Plan to make India one-stop destination for content creation, filmmaking: Anurag Thakur at IFFI 2022

 

The 53rd edition of the nine-day IFFI will begin in Panaji with film personalities including Ajay Devgn, Kartik Aaryan, Pankaj Tripathi, Manoj Bajpayee, Suniel Shetty, Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan among others.

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday attended the opening ceremony of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) being held in Goa this year. Speaking at the event, he said that the Government of India aims to establish the International Film Festival as a one-stop destination for content creation, film production and shooting.

“IFFI is the biggest film festival in Asia and we are in the 53rd edition… We want to establish this as a platform where eminent filmmakers, directors and artistes from across the country and the world get an opportunity to showcase their films. We want to make India a global content hub, be it for content creation, co-production, film production or shooting," Thakur told reporters ahead of the opening ceremony in Panaji.

IFFI is a nine-day festival which started on 19th November and will go on till 28th November. The 53rd edition of the nine-day festival will begin here with the presence of film personalities including Ajay Devgn, Kartik Aaryan, Pankaj Tripathi, Manoj Bajpayee, Suniel Shetty, Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan.

Thakur mentioned that the focus is not only on celebrating cinema, but also on creating a collaborative ecosystem for the Indian film industry to go global through its Film Bazaar (marketplace).

The Union Minister also informed that around 40 per cent of the films screened at the festival, under the in- and out-of-competition segments, are either directed by or screened by women.

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The Film Bazaar, which will be held for five days, aims to discover, support and showcase South Asian content and talent in filmmaking, production and distribution in collaboration with the international film fraternity.

For the first time, the market area will include pavilions for countries, states as well as private organizations. States participating in the market include Bihar, Punjab, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. Russia and France will also have a large presence in the film market.

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Organized jointly by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) and the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG), the 53rd IFFI will see a retrospective on Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner Asha Parekh and Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura, who were honored with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award. Will be done. Opening ceremony.

As part of the retrospective, eight of Soura's films, including "La Caja del Conejo" and "Ana y los Lobos", will be screened during the gala. Parekh's 'Tesri Manzil', 'Do Badan' and 'Kati Patang' will also be screened.

The Austrian film "Alma and Oskar" directed by Dieter Berner is the opening film of this year. A total of 280 films from 79 countries will be screened at IFFI.

To mark the golden jubilee of Manipuri cinema, the festival will showcase five feature and five non-feature films curated by the Manipur State Film Development Society under Indian Panorama. Manipuri filmmakers such as Aribam Shyam Sharma, Oken Amakcham, Nirmala Chanu, Borun Thokchom and Romi Meitei will participate in the festival.

Films from National Film Archive of India - Sohrab Modi's Nausherwan-e-Adil (1957), Ramesh Maheshwari's Nanak Naam Jahaz Hai (1969), K Viswanath's 1980 Telugu film Sankarabharanam and Satyajit Ray's Shatranj's "Samvi Khiladi" (1977) and "Ganashatru" (1989) -- will be screened by NFDC in the 'Indian Restored Classics' section.