51st International Film Festival of India

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Opening film Another Round
Closing film Wife of a Spy
LocationDr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium at Panaji, Goa, India
Founded1952
Awards

Into the Darkness

Hosted by Government of Goa
Directorate of Film Festivals
No. of filmsScreened: 224
Premiered: 162
Festival date16–24 January 2021
Website iffigoa.org
International Film Festival of India

The 51st International Film Festival of India was held from 16 to 24 January 2021 in Goa. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the festival went hybrid, there was physical and virtual screening of 50 films out of 224 films across various categories. [1] [2] [3] Bangladesh was country of focus in the festival with four films of the country included in 'country of focus' section. [4]

Contents

The festival highlighted autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by premiering a film by Shreedhar, In Our World in non-feature film, Indian Panorama section on 18 January 2021. [1]

The opening and closing ceremonies of the festival were aired live on DD India and DD National channels on 16 January and 24 January 2021, respectively. [5] [6]

Events

Being a ‘hybrid’ film festival, a few events are organised online also.

Retrospective films

  1. Live Flesh , Bad Education and Volver by Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
  2. The Square and Force Majeure by Ruben Östlund (Sweden)
  3. One on One by Kim Ki-duk (South Korea) [7]

Master classes

Shekhar Kapur, Priyadarshan, Perry Lang, Subhash Ghai and Tanvir Mokammel are scheduled to hold master classes.

In-conversation sessions

Tribute

Tribute to the celebrated filmmaker Satyajit Ray marking his birth centenary by screening his classic works: [8]

Tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on the occasion of his 125th birth anniversary by screening film:

Online events

  1. 50 films out of 224 films across various categories are scheduled to be screened online.
  2. Opening and closing ceremony live telecast
  3. Q&A sessions
  4. Film appreciation sessions by Film and Television Institute of India professors: Mazhar Kamran, Madhu Apsara and Pankaj Saxena
  5. Mid fest world premiere of Mehrunisa [10] [11]

Jury

Sources: [12] [13] [14]

International jury

Feature film jury

Non-feature film jury

Winners

Sources: [15] [16]

Special awards

Official selections

Source: [17] [20] [14]

Opening film

Mid fest film

Closing film

Kaleidoscope section

Twelve foreign films were screened in this section.

These include:

  1. Night of the Kings by Philippe Lacôte (France)
  2. Love Affair(s) by Emmanuel Mouret (France)
  3. The Big Hit (Un triomphe) by Emmanuel Courcol (France)
  4. Window Boy Would also Like to Have a Submarine by Alex Piperno (Uruguay)
  5. Forgotten We’ll Be by Fernando Trueba (Colombia)
  6. Haifa Street by Mohanad Hayal (Iraq)
  7. We Still Have the Deep Black Night by Gustavo Galvao (Brazil, Germany)
  8. Parthenon by Mantas Kvedaravicius (Lithuania)
  9. Apples by Christos Nikou (Greece)
  10. My Little Sister by Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond (Switzerland)
  11. The Death of Cinema and My Father Too by Dani Rosenberg (Israel)
  12. Valley of the Gods by Lech Majewski (Poland)

Golden peacock award

In international section, 15 films are competing for the Golden Peacock Award. Argentine filmmaker Pablo Cesar is head of its international jury panel.

The films competing for the Golden Peacock Award are:

  1. The Domain by Tiago Guedes (Portugal)
  2. Into The Darkness by Anders Refn (Denmark)†
  3. February by Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria, France)
  4. My Best Part by Nicolas Maury (France)
  5. I Never Cry by Piotr Domalewski (Poland, Ireland)
  6. La Verónica by Leonardo Medel (Chile)
  7. Light For The Youth by Shin Su-won (South Korea)
  8. Red Moon Tide by Lois Patiño (Spain) [22]
  9. Dream About Sohrab by Ali Ghavitan (Iran)
  10. The Dogs Didn’t Sleep Last Night by Ramin Rasouli (Afghanistan, Iran)
  11. The Silent Forest by KO Chen-Nien (Taiwan)
  12. Bridge by Kripal Kalita (India)
  13. A Dog and His Man by Siddharth Tripathy (India) [23] [24]
  14. Thaen by Ganesh Vinayakan (India)

† Award winning film

Indian panorama award

Feature films
Non feature films

In memoriam

A special section in this festival will be organized in honour of the artists who died in the year 2020 to pay homage to them. [42]

World panorama

Source [44]

Country in focus

Four Bangladeshi films will be showcased in this section.

Goan films

Source [48]

ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal

The IFFI presents ICFT Prize consisting of the UNESCO Gandhi Medal in collaboration with International Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication (ICFT) Paris.

Debut director

Special screening

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