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IFFI to open with Romanian film, Mezaros is jury chairperson
NEW DELHI: The Romanian film which won the Palme D‘OR at Cannes 2007 – 4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days – would be the opening film at the International Film Festival of India at Goa on 23 November, and Shah Rukh Khan is the Chief Guest.
The Director of the film Cristian Mungiu and the main actress Anamaria Marinca would be present. Besides, there would be other foreign delegates representing various international film festivals from the Netherlands, China, Poland and Mexico. Major delegations from Poland and China will also be present.
Neelam Kapur, Director of Film Festivals which organizes IFFI on behalf of the Information and Broadcasting ministry in collaboration with Government of Goa, told a news conference that the competition section had been widened to have feature films from Asian, African and Latin America, open to films produced after August 2006. Fourteen films have been selected from 13 countries for the competition.
The Jury is headed by eminent award winning filmmaker from Hungary Marta Mezaros who has directed more than 60 films and has won awards in Cannes, Berlin, Venice and San Sebastian International Film Festivals. Other members of the Jury are Meltem Cumbul who is a young leading actress from Turkey; filmmaker and cinematographer Shaji N Karun, noted Argentinian film director Pablo Cesar, who has won awards in the Montreal International Film Festival and National awards in Argentina, and Robert Sarkies who is a young filmmaker from New Zealand.
I & B Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi and Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat along with several important film personalities will be present.
Kapur said the Indian Panorama at IFFI – 2007 would present a bouquet of 36 films, 21 features and 15 non-feature films. The package is a mixed bag with stalwarts like Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Adoor Gopalakrishnan presenting two films each. The section would have Ami Iyasin Aar Amaar Madhubala (The Voueurs- Feature) and Naushad Ali- the Melody continues (Non Feature) by Dasgupta and Naalu Penunungal (Four Women- Feature) and The Dance of the Enchantress (Non Feature) by Gopalakrishnan. The debut directors like Sameer Hanchante, Samir Chanda, and Bhavna Talwar would present their films Gafla (Scam), Ek Nadir Galpo (Tale of a river), and Dharm respectively at the festival.
A special section celebrating 60 years of India‘s independence, India @ 60, would showcase seven patriotic films including three feature and four documentaries.
Entertainment Society of Goa Chief Executive Officer Nandini Paliwal said theatre facilities were being significantly upgraded and increased for IFFI 2007. Nine theatres with a total seating capacity of 3026 would be part of the Festival complex as compared to five theatres with seating capacity of 2200 last year. This will considerably ease the pressure on theatres and reduce the queues witnessed last year.
The theatres are Inox Multiplex (4 screens), Kala Academy (2 screens), and Ashok and Samrat (2 screens). Two new screens are being added in Maquinez Palace, which have the capacity to be looped. She also said that a state of the art media centre has been set up in the same compound.
The delegate registration has been made fully online for IFFI-2007 to facilitate easy access to the delegates from all parts of the country and abroad. Nearly 2700 applications have already been approved. These include 1200 from the state of Goa. The last date for applying for delegate registration is 20 November. Registration fee has been fully waived for students of films from approved educational institutions
A system of booking tickets in advance has been introduced to avoid long queues. Tickets, which are free of cost to the delegates, can be booked 3 days in advance. This will help the delegates in choosing the films of their choice and ensure seats in the theatre. Sixteen booths will be provided at the festival premises for booking tickets. There will be real time display on TV screens around the venue to know about the status of availability of seats for each screening.
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Jio Studios unveils AI-powered Krishna teaser at NAB Show 2026
Global first look of Krishna uses Galleri5 AI pipeline on Azure, Historyverse slate as Jio’s Dhurandhar crosses Rs 3,000cr worldwide.
MUMBAI: Krishna has just dropped a divine teaser and this time the gods are powered by silicon, not just scripture. Jio Studios and Collective Studios’ Historyverse stole the spotlight at the NAB Show 2026 in Las Vegas with the world’s first teaser for their upcoming theatrical feature Krishna, directed by Manu Anand. The big reveal happened during Microsoft’s keynote “Powering Intelligent Media, From AI Experimentation to Real-World Impact,” where the film’s AI-native production pipeline took centre stage alongside Collective Artists Network’s in-house platform, Galleri5.
At the heart of this mythological spectacle lies a fresh cinematic workflow built by Galleri5 on Microsoft Azure’s advanced AI and cloud infrastructure. Forget bolting AI onto traditional VFX or animation, this is an end-to-end, production-grade system woven into every layer: world-building, character creation, shot design and final output. Yet the storytelling remains firmly director-led, emphasising emotional depth, stillness, music and performance rather than pure spectacle. The result? Large-format theatrical cinema rooted in Indian history and culture, but conceived in ways that were simply not possible before.
Collective Artists Network runs Galleri5 natively on Azure, leveraging Microsoft Foundry and cutting-edge AI tools to handle film, episodic and advertising workflows in a secure enterprise environment. Microsoft highlighted Collective as a “Frontier” organisation successfully moving AI from pilot projects to real production-scale deployment in cinema. The technology is also on display at Microsoft’s NAB booth in the West Hall (Booth W1731).
Jio Studios (Media & Content Business, Reliance Industries), president Jyoti Deshpande said the project advances the studio’s mission to take Indian stories global with scale, ambition and authenticity, “With Krishna, we are embracing cutting-edge AI-led filmmaking while democratising these tools to make them more accessible, intuitive and cost-effective for storytellers everywhere.”
Collective Artists Network founder & group CEO Vijay Subramaniam added, “We’re using technology developed in India to carry our culture and history to audiences worldwide at a scale never seen before.”
Microsoft, vice president for telco media & entertainment, gaming Silvia Candiani noted that the media industry has reached an inflection point, “AI is no longer about experimentation but delivering real impact at production scale… By building AI-native creative systems on Microsoft Azure, Collective exemplifies how storytellers can unlock new formats, move faster and realise a true return on intelligence while keeping human creativity at the centre.”
Krishna forms part of Historyverse, Collective Studios’ ambitious slate of history and culture-driven IPs. The slate draws from iconic figures and traditions that shaped the Indian subcontinent, including stories inspired by Kali, Karna and Durga. It builds on the already-released Mahabharat: Ek Dharmayudh series, showing how ancient narratives can be reimagined for modern screens.
Jio Studios, India’s leading content studio and the media and content arm of Reliance Industries, continues its blockbuster run. The studio’s Dhurandhar franchise led by Dhurandhar and Dhurandhar: The Revenge has become the first Indian film series to cross Rs 3,000 crore worldwide. It also delivered three consecutive years of India’s highest-grossing Hindi films: Stree 2 (2024), Dhurandhar (2025) and Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026). In just eight years, Jio Studios has assembled a library of over 160 films and series, with more than 60 titles winning over 500 awards. Other notable successes include Laapataa Ladies (India’s official Oscar entry 2025), Stree, Article 370, Shaitaan and Mrs.
The NAB unveiling marks another step in Jio Studios and Collective’s push to blend Indian storytelling talent with frontier technology proving that the future of cinema may well be both ancient in spirit and thoroughly modern in execution. For audiences who love epic tales with a fresh twist, Krishna promises to deliver divine drama, this time with a little help from the cloud.
