5th Jagran Film Festival to open on 5th July in
New Delhi
The festival will
travel to 14 cities across India
The festival that created a furore with its vast
span and a wide spectrum of never before presented cinema is back with a bang.
This time, Jagran Film Festival presents an even wider range of cinemas of the
world. The 5th Jagran Film
Festival will unveil its collection in New
Delhi between 5th July,
2014 to 9th July, 2014 and in Mumbai between 23rd
September, 2014 to 28th September, 2014. Post its conclusion in
Delhi, the festival will travel to 14 cities across India and present Cinema
that hardly reaches these regions.
The festival seeks to bring alive the strife and struggles of
human beings, social groups and the human race in general which rose
against oppression and torture, taming of the human spirit, freedom,
liberty and other human values. This
special section brings together seven features, four international and three
Indian, dedicated to the fight to free human lives and minds.
“The 5th edition of
the Jagran film Festival this year presents a special section ‘Cinema of the Uprising’ with a clutch of seven
very special films. Freedom of human spirit has been a subject close to ‘The Jagran Philosophy’ always and when
we were deciding on the Festival content, we chose this subject and the films
made around this theme”, says Basant Rathore, Vice President, Jagran Group.
The list includes, ‘Beatriz’s War’(East Timor), ‘Outside The Law’(Algeria/Tunisia,France),
‘Battleship Potemkin’ (Russia-
Silent), ‘The Trial of Joan of Arc’ (France), ‘Birsa Munda’ (India), ‘Netaji
Subhash Chandra Bose’ (India) and Kerala
Varma Pazhassi Raja (India).
The Indian Showcase and the International Competition sections which were a rage in the
last edition of the festival are back with a clutch of 20 feature films each.
The Shorts film section called Jagran Shorts will present a collection of 20
international short films in New Delhi and in Mumbai.
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