20 Feature & 15 non-feature films in the Indian Panorama at IFFI
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Selection of feature and non – feature films were announced by the Juries for the Indian Panorama 2005 today. The feature films Jury has recommended 20 films for the Indian Panorama  while the non-feature Jury recommended 15 films for inclusion in the Indian Panorama. Jury chairmen presented their Reports to the Union Minister of Information & Broadcasting, Shri S. Jaipal Reddy.  The Juries assessed 82 feature films and 147 non-feature films over a period of 17 days.  The Indian Panorama section is an integral part of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI). The feature films Jury was headed by noted filmmaker Shri M.S. Sathyu and had its members Biplab Roychaudhury, Dr. R K Verma, Shalini Shah, Roja Ramani and C P Padmakumar. The non-feature films Jury was headed by veteran film director Shri Aribam Shyam Sharma  and had its members Arun Chaddha, Sanjivan Lal, MC Raja Narayanan, and M A Rahman. The aim of the Indian Panorama is to select feature and non-feature films of cinematic, thematic and aesthetic excellence for the promotion of film art through non profit screenings of these films in International Film Festivals in India and abroad, in Indian Film Weeks held under various exchange programmes and Cultural Exchange Programmes, specialized Indian films festivals abroad and special Panorama Festivals in. The Indian Panorama section of the IFFI-2005, to be held at Goa this year from Nov24 to Dec04, 2005 will  open with Daivanamathil (Malayalam) directed by Jayaraj,  while the opening film of the non-feature section would be The Jaws of Death directed by Gautam Saikia.  The juries have also decided that Perumazhakkalam (Malayalam) directed by Kamal and Iqbal (Hindi) directed by Nagesh Kukunoor will represent India in the Competition section of the 36th International Film Festival of India. List of Selected Feature Films                                     S.No. TITLE DIRECTOR LANGUAGE DAIVANAMATHIL - Opening Film JAYARAJ MALAYALAM PAGE  3 MADHUR BHANDARKAR HINDI BERU P SESHADRI KANNADA PERUMAZHAKKALAM                                KAMAL MALAYALAM KAZCHA IPY BLESSY THOMAS MALAYALAM GRAHANAM MOHAN KRISHNA INDRAGANTHI TELUGU UTTARAYAN BIPIN NADKARNI MARATHI HASINA GIRISH KASRAVALLI KANNADA LAAZ MANJU BORA ASSAMESE ANTARMAHAL RITUPARNO GHOSH BENGALI KANNE MADANGUKA  ALBERT MALAYALAM ACHUVINTE AMMA SATHYAN ANTHIKKAD MALAYALAM KATHAVASHESHAN T V CHANDRAN MALAYALAM DITIYO BASANTO ABHIJIT DASGUPTA BENGALI PAHELI AMOL PALEKAR HINDI KRANTIKAL SHEKHAR DAS BENGALI SWAPNER DIN BUDDHADEB DASGUPTA BENGALI RAAM AMEER TAMIL IQBAL NAGESH KUKUNOOR HINDI KAALPURUSH BUDDHADEB DSAGUPTA BENGALI ORIDAM PRADEEP NAIR MALAYALAM Two films selected for the Competition Section for Asian, African and Latin American countries of the 36th International Film festival of India: 1.      PERUMAZHAKKALAM             directed by KAMAL 2.  IQBAL             directed by NAGESH KUKUNOOR List of Selected Non Feature Films                                     S.No. TITLE DIRECTOR LANGUAGE 1 THE   JAWS OF DEATH                    Opening Film GAUTAM SAIKIA ENGLISH 2 GIRNI  UMESH VINYAK KULKARNI HINDI 3 EKHANE AMAR NOCTURNE ANIRBAN DATTA BENGALI / HINDI 4 INDIA MATTERS- CYCLE OF VIOLENCE SUTAPA DEB ENGLISH       5 PRAVAHI ARUN KHOPKAR HINDI 6 BHAL KHABAR ALTAF MAJID ASSAMESE 7 TRACING THE ARC PANKAJ BUTALIA ENGLISH 8 ONE DAY FROM A HANGMAN’S LIFE JOSHY JOSEPH HINDI 9 KALAMANDALM RAMNKUTTY NAIR ADOOR GOPALAKRISHNAN MALAYALAM 10 EK SAGAR KINAREE LAXMIKANT SHETGAONKAR MARATHI/ENGLISH 11 STORY OF VIRGIN IRON BAPPA RAY ENGLISH 12 LOTUS POND K BIKRAM SINGH ENGLISH 13 THAKKAYIN MEETHU NANGU KANGAL VASANTH TAMIL 14 SANSHODHAN SHILPI DASGUPTA HINDI 15 CHIRTASMRUTHI V R GOPINATH MALAYALAM 16 PORTRAIT OF A CINEMATOGRAPHER - SUMENDU ROY PAPEEHA ROY ENGLISH RS.