49th International Film Festival of India

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49th International Film Festival of India
Opening film The Aspern Papers
Closing filmSealed Lips
Location Goa, India
Founded1952
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Festival date20–28 November 2018
Website iffigoa.org
International Film Festival of India

The 49th International Film Festival of India was a film festival held from 20 to 28 November 2018 in Goa. [1] In the 49th event new sections such as "Sketch on Screen (Animation Film Package)", "A Retrospective of Masters" are inculcated. 212 films were being showcased during the event, with Israel being the country of focus. [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Winners

Special Awards

Official Selections

Opening Film

Closing Film

International Competition

Original titleDirector(s)Production country
53 WarsEwa BukowskaPoland
A TranslatorSebastian BarriuscoCuba,Canada,Spanish,Russia
AgaMilko LazarovBulgaria, Germany, France
Divine Wind Merzak Allouache Algeria,France,Qatar, Lebanon
Donbass Sergey Loznitsa Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands,Romania
A Family Tour Ying Liang Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia
HereHadi MohagheghIran
Our Struggles Guillaume Senez Belgium,France
The Manslayer/The Virgin/The ShadowSulev KeedusEstonia, Lithuania
The UnseenNicholas PuenoArgentina
Vang Goghs Sergey LivnevRussia
When The Trees FallMarysia NikitiukUkraine,Poland
Ee.Ma.Yau Lijo Jose Pellissery India-Malayalam
To Let Chezhiyan India-Tamil
Bhayanakam Jayaraj India-Malayalam

Indian Panorama

TitleLanguageDirector(s)
Olu Malayalam - Inaugural film Shaji N Karun
Sa Bengali Arijit Singh
Bunkar - The Last of the Varanasi Weavers English with Hindi Satyaprakash Upadhyay
Nagarkirtan Bengali Kaushik Ganguly
Uma Bengali Srijit Mukherjee
Abyakto BengaliArjun Dutta
Somoy BengaliSuryoday De
Uronchodi BengaliAbhishek Saha
October Hindi Shoojit Sircar
Bhor HindiKamakhya Narayanan Singh
Sinjar JasariPampally
Walking with the Wind LadakhiPraveen Morchhale
Bhayanakam Malayalam Jayaraj
Makanna MalayalamRaheem Khader
Poomaram Malayalam Abrid Shine
Sudani From Nigeria Malayalam Zakariya
Ee.Ma.Yau Malayalam Lijo Jose Pellissery
Dhappa MarathiNipun Avinash Dharmadhikari
Aamhi Doghi MarathiPratima Joshi
To Let Tamil Chezhiyan
Baaram TamilPriya Krishnaswamy
Pariyerum Perumal TamilMari Selvaraj
Peranbu Tamil Ram
Paddayi Tulu Abhaya Simha

State Focus - Jharkhand (Special Section)

TitleLanguageDirector(s)
A Death in the Gunj Hindi Konkona Sen Sharma
M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story Hindi Neeraj Pandey
Panchlait Hindi Prem Prakash Modi
Begum Jaan Hindi Srijit Mukherji

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Mainstream Cinema Section

TitleLanguageDirector(s)
Mahanati Telugu Nag Ashwin
Tiger Zinda Hai Hindi Ali Abbas Zafar
Padmaavat Hindi Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Raazi Hindi Meghna Gulzar

Controversy

On 22 November 2018 delegates who had gathered to watch the Danish crime thriller The Guilty began protesting at Kala Academy when they were not allowed to enter the theater. This led to a clash between them and the organizers. In the resulting argument, Rajendra Talak, vice-chairman of the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG), was quoted as asking delegates from Kerala to "go back home". A complaint was filed by Kerala-based director Kamal KM to IFFI CEO, Ameya Abhyankar. Following this, 29 other Malayali delegates, including 11 National Film winners like Dileesh Pothen and Dr Biju, signed a petition requesting a formal apology from Talak. When asked to comment, Talak replied that he had told the delegates to go back as the show was housefull. [7] [8]

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