Guwahati film festival to begin from February 5

The Cine Art Society of Assam (CineASA) and Assam State Film (Finance and Development) Corporation are jointly organising the fourth edition of Guwahati International Film Festival that will start from February 5 to 11 at three different places in the state.

The film lovers of the state would get the taste of some of the best films of the world to be organized from February 5 to 11 in Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur simultaneously.

“We have tried to bring in the films, which have been appreciated in the events like, Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festival”, said festival director Bitopan Borbora said.

He further said, “We have decided to screen ‘Firingoti’ of Jahnu Boruah, the renowned film maker of the state, on completion of his 30 years in the field of film making.”

The film festival will simultaneously commence at Rabindra Bhawan, IIT Guwahati and Guwahati University and the same package of films would be also screened at Dibrugarh University and Lakhimpur at Upper Assam.

The festival would be inaugurated with noted filmmaker Rituporno Ghosh's film ‘Noukadubi’, which is set in the 1920’s and based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore.


Noted actor from Assam, Biju Phukon would formally inaugurate the festival at the Rabindra Bhawan.
In the inaugural ceremony, renowned artist Sangeeta Barthakur would present a musical performance
dedicated to cultural icon Dr. Bhupen Hazarika.

Other than four shows at Rabindra Bhawan on each day, the films would also be screened at other selected venues.

According to festival director Borbora, the retrospective section of the festival would focus
on renowned Mexican film maker Alejendro Gonzalez Inarritu.

Films from countries like France, Canada, Norway, Germany, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey and Iran would also be screened in the festival.

‘Meherjan’ based on the Bangladesh’s freedom movement would be the concluding film of the Festival. Indian actors victor Banerjee and Jaya Bachan have acted in this film.

Discussions and workshops would be held from Feb 7 to 9 where film makers like Jodumoni Dutta,
Pradyut Kr. Deka, Gautam Bora, Sanjeeb Sabhapandit and film critic Altaf Mazid would take part.