MUMBAI: The Kiran Rao-directed Dhobi Ghat will be the closing film of the River to River, Florence Indian Film Festival 2011. The festival will open with Bengali film Chaplin directed by Anindo Bandopadhyay.

The festival will screen Satyajit Ray‘s documentary on Rabindranath Tagore along with his films Ghare Baire and Teen Kanya. Other films on India include Himself He Cooks by Valerie Berteau and Philippe Witjes of Belgium and Nataraja by Filippo Carli of Italy among others.

Some of the other films that will screen at the festival are Shoaib Mansoor‘s Bol, Tapan Sinha‘s Khudito Pashan, Surjo Deb‘s Adda:Calcutta, Kolkata, Zoya Akhtar‘s Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Kavalmaniyam Jagannathan‘s Videokaaran, Q‘s Gandu and Onir‘s I Am. 

Several short films will also be screened at the festival including shorts from FTII and Whistling Woods International.

River to River, Florence Indian Film Festival will be held from 2 to 8 December in Florence, Italy.