MUMBAI: Rome Festival director Marco Mueller will deliver the inaugural Mani Kaul Memorial Lecture at the 12th Osian‘s-Cinefan Film Festival. Mueller has earlier served as the Artistic Director of Venice International Film Festival for eight years.

Kaul had been the Creative Director at Osian‘s since 2006 and was the director general of the 11th Osian‘s Cinefan Film Festival.

Cinefan has instituted the Manu Kaul Memorial lecture from this year‘s edition.

The festival will take place from 27 July to 5 August at Siri Fort Complex, Osianama and Blue Frog at the Qila Complex, New Delhi.