In order to strengthen people-to-people connect and deepen cultural understanding between the two countries, an India-China Film Festival is going to be organized during the 1st India-China High Level Mechanism on Cultural and People-to-People Exchanges from 22nd to 24th December, 2018. The three day Festival will be organized at Siri Fort Auditorium II, New Delhi by the Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India.

A total of seven films including four Chinese and three Indian Films will be screened during the Festival. The opening film of the Festival will be ‘CZ12’ also known as ‘Chinese Zodiac’. The list of Indian films to be screened includes ‘Dangal’ (Hindi), ‘Maacher Jhol’ (Bengali) and ‘Ventilator’ (Marathi). The screening schedule will be as follows:

 

Date/Time	10:30 AM	1:30 PM	5:00 PM
22.12.18 (Saturday)	CZ12, aka CHINESE ZODIAC   Dir. Jackie Chan   109 Min. Mandarin - French - English/ 2012	DANGAL     Dir. Nitesh Tiwari   161 Min Hindi/2016	BROTHERHOOD OF BLADES   Dir. Yang Lu   111Min Mandarin/ Mongolian/2014
23.12.18 (Sunday)		MAACHER JHOL     Dir. Pratim D. Gupta   108 Min Bengali/2017	LOST IN THAILAND   Dir. Zheng Xu   105 Min Mandarin/ English/ Thai/2012
24.12.18 (Monday)		WOLF TOTEM   Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud   121 Min Mandarin/ Mangolian/ 2015	VENTILATOR   Dir. Rajesh Mapuskar   143 Min Marathi/2016

 

All the films will carry English subtitles.

The entry for the Festival has been kept free of charge - one may enter the auditorium simply by showing a valid Photo ID. The seating will take place on a first-come-first-served basis. Entrance for the Festival will be through Gate number of 5 of Siri Fort Auditorium.

 

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