MUMBAI: Sidharth Srinivasan’s Pairon Talle will be screened in The Bright Future section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011.

The 40th edition of the festival is scheduled to place from 26 January to 6 February.

Bright Future is the section in which the festival presents debut or second feature films that it finds ‘important, idiosyncratic and adventurous’.

The section this year will screen 18 world premi?res, 10 international premi?res and 11 European premi?res. 

In total, this year’s Bright Future is made up of 80 films selected from 38 countries. Fifteen of these films, including Pairon Talle, received support from IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund.

Pairon Talle will be presented as part of European premiere in Bright Future. Other films in the section are China’s Fortune Teller, The Old Donkey, Tape and Piano In A Factory and Soul Of Sand.

Recently, it was announced that Pairon Talle would be a part of the annual touring film exhibition organised by Museum of Modern Art.