The Indian Documentary Film Festival of Bhubaneswar (IDFFB) will be held here from September 28 to 30.
The Film Society of Bhubaneswar (FSB) in association with Vikalp, India Foundation of the Arts (IFA) and Kerala Chalachitra Academy will organise it. Eminent filmmaker Qaushiq Mukherjee and national award winner filmmaker Kamal Swaroop will attend as guests.
The opening film of the festival is "Shyama Mani Devi - Classical Odishi Vocalist" by Santosh Gour. Other handpicked films to be screened in are Nabarun, Rangbhoomi, Breathed Upon Paper, Rasikan Re, Wall Stories, Kitte Mil Ve Mahi, Pala, Poets of the Past, MC Kash, Gali, I, DANCE, The Other Song, Welcome Valentine 2017, Memories of Trans, Oru Chaykkadarakarante Man ki bath, The Tribal Scoop, Namma Gauri, Mod, Tales from the Childhood, Down the Rabbit Hole, Kho ki Pa Lu and Out of Thin Air.
Rare and forgotten films which remain unappreciated and unexplored in the popular media will also be screened. The organisers’ effort is to showcase the diversity of documentary form and most of the films screened at the festival will be exhibited for the first time in Odisha.
Apart from the film screenings, there will be movie quizzes, music events, poetry and literary readings for students to come and explore cinema from different dimensions.
There will be master classes with Q and Kamal Swaroop, a discussion with Padmashri Ileana Citaristi on “Camera and movement” and other activities regarding the cinematic arts.