MUMBAI: Zhang Lu’s Dooman River, which recently won the best International film award at the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF), will open the first edition of the Yashwant International Film Festival scheduled to go underway between 20 to 26 Janaury.

The closing movie of the festival will be Babu Band Baaja that won the Best Marathi Film Award at the recently concluded PIFF.

The festival will showcase competition films from the recently concluded Pune International Film Festival in the following sections: World Cinema competition, Marathi Cinema competition, Student Film competition and Short films competition done jointly by Pune and Goa International Film Festival Fest.

Five films of Greek director Michael Cacoyannis will be screened in a Retrospective, while ‘The Focus on Korea’ section will present six acclaimed Korean films from the last 10 years. In a special screening, four acclaimed German Films from recent years will be screened.

The ‘Spotlight on Japan’ section will present classic Japanese films. The section for short films will screen a mix of animation and live action films.

A workshop on “Choose Your Format: Film or Digital” by Ujjwal Nirgudkar will be conducted during the festival.

The festival will be held at Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan’s main auditorium and the Rangswar theatre at Nariman Point.