By Hindustan Times
After getting the glimpse of Arab and Asian cinema on the Osian's Cinefan Film Festival, get set for the primary ever Delhi International Film Festival (DIFF) Dec 21-27 to understand more about world cinema.
As many as 150 films from across 70 countries including France, Israel, Britain and Brazil can be showcased through the week-long festival showcasing world cinema, so that they can be held at Siri Fort Auditorium and NDMC Convention Centre.
“In my point of view, the DIFF is not only the festival of flicks. It's the vision of bringing the sector together at a universal platform, far-off from the lines of controls and bounds that mankind has created,” filmmaker-writer Suresh K. Goswami, who's also the festival director, said on the launch of the festival.
He was accompanied by Ram Kishore Parcha, senior film journalist and president of DIFF and filmmaker Sanjay Singh, vp DIFF.
“Moreover, Delhi is rich in the case of culture and heritage, but unfortunately it doesn't have its own platform to showcase creativity and that's the reason why we would have liked to have our own international film festival here,” he added.
Classical films from overseas and India could be showcased across 10 sections, including Delhi Scope section within the festival. The Retrospective, Tributes and Homage section will include films of Dev Anand, Balraj Sahni and other legendary filmmakers and actors.
The World Cinema section will showcase films like Daughters of Hill by Patrizia Landi, The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius, Jeremiah by Eran Paz, Love Bird by Susan Collins, The light within the Corner by Sun Hao Young, Mar by Caner Erzincan among others. It's going to also include seminars and workshops.
The festival has a different section called NRI Cinema, under which 15 films by non-resident Indians living in several parts of the sector may be showcased. Another section is devoted to the NRI writers. DIFF can even have an art exhibition by which artworks of individuals the world over might be showcased.
Also present on the occasion was filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia and Shiney Ahuja.
“With a festival like this young and aspiring filmmakers around the country will benefit a lot,” said Dhulia.
Adds Shiney, “Film festivals are great medium for aspiring filmmakers to come back and showcase their talent and at last they get a large number of publicity with none extra expense. And that publicity helps for the mainstream release in a large way.”
Organised by Social Circle, the festival has partnered with Broadway International Film Festival, Los Angeles, South Cinema South Film Festival, and JMT from Israel, Slade school of good arts, London, Film factory China, Turkish Film Industry, Cinetech Nationale Mexico, Brazil films, Media Box Bangladesh, Hunarkada from Pakistan, Film Boutique from Germany, Nantes Film Festival of France and French Cultural Centre
