PANAJI, Nov. 14 -- The Indian Panorama section of the 57th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will open with the popular Bollywood film Dhurandhar, while the special focus on films from BRICS countries will open with the recently released Indian film Ramayana. Addressing a press conference on Friday, NFDC managing director Dhiraj Singh said that the programming committee and juries selected the films to lead their respective sections. "Dhurandar will be the opening film of the Indian Panorama's feature film section and Becoming (a Ladakhi film), will open the non-feature film section," Singh said. The Indian Panorama Section is one of IFFI's flagship sections and includes the best of Indian cinema, with a special focus on films outside the mainstream and from regional languages and cultures otherwise hidden from the mainstream. The section includes 25 feature length films and 20 non-feature films. According to Ashutosh Gowarikar who has been appointed festival director, this year's festival will be held on the theme: 'Stories without borders.' "Borders today are not only lines on a map, they are also habits. A story is one of the few things that can cross such a line without a passport. The distance shrinks. That is what cinema does best and that is the thought behind our theme," he said. The festival, which runs from November 20 to 28, begins with Fatherland, a 2026 Polish language biographical film and will conclude with We are all Strangers from Singapore....