New Delhi: The 49th International Film Festival of India announced the selection of Indian Panorama films for the year, 2018 to be screened in Goa. The Feature Film Jury of thirteen members was headed by acclaimed film director and screenwriter, Shri Rahul Rawail. The Feature Jury constituted of the following Members:
1. Major Ravi, Filmmaker & Actor
2. Shri Ahathian, Director
3. Shri Ujjwal Chatterjee, Director, Producer & Screenwriter
4. Shri Imo Singh, Director
5. Shri Utpal Datta, Filmmaker
6. Shri Sekhar Das, Director
7. Shri Mahendra Teredesai, Director & writer
8. Shri Haidar Ali, Actor & Screenwriter
9. Shri KG Suresh, Journalist & columnist
10. Shri Chandra Siddarth, Director, Producer & Screenwriter
11. Shri Adeep Tandon, Cinematographer & Director
12. Shri S Viswanath, Film critic & journalist
The Feature Film Jury selected the 22 Feature films. The Feature film Jury selected the film OLU directed by Shaji N Karun as the Opening feature film of Indian Panorama 2018. Four Mainstream films are also selected under Indian Panorama Section of 49th International Film Festival of India, 2018 by an Internal Committee of DFF based on the recommendations of FFI and GUILD.
List of 22 Feature Films and 4 Mainstream films selected in the Indian Panorama 2018 is as follows:
S No | Title of the Film | Language | Director |
1 | Olu
(Opening film) |
Malayalam | Shaji N Karun |
2 | Nagarkirtan | Bengali | Kaushik Ganguly |
3 | Sa | Bengali | Arijit Singh |
4 | Uma | Bengali | Srijit Mukherji |
5 | Abyakto | Bengali | Arjun Dutta |
6 | Uronchondi | Bengali | Abhishek Saha |
7 | October | Hindi | Shoojit Sircar |
8 | Bhor | Hindi | Kamakhya Narayan Singh |
9 | Sinjar | Jasari | Pampally |
10 | Walking With The Wind | Ladakhi | Praveen Morchhale |
11 | Bhayanakam | Malayalam | Jayaraj |
12 | Makkana | Malayalam | Raheem Khader |
13 | Poomaram | Malayalam | Abrid Shine |
14 | Sudani From Nigeria | Malayalam | Zakariya |
15 | Ee Maa Yove | Malayalam | Lijo Jose Pellissery |
16 | Dhappa | Marathi | Nipun Avinash Dharmadhikari |
17 | Aamhi Doghi | Marathi | Pratima Joshi |
18 | To Let | Tamil | Chezhiyan Ra |
19 | Baaram | Tamil | Priya Krishnaswamy |
20 | Periyerum Perumal BA.BL | Tamil | Mari Selvaraj |
21 | Peranbu | Tamil | Ram |
22 | Paddayi | Tulu | Abhaya Simha |
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23 | Mahanati | Telugu | Nagashwin |
24 | Tiger Zinda Hai | Hindi | Ali Abbas Zafar |
25 | Padmaavat | Hindi | Sanjay Leela Bhansali |
26 | Raazi | Hindi | Meghna Gulzar |
The Non Feature Film Jury of seven members was headed by acclaimed film director and editor, Shri Vinod Ganatra. The Jury constituted of the following Members:
1. Shri Uday Shankar Pani, Filmmaker
2. Smt Parvati Menon, Director & Film educationist
3. Shri Mandar Talaulikar, Filmmaker
4. Shri Padmaraj Nair, Film Journalist
5. Shri Ashok Sharan, Actor & Producer
6. Shri Suneel Puranik, Actor, Director & Producer
The Non-Feature film Jury selected the film Kharvas directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale as the Opening non-feature film of Indian Panorama 2018. The complete list of 21 Non – Feature Films selected for Indian Panorama section for 48th International Film Festival of India 2018 is given below.
List of Non – Feature Films
S No | Title of the Film | Language | Director |
1 | Kharvas
(Opening film) |
Marathi | Aditya Suhas Jambhale |
2 | Sampurak | Bengali | Prabal Chakraborty |
3 | Naach Bhikari Naach | Bhojpuri | Jainendra Dost & Shilpi Gulati |
4 | Decoding Shankar | English | Deepti Sivan |
5 | Gyamo-Queen Of the Mountains | English | Gautam Pandey & Doel Trivedy |
6 | The World’s Most Famous Tiger | English | S Nalla Muthu |
7 | Bunkar: The last of the Varanasi weavers | English | Satyaprakash Upadhyay |
8 | Monitor | Hindi | Hari Viswanath |
9 | Nani Teri Morni | Hindi | Akash Aditya Lama |
10 | Burning | Hindi | Sanoj VS |
11 | Sword of Liberty | Malayalam | Shiny Jacob Benjamin |
12 | Midnight Run | Malayalam | Remya Raj |
13 | Lasyam | Malayalam | Vinod Mankara |
14 | Happy Birthday | Marathi | Medhpranav Babasaheb Powar |
15 | Na bole wo Haram | Marathi | Nitesh Vivek Patankar |
16 | Silent Scream | Marathi | Prasanna Ponde |
17 | Yes, I am Mauli | Marathi | Suhas Jahagirdar |
18 | Pamphlet | Marathi | Shekhar Bapu Rankhambe |
19 | Aai Shappath | Marathi | Gautam Vaze |
20 | Bhar Dupari | Marathi | Swapnil Vasant Kapure |
21 | Malai | Oriya | Rajdeep Paul & Sarmistha Maiti |