Yet another Film festival is opening in Jaipur from Sunday. Named '16 International Film Festivals' is being organized by the internationally acclaimed Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF) from May 15 to 22 at the Nile screen of the prestigious Golcha Cinema. Festival films would be screened daily in the evening from 5.00 Pm to 9.15 Pm.
Film personalities from India and abroad have started arriving at the Pink City to participate in the simultaneous 16 film festivals.
Belal Taheri from Iran, Stela Pelin from Romania and Hasan Nazar from Afghanistan are among the prominent personalities reaching Jaipur who would be taking part in the inaugural session of the festival.
‘Special Talks’ would be held daily at 5 PM which would be followed by film screenings from 6 PM.
Different subjects like women issues, human rights, democracy, politics and corruption, and development issues, art and culture would be discussed and films based on these themes would be screened besides Children and animation films. Cinegoers in Jaipur would have a chance to watch world’s top selected films in the festival.
A total of 975 films were submitted for the festivals from 60 countries of which top 65 films have been elected for the screening. Among them are seven feature films, five documentary feature films, nine documentary short films, 28 short fiction films, two animation feature films, seven short animation filma and seven Advt. films.
Iran is participating in the festival with five titles including ‘Seven Stanza’ by Mojgan Nikravesh, ‘The Return’ by Mohammed Amin Hamedani, ‘The Heritage’ by Abbas Khosrogerdi and Manizheh Seraj, ‘Shakhovan’ by Mahtab Sedaghat, and ‘Confined Space’ by Siamak Ahmadi.
Founder of the JIFF and 16IFF Hanu Roj said the main objective of the simultaneous film festivals is to create awareness about the issues raised in the selected films. Discussions during the festivals have been designed taking into account intellectual needs of filmgoers in all age groups.
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