Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 1: The fifth edition of the Kashmir World Film Festival (KWFF), which was to start from Tuesday in Srinagar, has been postponed due to prevailing COVID-19 pandemic.
The festival will be held next year in March or April, festival director Mushtaq Ali Ahmad Khan told news agency this afternoon.
He said due to the prevailing pandemic of COVID-19 across the World the ‘Management Committee’ of KWFF has taken a decision of postponing the 7 days “5th” Edition of the festival once again.
He said this decision was taken after taking consultation with the members of ‘Advisory Board’ of KWFF. Most probably the next Edition of KWFF, will be held in next spring in March or April 2021. However the final decision about the new dates for holding the ‘5th’ Edition will be taken in January 2021.
Khan said KWFF is the first Intellectual property of its kind and magnitude in Kashmir and since July 2017, we have successfully conducted ‘4’ Editions of this festival.
‘’Our endeavour is to bring this festival in the list of top 10 film festivals of the world, to empower the Kashmiri youth and film enthusiasts with film making knowledge for success in their careers and to empower the Kashmiri business fraternity with film production based tourism business’’, he said.
Mr Khan said in our previous editions held in Srinagar, we have felicitated the film celebrities like Tabu, Madhur Bhandarkar, Rajit Kapur, Raju Ji Chadha, Rahul Mitra, Saeed Mirza, Govind Nihalani, Imam Siddiqui, Preeti Sapru, Arjuman Mughal, Rahul Bhat, Imran Khan, Ved Rahi, Sateesh Kaul, Vani Tripathi, and others. So far, in our last four editions we received more than 460 films and out of those only 136 films were screened, that included films from 15 countries like, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Lebanon, Nepal, Poland, Spain, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey and USA. We also had participated films from different parts of India in different languages like Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Dogri, English, Guajarati, Gurung, Hindi, Kashmiri, Kuchi, Ladakhi, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Tibetan and Urdu.
So far 30 films from abroad and India have been awarded. |
