24th Kolkata International Film Festival

The 24th Kolkata International Film Festival took place from 10 Nov 2018 – 17 Nov 2018. Celebrating 100 Years of Bengali cinema, Around 171 films and 150 short and documentary films from 70 countries was screened at the festival.[1][2][3]

24th Kolkata International Film Festival
Opening filmAntony Firingee
LocationKolkata
Founded1995
Festival date10 Nov 2018 – 17 Nov 2018
LanguageInternational

Inauguration

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24th Edition of Kolkata International Film Festival was inaugurated at Netaji Indoor Stadium by West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.

Apart from the entire Bengali film industry, Bollywood stalwart Amitabh Bachchan, who has been a regular in the inaugural function of KIFF for the last few years, was also invited this year, along with Shahrukh Khan. Along with them, other nationally famed film personas like Jaya Bachchan, Wahida Rehman, Nandita Das, Mahesh Bhatt were also present.[4]

Themes & Highlights

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The highlight of the festival this year was 100 years of Bengali cinema – fourteen restored Bengali classics and a few contemporary regional language films was screened at Nandan and Rabindra Sadan. The special focus of KIFF this year was on Australia and Tunisia films. Selected contemporary and iconic Australian and Tunisian movies was also screened, along with three retrospective series with films by Majid Majidi, Phillip Noyce and Bimal Roy. Änother category "Unheard India" was showcase eight lesser-known Indian language films from across the country – Sinjar (Jasari), Saakibaayi (Banjaara), Kittath Preeti, Boldu, Navleri, Death Certificate (Bengali), Nabon (Khasi) and Nana A Tale Of Us.

Antony Firingee’ starred by Uttam Kumar was chosen as the inaugural movie of the festival . A special theatre play named ‘Hirala Bioscope’ was staged on 13 November. It is based on Hiralal Sen, who is considered to be one of the country's first filmmakers.[4]

Official Selections

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Competition Categories

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Asian Select (NETPAC Award)

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Title Director Notes
Manta Ray Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
Amra And The Second Marriage Mahmoud Sabbagh
Abraham Konarak Mukherjee
The Sweet Requiem Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam NETPAC Award for Best Film
Saga Of A Nobody Soumendu Bhattacherya
House of My Fathers Suba Sivakumaran

International Competition: Innovation in Moving Images

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Title Original Title Director Country Notes
Unicorn Unicornio Eduardo Nunes
Judgement Day Yomeddine Abu Bakr Shawky Egypt Golden Royal Bengal Tiger for Best Director
She Olu SHAJI N KARUN India
Endless - Maryam Zahirimehr Iran
The He Without Him Runanubandha Amartya Bhattacharyya India
A Timeline Tarikh Churni Ganguly India Jury Special Mention
Black Mexicans La Negrada Jorge Perez Solano
Sibel Guillaume Giovanetti, Cagla Zencirci
The Third Wife Ash Mayfair Golden Royal Bengal Tiger Award for Best Film
Persons of Interest RALSTON GONZALES JOVER
Genesis Genezis Arpad Bogdan
I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians Radu Jude
Strangers Of Patience STRANNIKI TERPENIYA Vladimir Alenikov
The Widowed Witch CAI Chengjie
FORNACIS Aurelia Mengin

Competition on Indian Language's Films

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Title Director Notes
Sun Goes Around The Earth Arijit Biswas Best Director
Pixelia Ratheesh Ravindran
Half Songs Sriram Raja
Certain Lives In Twilight Praveen Sukumaran
Kedara Indraadip Dasgupta Special Mention Jury
Vartak Nagar Atul Taishete
Nirmal Enroute Rishi Deshpande
Obyakto Arjun Dutta
KANTHAN THE LOVER OF COLOUR SHAREEF EASA
Widow of Silence Praveen Morchhale Hiralal Sen Memorial Award' for Best Film
Mishing Bobby Sarma Baruah
In a Land far away Joshy Mathew
Hiralal Arun Roy

