Panaji: 1st Nov 2018 ::: The 49th International Film Festival of India announced the selection of films under the Film Section ‘Indian Panorama’ for the year, 2018. The Feature Film Jury of thirteen members was headed by acclaimed film director and screenwriter, Shri Rahul Rawail.The Feature Film Jury selected the 22 Feature films. The Feature film Jury selected the film OLU directed by Shaji N Karun as the Opening feature film of Indian Panorama 2018. Four Mainstream films are also selecte d under Indian Panorama Section of IFFI 2018 by an Internal Committee of DFF based on the recommendations of FFI and GUILD.
The Feature Jury constituted of the following Members:
- Major Ravi, Filmmaker & Actor
- Shri Ahathian, Director
- Shri Ujjwal Chatterjee, Director, Producer & Screenwriter
- Shri Imo Singh, Director
- Shri Utpal Datta, Filmmaker
- Shri Sekhar Das, Director
- Shri Mahendra Teredesai, Director & writer
- Shri Haidar Ali, Actor & Screenwriter
- Shri KG Suresh, Journalist & columnist
- Shri Chandra Siddarth, Director, Producer & Screenwriter
- Shri Adeep Tandon, Cinematographer & Director
- Shri S Viswanath, Film critic & journalist
List of 22 Feature Films and 4 Mainstream films selected in the Indian Panorama 2018 is as follows:
| S No | Title of the Film | Language | Director |
| 1 | Olu(Opening film) | Malayalam | Shaji N Karun |
| 2 | Nagarkirtan | Bengali | Kaushik Ganguly |
| 3 | Sa | Bengali | Arijit Singh |
| 4 | Uma | Bengali | Srijit Mukherji |
| 5 | Abyakto | Bengali | Arjun Dutta |
| 6 | Uronchondi | Bengali | Abhishek Saha |
| 7 | October | Hindi | Shoojit Sircar |
| 8 | Bhor | Hindi | Kamakhya Narayan Singh |
| 9 | Sinjar | Jasari | Pampally |
| 10 | Walking With The Wind | Ladakhi | Praveen Morchhale |
| 11 | Bhayanakam | Malayalam | Jayaraj |
| 12 | Makkana | Malayalam | Raheem Khader |
| 13 | Poomaram | Malayalam | Abrid Shine |
| 14 | Sudani From Nigeria | Malayalam | Zakariya |
| 15 | Ee Maa Yove | Malayalam | Lijo Jose Pellissery |
| 16 | Dhappa | Marathi | Nipun Avinash Dharmadhikari |
| 17 | Aamhi Doghi | Marathi | Pratima Joshi |
| 18 | To Let | Tamil | Chezhiyan Ra |
| 19 | Baaram | Tamil | Priya Krishnaswamy |
| 20 | Periyerum Perumal BA.BL | Tamil | Mari Selvaraj |
| 21 | Peranbu | Tamil | Ram |
| 22 | Paddayi | Tulu | Abhaya Simha |
| Mainstream Cinema | |||
| 23 | Mahanati | Telugu | Nagashwin |
| 24 | Tiger Zinda Hai | Hindi | Ali Abbas Zafar |
| 25 | Padmaavat | Hindi | Sanjay Leela Bhansali |
| 26 | Raazi | Hindi | Meghna Gulzar |
The Non-Feature Film Jury of seven members was headed by acclaimed film director and editor, Shri Vinod Ganatra. The Non-Feature film Jury selected the film Kharvas directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale as the Opening non-feature film of Indian Panorama 2018.
The Jury constituted of the following Members:
- Shri Uday Shankar Pani, Filmmaker
- Smt Parvati Menon, Director & Film educationist
- Shri Mandar Talaulikar, Filmmaker
- Shri Padmaraj Nair, Film Journalist
- Shri Ashok Sharan, Actor & Producer
- Shri Suneel Puranik, Actor, Director & Producer
List of Non – Feature Films
| S No | Title of the Film | Language | Director |
| 1 | Kharvas(Opening film) | Marathi | Aditya Suhas Jambhale |
| 2 | Sampurak | Bengali | Prabal Chakraborty |
| 3 | Naach Bhikari Naach | Bhojpuri | Jainendra Dost & Shilpi Gulati |
| 4 | Decoding Shankar | English | Deepti Sivan |
| 5 | Gyamo-Queen Of the Mountains | English | Gautam Pandey & Doel Trivedy |
| 6 | The World’s Most Famous Tiger | English | S Nalla Muthu |
| 7 | Bunkar: The last of the Varanasi weavers | English | Satyaprakash Upadhyay |
| 8 | Monitor | Hindi | Hari Viswanath |
| 9 | Nani Teri Morni | Hindi | Akash Aditya Lama |
| 10 | Burning | Hindi | Sanoj VS |
| 11 | Sword of Liberty | Malayalam | Shiny Jacob Benjamin |
| 12 | Midnight Run | Malayalam | Remya Raj |
| 13 | Lasyam | Malayalam | Vinod Mankara |
| 14 | Happy Birthday | Marathi | Medhpranav Babasaheb Powar |
| 15 | Na bole wo Haram | Marathi | Nitesh Vivek Patankar |
| 16 | Silent Scream | Marathi | Prasanna Ponde |
| 17 | Yes, I am Mauli | Marathi | Suhas Jahagirdar |
| 18 | Pamphlet | Marathi | Shekhar Bapu Rankhambe |
| 19 | Aai Shappath | Marathi | Gautam Vaze |
| 20 | Bhar Dupari | Marathi | Swapnil Vasant Kapure |
| 21 | Malai | Oriya | Rajdeep Paul & Sarmistha Maiti |
The 2018 edition of the International Film Festival of India is to be held from the 20th of November till the 28th at Panjim, Goa.The festival sees a variety of films in many languages from all around the world.The rest of the movies under the different Film Sections are soon to be released, so be sure to keep checking our blog and social media pages for more updates!
The festival also features Master classes by experts from the industry, Panel Discussions and Interactive sessions with celebrities and much more.
