10th edition of Bengaluru International Film festival begins on Thursday

Curtains will go up on the 10th edition of Bengaluru International Film Festival (Biffes) on Thursday on the grand steps of the Vidhana Soudha and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will inaugurate the festival.

Film-maker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, multi-award winning Iranian actor Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, and producer and cinematographer Marc Baschet will be chief guests.

Kannada actors Shivarajkumar, Sudeep and Darshan are participating in the event as special invitees, and actor-director Suhasini Maniratnam and actor Sruthi Hariharan will coordinate the event organised by the Karnataka government.

It’s the Law , Italian comedy film by Salvatore Ficarra and Valentino Picone, will be the inaugural film of the weeklong festival.

Over 200 films from 68 countries will be screened at 11 screens of PVR Cinemas at Orion Mall from Friday.

For the first time, there will be screening of films for legislators at the recently inaugurated Dr. Raj Bhavan of the Karnataka Film Artists Association at Chamarajpet.

10th edition of Bengaluru International Film Festival begins on Thursday

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