Uniindia: Panaji, Jan 17 (UNI) Veteran film director and author from Bangladesh Tanvir Mokammel on Sunday expressed happiness over Bangladesh being country focus in International Film Festival of India (IFFI) this year.
Sixty-year-old women do not look sixty today, they look much younger, John Matthew Matthan, chairman of the jury for the Indian Panorama (films) section for the ongoing IFFI said on Sunday.Matthan was responding to criticism of the film from .
PANJIM: Not only film buffs who have arrived in Goa but many across the world will be able to participate in the 51st International Film Festival of India opening on Saturday as the festival is going hybrid this year in view of the pandemic.
India’s marquee film festival will feature 224 films across categories, about 50 films, including those paying homage to stalwarts of world cinema who died in 2020, will be streamed online through IFFI’s website for those who register.
The virtual segment, which Union I&B minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday is the festival’s “real attraction” this year, will also contain the much soughtafter master-classes with celebrated filmmakers and the National Film Development Corporation’s ‘Film Bazaar’. The festival will premier Cannes Best Actor Award winner Mads Mikkelsen starrer ‘Another Round’ as the opening film. Made by Thomas Vinterberg’s, ‘Another Round’ is Denmark’s nominee for the Best International Film at
The 51st edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is set to start in Goa on January 17, with the opening ceremony at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium at Panaji in Goa.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said in a statement that for the first time, IFFI is being held in a hybrid mode because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Big B known in West just like Maradona in India: Argentina s Pablo Cesar
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Argentine filmmaker Pablo Cesar. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, Jan 16 : Argentine filmmaker Pablo Cesar loves returning to India, and enjoys Indian commercial films. They have a unique style. In commercial cinema, it s mostly the actors who are more famous. You say Amitabh Bachchan, and everyone knows him, even in the West. His name is like Maradona, who is known even in India. It s impressive how an actor from Asia is known across the globe, Cesar told IANS.