Susan Sarandon, the chief guest, will inaugurate IFFI 2013 at a specially erected venue along the river Mandovi at 4 p.m.
This year coincidentally is also the 10th time the festival is being hosted in Goa after the Union Information & Broadcasting Ministry decided to give IFFI a permanent venue.
Besides leading lights of Indian cinema like Rekha, Asha Bhosle, Kamal Hassan and Waheeda Rehman, the festival this year will see Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon and acclaimed Iranian director Majid Majidi put in a presence.
Waheeda Rehman will be presented the first Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year 2013 at the inaugural ceremony and
Jiri Menzel — arguably the best known representative of New Wave Czech Cinema — will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award
Jiri Menzel's ''Don Juans'', will be the opening film of the festival
This year, 326 films from 76 countries, including 15 of Oscar-nominees, will be screened
The festival will showcase Japanese and Greece films in the country focus section
The Indian Panorama section will open with the Malayalam film ‘Kanyaka Talkies’ and
will feature the works of directors like Rituparno Ghosh (Satyanweshi)
The films selected to be screened at the 44th IFFI at Goa in the Indian Panorama section which showcases the best of Indian movies are -
101 Chodyangal (Malayalam), Ajana Batas (Bengali), Apur Panchali (Bengali), Artist (Malayalam), Astu (Marathi), Baga Beach (Konkani), Bharath Stores (Kannada), Celluloid (Malayalam), Phoring-Dragonfly (Bengali), Fandry (Marathi), Jal (Hindi), Kanyaka Talkies (Malayalam), Ko:Yad (Mising), Kunjananthante Kada (Malayalam), Listen Amaya (Hindi), Meghe Dhaka Tara (Bengali), Sala Budha (Oriya), Satyanweshi (Bengali), Ship of Theseus (English/Hindi), Shutter (Malayalam), Tapaal (Marathi), The coffin maker (English/Konkani), Thangameengal (Tamil), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (Hindi), OMG Oh My God (Hindi) and Pan Singh Tomar (Hindi).
The highlight will be the International Competition, with prize money amounting to a total of Rs. 1.1 crore. Fifteen films from around the world, including two Indian, will vie for the coveted Peacock Awards.
Eminent Jury who Judge Films Comprise -
- award-winning Serbian director Goran Paskeljevic
- veteran French filmmaker Claire Dennis
- iconic Sri-Lankan writer-filmmaker Prasanna Vithanag
- Indian actor Victor Banerjee and
- critically acclaimed French-Afghan photographer, writer and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi
The festival will close on November 30 ,2013 with a film on anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.
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