Argentine filmmaker Pablo Cesar to be jury chairman at the 51st International Film Festival of India 

Argentine filmmaker Pablo Cesar will be the chairman of the jury for the upcoming edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

Cesar is well known for his films Equinox, the Garden of the Roses (1991); Unicorn, the Garden of the Fruits (1996); Aphrodite, the Garden of the Perfumes (1998); and Thinking Of Him (2017), which looks at the relationship between Rabindranath Tagore and the Argentine writer Victoria Ocampo in the 1920s, when the Nobel laureate visited Buenos Aires.

Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage, writer-director Abu Bakr Shawky, writer-director Rubaiyat Hossain from Bangladesh, and filmmaker Priyadarshan from India comprise the rest of the jury.

The IFFI is being held in a hybrid format from 16-24 January 2021 and a total of 224 films will be screened during the festival. The opening film of the festival will be Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, which incidentally, is also Denmark’s official entry to the Academy Awards this year. The mid-festival film is Mehrunisa by Sandeep Kumar.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy will be the closing film on 24 January. This will mark the India premiere of the film, which won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice International Film Festival.

The Indian Panorama section will open with Tushar Hiranandani’s Saand Ki Aankh (2019).