MANGALURU:
Nitte University
is all set to organize its maiden International Film Festival at Big Cinemas in
Bharath Mall
from April 24 to 27. An initiative of
Nitte Institute of Communication
, the festival aims to showcase award winning and critically acclaimed cinema from across the world to cine lovers of this city. Sunil Sukhtankar, eminent Marathi director, known for films such as Kaasav, Astu, Devrai, Vastupurush will inaugurate the film festival.
The film festival per se will get underway with the screening of Sunil Sukthtankar and Sumitra Bhave’s Kaasav, which incidentally won the Golden Lotus award at the 64th national awards for being the best film. Starring Iravati Harshe and Alok Rajwade, the film has won lots of awards at various film festivals across India and abroad. In all, a total of 55 films from five different countries and many national award winning films from Indian languages will be screened.
Prominent film makers such as P N Ramachandra, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Bijaya Jena, Pradipta Bhattacharya, and actors Manohar, Shrunga, Pratik Gandhi Harisharva, Hemanth will be part of the festival, Apart from these film screenings, a session on script writing will be held by national award winning filmmaker P N Ramachandra. There will be an interactive session with Rajesh Mapuskar, Golden Lotus winner for best director at 64th National Film awards.
All screenings at the film festival are free of cost for the people. The films include Reservation, Amaraavati, Railway Children, Zero Made In India, Harivu, Jatta (Kannada); Madipu and Suddha (Tulu); Kammatipaadam, Unto The Dusk, Kaliyachan, Angamaly Diaries (Malayalam); Kaasav, Ventilator and Lathe Joshi (Marathi); Raman Raghav 2.0; Island City, Ugly (Hindi) and Soegija, Sanctuary, 24-Weeks, Red Butterfly and Destiny (international films).
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