Jaipur International
film Festival, JIFF 2014 releases its 3rd and final list of nominated films
today
18 films has
been selected in this list including 14 films from Rajasthan, a Malayalam film
Celluloid and 2 Oscar nominated films have been chosen.
Amol Palekar’s Paheli
starring Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee would have a special screening at
JIFF 2014
A total of 129
films have been selected comprising of all 3 lists.
Jaipur 30 December:JIFF received immense response from the film makers of the colorful state
of Rajasthan. The selection process scrutinized to select only few and best
films but the submitted films forced us to make select more than the expected
number. In comparison to last year 4 times more films have been submitted at
JIFF 2014. Only 12 films from Rajasthan were received in
JIFF 2009, JIFF 2013 received 29 films from the state and this year we received
45 films. 14 films from the submitted list have been selected. Out of 14 films,
7 films are in the competition category and the remaining 7 are in
non-competition category. All competition category films have been selected by
selection committee. 4 films in the Non- competition category selected by JIFF are
produced and directed by the members of selection committee. The 3rd
list of JIFF 2014 is as follows
|
S. No. |
Title of
Film |
Director |
Category |
|
|
In Competition Category |
|
|
|
1 |
Colors of Freedom |
Samin Ahmed |
Short Fiction |
|
2 |
Kanche Aur Postcard |
Ridham Janve |
Short Fiction |
|
3 |
Aish Aaram |
Supriya Ranawat |
Animation |
|
4 |
Padhchinha |
Aakash Jha and Anik Sen |
Short Fiction |
|
5 |
Biskut |
Ankush Nayak |
Short Fiction |
|
6 |
Solution |
Himanshu Shekhar Sharma |
Short Fiction |
|
7 |
Satan |
Vaibhav Munjal |
Short Fiction |
|
|
In Non- Competition
Category |
|
|
|
1 |
Chipkoo
|
Sanchay Goswami |
Short Fiction
|
|
2 |
Bagula Bhagat
|
Vivek Sharma |
Animation/Selection Committee Member
|
|
3 |
Sadak Jahaa Tak Jaati Hai
|
Deepak Gera |
Documentary/
Selection Committee Member
|
|
4 |
Aakhir Kab Tak
|
Narendra Arora |
Short Fiction/ Selection Committee Member
|
|
5 |
Wonderland |
Anurag Sharma |
Short Fiction/ Selection
Committee Member |
|
6 |
The Obvious Tale |
Arpit Gangwal |
Short Fiction |
|
7 |
Ketli |
Rahul Gaur |
Short Fiction |
Supriya Ranawat’s Aish Aaram is the only film from
Rajasthan screened at JIFF 2014 directed by a woman. JIFF committee has decided
to screen this film to motivate the female film makers in the state. Supriya is
a student of animation in Jaipur.
Other than
these 14 films, 3rd and final list includes national award winner,
Malayalam film Celluloid and 2 Oscar nominated films - Soongava: Dance of the
orchids from Nepal and Horses of God from Morocco.
Another very important film in the list
which is based on Rajasthan is Amol Palekar’s Paheli, starring Shahrukh Khan
and Rani Mukherjee which would be screened specially this festival.
A total
of three list have been released by JIFF which includes 36 feature
films, 62 short fiction films, 16 documentaries and 15 animation films. In this
list 61 films are from India and the rest 68 films are from various countries
like France, Germany, Japan, America, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, Poland, Sweden, Siberia, Greece,
Austria, Estonia, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Taiwan, Slovakia, Turkey,
Bangladesh, Canada, etc. This year 1570
films from more than 90 countries have been received by JIFF office, out of
which 129 films have been selected.
Last year 217 films were selected in JIFF 2013. The selection process in
JIFF 2014 has been scrutinized to match the world level.
The selection committee members of JIFF 2014 includes
NiranjanThade, Aarti Srivastava, Manish Vataslya experts from Mumbai and
Prasoon Sinha, Dr. Durgaprasad Agrawal, GajendraShrotriya, Gaurav Panjwani,
Deepak Gera, Vivek Sharma, Dr. Vibhuti Pandya, Narendra Arora, ParulMathur and
Dr. Dushyant experts from Jaipur. After 3 months of careful screening, film
have been selected in JIFF 2014
