Film Festival Manipur from Dec 11
Source: Chronicle News Service / PIB
Imphal, December 08 2021: As part of the yearlong Golden Jubilee celebration of Manipuri cinema, the Manipur State Film Development Society (MSFDS) will organise a five-day 'Indian Panorama Film Festival Manipur' from December 11 at the MSFDS auditorium near Palace Gate, Imphal East.
The festival will be organised in collaboration with directorate of Film Festival under Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
A special feature of the festival includes a rare retrospective of renowned Manipuri filmmaker Aribam Syam Sharma.
Some of his masterpieces such as 'Imagee Ningthem' (1981), 'Olangthagee Wangmadasu' (1979), 'Sanabi' (1995) and 'Ishanou' (1990) will be screened in celluloid version along with his critically acclaimed documentaries and short films.
According to MSFDS secretary Sunzu Bachaspatimayum, the festival will also showcase some of the finest films of Indian cinema, curated specially from Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), for the year 2020 and 2021.It will also witness some of the finest picks of Indian cinema as well as two master classes of on-screenplay and film direction by two prominent Indian filmmakers, C Umamaheswara Rao and Priya Krishnaswamy respectively.
The secretary informed that entry will be free for all for the festival, screening of which will begin daily at 9 am till 9.30 pm .