An exclusive film festival for Delhi

In a good news to the Delhi-ites, they will soon have a film festival of their own. Announcing the festival, filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia said that to coincide with 100 years of Indian cinema, a week-long Delhi International Film Festival (DIFF) will be held in the Capital city this year from December 21. Around 150 films from 70 countries will be screening during the event. Dhulia said, We get to watch fantastic meaningful films from various corners of the globe at festivals only. Pirated DVDs of such films are never made. One of the reasons why I became a film-maker was because I used to regularly watch films of different countries at festivals in Allahabad. Delhi also has budding film-makers who need to get exposure to world cinema. Confirming the news, DIFF president Ramkishore Parcha said, The city will get its first-ever international film festival which bears its name. During the past 65 years since Independence, none of the international film festivals was ever named after Delhi. Unfortunately, the international film festival which used to be organised in Delhi every alternate year, shifted to Goa.