The 23rd edition of Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) is being held from 10th-17th November ’17 in various parts of the city. Beginning with a star-studded inaugural on 10th November, Friday, the gala event, hosted by the West Bengal Government, was an assemblage of 143 films spanning 53 countries under 16 different categories will continue till November ‘17.
Stars Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan were present at the inaugural ceremony. Tamil film icon Kamal Haasan and filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt were also present to attend the ceremony and was presided over by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Britain has been chosen to be the focus country this year in commemoration of the UK-India Year of Culture 2017 with as many as 13 of its films part of the week-long celebration. Headlining the British bandwagon in a retrospective are 6 films of acclaimed English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom. Welcome to Sarajevo, Trishna, The Claim are part of the gala film fest. Lady Macbeth, Adult Life Skills and Sea Sorrow are slotted in the contemporary British films are the classics is dominated by David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia and Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes among others. Icons of Indian cinema including Tom Alter, Om Puri and Ramananda Sengupta will be remembered forever through the rich tributes dedicated.
In the quest of introducing Kolkata to the world cinema, the organizers have brought Iranian filmmaker Mostafa Taghizadeh's Yellow (2017) and French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company. A special tribute section has been devoted to 10 well-known filmmakers such as award-winning Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu Clair Obscur, French auteurs Arnaud Desplechin Ismael's Ghosts starring Marion Cotillard and Claire Denis. Riding on the “innovation” wave, this year the film festival introduces Indian languages competition category called 'Unheard India: Rare Indian Languages' section featuring eight films in as many languages (Monpa, Konkani, Kodava, Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, Khasi and Chakma).The indigenous list includes Manju Borah's Songs of the Horned Owl (Bodo) and Ahsan Majid's Sonam, the first feature made in Monpa dialect of the Indo-Tibetan branch of languages. To honour our very own Bengali language, the festival will hold the premiere of three Bengali films including acclaimed playwright and West Bengal IT Minister Bratya Basu-starrer Baranda. A package of 12 National Award-winning films Bisorjon, Dashakriya and others has been marked as "must-watch" by the KIFF fraternity. A contemporary Moroccan cinema package comprising of six films including The 5th String - which won the honour of a special mention of the jury at the National Film Festival of Morocco, Tangier, 2011 - is also in the showcase list. On the schedule are more than 14 films including German-Austrian venture Uncle Vanya, Bangladeshi director Abu Sayeed's Death of A Poet and Argentinian production - A Sort of A Family. In an attempt to honour to cinematic technique, an exposition of the original equipment used by the Lumiere brothers, auteur Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak has been planned.The Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture will be presented by Rachel Dwyer, professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema at SOAS, University of London. An aggregate of 93 foreign language films and 50 from India will be showcased through the festival.
This initiative will go a long way in enlightening the people of Kolkata about the World Cinemascope.


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