49th International Film Festival of India to start on 20th Nov in Goa
49th International Film Festival of India to start on 20th Nov in Goa
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The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is all set to open the red carpet to host the film fraternity in Goa from the 20th of November. The 49th edition of the festival will start with World Premiere of James Ivory's executive produced 'The Aspern Papers'. The festival will showcase 212 films from over 68 countries. While the International Competition section of the fest exhibits 15 films out of which 3 are Indian. The competition section itself represents films from 22 countries.

IFFI 2018 will also mark Retrospective of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman on his 100th birth anniversary. IFFI 2018 will showcase 7 of best films of his career.

Israel is the focus nation at this year's movie extravaganza.10 Israeli films that will be featured  at the festival as part of the nation focus package.

Jharkhand has been choosen as the State of Focus for IFFI 2018 and Jharkhand Day will be celebrated on the 24th of this month as part of the festival.

The Indian Panorama section at IFFI will consist of 26 feature and 21 non-feature Indian films. The Feature film Jury chose the film 'OLU', directed by Shaji N Karun as the Opening feature film of Indian Panorama 2018. 

It is may be noted that Indian sports biopics, such as "Mary Kom", "1983" and "MSD: The Untold Story", will have open air screenings. This year IFFI will showcase some of the best films of Vinod Khanna, who received the Dada Saheb Phalke award after the death.

 

This year homage will be paid to Shashi Kapoor, Sridevi, M. Karunanidhi and Kalpana Lajmi. A Special Package for Visually Impaired Children special screenings with audio description will be held for the children who are visually impaired.

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