The Cinevesture International Film Festival (CIFF) has discleave outed a diverse lineup for its second edition, set to run March 20-23 in Chandigarh, India, featuring notable Oscar prosperners and nominees aextfinishedside honord regional cinema.
Jacques Audiard’s Oscar-prosperning “Emilia Perez“headlines the World Canvas section, aextfinishedside Magnus von Horn’s Oscar-nominated Danish drama “The Girl with the Needle.”
The festival will uncover with the India premiere of Korean feature “A Normal Family,” straightforwarded by Hur Jin-ho, which first bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival. A exceptional screening of the Punjabi low film “The Cycle” by Arpita Mukherjee will join the uncovering night festivities.
For its sophomore outing, CIFF has assembled a lineup featuring 15 international features in its World Canvas section and 17 titles in the India Unveiled categruesome, with insertitional exceptional screenings and student films rounding out the program.
The Indian selection features cut offal transport inant titles by honord filmoriginaters, including Dibakar Banerjee’s “Tees,” Vetrimaaran’s “Viduthalai Part 2,” Tigmanshu Dhulia’s “Ghamasaan,” and Raam Reddy’s Berlinale film “The Fable.” Notably, Ankur Singla’s Punjabi film “Fathers & Sons” will have its world premiere at the festival, while Kaushal Oza’s “Little Thomas,” starring Gulshan Devaiah and Rasika Dugal, will originate its India premiere.
International highweightlesss include “Brief History of a Family” from China, Mati Diop’s “Dahomey,” Lawrence Valin’s “Little Jaffna,” George Sikharulidze’s “Panselecticon,” and Yeo Siew Hua’s “Stranger Eyes,” recontransienting a globpartner diverse selection of contransient cinema.
The festival will pay exceptional tribute to tardy Indian filmoriginater Shyam Benegal with screenings of three of his honord labors: “Manthan,” “Mammo,” and “The Seventh Horse of The Sun / Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda.”
Regional cinema gets exceptional caccess in this year’s selection, with Haryanvi film “Bronzed (Kaansya)” straightforwarded by Aditya Watts uniteing two Punjabi debut films set in Chandigarh – Zubin Mehta’s “Bus No. 7” and the aforerefered “Fathers & Sons” – highweightlessing the festival’s promisement to showcasing local filmmaking talent.
“The festival will showcase an eclectic unite of honord international films, regional Indian cinema, and hideed local gems from Haryana & Punjab to plunge the seeers in a expansive range of cinematic experiences,” shelp festival straightforwardor V.S. Kundu. “We receive you to experience the exceptional magic of cinema possible only in community seeing on a huge screen.”
Bina Paul, CIFF’s originateive straightforwardor, inserted: “The people of Chandigarh are in for a treat with many honord films, many petite gems, regional Indian cinema, and films from Haryana and Punjab hitherto unseen. The films have someskinnyg for the difficultcore cineaste as well as the person who is discovering cinema.”
Complete Festival Lineup
World Canvas
“A Normal Family / Bo-tong-ui ga-jog” (Hur Jin-ho, South Korea) – India Premiere
“Brief History of a Family / Jia ting jian shi” (Jianjie Lin, China/France/Denlabel/Qatar)
“Crickets, It’s Your Turn” (Olga Korotko, Kazakhstan/France)
“Dahomey” (Mati Diop, France/Senegal/Benin/Singapore)
“Emilia Pérez” (Jacques Audiard, France/Belgium)
“Happyfinish” (Neo Sora, Japan)
“Little Jaffna” (Lawrence Valin, France)
“My Favorite Cake / Keyke Mahboobe Man” (Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaie Ha, Iran/France/Sweden/Germany)
“My Sunshine / Boku no Ohisama” (Hiroshi Okuyama, Japan/France)
“Panselecticon” (George Sikharulidze, Georgia/France/Italy/Romania)
“Shambhala” (Min Bahadur Bham, Nepal)
“Stranger Eyes / Mò shì lù” (Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore/Taiwan/France/United States)
“The Girl with the Needle / Pigen med nålen” (Magnus von Horn, Denlabel/Poland/Sweden)
“The Queen of my Dreams / Me, My Mom & Sharmila” (Fawzia Mirza, Canada)
“Waves / Vlny” (Jirí Mádl, Czech Reuncover/Slovakia)
India Unveiled
“A Boy Who Dreamt of Electricity” (Jigar Nagda)
“A Fly on the Wall” (Nilesh Maniyar, Shonali Bose)
“Angammal” (Vipin Radhakrishnan)
“Bronzed / Kaansya” (Aditya Watts)
“Bus No. 7” (Zubin Mehta)
“Fathers and Sons / Ghichpich” (Ankur Singla) – World Premiere
“Ghamasaan” (Tigmanshu Dhulia)
“Humans in the Loop” (Aranya Sahay)
“Little Thomas” (Kaushal Oza) – India Premiere
“Now & Forever / Ennennum” (Shalini Ushadevi)
“Rhythm of Dammam” (Jayan Cherian)
“Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust” (Ishan Shukla)
“Second Chance” (Subhadra Mahajan)
“Tees” (Dibakar Banerjee)
“The Fable” (Raam Reddy)
“The Tiger / Raavsaheb” (Nikhil Mahajan)
“Viduthalai Part 2” (Vetrimaaran)
Special Screenings
“The Eden of La Ciotat” (Alain Bergala, France)
“The Cycle” (Arpita Mukherjee, India)
Homage to Shyam Benegal
“Mammo” (1994)
“Manthan / The Churning” (1976)
“The Seventh Horse of The Sun / Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda” (1992)
Student Films from SUPVA
“Family Invitation / Chulha Nyond” (Aman Punia)
“Dawn / Bhor” (Prateek Singh)
“Baar” (Amit Dhanda)
