Film critic Namrata Joshi serves as market curator.
It also includes Indian filmmaker Ajitpal Singh (Sundance title “Fire in the Mountains,” SonyLIV series “Tabbar”), Bangladeshi director Nuhash Humayun (SXSW winner “Moshari,” Raindance winner “Pett Kata Shaw”) and “Make Money Screenwriting” series author Julian Friedmann.īina Paul, who was artistic director at the International Film Festival of Kerala for more than a decade, will fulfil that role at the Chandigarh event. Former Cannes film market director Jerome Paillard, Indian actor and producer Rana Daggubati and Nicole Guillemet, who was co-director of the Sundance Film Festival, are on the advisory board. Talent attending the festival include Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal, Roshan Mathew, Gulshan Devaiah, Varun Grover, Rasika Duggal, Rashmeet Kaur, Hansal Mehta, Shekhar Kapur, Sudhir Mishra and Tahira Kashyap Khurrana. The festival will also feature a cinema exhibition to celebrate the centenary of late Indian actor-directors Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand. Open air screenings are scheduled of Satyajit Ray’s “Jalsaghar” (1958), Guru Dutt’s “Kaagaz Ke Phool” (1959) and “The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone,” a recut of “Godfather 3” by Francis Ford Coppola to mark the 30th anniversary of the film. Indian films include Jayant Digambar Somalkar’s Toronto winner “Sthal,” Karan Tejpal’s Venice title “Stolen,” Rima Das’ Toronto title “Tora’s Husband,” Gurvinder Singh’s Rotterdam film “Adh Chanani Raat,” Lijo Jose Pellissery’s “Malaikottai Vaaliban” amd Sreemoyee Singh’s Berlinale title “And, Towards Happy Alleys.”