Three Indian films -- Vihir (Marathi), Moner Manush (Bengali) and Just Another Love Story (English) -- are among the 18 entries to feature in the international competition section at this year's IFFI beginning in Panaji on Monday.
Directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni, Vihir (Well) is a multiple award-winning film in the international festival circuit and deals with friendship between two teenage boys and how they are forced to face questions related to death and life.
Veteran filmmaker Goutam Ghose's Moner Manush is based on Sunil Gangopadhyay's novel on mystic poet Lalon Fakir with superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee in the title role.
Kaushik Ganguly's Just Another Love Story tells the story of a gay filmmaker (director Rituporno Ghosh) and a bisexual cinematographer (played by Indraneil Sengupta) who decide to re-evaluate their love life.
The competition section this year has been made open to all feature films from across the world. Earlier, this section was restricted to feature films from Asia, Asia Pacific, Africa and Latin America.
This section includes West is West by Andy De Emmony, Chinese film Apart Together directed by Wang Quan An and Hollywood entry Shit Year directed by Cam Archer.
It also boasts of films from Iran, Israel, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Mexico and New Zealand.
The festival has introduced two awards in the competition section -- Best Actor and Best Actress.
The Best Film will be awarded the Golden Peacock besides a prize money of Rs40 lakh; the Best Director the Silver Peacock and a prize money of Rs15 lakh while the Best Actor and Actress would take home a Silver Peacock and a prize money of Rs10 lakh each.
The Special Jury Award winner would be bestowed with a Silver Peacock and a cash prize of Rs15 lakh.
The awards will be announced and presented at the closing ceremony on December 2.
The IFFI also announced a five-member international jury which will be headed by Polish writer-director-producer Jerzy Antczak, who arrived in Panaji today.
The four other members of the Jury are Mick Molloy, Olivier Pere, Indian filmmaker Revathy and Sturla Gunnarsson and are expected tomorrow in Goa for the Festival.
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