Bhubaneswar:29/5/25:Film festivals are a journey into cultural history. More so when it is multilingual. Bhubaneswar Film Festival (BFF) which started as an exclusive Odia film festival last year has expanded its linguistic outreach by offering a bouquet of classics and award-winning films from 9 different languages. A total of 19 films will be screened in its 2nd edition from 6th to 9th June at Jayadev Bhawan. This would include a range of language films like; Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, Tiwa, Hindi, Odia, Kannada, Bengali, and Chhattisgarhi. Supporting the effort of BFF in preserving country’s cultural diversity, eminent filmmaker Prakash Jha who is coming with his national award-winning film Damul (1984) says, “It is the need of the hour to preserve our rich linguistic culture and social diversity and I believe BFF is doing a commendable job to revive popular interest in regional cinema’. While the two stalwarts, Ketan Mehta and Girish Kasaravaliwill come with their award-winning films BhavniBhavai and Ghatashradha; Bobby Sarma Baruah comes with her award-winning Tiwa film Sikaisal. Tiwa is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by people in Assam and Meghalay. The most striking aspects of this year’s BFF include among other things; the presence of all the directors whose films are being shown for discussion and interaction, a celebration of birth centenaries of Guru Dutt and Ritwik Ghatak with the screening of their films and memorial lectures by celebrated speakers like Sathya Saran and Shoma Chatterji respectively, and, the remembrance also includes a scholarly compilation of reflections on the lives and work of cinematic icons in the form of a book. One of the USPs of BFF has been the holding up of Masterclasses on different aspects of filmmaking by Bollywood experts. This year two master classes on Screenplay writing and Acting will be organized by Charudutt Acharya and Abhimanyu Ray respectively. Besides, BFF provides informal opportunities and spaces for interactions and exchanges between filmmakers and writers with public and students. The festival also makes provisions for film scholars and writers to showcase their books and make them available to buyers at a discounted price. Prashant Nanda, the celebrated Actor-Director and Producer, is hopeful that such festivals will increase the access of our audience to old classics and in the long run benefit Odia film industry.
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