Kolkata, Nov. 11 -- Ahead of the Kolkata International Film Festival scheduled to be held in December, a four-day short fiction film festival kicked off in the city, bringing films from India and abroad to the screen.
The 23rd Kalpanirjhar International Short Fiction Film Festival was inaugurated at Goethe-Institut's Max Mueller Bhavan by its director, Claus Heimes, who also introduced the German section. Organised by Kalpanirjhar Foundation in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Kolkata, the festival will continue until November 13. The opening evening featured six films in the German section, including Emine Demir's Like the Carnations, which follows a woman taking her aunt on a trip to the countryside, and Verena Kuri's Living Room, exploring family belongings and memories after a death. Other films examine family trauma, sexual abuse, faith and identity. Wednesday's programme included a French section presented with Alliance Francaise du Bengale, followed by the Indian section. It features four films, including The Paper Bag, about encounters between a middle-class woman and a paper-bag maker, and The Night Bus, about two estranged friends meeting during a long journey.
Thursday's screenings include the second Indian section and the international section, presented with Selected Films, Spain. The festival concludes on Friday with a second international section.
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