November 19, 2015 1:35 PM

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'The Man Who Knew Infinity' to be opening film of IFFI

In the 46th edition of International Film Festival IFFI?', which starts tomorrow at Goa, 'The Man Who Knew the Infinity'? ???will be the opening film?. Whereas Argentina's Oscar entry and ?a Argentinean box office hit- ?'?The Clan?'? ?will be the closing film? of the festival?.? The Kingdom of Spain will be the focus country of IFFI 2015.? Giving this information director IFFI C Senthil Rajan further added that the International competition will have 15 films from across the globe including countries like Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Colombia, France, Germany, Iceland to name a few. <br/><br/>Two films from Indian Panorama section will also be competing in this section.? The International Jury is headed by Mr. Shekhar Kapur? ?(Chairperson, India) and includes film personalities like Mr. Michael Radford, Ms. Julia Jentsch, Ms. Suha Arraf and Mr. Jeon Kyu – Hwan.? Anil Kapoor will grace the opening ceremony as the Chief Guest of the event? and A.R. Rahman will be the Chief Guest of the closing ceremony.

November 19, 2015 11:18 AM

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'The Man Who Knew Infinity' to be opening film of IFFI

'The Man Who Knew Infinity'? ??w?ritten and directed by Matthew Brown,?will be the opening film of International Film Festival ?of ??this year ?at Goa. ? Directed by Pablo Trapero, Argentina's Oscar entry and this year's biggest Argentinean box office hit- ?'?The Clan?'? ?will be the closing film? of the festival?.? Whereas 'The Danish Girl'? will be the midfest film. <br/><br/>The Kingdom of Spain will be the focus country of IFFI 2015.? Giving this information director IFFI C Senthil Rajan further added that the International ?c?competition will have 15 films from across the globe including countries like Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Colombia, France, Germany, Iceland to name a few. <br/><br/>Two films from Indian Panorama section will also be competing in this section.? The International Jury is headed by Mr. Shekhar Kapur (Chairperson, India) and includes film personalities like Mr. Michael Radford, Ms. Julia Jentsch, Ms. Suha Arraf and Mr.Jeon Kyu – Hwan.? Anil Kapoor will grace the opening ceremony as the Chief Guest of the event? and A.R. Rahman will be the Chief Guest of the closing ceremony.<br/> <br/>AIR correspondent reports form Panaji Goa that filmmakers Shyam Benegal, Vettrimaran, Kaushik Ganguli? ?and Anand L Rai will interact with audience in a special series titled "In Conversation"? section of IFFI?.? The festival will organize a Special Retrospective on the legendary actor Shashi Kapoor.<br/><br/> The 'Focus on North East Cinema' section will feature ?a ?special Retrospective on the ace filmmaker Aribam Shyam Sharma and special section on new generation filmmakers from the North East region.

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