India to host European Union Film Festival

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New Delhi : Putting  spotlight on the latest European cinema, the European Union Film Festival (EUFF) will premiere in New Delhi on June 18, 2018, at the Siri Fort Auditorium. With a selection of 24 latest European films from 23 EU Member States, this year’s film festival brings some unusual stories for the world cinema enthusiasts.

The European Union Film Festival is organized by Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, partnering with the Delegation of the European Union and embassies of EU Member States in various city film clubs.

The festival will traverse through 11 cities in India including New Delhi, Chennai, Port Blair, Pune, Puducherry, Kolkata, Jaipur, Visakhapatnam, Thrissur, Hyderabad, and Goa from June 18 to  August 31. Celebrating diversity, the EUFF will screen movies from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden, according to a PIB release.

As a special attraction this year, audience, students and filmmakers will get an opportunity to interact with Katarína Krnáčová (Slovakian producer), Paula Ortiz (Spanish Director), Salvatore Alloca (Italian Director), Yannis Korris (Greek Director), Douglas Boswell (Belgium Director) and Ádám Fekete (Hungarian Actor) who are travelling to India for the festival. Indian actress Neena Kulkarni, who has worked in the Luxembourg movie being screened at the film festival, will be attending the festival in Goa.

The EU Film Festival 2018 to be held from June 18 to 24, 2018, in Delhi, brings to the city a selection of some of the finest and most riveting films coming out of Europe.

The Festival will be inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the presence of Amit Khare, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,  Raimund Magis, Deputy head of Delegation of the European Union to India,  Chaitanya Prasad, Additional Director General, Directorate of Film Festivals, Ms. Katarina Tomkova, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Slovak Republic, at 6 pm on June 18 at the Siri Fort complex (Audi 2). Slovakian Producer Katarina Krnacova, whose film ‘Little Harbour’ is the opening movie at the festival this year will also be attending the inauguration. Paula Ortiz (Spanish Director), Salvatore Alloca (Italian Director) will be present during their respective movie screenings.

The award winning film ‘Little Harbour’ is inspired by true events about two children whose innocent play changes their lives forever. It is a story of children who feel safer in the streets than at home, about children seeking out sturdy lifeboats that cross between the world of fantasy and the harsh reality of life. The ten year old Jarka lives with her mother, who is not yet ready to be a Mum. She spends most of her time alone. Pushed by her desire for love and to form a fully functional family, she finds herself substituting as a mother to two babies.