The Indian premieres of French film ‘A Taste of Things’ and Korean film ‘Exhoma’ will respectively open and close the maiden edition of the International Film Festival in India.
Tran Anh Hung won the Best Director award at Cannes 2023 for The Taste of Things, which was later presented as France’s official entry in the Feature Film category of the International Academy Awards. Director Jang Jae-hyun’s “Exhuma” has been Korea’s biggest box office success of 2024.
International highlights from the program include Oscar-winner Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” Kore-eda Hirokazu’s “Monster,” Darren Aronevsky’s “The Whale” starring Brendan Fraser, and Steffi Niederzoll’s “Seven Winters in Tehran,” And “Seven Winters in Tehran” by Anthony Chen. “Breaking Ice,” which won an Oscar in Singapore, and “Paradise,” directed by Prasanna Vithanage, who won the Busan Award.
Hindi films include Jayant Digambar Somalkar’s Toronto award-winning “Sthal”, Karan Tejpal’s Venice film “Stolen”, Rima Das’s Toronto film “Zoog Tora”, Gurvinder Singh’s Rotterdam film “Adh Chanani Raat” and “Malaikottai Vaaliban” “Directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, and directed by Srimoy Singh. Berlinale title: “And towards happy alleys.”
Open air screenings of Satyajit Ray’s “Jalsaghar” (1958), Guru Dutt’s “Kaagaz Ke Phool” (1959), and “The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone,” a remake of the film “The Godfather 3” directed by Francis Ford Coppola. On the occasion of the film’s thirtieth anniversary. The festival will also include a film exhibition to celebrate the centenary of late Indian actors and directors Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand.
Talents attending the festival include Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal, Roshan Mathew, Gulshan Devaiah, Varun Grover, Rasika Duggal, Rashmeet Kaur, Hansal Mehta, Shekhar Kapoor, Sudhir Mishra, and Tahira Kashyap Khurana.
The festival focuses on producers. The advisory board includes former Cannes Film Market director Jérôme Paillard, Indian actor and producer Rana Daggubati, and Nicole Guillemette, who was co-director of the Sundance Film Festival. Also featuring Indian director Ajitpal Singh (Sundance title “Fire in the Mountains” and SonyLIV series “Tabbar”), Bangladeshi director Nuhash Humayun (SXSW winner “Moshari” and Raindance winner “Pett Kata Shaw”) and “Make Money Screenwriting” series author Julian Friedman .
Beena Paul, who has been artistic director of the Kerala International Film Festival for over a decade, will play this role at the Chandigarh event. Film critic Namrata Joshi serves as market coordinator. VS Kundu, former head of the National Film Department of India, is the director of the festival.
The festival is the brainchild of Nina Lath, who previously headed Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest co-production marketplace, from 2006 to 2018.
“Cinevesture International Film Festival is seen as a platform that brings together the two main parties, which are the audience and the producers,” Lath said. Its various segments have been designed keeping the same thing in mind. We are confident that over time, Cairo International Film Festival will serve as a trusted festival that delivers high-quality content to audiences and enhances business opportunities for the film industry.
The festival will be held in Chandigarh, northern India, from March 27 to 31.