Bengaluru International Short Film Festival to be hybrid this year; Sumana Kittur, Sruthi Hariharan, Meghana Raj and Champa Shetty among juries

The 13th edition of Bengaluru International Short Film Festival (BISFF) will be held between August 3rd and 13th. This year, BISFF will be in a hybrid format, that is, online screenings will be held from August 3 to 13th, while screenings in Theatre at Suchitra and Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan will be hedld from August 10 to 13.

Enthusiasts can log into www.bisff.in and enjoy a plethora of short films from different categories.Once registered the films are available for viewing all through the 10 days, the festival team continues its commitment to make cinema accessible.

This year, the competition is being held in 6 categories: International Competition, Indian Competition, Karnataka Competition, Let’s Include, Animation and Women in Cinema Collective. Among the juries this year also include Sumana Kittur, Sruthi Hariharan, Meghana Raj and Champa Shetty. The other juries are Alejandro Gonzalez, Diego Faraone, Chaitanya Hegde, Amit Masurkar, Rajendra Singh Babu, Mandya Ramesh, Milind Rau, Vijay Manjunath, Prajwal Vas, Vinod Gowda, Jasbinder Singh, Ajith Hande and Geetha Gurappa.

Prakash Belawadi, Actor, Director and Mentor, BISFF, said, “I’m so happy that the organising team by Anand Varadaraj has put together a programme that includes so many talented filmmakers who have dared to be different among the juries and master classes. Will look forward to a great festival at Suchitra, where it all began.”

Anand Varadaraj, Festival Director, BISFF, commented, “BISFF is officially a teenager. It has been a growth journey of joys and pains, but the love of cinema keeps us all on the path. For an indie film festival to survive and thrive despite the pandemic where so many others have not been able to, makes me hopeful that the future of cinema is bright!”