Over 240 movies, 81 international locations, grand inaugural parade: IFFI to open with a splash today | Art-and-culture News
For its upcoming version, the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa, is selecting a grand parade — led by tableaux of Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, and Goa — to mark its opening on Thursday.
The parade, scheduled to kick off at 3.30 pm from the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) workplace and conclude at Kala Academy, goals to rework the streets of Goa into a platform to showcase India’s cinematic and cultural brilliance.
The inaugural parade may also characteristic creations from India’s iconic studios and rejoice the 50-year journey of National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).
The nine-day competition will conclude on November 28.
The 56th version of IFFI will witness screening of over 240 movies from over 81 international locations. This yr’s opening movie is Brazilian auteur Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail, which was the winner of Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at Berlinale 2025.
The worldwide phase options titles which have already confirmed to be competition darlings. These films embrace Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident; Father Mother Sister Brother, an anthology movie written and directed by Jim Jarmusch; Dreams by Dag Johan Haugerud; Gloaming in Luomu by Zhang Lü; No Other Choice by Park Chan-wook; Sirat by Oliver Laxe; A Poet by Simón Mesa Soto; and My Fathers Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr.
Some of the stalwarts of Indian cinema, together with Guru Dutt, Raj Khosla, Ritwik Ghatak, P Bhanumathi, Bhupen Hazarika and Salil Chowdhury, will likely be honoured of their centenary yr. The annual competition may also honour Rajinikanth on the closing ceremony for finishing 50 years in cinema and for his contributions.
This yr’s Indian Panorama will current 25 characteristic movies, 20 non-feature movies and 5 debut options.
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Rajkumar Periasamy-directed Amaran (Tamil) will open the characteristic movie part whereas Kamlesh Okay Mishra-directed Kakori will kick off the part for non-feature movies. Features like Braj-language Vimukt, Marathi-language Gondhal and Kannada-language Su From So may also be a part of this part. Five characteristic movies have been nominated within the Best Debut Director of Indian Feature Film Award class and as many web-series will compete for the Best Web-(*81*) Award underneath the Panorama.
Over 20 masterclasses and panel discussions lined up throughout IFFI can have Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Anupam Kher, Christopher Charles Corbould OBE, Bobby Deol, Aamir Khan, Suhasini Maniratnam, Pete Draper, Sreekar Prasad and others speaking about their journey and craft.
One of the highlights of IFFI is WAVES Film Bazaar, to be held from November 20 to 24 with a concentrate on the “co-production market” for options and documentaries. Its choice contains initiatives by Kiran Rao, Vikramaditya Motwane, Shakun Batra and Shaunak Sen.
First held in 1952, IFFI is taken into account South Asia’s oldest and largest celebration of cinema. The competition discovered its everlasting house in Goa in 2004, the place it’s collectively organised by the NFDC, the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, and the ESG.
