Film festival in Shillong

By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, May 28: The Directorate of Film Festival, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India is organizing the Shillong Indian Panorama Film Festival 2009 in collaboration with Government of Meghalaya from May 29 to 31 in Shillong. Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister BM Lanong would inaugurate the first day programme at 4 pm at U Soso Tham Auditorium, Shillong.

The inauguration would be followed by screening of Yarwang, a 95-minute Kokborak film directed by Joseph Pulinthabath. It will be followed by an English film Divided Colours of a Nation (60 minute) directed by Umesh Agarwal.

This is the first-ever public screening of Film Festival of India in Northeast. Every day there will be three shows. A Friend Turned Foe, an English film with 15-minute duration directed by Gautam Saikia will be screened followed by Mon Jai, an Asomiya film with 178-minute duration directed by M Maniram, Distant Rumblings, an English film with 23-minute duration directed by Bani Prakash Das, Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai, a Tamil film with 116-minute duration directed by Krishna Seshadri Gomatam, Memories Movement and a Machine, a Malayalam film with 40-minute duration directed by MG Sasi followed by Atayalangal, a Malayalam film with 100-minute duration directed by MG Sasi.

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