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What’s In Store For IFFI, Mumbai & Other Indian Festivals Amid Political & Funding Challenges?

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While much of the global entertainment industry is witnessing a full-throttled return to in-person events, India’s festival circuit is experiencing a chequered re-emergence from Covid, in part due to political and funding challenges.

Three weeks ago, the country’s biggest government-run festival, the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, held its largest and most star-studded physical edition ever, but was marred by controversy when Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, head of the international competition jury, described competition title The Kashmir Files as “a propaganda, vulgar movie, inappropriate for an artistic competitive section of such a prestigious film festival”.

His comments prompted a storm of both abuse and support on social media, while Israel’s ambassador to India, Naor Gilon, wrote an open letter condemning Lapid’s statements.

Earlier this year, Mumbai Film Festival, held in the home of India’s Hindi-language (a.k.a. Bollywood) film industry, angered the filmmaking community by moving online even though cinemas were open and the country was not in the midst of a Covid wave.

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