While inaugurating the five day long
festival Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said the relevance of documentaries as a
medium that could impact people’s lives was coming to the forefront He added
that the medium was important to bring to limelight various issues that
affected the people.Shashi Tharoor Minister of State for Human Resource
Development ,Govt.of India said festivals such as the IDSFFK were important
platforms to promote the hugely neglected medium of visual art that
documentaries were. Mike Pandey, the chief guest of the ceremony opined that festivals like
IDSFFK encouraged documentary film-makers and pepped up the medium that was
going through a bad patch in terms of finding space amid the commercially
driven film industry. Mike Pandey released the festival book, while Tharoor
released the weekly bulletin of the festival. The inaugural function was
followed by screening of the film 5 Broken Cameras , directed by Emad
Burnat and Guy Davidi.
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