{"id":659711,"date":"2026-11-13T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/659711\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:34:08","slug":"ramayana-fatherland-dhurandhar-lead-iffi-goa-2026-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/659711\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ramayana,’ ‘Fatherland,’ ‘Dhurandhar’ Lead IFFI Goa 2026 Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPawe\u0142 Pawlikowski\u2019s \u201cFatherland<\/a>,\u201d which earned him the best director prize at Cannes this year, will open the 57th International Film Festival of India<\/a> (IFFI), set for Nov. 20-28 in Goa. <\/p>\n

\n\tNitesh Tiwari\u2019s \u201cRamayana<\/a>: Rise of a Legend\u201d will open the festival\u2019s BRICS showcase, and Aditya Dhar\u2019s Bollywood feature \u201cDhurandhar\u201d will open the Indian Panorama.<\/p>\n

\n\tGoa chief minister Pramod Sawant unveiled the program at a curtain-raiser press conference in the state, joined by festival director Ashutosh Gowariker, the filmmaker behind \u201cLagaan.\u201d Organizers received more than 1,900 submissions from 137 countries for this edition, and the lineup spans more than 150 international films from 86 countries.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFatherland\u201d is set in 1949. It tracks Nobel laureate Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika as they travel through a Germany split by the aftermath of war. The Poland, Germany, Italy and France co-production plays in German, English, French and Russian.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlina \u0218erban\u2019s \u201cI Matter,\u201d a Romania, Germany and Belgium co-production in Romanian and Romani, will screen as the mid-fest film. Anthony Chen\u2019s Singaporean comedy-drama \u201cWe Are All Strangers,\u201d in Mandarin and English, will close the festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tChanchal Kumar, secretary of India\u2019s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, quoted Prime Minister Narendra Modi in discussing this year\u2019s theme, \u201cStories Without Borders\u201d: \u201cThe stories may have an address, but emotions have no borders.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe BRICS section will feature work from all 11 member nations of the bloc as well as its partner countries. Titles include Jessica Beshir\u2019s \u201cFaya Dayi\u201d and Anastasia Kuzina\u2019s \u201cBo Bo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpain will bring four films as country of honor: Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s \u201cBitter Christmas,\u201d Jaime Lorente\u2019s \u201cThe Bad Son,\u201d Laura Alvea and Jos\u00e9 Ortu\u00f1o\u2019s \u201cTrinidad\u201d and Juana Mac\u00edas\u2019 \u201cLooking for Michael.\u201d Russia\u2019s partner-country showcase pairs Kuzina\u2019s \u201cBo Bo\u201d with Nikita Grushin\u2019s \u201cNew Home,\u201d Raul Geidarov\u2019s \u201cSidney Lumet\u2019s Birthday\u201d and Gerbert Rappaport\u2019s musical \u201cCheryomushki.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival will screen 76 Indian films across 18 languages. Indian Panorama selectors weighed 404 feature and 358 non-feature submissions, while the best web series (OTT) category attracted 46 eligible entries. Leena Yadav\u2019s Ladakhi-language \u201cBecoming\u201d will open the non-feature strand.<\/p>\n

\n\tMadhur Bhandarkar chairs the feature film jury and Himanshu Shekhar Khatua heads the non-feature film jury.<\/p>\n

\n\tIndian director-producer Aanand L. Rai (\u201cRaanjhanaa,\u201d \u201cTanu Weds Manu\u201d) will chair the international competition jury. He will be joined by Argentine filmmaker Sol Berruezo Pichon-Riviere; Thai writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, whose \u201cA Useful Ghost\u201d won the grand prize at Cannes Critics\u2019 Week in 2025; Colombian sound designer Mar\u00eda Alejandra Rojas; and Romanian writer-director Bogdan Mure\u0219anu (\u201cThe New Year That Never Came\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Cinema of the World section includes Kore-eda Hirokazu\u2019s \u201cLook Back,\u201d Kurosawa Kiyoshi\u2019s \u201cThe Samurai and the Prisoner,\u201d Lukas Dhont\u2019s \u201cCoward,\u201d Nishikawa Miwa\u2019s \u201cChildren Untold,\u201d G\u00e1bor Reisz\u2019s \u201cGround Floor\u201d and Wim Wenders\u2019 \u201cFrom Inside Out \u2013 The Architecture of Peter Zumthor.\u201d From Festivals Worldwide gathers Hong Sang-soo\u2019s \u201cNowhere to Lay My Eyes,\u201d Emin Alper\u2019s \u201cSalvation,\u201d Valeska Grisebach\u2019s \u201cThe Dreamed Adventure\u201d and Grant Gee\u2019s \u201cEverybody Digs Bill Evans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo sections are new this year, with five films each. Animation includes Brad Bird\u2019s \u201cRay Gunn.\u201d Films About Films was created after leading filmmakers suggested it. Its titles include Barnaby Thompson\u2019s \u201cMaverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean\u201d and Francesco Zippel\u2019s \u201cVittorio De Sica \u2013 Staging Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSeven first features will compete for the best debut feature prize: \u201cFading Man\u201d (Germany), \u201cThe Sledge\u201d (India), \u201cParis\u201d (Belgium), \u201cThe Black Sea\u201d (Egypt), \u201cL\u2019\u00c2ge d\u2019Or (The Golden Age)\u201d (France and Italy), \u201cBirds on Ice\u201d (India) and \u201cAtlantic\u201d (China). The wider program counts 52 women directors and 62 first-time filmmakers.<\/p>\n

\n\tRestored Classics will screen Don Siegel\u2019s \u201cInvasion of the Body Snatchers,\u201d Danny Boyle\u2019s \u201cTrainspotting,\u201d David Lynch\u2019s \u201cWild at Heart,\u201d F.W. Murnau\u2019s \u201cSunrise: A Song of Two Humans\u201d and Ernst Lubitsch\u2019s \u201cTo Be or Not to Be.\u201d Andrzej Wajda gets a five-film centenary tribute. Indian figures born a century ago will also be honored: directors Shakti Samanta and Raj Khosla, actors Uttam Kumar, Suryakant Mandhare, Prem Nazir and Raj Kumar, and composers O.P. Nayyar and Ravi.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe WAVES Film Bazaar<\/a> market will host 150 invited guests, including buyers and production companies. Its program covers a Screenwriters\u2019 Lab, a Co-production Market, a Viewing Room and a Work-in-Progress Lab. Netflix is the bazaar\u2019s Knowledge Series partner and will present the gala premiere of \u201cPushpak Viman,\u201d alongside an international screening of \u201cRay Gunn.\u201d The streamer will also highlight its work with the Indian government on building the country\u2019s VFX talent base.<\/p>\n

\n\tScreenings will take place on 13 indoor screens at four locations: Panaji, Porvorim, Margao and Ponda. Together they seat more than 4,000.<\/p>\n

\n\tIFFI was launched in 1952 and ranks among Asia\u2019s oldest film festivals. It is organized by the information and broadcasting ministry with the Goa government and the Entertainment Society of Goa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski\u2019s \u201cFatherland,\u201d which earned him the best director prize at Cannes this year, will open the 57th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,228971,102533,409,111,139,69,42287,100116],"class_list":["post-659711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-fatherland","tag-international-film-festival-of-india","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ramayana","tag-waves-film-bazaar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}