Indian Panorama 2023 announces official selection for 54th IFFI; The Vaccine War, The Kerala Story, Kantara, Gulmohar make it to the list

Indian Panorama announced the selection of 25 feature films and 20 non-feature films for the 54th IFFI. The selected films will be showcased at the festival to be held from November 20 to November 28 in Goa.The Indian Panorama organised by the National Film Development Corporation, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, selects the feature and non-feature films of cinematic, thematic and aesthetic excellence according to the regulations of Indian Panorama. The selection is done by eminent personalities from the world of cinema from across India. The 12 member feature film jury of Indian Panorama headed by TS Nagabharana will watch 25 films selected for the section.Vivek Agnihotri's film The Vaccine War and Sudipto Sen's The Kerala Story have been selected. The mainstream cinema section has two films of Manoj Bajpayee, viz. Gulmohar and Sirf Ek Banda Kaafi Hai. Rishabh Shetty's box office hit Kantara and Tovino Thomas' 2018 that were nominated for the Oscars also feature on the list. Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan: II will also be a part of the list.The Indian Panorama section is dominated by Hindi films followed by Malayalam, Tamil and Bengali films. It may be noted here that Sudipto Sen whose film The Kerala Story is competing with The Vaccine War was on the jury when an Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid attacked The Kashmir Files calling it a propaganda film.The list of 25 feature films selected in the Indian Panorama 2023 is as follows:Aaraariraaro (Kannada), Sandeep Kumar VAattam (Malayalam), Anand EkarshiArdhangini (Bengali), Kaushik GangulyDeep Fridge (Bengali), Arjun DuttaDhai Aakhar (Hindi), Praveen AroraIratta (Malayalam), Rohit MG KrishnanKaadhal Enbathu Pothu Udamai (Tamil), Jayaprakash RadhakrishnanKaathal (Malayalam), Jeo BabyKantara (Kannada), Rishab ShettyMalikappuram (Malayalam), Vishnu Sasi ShankarMandali (Hindi), Rakesh Chaturvedi OmMirbeen (Karbi), Mridul GuptaNeela Nira Sooriyan (Tamil), Samyuktha VijayanNna Thaan Case Kodu (Malayalam), Ratheesh Balakrishna PoduvalPookkaalam (Malayalam), GaneshrajRabindra Kabya Rahasya (Bengali), Sayantan GhosalSanaa (Hindi), Sudhanshu SariaThe Vaccine War (Hindi), Vivek Ranjan AgnihotriVadh (Hindi), Jaspal Singh SandhuViduthalai Part 1 (Tamil), Vetri MaaranMainstream Cinema Section2018-Everyone Is A Hero (Malayalam), Jude Anthany JosephGulmohar (Hindi), Rahul V ChittellaPonniyin Selvan Part - 2 (Tamil), Mani RatnamSirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai (Hindi), Apoorv Singh KarkiThe Kerala Story (Hindi), Sudipto SenAlso See: Best Hindi Movies of 2023 | Top 20 Hindi Movies of 2023 | Latest Hindi Movies