Indian Panorama – 42 nd International Film Festival of India 2011- selection of 24 feature films and 21 non‐feature films announced.

The jury for Feature films, headed by renowned filmmaker Ms. Sai Paranjpye, selected 23 films out of a total of 118 eligible entries. Malayalam film Adaminte Makan Abu which won Best Feature Film award at the recent 58th National Film Awards is the 24th film of Indian Panorama, by virtue of direct entry. The Non‐Feature film Jury chaired by well‐known writer‐director Shri Ashok Rane, picked up 21 films out of 135 eligible entries. In the feature films category, the maximum number of films selected- 7- are from Malayalam,3 each from Bengali, Marathi and Hindi, one each from Konkani, Telugu, Manipuri, Tamil, English, Kannada, Assamese and Bhojpuri.
The Feature Film Jury choose URUMI (Malayalam, Director : Santosh Sivan) as the opening Film of Indian Panorama. The complete list of 24 FeatureFilms and 21 non feature films that would be shown in the 42nd International Film Festival of India 2011, to be held in Goa from November 23 to December 3, 2011 is given below.

		Feature Films
		Title	Language	Director
	1	Jaangfaai Joonaak	Assamese	Sanjib Sabhapandit
	2	Laptop	Bengali	Kaushik Ganguly
	3	Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona	Bengali	Anjan Dutt
	4	Sanskar	Bengali	Late Nabyendu Chatterjee
	5	He…	Bhojpuri	Mangesh Joshi
	6	Memories in March	English	Sanjoy Nag
	7	Sahi Dhandhe Galat Bande	Hindi	Parvin Dabas
	8	Shagird	Hindi	Tigmanshu Dhulia
	9	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara	Hindi	Zoya Akhtar
	10	Bettada Jeeva	Kannada	P. Sheshadri
	11	O Maria	Konkani	Rajendra Talak
	12	Adaminte Makan Abu	Malayalam	Salim Ahamed
	13	Bombay March 12	Malayalam	Babu Janardhanan Prasanthi
	14	Chappa Kurishu	Malayalam	Sameer Thahir
	15	Karmayogi	Malayalam	V.K. Prakash
	16	Melvilasom	Malayalam	Madhav Ramdasan
	17	Traffic	Malayalam	Rajesh Pillai
	18	Urumi	Malayalam	Santosh Sivan
	19	Phijigee Mani	Manipuri	O. Gautam Singh
	20	Baboo Band Baaja	Marathi	Rajesh Pinjani
	21	Balgandharva	Marathi	Ravi Jadhav
	22	Taryanche Bait	Marathi	Kiran Yadnyopavit
	23	Sengadal	Tamil	Leena Mammekalai
	24	Virodi	Telugu	Neelakanta
		Non‐Feature Film
		Title	Language	Director
	1	Modhyoborti Alinde	Bengali	Krishno Kishore, Mukhopadhyay
	2	You Don’t Belong	Bengali, English	Spandan Banerjee
	3	The Dream Fulfilled – Memories of the engineering challenges	English	Satish Pande
	4	The Doyen of Indian Linguistics	English	Nirmalya Sengupta
	5	A Sculptor of Music	English	Nitish Mukherjee
	6	Musalman	English	Ishani K. Dutta
	7	Songs of Mashangva	English, Manipuri, Tangkhul	Oinam Doren
	8	Red Building – Where The Sun Sets	English, Tamil	Revathy
	9	Rakshas	Gujarati	Alok Naik
	10	Adwait Sangeet	Hindi	Makarand Brahme
	11	The Boxing Ladies	Hindi	Anusha Nandakumar
	12	The Silent National Anthem	Hindi	Amit Sharma
	13	Vertical City	Hindi	Avijit Mukul Kishor
	14	Khule Darwaaze	Hindi	Ashish Pandey
	15	ANNADATA – Food For Thought	Hindi	Umesh Aggarwal
	16	At The Stairs	Hindi / Bhojpuri	Rajesh S Jala
	17	The Finish Line	Hindi, English	Akshay Roy
	18	So Heddan So Hoddan	Kachchi / Hindustani	Anjali Monteiro & K P Jayasankar
	19	A pestering Journey	Malayalam, English, Tulu, Punjabi, Hindi	K.R. Manoj
	20	Noong Amadi Yeroom	Manipuri	Romi Meitei
	21	Compulsory hell‐mate	Marathi	MithunchandraMithunchandra Chaudhari

8th Dubai International Film Festival Dec7-14 ,2011- More than 1,000 shorts, features, documentaries vie for Muhr competition berth

The eighth edition of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF scheduled to be held from 7-14 December,2011 ,under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President & Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, would include more than 1,000 short films, documentaries and feature films in the festival’s flagship Muhr Emirati, Muhr Arab and Muhr AsiaAfrica competitions. Entries from India dominate the list at 160 followed by France (109); Iran (106), Egypt (91), the United States (87), the United Arab Emirates (71) and Lebanon (58). Germany, Palestine, South Korea and Palestine are also well represented, with more than 45 submissions each; Morocco (48) and Tunisia (34), among others.
France, USA, South Korea, and China Mali, Ghana, Cameroon, Azerbaijan ,Saudi Arabia, Chile and Venezuela are also represented. Films shortlisted for the Muhr competitions will vie for over 36 awards and more than US$600,000 in prize money, in addition to valuable industry connections. They will also be eligible for a variety of prestigious global awards including the FIPRESCI International Prize of the Critics Award, the Human Rights Film Network Award and the People’s Choice Award.
Masoud Amralla Al Ali, Artistic Director, Dubai International Film Festival, said: “The Muhr Awards underlines DIFF’s mandate to promote the growing pool of cinema talent in the Arab world, near Asia and Africa. The strong response to our call for entries highlights the growing global interest in DIFF’s ability to open doors for filmmakers to a global audience. Over the past years, Muhr Award winners have gone on to win international recognition, contributing to a surge in Arab, African and near Asian filmmaking.”

14th IFFR (Rotterdam Film Festival) - -Trainee Project for Young Film Critics 2012 - Call For Applications

The International Film Festival Rotterdam welcomes applications for the 14th IFFR Trainee Project for Young Film Critics taking place during its 41st edition (January 25 - February 5, 2012).Rotterdam Festival supports film making, film producing and journalistic talent on several levels: the main festival section 'Bright Future' (including competitions for feature length and short films) presents recent works by first and second time filmmakers; Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund contributes to film projects in developing countries and CineMart organizes a talent development project for young film producers (Rotterdam Lab) in close collaboration with its partner organizations. Recognizing the important role of film criticism to the perception of independent cinema, the Rotterdam film festival organizes a trainee project for young film critics. It is a talent development programme that offers up to six young (under 30 years), motivated and talented professional film critics from outside The Netherlands a chance to travel abroad for covering a major international film festival, to get acquainted with the Rotterdam film festival in particular and the broad range of independent cinema it offers. The program of the Trainee Project includes taking part in the Rotterdam FIPRESCI Jury meetings; exploring an assigned part of the festival; publishing a blog on the IFFR website and writing up to three contributions for the festival's newspaper Daily Tiger; taking part in expert meetings; reporting about the festival for own affiliation(s).Those who are fulfilling the criteria viz under 30 years, fluent in English, demonstrable experience in film criticism (printed media, radio/television, online ,not yet established enough to profit from facilities as attending international film festivals outside your country and have agreement(s) with printed and/or online media to publish a report or reports on the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012 may send in the application by email to press@filmfestivalrotterdam.com . Deadline for applications: Friday November 4, 2011.
For more details www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com