The 3rd Guwahati International Film Festival(GIFF).2019


The3rd semester students and scholars from the Department of Mass Communication, Mizoram University attended the 3rd Guwahati International Film Festival at Guwahati, Assam. An open forum, screening session and master class with film experts was organised as part of the film festival.A total number of 26 students started our journey to Guwahati on 30th of October 2019, by taking MST bus from Chaltlang, Aizawl, Mizoram and safely reached Guwahati on 31st October 2019 around 7.00 a.m under the supervision and guidance of our faculties- Miss Jenny Lalmuanpuii and Sir Andrew Lalchhandama. 
Students and Teachers before screening the film



The first ever Guwahati International Film Festival was organised by JyotiChitraban in association with DBH Regional Government Film and Television Institute with support of the Government of Assam which was held from Oct 28th to Nov 2nd, 2017.
This year’s festival marked the third year of organising the Guwahati International Film Festival and the GIFF 2019 was organised by JyotiChitraban in association with DBH Regional Government Film and Television Institute with support of the Government of Assam.Latin America was the region of focus at this year’s festival and Iran was the country of focus.
The GIFF 2019 took place for one whole week, screening more than 100 award-winning regional, national and international films. The festival was graced with the presence of legendary film-maker- Krzysztof Janussi as the Chief Guest for the GIFF 2019. Other honourable mentions from the participants of the festival includeMr. Chung-KwangTien, who is the Ambassador of Taiwan, Polish film director- Ms.EwaBukowska and actress- Magdalena Poplawska, Manipur’s legend in film industry and the pride of NE India- Mr.AribamSyam Sharma, and Serbia’s film director and producer- Mr.NenadDukic, who was the official jury for the competition section in the festival.The opening film of the festival was Charcoal(Iran & France) by EsmaeelMonsef and the closing film was To the Desert(Argentina & Chile) by UlseeRosell.
We, the Mizoram Team from the Department of Mass Communication, MZU stayed at JyotiChitraban campus, which is the largest film, video, audio and television programme facility provider of the region. There are four Auditoriums in which the screening of different films were done which are: SrimantaSankardeva International Auditorium (Audi-1), Sri MadhabDev International Auditorium (Audi-2), Banikhantakakati Auditorium (Audi -3) and JyotiChritrabanAuditorium (Audi -4). We attended the Film festival for 3 days and mainly viewed the screenings atSankardevaKalakhetra International Auditorium and Art Gallery. We had the opportunity to watch more than six films during our short stayand had the privilege to participate in the interaction session with directors and audience after the screenings of each film. Out of 6 movies,Han Dan,Daughter ofMine and Eternal Winterinterested us the most with their excellent scripts, talented actors and amazing camera works.

Inside the theatre
Han Dan is a Taiwan movie that speaks about redemption, friendship, revenge, tragedies.
Daughter of mine is an Italian movie - A daughter torn between two mothers; the one who raised her with love, and her biological mother who instinctively claimed her back.
Eternal Winter Is a Hungarian movie where the Soviet armies invaded Hungary and took all the young women to work in the soviet Labour camp, the actress Irene found Rajmund who taught her how to survive and they eventually fell in love with each other.
It was indeed an immense pleasure to be part of such an incredible and auspicious event. We are so grateful for getting the opportunity to attend GIFF where we got to see great story tellers from the across the world. We are indeed thankful to our Professors for giving us the opportunity to nurture our experience as well as knowledge, and also to the Government of Assam and the organisers to showcase regional cinema and introduce film enthusiast to world cinema for putting such magnanimous efforts.
Reported by Chawngthanpuia, C Laldinpuia, Ruth Lalhraitpuii, Wendy Ramthatpuii



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