Cannes honours India

The film fest is celebrating 60 years of Indian freedom with a 3-day special of desi films

Indian cinema has been leaving its mark at the Cannes Film Festival for couple of years now and this year, it promises to get better and bigger. A three-day showcase of almost 10 contemporary and classic Indian films is planned.

The showcase, which falls under the ‘Cinema of the World’ category at Cannes, is primarily to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Indian freedom this year. Incidentally, it is also the 60th year of the Cannes Film Festival.

“The director of ‘Cinema of the World’ Serge Sobcinzsky was in India during IFFI  and was invited to Delhi by the French Embassy to shortlist films for the same. He watched many regional and Bollywood films,” confirms Mohamed Bendjebbour, of French Cinema and TV, Mumbai.

“Films based on the Indian freedom struggle will also be shown,” announced I&B Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi at the recently held FICCI-Frames.  The Indian films will be screened on 18th and 19th May during the festival.