The closing film is Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi’s Perfect Number. The festival will open with Alma & Oskar, directed by Austria’s Dieter Berner, about the relationship between Viennese society grande dame Alma Mahler and Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka. The 15 films will be competing for IFFI’s Golden Peacock Awards. The other two Indian titles are Hindi-language The Kashmir Files, directed by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, a controversial drama about the exodus of the Hindu Pandit community from Kashmir in the 1990s, and Tamil-language Kurangu Pedal, directed by Kamalakannan S, centring on a father-son relationship in a South Indian village in the 1980s.Īnanth Narayan Mahadevan’s Hindi-language The Storyteller, based on a short story by Satyajit Ray, premiered in the Jiseok competition at this year’s Busan International Film Festival. South Asia is also represented by Maarya: The Ocean Angel, about a group of fishermen disturbed by a sex doll they find in the sea, directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Aruna Jayawardana. Whoopi Goldberg Misses 'The View' After Covid DiagnosisĬBS Developing Comedy Series 'Talk Nerdy To Me' From Dana Schwartz, Dan Hernandez & Benji Samit Showbiz Comedy Starring Seth Rogen Gets Apple TV+ Series Order Point Grey & Lionsgate Producing
The selection of 12 international titles also includes Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan’s Nezouh Next Sohee, from South Korea’s Jung Ju-ri Red Shoes, from Japan’s Toshiro Saiga Cold As Marble, from Azerbaijan’s Asif Rustamov Seven Dogs, from Argentina’s Rodrigo Guerrero Ursula Meier’s The Line ( La Ligne) Valentina Maurel’s I Have Electric Dreams, and two Iranian films – Dariush Mehrjui’s A Minor and Nader Saeivar’s No End.
The International Film Festival Of India (IFFI) has announced the 15 films that will screen in competition at this year’s edition of the annual event, including recent festival favourites such as Maha Haj’s Mediterranean Fever and Lav Diaz’ When The Waves Are Gone, and three Indian films, including recent Busan premiere The Storyteller.
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