52nd International Film Festival has been started from today onwards

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52nd International Film Festival has been started from today onwards

As we all know that India's 52nd International Film Festival i.e. IFFI has been started from today Onwards, this festival is held in Goa which will run till November 28.

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The event has been inaugurated by Anurag Thakur who is our Information and Broadcasting Minister, along with him Goa's Chief Minister Mr Pramod Sawant has also attended the event.

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The International Film Festival is being jointly organized by the Government of Goa and the Directorate of Film Festivals functioning under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

Let us tell you that every year the best films from India and around the world are screened during the film festival, this time About 624 films from 95 countries have entries for this festival.

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Major Headlines of this festival is that OTT platforms have participated for the first time in the festival, big OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Zee5, Voot and Sony Liv were invited.

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The event was hosted by the Bollywood producer and filmmaker Karan Johar and the very handsome Manish Paul.

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From the bollywood industry Hema Malini, Madhur Bhandarkar, Prasoon Joshi, Salman Khan, Mouni Roy, Ritesh Deshmukh, Genelia D'souza and others attended the event.

On the other hand actress Shraddha kapoor, Ranveer Singh and other were unable to attend the function.

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At the same time, veteran actress Hema Malini and lyricist Prasoon Joshi, gets honored with the "Indian Film Personality of the Year Award".

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On the other hand Hungarian Film Director Istevan szabo who is well known for masterpiece Mephisto, Father, Colonel Redl, Sunshine, Taking Sides, Being Julia Etc, and the American Film Director Martin Scorsece who is well known for masterpiece like Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of the Wall Street Etc. have been honored with the "Satyajit ray lifetime achievement award".

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For the first time ever, 75 creative minds representing gennext cinema attended the event in Goa.

This novel initiative under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav is to encourage and recognise the young creative minds and budding talents in the country.

The selected '75 Creative Minds of Tomorrow' will have access to all the master classes/in-conversation sessions and interact with industry leaders along with other activities, The festival covered the travel and accommodation of each selected candidate.

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