwriter, KG Suresh – journalist & columnist, Chandra Siddarth – director, producer & screenwriter, Adeep Tandon – cinematographer & director &  S Viswanath – film critic & journalist.

The Feature Film Jury selected 22 Feature films.

The feature film jury selected the film Olu directed by Shaji N Karun as the Opening feature film of Indian Panorama 2018. 4 Mainstream films are also selected under Indian Panorama Section of 49^th International Film Festival of India, 2018 by an Internal Committee of Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) based on the recommendations of Film Federation of India (FFI) & Producers Guild (PG).

List of 22 feature films & 4 mainstream films selected in Indian Panorama 2018 is as follows: Opening film Olu (Malyalam), Nagarkirtan, Sa, Uma, Abyakto, Uranchondi (Bengali), October & Bhor (Hindi), Sinjar (Jasari), Walking With The Wind (Ladakhi), Bhayanakam, Makkana, Poomaram, Sudani From Nigereria & Ee. Ma. Yau.  (Malyalam), Dhappa & Amhi Doghi (Marathi), T0 Let, Baaram, Periyerum Perumal BA. BL, Peranbu & Padayyi (Tamil) & from Mainstream Cinema:  Mahanati (Telugu), Tiger Zinda Hai, Padmavat & Raazi (Hindi).

The non-feature film jury of 7 members was headed by acclaimed film director & editor, Vinod Ganatra. The Jury constituted of the following Members: Uday Shankar Pani – filmmaker, Parvati Menon – director & film educationist, Mandar Talaulikar – filmmaker,Padmaraj Nair – film journalist, Ashok Sharan – actor & producer & Suneel Puranik – actor, director & producer.

The non-feature film jury selected the film Kharvas directed by Adity Suhas Jambhale as the Opening non-feature film of Indian Panorama 2018. The complete list of 21 non – feature films selected for Indian Panorama section for 49^th International Film Festival of India 2018 is as follows:

Opening film Kharvas (Marathi), Sampurak (Bengali), Naach Bhikari Naach (Bhojpuri), Decoding Shankar, Gyamo – Queen Of The Mountains, The World’s Most Famous Tiger & Bunker: The Last Of The Varanasi Weavers (English), Moniter, Nani Teri Morni & Burning (Hindi), Sword Of Liberty, Midnight Run & Lasyam (Malyalam), Happy Birthday, Na Bole Wo Haram, Silent scream, Yes I Am Mauli, Pamphlet, Aai Shappath & Bhar Dupari (Marathi) & Malai (Oriya).