International Film Festival Of India Unveils 15-Title Competition Section, Including ‘Mediterranean Fever’, ‘When the Waves Are Gone’, ‘The Storyteller’
deadline.comThe International Film Festival Of India (IFFI) has announced the 15 films that will screen in competition at this year’s edition of the annual event, including recent festival favourites such as Maha Haj’s Mediterranean Fever and Lav Diaz’ When The Waves Are Gone, and three Indian films, including recent Busan premiere The Storyteller.
The selection of 12 international titles also includes Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi’s Perfect Number; Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan’s Nezouh; Red Shoes, from Japan’s Toshiro Saiga; Cold As Marble, from Azerbaijan’s Asif Rustamov; Seven Dogs, from Argentina’s Rodrigo Guerrero; Ursula Meier’s The Line (La Ligne); Valentina Maurel’s I Have Electric Dreams, and two Iranian films – Dariush Mehrjui’s A Minor and Nader Saeivar’s No End.
South Asia is also represented by Maarya: The Ocean Angel, about a group of fishermen disturbed by a sex doll they find in the sea, directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Aruna Jayawardana.
The other two Indian titles are Hindi-language The Kashmir Files, directed by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, a controversial drama about the exodus of the Hindu Pandit community from Kashmir in the 1990s, and Tamil-language Kurangu Pedal, directed by Kamalakannan S, centring on a father-son relationship in a South Indian village in the 1980s.
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