Guwahati, May 26: Film lovers in the Northeast who were forced to remain content only with reviews of the best Indian releases can book their tickets to Shillong.
A three-day festival showcasing the films of the Indian panorama section of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will begin in the Meghalaya capital this Friday.
Named the Shillong Indian Panorama Film Festival ’09, it will be the “first ever public screening in the Northeast of films selected in Indian panorama of IFFI ’08”, said Anurag Misra, an official at the directorate of film festival of the ministry of information and broadcasting.
The film festival is aimed at “addressing the long-standing grievance that the Northeast’s cinephiles are deprived of watching some of the best films made in the country,” said the director of the ministry’s directorate of film festival, S.M. Khan.
With 14 films in its kitty, the festival will begin with the screening of Yarwng, a Kokborok film from Tripura.
Entry to the film festival, to be held at the U. Soso Tham auditorium, will be free and on a first-come-first-served basis.
The festival will become an annual event from now on, hosted by various important towns in the region, Khan added.
While the inauguration will be at 4pm, the next two days’ screenings will start from 11am.
The list includes both feature and non-feature film category.
“The film festival will start with the screening of the Kokborok film Yarwng, followed by the documentary, Divided colours of a nation,” Misra said.
Yarwng (Roots), directed by Fr Joseph Pulinthanath, is the first film on the language of the Tripura tribals and has been described as a realistic “cultural document” that is based on real experiences of displaced people.
Misra said Pulinthanath and the cast and crew of the film would be present during the opening ceremony.
Yarwng had bagged the Special Jury Mention Award at the 7th Asian Film Festival 2008 in Mumbai.
Another attraction of the film festival will be the presence of actress Tisca Chopra during the screening of Aamir Khan’s highly-acclaimed film Taare Zameen Par, which will be shown on the last day.
The other entries include Kannada film Gubbachigalu (Sparrows), Assamese film Mon Jai (I feel like), Marathi film Valu (The wild bull) and the documentary Ratan Thiyam: The Man of Theatre.
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