International Film Festival of Kashmir begins today at SKICC: 17/08/2014 Srinagar, The International Film Festival of Kashmir 2014 organized by Experimental Moving Images and Theatre Association (XMITA) will start from Monday (August 18) at SKICC here. The film festival, which is forth edition of International Film Festival of Kashmir (IFFK) is marking XMITA’s 10th anniversary with longest-ever lineup of movies across the globe. Over four days starting Monday, 44 movies in 10 international languages will be screened at a festival expected to attract some 2000 viewers. The selected films belong to seventeen countries including Syria, Russia, Armenia, Netherlands, Iran, Portugal, Germany, France, Kazakhstan, Korea, Canada, Serbia, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Jordan and India. IFFK 2014 began in 2007 which has since grown from a relatively small gathering in a basement to the largest festival in Srinagar. Prof Fida Muhammad Hasnain, Kashmir’s veteran writer and historian will chair the jury of eminent experts that will choose the winner of the top awards, from among competing movies. Others who are in the jury include Bashir Budgami, a known Filmmaker; Bashir Bhawani, a known theater personality of Kashmir; Zarief Ahmad Zarief, poet and writer; Prof Rehman Rahi, veteran writer; Ghulam Nabi Khayal, writer and Journalist; Muhammad Shafi Pandit, literati and former bureaucrat; Shabir Mujahid, filmmaker and Director General Doordarshan; Dr Shujaat Bukhari, a know writer and journalist; Farooq Nazki, film critic and writer; Aziz Hajini, writer and Shamshad Kralwari, Broadcaster Earlier the films have been shortlisted by a selection committee comprising of renowned people from film industry, school of Cinema Studies and theatre including Dora Sultan, Dr MajuKak, Chandrasaran, M.K. Raina, Dr Kaushik Bhaumik, Dr Arshiya Sethi, Tanuja Shankar Khan, Prashant Vishwanathan and Piyush Pandey after untiring efforts. The committee has shortlisted Forty-four (44) world-class films from all genres out of about 200 entries from more than 50 countries. The films include seven (7) World Premieres, fifteen (15) South Asian Premieres, two (2) International Premieres, One Asian Premier and One Indian Premier.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 17:00:00 +0000
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