Competition on Indian Documentary Films

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Title Director Notes
SAY CHEESE Ishani Kanjilal Dutta Best Documentary
TIDES OF LIFE Suhel Banerjee
MELTING ICE Devanshi asher
SWORD OF LIBERTY Shiny Jacob Benjamin
PONY TALE Alexander Leo Pou
LADLI Suipta Kundu
MEMOIRS OF SAIRA & SALIM Eshwarya Grover
AN ORIGINAL CLOUD IN THE MOUNTAINS Jill Mistry
PROTULBABU Debasish Ghoshal
THE MONKS WHO WON A GRAMMY Aparna Sanyal
THE JUNGLE MAN LOIYA Farha Khatun
JIBANPUR STATION Ravi R

Non-Competition Categories

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100 Years of Bengali Cinema

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Title Director Notes
UDAYER PATHE Bimal Roy
MUKTI Pramathesh Barua
UTTAR FALGUNI Asit Sen
CHOKH Utpalendu Chakrabarty
STREER PATRA Purnendu Pattrea
SAPTAPDI Ajoy Kar
PADMA NADIR MAJHI Goutam Ghose
KONI Saroj Dey
KABULIWALA Tapan Sinha
GANGA Rajen Tarafdar
GANADEBATA Tarun Majumdar
UNISHE APRIL Rituparno Ghosh
ALIBABA Madhu Bose

Bengali Panorama

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Title Director Notes
Asukhwala - The Pain Hawker Palash Dey
Watchmaker Anindya Banerjee
Iye - The Others Debesh Chatterjee
Bisorgo Arunava Khasnobis
Andarkahini Arnab K Middya

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Cinema International

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Title Director Country Notes
At war Stephane Brize France
Birds Of Passage Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra Colombia
The River Emir Baigazin Kazakhstan
Border Ali Abbasi Sweden
Working Woman Michal Aviad Israel
Black Hole Diego Araujo Ecuador
Like Cat And Dog Janusz Kondratiuk Poland
A Land Imagined Siew Hua Yeo Singapore
The Man who killed Don Quixote Terry Gilliam United Kingdom
Knife+Heart Yann Gonzalez France
Cobain (film) Nanouk Leopold Netherlands
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem Muayad Alayan Palestine
Retablo Alvaro Delgado Aparicio Peru
Rafiki Wanuri Kahiu Kenya
Lemonade Ioana Uricaru
The Snatch Thief Agustin Toscano Argentina
The Happy Prince Rupert Everett United Kingdom
Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin Renee Beaulieu Canada
White Chamber Paul Raschid United Kingdom
Homeland Anindya Chatterjee India
Touch Me Not Adina Pintilie Romania
Animal Armando Bo Argentina
Sew the Winter to My Skin Jahmil X.T. Qubeka South Africa
Girls Of The Sun Eva Husson France
Jumpman Ivan I. Tverdovsky
Breath Of Life David Roux United States
Ballon Michael Herbig Germany
Treat Me Like Fire Marie Monge France
Sunset Laszlo Nemes Hungary
Trote Xacio Bano Spain
A Twelve-year Night Alvaro Brechner Uruguay
Savage Vincent Mariette
Capernaum Nadine Labaki Lebanon
QUIEN TE CANTARA Carlos Vermut
Daughter Of Mine Laura Bispuri Italy
STRIPPED YARON SHANI
GENIZAS Juan Sebastian Jacome

