Two Manipuri non-feature films to be screened at IFFI

Imphal, Nov 5 : Two films from Manipur have been selected for Indian Panorama 2009 to be screened in the 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2009).

Meghachandra Kongbam, joint director, Manipur Information Centre, said Ningthoucha Lancha's 'Ilisa Amagi Mahao' and Haobam Pabankumar's 'The First Leap' are among the 18 selected non-feature films to be screened in the festival at Goa later this month.

The selection of the non-feature films was made by jury members-- Mr Aribam Syam Sharma, Ms Paromita Vohra, Dr Pushpesh Pant, Mr Sameer Hanchate and Mr Kapilas Bhuyan.

Anirban Datta's 'In For Motion' in English will be the opening non-feature film of the Indian Panorama 2009, Mr Kongbam said.

The feature films jury headed by Muzaffar Ali selected 26 films, comprising of six Bengali, five Hindi, three each in Kannada and Marathi, two each in Malayalam and Tamil, one each in English, Urdu, Rajasthani, Tulu and Konkani.

--UNI

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