IFFI from November 23 Goa:

IFFI from November 23 Goa:

The ten-day event will screen a total of 40 Indian films, 20 features and 20 non-features.

The Tamil film Srigaram by Sharada Ramanathan, Sonam by upcoming filmmaker Ahsan Muzid and Monpa will represent India in the Asian, African and Latin-American competition.

Mridul Toolsidas’ and Vinay Subramaniam’s Missed Call will open the Panorama section which has five Malayalam films that include Jessi’s Thanmatra, Eakantham by Madhu Kaithapuram, Biju’s Saira, Nottam by Sashi Paravoor and Drishtantham by MP Sukumaran Nair.

There are three Tamil entries—Sringaram, Aadumkoothu and Dhavamai Dhavamirunthu. K Sathyanarayan’s Hope is the only Telugu entry and Girish Kasaravalli’s Nayi Neralu the lone representative of Kannada cinema.

Also on show will be Assamese director Manju Borah’s historical film Joymoti and three Marathi films—Bayo by Gajendra Ahire, Chitra Palekar’s Maati Maay and Sumitra Bhave’s and Sunil Sukthankar’s Badha.

The Hindi films to be screened are Pankuj Parashar’s Banaras: A Mystic Love Story, Corporate by Madhur Bhandarkar and Rituparno Ghosh’s Hindi-Bengali bi-lingual Dosar.

Chairperson of the jury for the feature film section, Saeed Akhtar Mirza announced selection of just 20 films from the 102 seen. Other members of the jury are Aditi Deshpande, Pulak Gogoi, George Mathew, Vasanth SM and U Radhakrisnan.