Documentary Films

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Title Director Notes
LAASYAM Vinod Mankara
Shuhaib The Immortal Fighter Of Kannur Killing Field pt chacko
Kali Subrata Sen
CAL-KATA KOL-CUTTA Hannah Mitchell, Alan De Oliveira
LADAKH CHALE RICKSHAWALA Indrani Chakraborty
IN HIS INNER VOICE : KULDIP NAYAR Meera Dewan
THE SLAVE GENESIS Aneez K M
WB KHADI & VI BOARD A SUSTAINABLE JOURNEY Susanta Biswas
CHASING DREAMS Vaishali Kendale
FINDING PRAYERS Nilay Samiran Nandi
ATASI Putul Mahmood
THE LAST KNELL KAKALI CHAKRABARTY
AN ENGINEERED DREAM HEMANT KUMAR GABA
GULDAR Kumar Shivam
NURSERY OF HOCKEY-SIMDEGA Nikhil Sharda
SMART CITY BLUES Debarun Dutta
THE MAN WHO PLAYED WITH LIGHTS SHOUNAK MAJUMDAR
INCLUSIVE EYES Devender Dahima
DUSK WITH DUST Aashish Katiyan
IN THUNDER LIGHTNING AND RAIN Rajesh James
ECHO FROM THE PUKPUI SKIES Joshy Joseph
GODDESS IN THE MOSQUE Priyashanker Ghosh
CHANDUA - A UNIQUE HERITAGE KRISHNA BASU
MOTHERS WITH IRON HEARTS Sanjiban Nath
AN ICONIC GENIUS Sougata Bhattacharyya
The Granite Clad Neva Igor Gankin
ABARTAN Santanu Halder
05.05.2015 Arthur Yakubov
IN THE MEMORY OF THE MASTER Jyotirmay Deb
BANARAS PINK PEARL SANDHU
A JOURNEY OF PASSION Bijaya Kumar Nishanka
The Island Adam Weingrod
The King Aleksander Krzystyniak
Eastern Memories Niklas Kullstrom, Martti Kaartinen
Myth Leonid Kanter and Ivan Yasniy
Tale Of A Fair Ujjal Paul
RANGABHOOMI BHALOBASHI SANTANU SAHA
The Mountain Of Law Surya Shankar Dash
BHAURAO DATAR - A CURTAIN CALL Bharat Yashwant Kanhere
Scorched Akshay Gouri
TOMARI MATIR KONNYA Sekhar Das
DREAMS ON WHEELS VEDIKA KRUTI
AND THEY MADE CLASSICS Ratnottama Sengupta
NEMAI GHOSH - A RAY OF LIGHT Anirban Mitra, Tirtha Dasgupta

Children's Screening

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Title Director Notes
Adventures Kids N.M.Joshi
The Great Indian Road Movie Sohan Lal
Maassab Aditya Om
Supa Modo Likarion Wainaina

Contemporary Australian Cinema

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Title Director Notes
Peter Rabbit Will Gluck
1 Percent Stephen McCallum
Swinging Safari Stephan Elliott
Mary Magdalene Garth Davis
Jirga Benjamin Gilmour
Breath Simon Baker
Dancing The Invisible Axel Grigor
Ali's Wedding Jeffrey Walker

Iconic Australian Cinema

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Title Director Notes
THE STORY OF THE KELLY GANG Charles Tait
THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE Raymond Longford
THE DRESSMAKER Jocelyn Moorhouse
BLESSED Ana Kokkinos
CLAY Giorgio Mangiamele
FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN Charles Chauvel
MALCOLM Nadia Tass
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK Peter Weir
PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT Stephan Elliott
ROMPER STOMPER Geoffrey Wright
TEN CANOES Rolf de Heer

Great Master: Bimal Roy

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Title Director Notes
PEHLA AADMI Bimal Roy
MAA Bimal Roy
YAHUDI Bimal Roy
DO BIGHA ZAMIN Bimal Roy
SUJATA Bimal Roy

Homage: Supriya Devi

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Title Director Notes
MEGHE DHAKA TARA Ritwik Ghatak

Centenary Tribute: Ernst Ingmar Bergman

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Title Yann Gonzalez Notes
Winter Light Ingmar Bergman
Wild Strawberries Ingmar Bergman
Through A Glass Darkly Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman
Persona Ingmar Bergman
Fanny And Alexander Ingmar Bergman
Cries And Whispers Ingmar Bergman
Bergman Island Marie Nyrerod

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References

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  1. ^ "Kolkata international film festival: Commemorating 100 yrs of Bengali cinema from November 10". The Indian Express. 4 November 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Kolkata International Film Festival". kiff.in. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  3. ^ "24th Kolkata International Film Festival: Here are the films to watch out for". The Indian Express. 11 November 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  4. ^ a b "KIFF 2018: Amitabh, Shahrukh attends 24th Kolkata International Film Festival's inauguration on Saturday". The Financial Express. 10 November 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Official Selection 2018 - Kolkata International Film Festival". kiff.in. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Official Selection 2018 - Kolkata International Film Festival". kiff.in. Retrieved 4 May 2021.