Panaji: Award winning Malayalam movie Ottal will be screened at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) here on Thursday.
The 90-minute Ottal had bagged the national award for 'best film' in the environment conservation category.
A total of 42 films, including both feature and non-feature, will be screened on Thursday. Some of the experts' picks for the day are Amit Dutta's English film Even Red can be sad, The Assassin by Hou Hsiao-hsien, The dark horse by James Napier Robertson and A flickering truth by Pietra Brettkelly.
Director Kaushik Ganguly, whose film Kadambari was screened at IFFI, will address audience in an in conversation programme while K.K. Senthil Kumar, who wielded the camera for Baahubali will conduct a class.
On Wednesday, IFFI Lifetime Achievement award winner and doyen of Russian films Nikita Mikhalkov Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Cesar Pakistani director Jamshed Mahmoud Raza and Indian filmmaker Priyadarshan addressed the audience at various platforms.
Tom Hooper's The Danish girl which was included as the midfest film was shown before a packed audience at Kala Academy. The film, which tells the tale of an artist who undergoes one of the first sex reassignment surgeries, was received with a big round of applause.