With just a few hours left to go until the big show - IFFI 2014 kicks off today, we give you a lowdown on the most important aspects of the prestigious film festival. So just in case you have missed out on the information regarding celebrities attending the festival, to movies being screened and the schedule of film screenings, here's your chance to know it all. Read on...
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been invited as the special guest for the inauguration ceremony that will be held at Dr Shama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium near Panaji.
Rajinikanth will be conferred with Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year.
Several Marathi and Malayalam films, including 'Yellow' and 'North 24 Kaatham', will be part of Indian Panorama section at IFFI 2014.
What will make IFFI Indian Panorama even more interesting is how Marathi cinema will be pitted against its Southern counterpart. The viewers will get to watch films like 'Dr Prakash Baba Amte-The Real Hero', 'A Rainy Day', 'Kila' and 'Yellow'.
Paresh Mokashi's second Marathi film 'Elizabeth Ekadashi' has been selected as the opening film of the 10-day long filming extravaganza. His much-acclaimed debut 'Harishchandrachi Factory' was India's official entry to 2009 Oscars in best foreign language film category.
The jury, which is headed by renowned filmmaker from Odisha A K Bir, also includes five Bengali and two Hindi films besides one film each in Assamese, Kannada, Khasi, Odia and Tamil.
Actress Sheena Chohan took to Twitter to confirm that she will be hosting the event. "Happy to announce that I am selected to host the prestigious 45th International Film Festival of India, where @SrBachchan and Rajnikanth Sir are the chief guests (sic)," her tweet had read.
National award winning director Shaji Karun has designed 30-second logo film especially for IFFI which will be shown before each screening at the festival.
Restored classics of veteran actors Charlie Chaplin and Francois Truffaut will be screened at IFFI.
This year, a special section of films has been created which will lay emphasis on dance, personality based retrospectives, and Masterclasses/workshops.
Iconic filmmaker late Richard Attenborough's popular film 'Gandhi' will be screened to mark the inauguration of the public screening of films at D B Bandodkar stadium, near Kala Academy.
The movies of two of the world cinema's biggest legends - Charlie Chaplin and Francois Truffaut - would be screened in the restored classics section of the International Film Festival of India here.
Wong Kar-wai's 'The Grandmaster' will be the closing film of the 10-day long film festival.
Wong Kar-wai will be honoured at the festival with Lifetime Achievement Award.
IFFI's retrospective section will focus on the works of Gulzar, Jahnu Baruah.
In addition to screening special homage films on Suchitra Sen, Zohra Sehgal and Robin Williams, IIFI will also pay special tribute to popular actor Farooq Sheikh.
Since IIFI is paying special attention to China, a special delegation will be arriving in Goa to explore opportunities to work with Indian filmmakers.
As IIFI director Shankar Mohan has been quoted as saying, 62 films will be screened in world cinema section and 15 films will be shown in the festival's competition section this time around.
The fest will be screening close to 179 films from 75 countries across different categories which include World Cinema (61 films), Masterstrokes (11 films), Festival Kaleidoscope (20 films), Soul of Asia (7 films), Documentaries (6 films), and Animated Films (6 films).
With inputs from agencies. ####
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