The 19th International Children Film Festival of India, which is also known as Golden Elephant will start from November 14th at Hyderabad. Every year this is organizing and this year, event has received a massive 1,204 films from 80 countries.
Telangana Government and Children’s Film Society will be hosting the week-long festival which will feature among other things, a special section called Asian Panorama which will showcase Asian films.
The films will be screened at various theatres across the city. Festival director Shravan Kumar said, “In one of the many firsts, we have received international entries for our Little Directors concept which was introduced as an innovation in the previous edition.
“We have received participation from 80 countries and as an additional step towards enhancing the international participation we also contacted many embassies for their participation. Many of these embassies like Sweden, Egypt, Mexico, Republic Of Armenia, Afghanistan and Switzerland etc., responded and submitted 45 film entries,” he said.
Award-winning films such as “Maya the Bee” from Germany, “Celestial Camel” from Russia, “Birds of Passage” from Belgium, “My Skinny Sister” from Sweden and “Rainbow’ from India would be screened during the festival.
This year’s ICFFI has received as many as 1,204 films from 80 countries, the highest so far. Last year there were 748 films from 87 countries.