<span style="color: #222222;">The 24th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) began this evening at the Netaji Indoor Stadium.</span><br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">It was jointly inaugurated by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Dadasaheb Phalke awardee Soumitra Chatterjee and veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">171 full-time movies and 150 small-time movies of 70 countries will be shown at 16 locations. The highlight of this year's festival is that it celebrates 100 years of Bengali Cinema. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">So the list of films to be screened will include some brilliant masterpieces from Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen among others. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Special guests such as Jaya Bachchan, Iranian director Mazid Mazidi, Wahida Rahman, Shah Rukh Khan, Mahesh Bhatt and several others were present on this occasion. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A centenary tribute will also be paid to legendary Swedish director-producer Ingmar Bergman through the screening of eight of his outstanding movies. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The eight-day extravaganza, considered to be the country's second oldest film fest, also has a plethora of award-winning international films from US, Spain, France and Russia. </span><br />''