Film Society of Bhubaneswar will host the 10th Indian film festival of Bhubaneswar (IFFB) from January 24-30 focusing is on contemporary Indian cinema. The festival will have different sections including retrospective, a selection of Master Indian Film Makers, a jury led student competition section, a focus on contemporary German Cinema.“The films featuring in the festival will be recipients of critical acclaim and honour at both national and international level for their artistic merit and socio-cultural relevance. They engage with and depict in meaningful, thought provoking manner significant contemporary concerns such as social reality, questions of caste and gender inequality, ecology and environment, political and economic change,” said Suvendu Mohanty of Film Society of Bhubaneswar.The section on Indian Masters will focus on the works of Ritwik Ghatak Girish Kasaravalli and Saaji Karun. There will be a retrospective on the noted German film maker Fatih Akin . The last day of the festival on January 30, Gandhi’s assassination day, a reflection on his life and times with a special screening, a film engaging with Gandhian values, followed by a conversation with the director is planned. The winners of the students’ film competition will be felicitated during the closing ceremony of the festival.he festival aimed to bring to its audience contemporary Indian cinema from across the country, from marginal areas, languages, significant voices in the cinematic medium. These films are acclaimed works, recognised in film festivals internationally. The festival is organised in collaboration of Kerala Chalachitra Academy, Goethe Institute, Kolkata, Bangalore International Film festival and the Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation, Chennai.Noted Malayalam film maker Shaji Karun will present on the opening ceremony and his films will be screened under the Indian Masters Section. The festival will have screenings every day from 10 am till 10 pm, at Odissi research Centre auditorium.The festival will also have academic programs to provide participants a deeper insight into the nuances of film making process. A workshop on “Printed text to Moving Image” – to understand the process of adaptation of literary texts to cinema will also be held. Besides, session on “understanding gaze and representation of female desire in Cinema" will engage participants into the dialectics of representation of female desire, bodies and sexuality. Another session on exploring the draw of the cinematic medium and its use across time and space will be explored in "Fascinating Fascism: Cinema and Propaganda"The Student Arts section will have works in sculpture, installation and material generated in classroom exploring cinema.

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